On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:25:23PM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > what can we do to escape the threat of this worm. > Does it need root priviledge? I am asking this > because it is an eminent danger and how to secure our > pcs. I believe this is covered by Fedora Core 4 update FEDORA-2005-810, Fedora Core 3 update FEDORA-2005-809, and Red Hat's RHSA-2005:748-01. So the answer is: keep your system up to date with patches. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>