Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:59:43 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 11:56:01, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 08:47:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 23, 2000 at 00:23:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>On March 22, 2000 at 23:13:42, Aaron Tay wrote: >>> >>>>On March 22, 2000 at 16:46:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>>> >>>>>On March 22, 2000 at 09:26:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>>Now I am better protected that a heavy tank. But, just >>>>>>yesterday, this guy showed to me another nuisance, that is, how spyware >>material is spreaded in our computers by so many freeware programs, some of >>them very popular and good in his area. >>>> >>>>>>You will not be dissappointed, although prepare yourselves to lose some of >>that freeware troyan horses that simply does not run if you does not let them >>to put his eggs. >>>> >>>> >>>>Are you implying in any way that some of the free/shareware chess programs are >>>>trojan horses? >>>> >>>>Hmm..Popular and good sharware , (Crafty?,Goliath?) >>>> >>>>So were any chess programs found to be trojan horses? >>> >>>Just to make things clear, you were not replying to what I posted. >>> >>>-Tom >> >> >>Sorry to jump in, but to me, this whole thing smells a bit sour. I'm >>not a windows user, so I'm not an expert on anything in that world, but >>the entire idea ssems very far-fetched to me... However, we have a huge >>NT open lab here, with students downloading every kind of thing imaginable. >>And since I am responsible for our new firewall, I can say (for this one >>installation with over 100 NT machines) that we are _not_ seeing any odd >>traffic from the NT boxes to the outside world. >> >>That typically is _not_ the way various ecommerce sites get data on potential >>customers. They more commonly crawl thru newsgroups and email lists, and >>extract email addresses from those... Trying to infiltrate a computer with >>a trojan horse would open them to so much litigation, I can't imagine this >>happening on any kind of large scale... > > >Hi Bob: >In fact some kind of litigation was announced against the company that has did >the most in spreading these robots. And it has been done in large scale. I had >my hard disk full with that shit. And consequently I had my email full of >advertising. I am not talking of advertising that I allowed to come from some >sites -like Amazon or CD-Now, but other, not asked one. Respect to NT, I do not >know for certain, but maybe you could take a look at the site I gave the paras >to look for yourself. >Cheers >Fernando I don't really have to run a program to check this. My firewall is blocking _all_ traffic to the NT cluster, since it is an internal lab that only rarely uses outside www access. I have the traffic blocked and logged, and there is _nothing_ trying to get out of the NT domain, nor trying to get into the NT domain...
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