Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update
William Hooper
whooperhsd at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 17:21:29 UTC 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:14:58 -0700 (PDT), James Harrison
<jamesaharrisonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> If you dont use the Redhat site and/or Redhat recommended mirrors to update
> your machine then there is a risk.
>
> Could up2date or yum check against a list of recommended sites stored at
> Redhat (downloaded when they are run each time) and a warning message appears
> if the update site URL is not a recommended one?
Why not just use the existing functionality of getting the list of
mirrors and randomly selecting one?
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William Hooper
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