On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:43:02 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: [...] > If you are connected to the internet in any way, your machine will get > hacked and you will become part of a botnet serving spam or worse. This is > pretty much an inevitability. > [...] I have a httpd, sshd, and ncftpd. I use iptables with very tight parameters, including a complex libipq filter I wrote. I am attacked all the time, but I don't think much, if anything, gets through. Mike.