Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts
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I received some of these "ads" and disabled the service. Actually is quite simple doing this. And 5000 ads per hour? These guys never heard of multithreading... My latest articles: Desktop Bob - Instant CP notifications XOR tricks for RAID data protection
Yeap, I also disabled the service :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55795,00.html[^] The spammers are getting even more agressive ... Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
Is this making use of the 'net send' command on the command prompt, if so then you should really disable all protocols except TCP/IP on the computers internet connection, as the PC would be making visible any availiable network shares and other NetBIOS based services. Franky only a complete monkey would connect to the internet with all these things enabled. Kind of asking for it. Thinking about it, say on Win2K, if you made a new internet connection(not LAN), only TCP/IP is enabled, meaning, you would have to manually enable it. When your on a corporate network, you would have this enabled, and the company firewall should block this, so it would only effect home users connected directly to the Net. I remeber having fun with net send ages ago, as yes it looks like an admin alert e.g. c:\net send username_here message You could sacre people be saying 'Do some work', as it only gives the name of the machine from which it was sent.
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Is this making use of the 'net send' command on the command prompt, if so then you should really disable all protocols except TCP/IP on the computers internet connection, as the PC would be making visible any availiable network shares and other NetBIOS based services. Franky only a complete monkey would connect to the internet with all these things enabled. Kind of asking for it. Thinking about it, say on Win2K, if you made a new internet connection(not LAN), only TCP/IP is enabled, meaning, you would have to manually enable it. When your on a corporate network, you would have this enabled, and the company firewall should block this, so it would only effect home users connected directly to the Net. I remeber having fun with net send ages ago, as yes it looks like an admin alert e.g. c:\net send username_here message You could sacre people be saying 'Do some work', as it only gives the name of the machine from which it was sent.
Giles wrote: Is this making use of the 'net send' command on the command prompt, Yeap, this and Alerter . Giles wrote: I remeber having fun with net send ages ago, as yes it looks like an admin alert e.g. c:\net send username_here message You are not alone,I also used to do this . Playing nice games :-D Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55795,00.html[^] The spammers are getting even more agressive ... Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
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Why not bundle the power and knoledge and bring them to their knies... We can destroy their software... Hit them back... and haunt them till they give up. I they can do it, SO CAN WE!!!:mad: greets, Martin If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
That's the biggest problem - security people don't share knowledge the way crackers / spammers do. Until we start doing that, they will always find a way. :suss:
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator. - Marc Clifton
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55795,00.html[^] The spammers are getting even more agressive ... Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
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Now you could sell your own software to Prevent NETBIOS spammer, which stops/disables the messager service, at $10 a copy. Unknowing users would be it. Developing with C++ is like programming by the seat of your pants
Norm Almond wrote: Now you could sell your own software to Prevent NETBIOS spammer, which stops/disables the messager service, at $10 a copy. Unknowing users would be it. Good idea, good idea :laugh: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
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Joao Vaz wrote: The spammers are getting even more agressive ... I said this before, but these idiots must be destroyed (meaning killed in cold-blood) Nish
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Nishant S wrote: I said this before, but these idiots must be destroyed (meaning killed in cold-blood) Too easy. Life imprisonment working on an ISP helpdesk ;P :laugh: Elaine (evil fluffy tigress) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Giles wrote: Is this making use of the 'net send' command on the command prompt, Yeap, this and Alerter . Giles wrote: I remeber having fun with net send ages ago, as yes it looks like an admin alert e.g. c:\net send username_here message You are not alone,I also used to do this . Playing nice games :-D Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9
Joao Vaz wrote: You are not alone,I also used to do this . Playing nice games Yep I remeber one "You have tried to access blocked material as per the company policies. Please stay where you are an administrator and security guard will be with you shortly. They will be wearing long grey coats. You have been a very naughty naughty boy." :) Seriouly though, if people have all their ports open, then using this method to send spam is the least of their troubles. What else have they left themselves wide open for. Can't see what the fuss is about. Never mind Windows. If thes kind of users where on Unix, they would have put a blank password on the root account. Its a user thing, not an OS thing.
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Joao Vaz wrote: You are not alone,I also used to do this . Playing nice games Yep I remeber one "You have tried to access blocked material as per the company policies. Please stay where you are an administrator and security guard will be with you shortly. They will be wearing long grey coats. You have been a very naughty naughty boy." :) Seriouly though, if people have all their ports open, then using this method to send spam is the least of their troubles. What else have they left themselves wide open for. Can't see what the fuss is about. Never mind Windows. If thes kind of users where on Unix, they would have put a blank password on the root account. Its a user thing, not an OS thing.
Giles wrote: "You have tried to access blocked material as per the company policies. Please stay where you are an administrator and security guard will be with you shortly. They will be wearing long grey coats. You have been a very naughty naughty boy." Nice one :-D Giles wrote: Can't see what the fuss is about. Never mind Windows. If thes kind of users where on Unix, they would have put a blank password on the root account. Its a user thing, not an OS thing. The point , is that messenger service should be off by default, not on. Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9