antivirus software: how do you actually install it?
dhyang
dhyang555 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 11:11:40 UTC 2010
google suffer attack from the chinese cracker who was employed by
government,and the guy used to be a employee of google himself,he enter
into google for special purpose,not for money
在 2010-03-23二的 09:50 +0100,Amedee Van Gasse (ub)写道:
> On Tue, March 23, 2010 06:57, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > valhalla2100 at comcast.net wrote:
> >> What OS are the google severs and computers using?
> >
> > People say that their servers run Lunux, but they don't have only
> > servers and other computers there may run other operating systems.
>
> Google is using a heavily modified (googlized) version of Linux. Since
> they are not sharing it with anyone, they don't have to give their patches
> back to the main kernel tree.
>
> >> I just
> >> read the headlines about Google tracing a major attack to the
> >> Chinese.
> >
> > Well, those were the headlines you found, but if you search a bit
> > further you can find out that the attacks were possibly exploiting IE
> > flaws [1]. IIRC, there is no IE for Linux.
>
> Apart from that, there are other types of attack that aren't related to
> viruses. Distributed denial of service attacks are very popular: a baddie
> uses a botnet to attack a site. If one million computers on the net all
> simply visit the same webserver in the same millisecond, then it WILL go
> down.
>
> Other attacks are dictionary attacks, where an attacker tries to guess the
> password for common services like ssh. That can also be done by a botnet.
>
>
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