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<DIV><FONT size=2>To clear some myths..........................</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>For as long as you do not "Share" any files, disks,
printers, folders or even Net-adapters, you are save from</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>anyone entering </FONT><FONT size=2>your PC.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
<DIV><FONT size=2>If you haven't done any of the file, folder, disk,
printer and netadapter </FONT><FONT size=2>sharing (also in the Control Panel's
Nethood/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Networking and the Win95/98 Context Menu's options for
"Sharing", then no-one can intrude onto your PC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>with you in command (and as otherwise is described in the
article below).</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>This "Sharing", apart from the Control Panel's Nethood and the
Win95/98 Context Menu's options,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>are privaleges you can also set for any of the "Users"
of your PC's Windows sessions. </FONT><FONT size=2>The program to do
so</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>is "C:\Windows\Poledit.exe".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The above is for Win95/98 only, for as WIN-NT4/2000 requires a
top secret "NTconfig.pol" file stored on server for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>setting the "Sharing of the Network's NetHood, Server
and WKS's </FONT><FONT size=2>files, folders, printers and
disks".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Regards,<BR>Ton Maas<BR><A
href="mailto:ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A><BR>Dismiss the
".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.<BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT
size=3>___________________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>WinInfo:
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WinInfo on the Web at WUGNET: <A
href="http://www.wugnet.com/wininfo";>http://www.wugnet.com/wininfo</A><BR>___________________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>Today's
WinInfo:<BR> Microsoft challenges BackOrifice myths<BR> Microsoft
bringing USB hardware to the Macintosh<BR><BR><BR>Microsoft challenges
BackOrifice myths<BR><BR>With the release this week of Windows NT hacking tool
"BackOrifice 2000,"<BR>Microsoft has launched an informational campaign of its
own, designed to<BR>derail myths about the malicious program. According to a
report on<BR>Microsoft's Security Advisor Web site, BackOrifice 2000 is a remote
control<BR>application that must be stealthily installed so that attackers can
take<BR>over a Windows NT-based network. The program enables remote hackers to
do<BR>anything they could do were they to be logged onto the machine locally:
Run<BR>programs, delete files, and the like.<BR><BR>"BackOrifice 2000 is a
remote-access tool that was developed with the intent<BR>of harming users," says
Jason Garms, the lead product manager for Windows NT<BR>security at Microsoft.
"It is a tool that has no legitimate purpose other<BR>than exposing users'
machines to people on the Internet. Users who are<BR>tricked into getting this
thing installed on their system are vulnerable to<BR>the attacker, who can then
do anything that the victim can do--move the<BR>mouse, open files, run programs,
etc.--which is little different from what<BR>legitimate remote-control software
can do. Back Orifice, however, is<BR>designed to be stealthy and evade detection
by the user."<BR><BR>For BackOrifice to find its way onto your system the hacker
must have<BR>physical access to the machine with a valid login or you must be
tricked<BR>into installing it; typically this is accomplished by sending users
the<BR>program as an email attachment that must be executed. To prevent
this<BR>program from taking over your system, just use common sense: Always run
an<BR>anti-virus program with up-to-date virus definitions and don't let
anyone<BR>gain unauthorized physical access to your machine. Perhaps most
importantly,<BR>don't execute email attachments from unknown people.<BR><BR>One
of the biggest myths perpetrated by the makers of BackOrifice is that<BR>program
takes advantage of security inadequacies that are inherent in<BR>Windows and
Windows NT. This is simply not true: BackOrifice could have been<BR>written to
attack *any* kind of computer system. The hackers that wrote it<BR>simply
decided to attack Windows, which is the most popular computing<BR>platform by
far. In fact, as Microsoft notes, BackOrifice doesn't actually<BR>target Windows
per se at all: It targets users, who often don't understand<BR>security issues
well enough to not execute email attachments from
unknown<BR>sources.<BR><BR>Another common myth centers on the goal for
BackOrifice: In an attempt to<BR>protect themselves from legal problems, the
creators of BackOrifice are<BR>pretending that it is a legitimate remote control
application. However, this<BR>is not the case: BackOrifice is designed to escape
detection and exceeds the<BR>needs of remote control software. And it doesn't
prompt the user when it<BR>installs on the system.<BR><BR>"The creators [of
BackOrifice] claim that this is a useful administration<BR>tool, but it doesn't
even prompt people when it installs itself on the<BR>system. It doesn't warn
them that it's getting installed. And, once it's<BR>installed, it makes the
system available to other people on the Internet.<BR>That is a malicious act,"
says Garms. "I am personally unaware of any major<BR>customers of ours who
consider this to be a remote administration tool as<BR>the folks who created it
claim. Quite the contrary, they consider it a piece<BR>of malicious code.
Unfortunately, there are some users who were duped by the<BR>press releases from
the organization that released the software, and did<BR>install it on their
systems."<BR><BR>For more information about Microsoft's response to BackOrifice
2000, please<BR>visit the Microsoft Security Advisor Web site:<BR> <A
href="http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/bo2k.asp";>http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/bo2k.asp</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Microsoft
bringing USB hardware to the Macintosh<BR><BR>Microsoft Corporation will
announce the availability of its first USB<BR>hardware for the Macintosh, the
IntelliMouse Explorer, a "no ball" mouse<BR>that the company will release this
fall for Windows as well. According to<BR>rumors, Microsoft will also be porting
other USB hardware to the Macintosh,<BR>including possibly all of the company's
joystick/entertainment hardware,<BR>such as the FreeStyle Pro GamePad and the
Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick.<BR><BR>Expect an official announcement from
Microsoft at MacWorld New York
next<BR>week.<BR><BR>___________________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>Visit
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Vitaly
Worked for me as well. I didn't do the download yet since I want to make
sure it isn't hacked. I'm using IE5.0.
As an aside, for visiting their site they gave me a copy of Bonzi Buddy
(7+Mb) which took a whole couple of minutes at DSL speed (784kbs) to
download.
Thanks
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Vitaly Larichev
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 1:22 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: intruders
Walter Lake wrote:
>...If anyone ... can't get through to Bonzi (none
>..of the addresses work for me) ...
The following works for me all right (on Netscape 4.6):
http://www.bonzi.com/intruderalert/ia99.asp
Cheers, Vitaly
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