| From: | David McMinn |
| Date: | 27 Jun 2001 at 11:38:32 |
| Subject: | Re: Internet Abuse and Port Hacks (reply) |
--- In amigactive@y..., "Neil Bothwick" <neil@w...> wrote:
> >> Have you read this?
> >>
> >> http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
> >>
> >> I found it interesting reading. There's a PDF version available
> >> too.
>
> Thanks Oovis. I wrote about that for AA 23 yesterday, now everyone
> will have read it before the magazine comes out :(
Is it going to include all the criticism that Gibson is getting? I
found his article quite interesting, but some of the stuff people have
been saying about his conclusions make some sense.
> Fortunately, we don't appear to have any Zombie programs... yet.
Surprising, given how easy the code for it would be once it's running
(it would just be a case of a really simple IRC client and a high
level input handler, if you wanted one like the Sub7 one). The hardest
bit would seem to be getting it onto people's machines and infecting
programs without having any adverse effects and giving it's presence
away (like corrupting exe's, strange tasks running, etc).
> > Given the flood of dodgy bits shoved up on Aminet recently, is
> > proof enough to me that we all have to be vigilant when
> > downloading files.
>
> 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.
I've used ZoneAlarm (like Oovis) and it blocks unauthorised ingoing
and outgoing (based on the program name) traffic. I thought that
should be the job of a firewall - just because something is sending
outgoing traffic doesn't mean it can be trusted (e.g. our uni is going
to try to block the students using IM services with a firewall soon
:).
I guess this has been asked loads, but is there any (good) firewalls
for the Amiga (not including the one in MiamiDx)?
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