2004-08-23, 23:44 | Link #82 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Australia
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B) Like i said before if the admin doesn't notice the traffic he deserves to loose his job. Because that is what they are PAID to prevent, just like cops and alarm companies are PAID to prevent auto theft. And no i know this doesn't give you the right to steal the car or steal someone else's connection, but it comes down to morals and "online" some people just don't have any. |
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2004-08-24, 20:56 | Link #83 |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Hawaii
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Im a a little n00blet when it comes to what u guys are talkin about, mostly cuz I don't use irc. but it sounds a little scary. If anyone can help me understand a few things I would appreciate it. So the ppl who root other ppl's comps without the comp owner knowing....do they only do this to ppl on high speed networks? Like my little old home computer on roadrunner wouldnt look too good to them right? Also, the ppl they find to root....do they just randomly look for ppl, or do they look for ppl on irc that they can scab off of? Lastly do ppl on bt get rooted too? I have a bt window open almost 24 hours because I am constantly leeching and seeding anime. Sorry if I sound a little paranoid, but I just rebuilt my comp, but b4 I could even put my Norton in, it got hijacked from some site or somewhere. My homepage kept goin to some spanish website, but i couldnt change it back because in Internet options the "set ur homepage" would not highlight. So I go to open up my powertoys to tweak a little but find out that the admin has disabled that feature. So I go into the registry to see whats goin on...but apparently I cant because the network admin disabled the registry editor as well. (btw my network consists of 1 computer...and im the admin) it wasnt till i did a google later on that someone else had the same thing happen to them where the spanish website was stickin to their homepage, but they offered no fix, I did however learn the term hijacked from his post =/ so I guess reading this just made me even more paranoid of someone taking over my machine. It is one of the most frustrating things in the world to not be able to control your own comp. I didnt build my fawking comp for some spanish website! I was up for 24 hours straight cuz after I got home from work I was reinstalling programs and what not just to make sure it was secure again. |
2004-08-24, 23:58 | Link #84 | |
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If you really think that spanish website is a consequence of a hacker, just format your PC and install firewalls before connecting on internet. That's always an option. |
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2004-08-25, 07:43 | Link #85 | |
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2004-08-25, 09:46 | Link #86 | |
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Its up to the home user to secure his own computer. Most known virus programs can detect a rootkit. Take Care Sakaki- |
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2004-08-25, 11:51 | Link #87 | |
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2004-08-25, 19:33 | Link #89 |
ore wa kanpeki da
Join Date: Nov 2003
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to the original distressed poster, if a group's release is hacked it is because the group broke into a machine that was not thiers and put their releases on it. So here comes another group also scanning for hacked machines and comes across this groups stuff on a hacked machine and rehacks it!
it's like a theif who breaks into a house to steal a computer, puts all his work on it only to find it has been stolen by another theif haha Not all groups use hacked machines, it is important to point this out. I know many groups that pay 150$ US a month to rent dedicated computers to run their xdcc bots. |
2004-08-26, 11:27 | Link #90 | |
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To the fansub community, and to the warez community, a home user's pc is completely unimportant and pretty much useless. To the "hacker" (script kiddie) community, it's just as valuable to have 10,000 rooted boxes with 128kbit upload as it is to have 100 rooted 10 mbit boxes... maybe even more valuable, because nobody is going to track down all 10,000 rooted boxes that are ddosing them. To the virus community, autorooter network-scanning worms are becoming the norm ... dcom, ms-sql, iis holes have all seen this sort of worm (ms-blast, nachi, sql-slammer, code red, code red 2, nimda). Any time a new network exploit comes out, these things happen. Even simple email is subject to these things (pick any of the dozens of variants of the dozens of worms that exploited insecure office 2000 and ie 5 defaults). In the last few years, a lot of the "big" internet problems would have been completely stopped at the door with the use of hardened endpoint systems (personal firewalls, well-defined security policies, nontrivial passwords, mandatory authentication) and ubiquitous continually updated antivirus software, but far too few people run anything close to any of that. it's precisely the attitude "I'm not going to get anything, my connection is worthless to these people" that lets things like ddos botnets exist, which is a FAR worse problem than people using university bandwidth for whatever distro. |
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2004-08-26, 12:51 | Link #91 | |
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2004-08-27, 18:46 | Link #92 | |
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2004-09-06, 13:06 | Link #94 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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What im confuzzled about is...if lil ol' me was on the internet on irc, i just might get rooted!?!?!?!
.....this is shocking!! I never thought fansubbing groups would do this far.. but i what i also dont get is, why not use bit torrent..or can u get rooted on bit torrent also? i mean..if like..2000 ppl (on some channels i have seen) use bit torrent, wouldn't it make bit torrent for everyone alot faster than just 1 seeder and 40 peers? |
2004-09-06, 23:19 | Link #95 | |
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2004-09-07, 07:14 | Link #96 |
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Its so easy to stop a hacker/worm from entering your system, good Firewall rules own every single hacker out there =P
<3 Iptables & CHX-1 (Firewall for windows, much like Iptables + Free for home use) I myself have administrated quite a few servers and saw daily hack attempts on Apache, SSH, and MySQL in the firewall logs. blocking every incoming connection works ^_^. They were proxy servers, so they dont need to create new incoming connections (blocking initial SYN packets) but just allowing the server to create the connection itself and receive data back from the webserver on the same connetion (aka outside comps are not allowed to initiate a connection to the proxy, only the proxy may initiate a connection). Only thing that might work is if a hacker spoofs itself as a webserver that a proxy user is using, but seeing how its virtually impossible to determine that and the connection closes so fast AND you need to get the destination port right, the threat is lower than George Bush's IQ. Conclusion: Firewalls and Brains own hackers/script kiddies on every single step they take in trying to root your server/comp. PS: For all you Outlook/MSIE users, get a real browser/Email prog, get Firefox/Thunderbird |
2004-09-08, 13:26 | Link #98 |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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It really is a shame...
I guess its true, most fansubbers morals are out the door. Oh well, its just a drama fest anyhow. r00ted bots should be killed, etc. Don't support rooms that do it. The fansubbers know who r00ts and who doesn't. If they cared, they'd do something about it. |
2004-09-08, 13:48 | Link #99 | |
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I just love when people think they have any right to speak of "most fansubbers" or "most" anyone. |
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