[CLUE-Talk] Hack Attempt

Kevin Cullis kevincu at orci.com
Thu Jan 25 21:22:39 MST 2001


Jim Intriglia wrote:
> 
> When I had my Winders95 PC, I ran ZoneAlert to detect/block hack attacks.
> 
> Two Questions:
> 
> 1) What's available for Linux along the same lines as ZoneAlert; and,
> 2) With a dialup connection via Earthlink, what are the odds of someone
> trying to hack by Linux box?
> 

I've got PortSentry which I have NOT loaded, but got the program from a
security guru in Infoworld a while back.  Check out this site (the site
for the program is in the middle):

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/portsentry1.html

Hope this helps, it even has documentation, Woo Hoo!!

Kevin



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