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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 07:56:56 AM

Who has it, what's it called, and where do I download it? I was out port sniffing my local network, someone saw me and decided to give me a case of my own medicine! Damn, I should have deleted their Win98 files! They parsed all my drives, probably coppied all my pics. Oh well, I just want to keep them out.

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zpyrd   09-29-2001 at 08:40:59 AM
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<A HREF="http://www.zonelabs.com/" target="_new">Zone Alarm</A>

Hope this helps you.


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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 08:47:40 AM
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I use Zone Alarm. But I have heard a lot of people say they like <A HREF="http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10105-100-6313778.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.6313778" target="_new">Tiny Personal Firewall</A> better.

<font color=green>I've had enough cookies.</font color=green> <font color=blue><i>Got milk?</i></font color=blue>

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 08:48:09 AM
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Gee, too bad it cost so much to get the additional features, at least the firewall is free!

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:01:13 AM
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Well, I just checked the user ratings a Cnet. Zone Alarm wins hands down. 97% recomended.

Tiny only gets 88%.

I have had no probs whatsoever with ZA.

Even went to a couple of security sites and invited them to hack me. They reported me as safe (as safe as you get anyway).

I change my suggestion to ZA.

<font color=green>I've had enough cookies.</font color=green> <font color=blue><i>Got milk?</i></font color=blue>

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:03:05 AM
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Gee, this TPF thing works perfect, I started getting hits right from starting my computer! 2 guys from 2 systems on my network were trying to get in for several minutes! They just gave up!

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:06:12 AM
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Installed that fast, eh.

I'll let you try it out for a little while, maybe I'll switch.

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:07:41 AM
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I just got someones number and hit their computer, it's from the computer I was "inspecting" earlier. That one had an UNSECURED SHARED DRIVE on the network when I went through their personal files a few days ago, I don't have any shared drives. So I didn't even need to hack to get in!

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:13:04 AM
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FIVE MORE SYSTEMS from this network just tried to get in! I had "appropriated" the information I needed from the College of Business at my University to get into THEIR network and "borrow" anything I wanted from THEIR systems. Obviously the guys at the lab over there are making a concerted effort.

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:18:15 AM
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I hit one of their address using Internet Explorer and got back a Chinese version of "This page under construction".

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:21:46 AM
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Took all of about 3 minutes to install. So how do I know which packs are legit and which are not? I'm assuming that if I get a bunch of packets from a bunch of computers with similar addresses from my school (that is to say, if I get hit by several local machines) I have to be suspicious. But how about my server? How do I know when I'm getting something I want, like a Cooky for THG community?

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:26:34 AM
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I think I read that your comp will still be accepting cookies, in the product description at Cnet.

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:29:23 AM
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Or maybe it was a user's review that said that.

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:30:26 AM
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OK. This is cool. I have good reason to beleive that someone (two people actually) are trying to access my files. Reason? I can be sitting here doing nothing then sudenly get hit a couple times. Then I can go into internet activity and not get hit at all. Since I have their adresses, how can I use them to hack their computers? It would be nice to implant a "Shut down" command!

Back to you Tom...

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:38:37 AM
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I have 113 hits on mine since boot up (12 hours or so). I have their addresses, too. But I don,t know what to do with them. Zone Alarm says they are not likely to be malicious, anyhow.

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zpyrd   09-29-2001 at 09:39:07 AM
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Back hack them with a shut down command.
If you find out how you could probably sell it and make a ton of money. Imagine the havoc you could wield.

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:40:49 AM
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Sorry my responses are so slow. As you may have read in another thread, I switched to a Dvorak keyboard about an hour ago.

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 09:48:18 AM
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Houston, we have a problem! If I try to block them, I can't HACK them! Why? Because I can't tell which hits were initiated by them and which are responses to mine!

Back to you Tom...

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 09:53:05 AM
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Damn. Got any spare machines lying around with nothing on them to hack them with?

<font color=green>I've had enough cookies.</font color=green> <font color=blue><i>Got milk?</i></font color=blue>

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 10:02:48 AM
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WAYYYYYYYYyy ahead of you there. I switched back to the "home" network and low and behold, the only one hitting me is the internet sever. At least I assume it's the internet server, because it comes up the same number every time. It's named "046061.dynamic.cmich.edu" and was on the other network as well. All these other systems are gone!

Back to you Tom...

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Crashman   09-29-2001 at 10:08:27 AM
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Oh, so as I was going to say, switch this thing back to a more secure network and then set up another machine as a tool. I should have printed out a bunch of porn over at the CBA lab during the daytime, just to get those guys in trouble! Yes, I had access to ALL their printers (but only SOME of their drives). OH, I was showing people who needed certain software how they could copy a whole drive from a similar machine.....hmmm. Just set someones main drive up as a network drive and use NTI DriveBackup or Norton Ghost or any of a dozen other program. The handy thing about DriveBackup is it puts it on a CD so you can reinstall it as many times as you like...

Back to you Tom...

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mousepotato   09-29-2001 at 11:05:14 AM
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Don't do the "print the porn" thing 'til you've had some time to look around their systems. They will get tipped off.

<font color=green>I've had enough cookies.</font color=green> <font color=blue><i>Got milk?</i></font color=blue>

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Crashman   09-30-2001 at 04:07:17 AM
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Pro cost dollars.

Back to you Tom...

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mousepotato   09-30-2001 at 06:28:35 AM
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I can't find ZApro at that site. All I see is Zone Alarm 2.1.44.

<font color=green>I've had enough cookies.</font color=green> <font color=blue><i>Got milk?</i></font color=blue>

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Tom_Smart   09-30-2001 at 05:36:13 PM
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pro is <A HREF="http://www.zonelabs.com/zap_download_trial_10.htm" target="_new"> here</A> for 30 day trial.

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

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Tom_Smart   10-01-2001 at 05:38:58 AM
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doing a google search isn't tricky is it. yes you can change the registration key and it will work. the key should look like this "dk68d-vfghv-ws0jt-wtm68g-kx7w00"(not a real key). have fun


Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

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