Hacked, shutdown again.

[Vernon Brown_4]

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 !!

[Nicolas Dumeige]

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 :)

[Hazem Mahmoud_3]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

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 !!

[Nicolas Dumeige · Accepted solution]

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

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

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hi,

Redhat Sales should be reachable at

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

Webpage.

Greetings, Martin

[Vernon Brown_4]

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

Vern

[William A. King_1]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

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

[John Collier]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

Thanks I'll try it.

[I.Delic]

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

[I.Delic]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

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