On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 08:32 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > do you have a firewall enabled? If you *temporarily* disable it, > does the situation change?
That's something I'd *never* do outside of a LAN. A temporary firewall drop is all it takes to compromise you in whatever way the firewall was protecting you. I've mentioned this before, but it only took 13 seconds of being connected to the internet to watch a friend's PC get compromised in such a way that a wipe and reinstall was the only fix. His anti-virus software merely informed him that something had been done, didn't prevent it, and couldn't change a protected system file to fix it (even though the malware was able to). And it happened 3 times in a row because he wouldn't listen to me about firewalling. Pah! A pox on that so-called protective software! And it was a well- regarded one, too (at that time). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
