G'day Rod

04 Apr 04 21:16, Rod Gasson wrote to All:

 >>  RG> viral related activity that hits our firwall on a daily basis.
 >>
 >> And that is where ours are stopped too.

 RG> :-)

 >> Mail is checked by an outside providor,

 RG> We handle most of our own mail, but a couple of the domains under our
 RG> control are handled by an offsite provider, mainly because it was 
 RG> under a constant dictionary type attack. :-(

We're trialling a virus/spam/etc filtering service. Our MX points to them,
they "cleanse" the mail and then send it on to our mail server.

 >> We don't run anything virus related on the Linux machines...

 RG> We don't run virus checker as such, but we do run several different 
 RG> forms of intrusion detection systems (monitoring for backdoors, rootkits, 
 RG> etc).

The only Linux sever the students have login access to is expendable. The
teachers are supposed to look after it, but if it gets clobbered, I can
rebuild it anew in a couple of hours. It's not any thing important that
gets lost, just students' efforts at web design.

This server does not have direct access to the Internet (it is within out LAN).

The other Linux servers don't have user accounts for the unwashed.

Regards,
David

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