israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote: > Hi again, I was reading from the net > http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a > root console in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr > goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };: > > Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on CentOS? > don't allow malicious users to have root access. in fact, don't allow malicious users to have ANY shell access to your servers.