Re: "Flash"??
Terje Normann Marthinussen (terjem@stud.cs.uit.no)
Fri, 19 Aug 1994 10:27:26 +0200 (METDST)
>
> TWW> == That Whispering Wolf <elfchief@lupine.org>
>
> TWW> A user on my system talked to me about a program that's going around
> TWW> called 'flash', that supposedly uses in.talkd to flood a user's
> TWW> session into unusability. He has a binary for this program, but no
> TWW> source, so I can't see what the program actually does.
>
> It seems to be another one of those fun things people like to use in
> conjunction with being mad about some perceived slight on IRC. It sends a
> fake talk request packet with VT100/ANSI terminal control characters in
> the user@host, which talkd moronically passes on to the user's terminal
> without checking for ESC or similar things.
>
> (It looks really silly when someone does this to you and talkd sends it to
> xconsole... "^[[c@host" and the like.)
>
> As for preventing it, I just turned off talkd. With all the
> incompatibilities it has, it's not that useful anyway...
[flash.c source deleted]
Hmm.. in xterm you have a menu item called "Do Full Reset". Doing this
restores the xterm from the mess made by flash.c.
Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no