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Beware,,, I just downloaded it and did not install and got the blank
e-mails.
Reminds me of how allot of people used Penicillin virus protection (me
included ),,,it was, of course free but a little research showed me I was
dealing with a Taiwanese company and I was letting them totally scan my
harddrive for "viruses" .
I found out fast because they would hit the ports every 15 minutes or so
,,through zone alarm.That ended very fast .. I even erased and reformatted
that drive ...
I was dumb then a little dumb now .. But Zone , a router and an up to the
minute Norton will make you a little safer even when you are dumb .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Fleisher" <r5_6fpen8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: OT: Stupid Trader Mistakes and other Hacker Stories
> As much as I want to laugh and distribute Darwin Awards to all
> those who installed this free piece of Software from Italy
> onto their unprotected computers containing their trading ideas, I've
> done my share to foolish things too.
>
> For example, before I wised up about using proxies and SSL tunneling,
> I've learned my lesson from exposing my IP to IRC trading chat rooms,
> while simultaneously logged onto the online trading software. It
> never occurred to me that IT people working for legitimate brokerage
> firms, data feed providers, online software developers, and even
> people from my own ISP with an itch for trading, may also be logged on
> to the same IRC chat room as well.
>
> As soon as I got well into a political rant in the chat room, my firewall
> lit up like a Christmas tree with several attempts to connect to the very
ports my trading
> software uses. In my case, the IRC and the trading software were on
> two separate computers under a VPN. But that didn't seem to help. The IP
> addresses of the intruder were similar, but as I later found out, none
> were associated with the software firm. Coincidental random port
> scans? I think not. The trading world is very a small world indeed.
>
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