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Hacked, shutdown again.

Vernon Brown_4 — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:58:11 GMT

Well at least I'm getting good experience reformatting and installing from backups. Maybe an upgrade from RH 7.1 would help.

I tried to upgrade to SuSE 9 but couldn't get proxy to work. I would like to try RedHad 9 or Fedora but haven't been able to find them. Does anyone know where I could find them for sale on CD's.

Thanks !!

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Nicolas Dumeige — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:17:36 GMT

Have you consider changing to OpenBSD.
This is the most secure free Unix :
"Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!"

Plus :
"OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX."

http://www.openbsd.org

This OS is often use for building firewall, and other security network purposes. Even there C library are secured : buffer over flow protection, ...

Just another look :)

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Hazem Mahmoud_3 — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:31:33 GMT

You can download them from:
www.linuxiso.org (or fedora.redhat.com and redhat.com)

If you want to purchase RH9, I believe stores like CompUSA sell them. But you might as well just download them and burn them on a CD.

-Hazem

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Vernon Brown_4 — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:40:10 GMT

I don't think I can keep the system up long enough to complete a download. The local stores ( L.R. Arkansas ) only have SuSE. I'm looking for a place to order RH or Fedora or FreeBSD on CD.

Thanks for any help !!

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Nicolas Dumeige — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:47:45 GMT

For FreeBSD :
http://store.yahoo.com/bsdmall/freebsd1.html

and Fedora :
http://www.linuxcentral.com/catalog/?cat[]=dist&id=C1C7086auDACU

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:57:41 GMT

Hi,

Redhat Sales should be reachable at

1-866-273-3428 x 45555 according to their

Webpage.

Greetings, Martin

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Vernon Brown_4 — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:54:28 GMT

Thanks guys; I ordered the FreeBSD from Yahoo we'll see how that goes.

Vern

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

William A. King_1 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:41:54 GMT

Did you consider a Hardware firewall.
Been using SMC's router/firewall/switch
for about two years and have never been
hacked.

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Vernon Brown_4 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:51:11 GMT

I haven't tried a hardware solution yet. I might do that if I find one at a reasonable price.

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

John Collier — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:13:23 GMT

Vernon,

If you have an old Pentium class machine lying around (perhaps being used as a door stop at the moment) and a couple of extra NIC card, you might want to look into a package called SmoothWall ( www.smoothwall.org ).

I have been using it for quite some time at home and it seems to be extremely solid.

Just a thought since you seem to have become a target.

Regards,
John

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Vernon Brown_4 — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:29:55 GMT

Thanks I'll try it.

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

I.Delic — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 05:36:53 GMT

Hi Vernon,

Redhat you can get here:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/

Fedora you can find at:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/iso/

Check those links you can find a lot of interesting things.

Idriz

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

I.Delic — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 05:45:58 GMT

Hi,

Sorry first link show you where you can dowload your linux distributions but

Here you can by your distribution (redhat)
http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/

Success

Idriz

Re: Hacked, shutdown again.

Vernon Brown_4 — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:51:08 GMT

Good to know; I'll check out the RedHat locations.