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Subject: Re: Crafty-ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt ?Tried to insert a Trojan bug

Author: John Wentworth2

Date: 12:03:23 02/01/03

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On February 01, 2003 at 12:20:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 01, 2003 at 08:47:40, John Wentworth2 wrote:
>
>>Is ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt still the place to download Crafty? I have
>>tried several times over the past couple days and can't connect. The first time
>>I tried to connect an attempt to deposit some kind of Trojan bug on my machine
>>happened, but my firewall stopped it.
>
>That is simply false.  You have a firewall problem.  The only data that machine
>sends out is data you request.  Your firewall is probably set up "too strict"
>and it found some particular string of characters that looked fishy, when they
>were not."
>
>>
>>I have tried ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt from my browser and from my FTP
>>utility with no luck.
>
>
>There are currently 40+ people ftp'ing away right this minute...


Ok, I am just going by what I see. I'll have to look into it on my end. Thanks.



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