Re: Need Advice on Spyware Removal for Debian

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Quoting Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>:

> 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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