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   Monitor your servers...

   

   Claymore, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 10:13am

   
   

   "but it's not realistic in a world where machines do get compromised"
   
   This is true but it should encourage people to patch and monitor their server. Possibly helping people to not be so lax in their security procedures.

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   Re: Monitor your servers...

   

   Marc Michaels, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 10:42am

   
   

   Sending your company into potential bankruptcy because someone hacks a server through an exploit seems like a pretty stiff punishment to me.

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   Re: Monitor your servers...

   

   Dave, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 10:49am

   
   

   Maybe the company that goes bankrupt over these fines should consider holding M****soft accountable for their faulty Software.

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   Re: Monitor your servers...

   

   Jebrew, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 11:09am

   
   

   Because it's really Microsoft that made their server insecure, not their lack of sense. They'd be just as screwed with any of the *nix variants. If you don't know how to secure your crap, you should pay for it.

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   Re: Monitor your servers...

   

   sm, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 11:40am

   
   

   Exactly how do you know that MS's faulty software caused the problem? What if the troublesome server is running *nix? MS's fault even then?

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   Come on , let's get real here

   

   Cara, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 11:46am

   
   

   Honestly, even the best security experts out there cannot keep machines completely safe from hackers all the time, it happens, even to the best of us. This is extreme, especially considering a lot of wesite owners can't possibly keep up with and prevent all current and future potential exploits. The hackers will always find new ways in. The only safe computer is unplugged and buried in the back yard.

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   Re: Come on , let's get real here

   

   Rikko, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 12:00pm

   
   

   Tunneling hackers with pocket diesel generators...
   No, it needs to be hanging in a tree where you can keep an eye on it.

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   Re: Monitor your servers...

   

   mark, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 12:14pm

   
   

   but godaddy is the one who secures the servers, not you.... you only rent space from them.

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   Blind leading the blind

   

   Kevin Mesiab, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 12:20pm

   
   

   The latest round of compromises that lead to spamming happens to affect *nix machines running faulty xmlrpc interfaces. (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71230)
   
   Its irritating to see linux and unix evangelists putting such blind faith into their systems. Nobody is completely secure. (http://www.insecure.org/sploits_linux.html)
   
   Even some networked printers, copiers, routers and network apliances are subject to being hacked and misused.
   
   Do us all a favor and hold your tongue until you know what you're talking about.

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    Re: Monitor your servers...

    

    Kevin Mesiab, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 12:25pm

    
    

    GoDaddy only secures your servers if you choose to host with them. GoDaddy's primary business is domain name registration. They only added hosting in 2000 (though they have grown to one of the largest shared hosting providers).
    
    

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    Re: Monitor your servers...

    

    Dam, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 12:52pm

    
    

    GoDaddy's primary business is domain name registration.

    And, GoDaddy registers more spammers than many others. When you get a moment, look up the domain some spammers are using, and chances are it'll be registered through GoDaddy

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    Re: Come on , let's get real here

    

    Claymore, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 1:18pm

    
    

    "Honestly, even the best security experts out there cannot keep machines completely safe from hackers all the time, it happens, even to the best of us."
    
    That's where the monitoring part comes in. If you seen a spike in traffic coming from your server you should probably investigate immediately. Has my site just become more popular or am I now a slave to a spammer?

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    Re: Monitor your servers...

    

    Michael Vilain, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 1:18pm

    
    

    But I've filed SPAMCOP complaints against spammers using GoDaddy registration. They were taken out of DNS eventually when there was sufficient evidence that this wasn't an exploit but someone truely spamming. Network Solutions doesn't do that and the service rep got rather huffy when I told them that on moving my domains to GoDaddy from NSI.

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    Re: Blind leading the blind

    

    CharlesGriswold, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 2:02pm

    
    

    Its irritating to see linux and unix evangelists putting such blind faith into their systems. Nobody is completely secure. (http://www.insecure.org/sploits_linux.html)
    True. *nix OS's are, however, more secure than Windows, for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is that Windows is a large, homogenous, and very tempting target).
    BSD running on a non-intel-based architecture is about as secure as you can get without paying lots of money.
    If you want rock-solid security, get an AS/400 or System 390 server. Even these are not totally secure, however; social engineering can break any computer security.

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    time to leave godaddy

    

    admin, Jan 23rd, 2006 @ 2:24pm

    
    

    Thanks for the heads up on this. Pissed that I
    just registered another domain with them two days
    ago.. those damn EULA are so long now its like
    MSFT clickthroughs.. who really reads the whole
    thing anymore. shame on me. But I did speak to
    a rep there (who had no idea) just to confirm what
    if anything I had to do on my end to set my account
    up for easy transfer. One really wonders what prick
    at these firms hatches these 'revenue' enhancers.
    I for one will not take the chance of my umbrella
    policy covering a web server (hosted by me or
    elsewhere) never being compromised.

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