[Nottingham] Paranoid already

[Alex Herington]

| >From time to time run "nmap localhost" and "nmap -sU localhost"
| as root to
| check for running services. Also check for vulnerabilities reported in
| your kernel version which might be remotely exploitable - if you do not
| give out accounts on your box and do not accept incoming connections then
| the likelihood of being cracked reduces from extremely unlikely to so
| unlikely that you would be more likely to have Bill Gates over for tea.
|
| Jon.

I also find running "netstat -tpan" pretty useful as it'll tell you which
program is listening on which port and detail any active connections.
Particularly useful for checking for backdoors and other nasties :)

Alex.