Re: Need Advice on Spyware Removal for Debian

OK, How do I change my name servers or run my own? How much of a system
do I need? Can I use an old Pentium 266 MHZ laptop to run my own name
server? Or, do I just point my router/gateway somewhere else other than
what cox gives me? How do I prevent Cox from changing the name servers
in my Linksys router?

Does that violate my agreement with Cox? Will they know? Should I care?

I think I might be seeing a little lite at the end of the tunnel - PLUG
is great!!

Mark

JD Austin wrote:

> Kevin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:17, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>
>>
>>> mark@latitude610:~$ cat /etc/hosts
>>>
>>
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>>
>>
>>> mark@latitude610:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
>>>
>>
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I will check the sites that cause the problem.....I have to wait for
>>> it to happen!
>>>
>>
>>
>> Whoa. Maybe I missed this in your initial post, but I thought this was
>> happening consistently. If it comes and goes, that might indicate
>> upstream DNS poisoning. If/when you see it again, try changing the
>> nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf to something off the Cox network. Just
>> a thought.
>>
>> ...Kevin
>>
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>
> I've never encountered spyware or viruses that affect Linux at all.
> This could be a dns injection issue where cox's name server has been
> compromised. There used to be exploit's in bind that would allow
> people to change the memory cached dns records.
> Since you're running Linux you could always run your own dns server.
> Back when I had @home I switched to my own dns server and it made a
> huge difference (@home's dns was really slow).
>
> JD
>
>
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