[Gllug] how safe is linux against identity thief

[James Hawtin]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:28:00PM +0000, Harry Rickards wrote:
> Sorry about the top posting, just forgot. If Lucy had accidently  
> installed a piece of malicious software that was running a server on  
> the machine, then I believe iptables (if set up correctly) would stop  
> remov=te machines connecting to the server.
> 

However most malicious programs connect back to a central server rather than
allow connections in, iptables probably is not setup to resist against
software installed only remote attacks. 

James
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