Re: Safe practices
- From: "J.O. Aho" <user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:31:34 +0100
Christopher Hunter wrote:
Mercury wrote:
This is where Windows fails - it keeps ports open, and plenty of
needless services running that accept connections and, due to bugs,
allow hackers to get in.
Windows also fails by making /every/ user an "administrator" by default!
Linux wins in this respect by the simple expedient of making root access
password-dependant.
Even with system that has been "correctly" setup, where users are limited in access, it's still possible to gain admin rights as long as there is a program that has been started with full admin rights, this due a bad way communication between applications and explorer (the window manager).
Also, if you're connecting to the outside world through a hardware router,
you should have NAT enabled, which will (in effect) make your computer
invisible from outside.
As long as port forwards aren't enabled to the machine, there are cases where people has managed to forward every port to the machine behind the router, they not noticed the error as they only have one machine.
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//Aho
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