| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 27 Jun 2001 at 11:12:54 |
| Subject: | Re: Internet Abuse and Port Hacks (reply) |
hi,
> > Although this may be OT, remember this scenario HAS appeared on the
> > Amiga. IIRC, a fake Lib/Datatype was written and flooded an address
> > (H+P?) with garbage through Miami (I'm sure I'm going to get
> > corrected on this),
>
> You are. The datatype sent your Miami config to Digital Corruption. It
> was fake version of BlazeWCP, Safe and FBlit that mail bombed H&P.
> Fortunately, we don't appear to have any Zombie programs... yet.
there was also an earlier trojan which emailed amiga.com
> These programs are very hard to detect, except by their results. A
> personal firewall doesn't help here as it is designed to stop
> unauthorised traffic coming in, not going out.
get an old 486 box and stick GNAT onto it for free. a REAL firewall :-)
(so impressed i bought the company ;-) )
http://www.gnatbox.com/
alan
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