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JL,
Your message is clear but I'm not sure of the accuracy. Do you have any
specific information that this alleged Hack Software can talk to network
hard-drives across differing networking protocols? Normally, a TCP/IP
channel into a PC can only access whatever adapter the TCP/IP protocol is
bound to. In the case of a modem link, this would restrict it to the
Dial-Up Adapter in Win-95 (not sure about NT) and the LAN would be using
NETBUI or PCX and bound to the NIC, not the Dial-Up Adapter.
I have not been able to find much information on the alleged hacking program
and it is unclear if it actually exists, and if so, precisely what it does
and how. If you have any information on the hack and the alleged dangers,
I'd be very happy to receive it.
At this stage of the game, I would have to agree with someone else who
commented that it sounds suspiciously like the "Win a Holiday Virus" scam.
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At 04:34 PM 7/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Changing networking protocols is not going to make your network
>invulnerable. The problem is one computer, we'll call it the internet
>computer, is hooked to the internet using TCP/IP (which is the protocol of
>the internet). Then another computer, we'll call it the network computer,
>is networked to the internet computer using NetBeui or another protocol. If
>someone accesses the internet computer, using a hack program, they will
>still be able to talk to the network computer because the internet computer
>will act like translator if sharing is still allowed.
>
>NT is a little more safe because you can do directory or file shares not
>just a whole drive like 95 or 98.
>
>Hope this is clear.
>
>JL
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Augustine <RonAug@xxxxxxxx>
>To: Neil Harrington <njh@xxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
><omega-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 1:38 PM
>Subject: RE: Internet security
>
>>If you need to keep file and printer sharing between networked PCs, but
>>still want to prevent against a Hack Attack from the Net, you could use a
>>different network protocol (like NETBUI) for your local LAN and keep TCP/IP
>>for your Net connection.
>
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