Re: what is means ? + rootkits..

[Marcin Bednarz <mbednarz@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>]

Hi al.


On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> Clearly yes. In my opinion you should disable telnet and use ssh. Once i left
> telnet open after installing a server, and the next day i found a rootkit
> inside it. Telnet suckz badly.


How to protect against rootkis ? Is it some kind of trojan wich working
with root priviledges ?
Why some people says that eg. tripwire doesn't discover it ?

Regards,
Marcin B.



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