Linux worm overrated

Linux worm overrated
Daniel Hanson, 2005-11-09

The latest and greatest Linux worm isn't the most elegant or fastest spreading worm, or even one that's difficult to stop, but it still offers a warning for Web developers and administrators everywhere.

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Linux worm overrated 2005-11-10
overdose

100% right 2005-11-10
aeonflux

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masood mehmood

Are Linux and Windows to blame? 2005-11-16
Alexey Vesnin (1 replies)

Re: Are Linux and Windows to blame? 2005-11-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: Re: Are Linux and Windows to blame? 2005-11-22
Alexey Vesnin

Keep /tmp always noexec 2005-11-16
Sujai (1 replies)

Re: Keep /tmp always noexec 2005-11-21
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Linux worm overrated 2005-11-19
Andrew (1 replies)

One of the beauties of Gentoo Linux is that as a source based distribution with portage as a packaging medium and GLSA as a security warning system patches can be downloaded, compiled and applied in a matter of minutes.

The other packages are too slow to react, opr their administrators not knowlegable to patch the packages themselves.

Gentoo makes it easy and fully automated.

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Re: Linux worm overrated 2005-11-22
Alexey Vesnin