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<DIV>Ton:</DIV>
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<DIV>I think it's dangerous to assume that with file sharing turned off,
one is safe from attack. Even if one <EM>does </EM>assume their files
can't be accessed (which I'm not willing to gamble on, considering all the
trojan horses out there), there are many other forms of attack like land
attacks, denial of service, nukes and ping attacks that can give you a lot of
grief.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The Microsoft article certainly doesn't make me feel any better about Back
Orifice as far as I can see. BO and its many of variations are nasty and
from what I understand, only a good anti-virus application will detect the
trojan and failing that, only a good firewall will prevent the related port
accesses.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
A.J. Maas </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Metastock-List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> July 13, 1999 16:11</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: intruders [Fw: Today's
WinInfo: July 12]</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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:
Windows news and information -- Copyright (c) 1995-9 Paul Thurrott<BR>Visit
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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i have an eod ASCII file which contains the following fields for 250 stocks:
symbol, date, high, low close, vol.
AA,00,00,00,00
BB,00,00,00,00
I have tried with the downloader but i couldn't get good results.
Thanks
raidak
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