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- Subject: [chat] Re: [SLUG] ALERT: Linux backdoor trojan horse may propagate via email (fwd)
- From: Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Sep 8 09:49:02 2001
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Howard Lowndes wrote:
FYI
> http://www.qualys.com/alert/remoteshell.html
This is interesting, but:
a) You have to be stupid enough to run a program from someone else
without thinking first (read management!)
b) You have to be fairly open to the internet for a port 5xxx to be
open, no chains no tables.
KenF