Re: Security - how to notice compromises.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Damion Yates wrote:

> I find using a 5 meg 386dx40 with noisy harddrive while swapping and 2400
> baud modem is ideal, I knew immediately the moment anyone tried to log in and
> use my system.  I'm serious too, I've been in this situation and saw a mate
> trying to login and compile a fork bomb to piss me off.

I heard our Uni compute server managed to stay up for almost 10 second
after a fork bomb was run on it. That's some going ;))

I believe you can also get defusers for fork bombs now though... that's no
fun ;))

Cheers,

Alex.


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