[Info-vax] Administrator = system

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/1/2011 11:21 AM, Michael Unger wrote:
> On 2011-01-31 20:48, "Bill Gunshannon" wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> I have always been amazed at the fact that I can put together a new
>> machine here, give it an IP address we have never used before and
>> inside of 5 minutes wanadoo users will be probing SSH on it.
>
> They are most probably trying connections to a complete _range_ of IP
> addresses (/24, e.g., or even more) -- ignoring those addresses they
> can't establish a connection to later on.
>
> Michael
>

The last time I looked at my router's logs they showed three or four 
connection attempts per minute.  There are clearly a large number of 
people with nothing better to do than try to break into somebody's computer!

If you fail to take appropriate measures you will someday find that 
someone has subverted your computer and that it has spent the last few 
hours, or days, pumping out spam.