[Courses] [Security] The useful netstat

[Malcolm-Rannirl]

On Tuesday 05 March 2002 06:00 pm, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote:

> outside that's not part of a session.  With the strings patch to
> iptables, you can even filter based on the contents of the packet
> -- blocking Nimda and Code Red attempts at the firewall, for
> example.

Now that would be very useful. (Why the script kiddie scripts can't 
check what they are attacking first, I don't know. My box will very 
helpfully tell you it is running apache on linux but I still get 
numerous IIS attack attempts a day). 

url for the patch?


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