Just wondering about viruses.

[boyofford]

Hi all,

After reading a post on this forum mentioning the aidra virus being able to infect enigma2 boxes I have been doing a bit of reading. It appears this sort of virus targets routers and other linux based, often embedded boxes to use the resources to its own ends.

I had assumed that being linux based the vu+ boxes would be pretty immune to viruses but it appears not so.

What precautions do those in the know take? Change default password, router firewall, anything else?

I never changed my password, but will do now.

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[yummer]

Hi all,

After reading a post on this forum mentioning the aidra virus being able to infect enigma2 boxes I have been doing a bit of reading. It appears this sort of virus targets routers and other linux based, often embedded boxes to use the resources to its own ends.

I had assumed that being linux based the vu+ boxes would be pretty immune to viruses but it appears not so.

What precautions do those in the know take? Change default password, router firewall, anything else?

I never changed my password, but will do now.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2

I think that's about all you can do mate. As well as keeping as many ports as possible closed and don't use obvious ports when port forwarding

 

[Shiro]

you have to upgrade the firmware of your router. That's the problem.
The routers are vulnerables.

 

[boyofford]

My firmware is provided by ISP (virgin) so not much can do about firmware upgrade, but changed password.
I don't have a problem to me knowledge with viruses to my knowledge, just found it interesting.
All my pcs have Linux on them and have been solid, only exception is Mrs's win 7 netbook, she refuses to change to Linux!