File control.
Stork
I understand from several people that there is a way that someone can
send a command to your hard drive ordering it to delete files or send a
virus. If this is true, how do you stop it or what are they sending to
do it.
Keith D. Tyler
Stork (st...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: I understand from several people that there is a way that someone can
: virus. If this is true, how do you stop it or what are they sending to
: do it.
"Ordering" huh? You make your hard drive sound like a Nazi war criminal.
It is possible for someone like say, me, to send someone like say, you,
something that you gleefully run, and eventually does nasty stuff to you
because I wanted it to.
It's called not taking gifts from strangers, unless you're willing to tear
apart the Halloween candy and look for needles and razor blades.
--
"I know it's hard to prognosticate his future at this stage, but if he's
going to remain 0.4 gram and six-sided for the rest of his life, I'd say
euthanasia is our best bet." - Mark Leyner
Bishop
In article <4p8151$6...@shore.shore.net>,
rom...@shore.net (Keith D. Tyler) wrote:
>Stork (st...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>: I understand from several people that there is a way that someone can
>: send a command to your hard drive ordering it to delete files or send a
>: virus. If this is true, how do you stop it or what are they sending to
>: do it.
Easiest way around it (if you're using mIRC) is to DISABLE the auto-get
of files being DCC'd to you. And when you do receive a file from
someone via DCC, unzip it and scan it with a virus scanner BEFORE you
run the program. This cannot be emphasized enough.
Cheers,
Bish
--
Rod Templeton, VE7JCG | Email: bis...@infomatch.com
Maple Ridge, BC CANADA | ve7...@vcn.bc.ca
| Web : http://infomatch.com/~bishop
Professer Stoopid
>I understand from several people that there is a way that someone can
>send a command to your hard drive ordering it to delete files or send a
>virus. If this is true, how do you stop it or what are they sending to
>do it.
This is old news(at least a week or so) but here it goes
As long as your not running any scripts w/ encrypt/decrypt (i.e.
KillerGold, or Borg) you won't have to worry about it. There is a
backdoor in the program, and if someone uses this backdoor on you, the
least of your worries is a deleted file! They can actually format
your hardrive with it.
If you go there, I'll give you a cookie!
Got Milk?
Brian Mitchell
On Wed, 05 Jun 1996 11:58:22 -0400, Stork <st...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I understand from several people that there is a way that someone can
>send a command to your hard drive ordering it to delete files or send a
>virus. If this is true, how do you stop it or what are they sending to
>do it.
Phoenix has a known backdoor (or is it a simple coding error?) in it. I'm
sure other scripts do too. I think some macintosh client does as well.
The important thing is to read any script you are using. If you do not
understand the script, don't run it. It's that simple.
--
Brian Mitchell br...@saturn.net
Unix Security / Perl / WWW / CGI http://www.saturn.net/~brian
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell"
- H. Truman
Me
bis...@infomatch.com (Bishop) wrote:
>In article <4p8151$6...@shore.shore.net>,
>rom...@shore.net (Keith D. Tyler) wrote:
>>Stork (st...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>>: I understand from several people that there is a way that someone can
>>: send a command to your hard drive ordering it to delete files or send a
>>: virus. If this is true, how do you stop it or what are they sending to
>>: do it.
>Easiest way around it (if you're using mIRC) is to DISABLE the auto-get
>of files being DCC'd to you. And when you do receive a file from
>someone via DCC, unzip it and scan it with a virus scanner BEFORE you
>run the program. This cannot be emphasized enough.
Actually.....you should scan it before you unzip it, as some virii are
hidden as zip files, and when you unzip them, POOF