Huge security problem with Breezy

[David A' Rebel]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:22, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 3/13/06, David A' Rebel <obsidion at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> >  Deleting a file on the say so of one person and a post in a forum is a
> > little drastic, reminds me of the socalled bugbear virus that had people
> > deleting an essential file from their windows directory a couple of years
> > ago.
>
> Yes, but it is a _log_ file. It's being in /var lets you know that it
> is not system-critical. At a minimum, vi it and remove the offending
> line.



   Granted but I still would be way more careful about taking the word of a 
forum and one person before arbitrarily deleting any files from my system 
critical or otherwise. For anyone to read that file they would have have 
access to your computer or access to it over a very insecure network for them 
to read it anyway.


David