Problems with private justice (was Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious)

2004-07-13 Thread Sean Donelan
I guess the big question is, is there anyone (other than those profiting directly from CWS) that would complain if a provider were to do such a thing... looks like a psi-net pink contract inherited by cogent. but since the psi-cogent rollup was an asset sale rather than a corporate

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Michel Py
William Warren wrote: I second that. The version I saw required a third party registry editor and booting up into the recovery console from an XP cd (safe mode didn't cut it) just to remove a hidden dll. Which is why I made the executive decision to re-image instead of trying to fix, as

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Michel Py
David Schwartz One wrong turn probing it can render a machine unusable until it's reloaded. Ah, I'm not the only one it appears. In the meantime, let's at least blackhole all their IPs on our networks. Does any of the regular lists keeps try of this and already blacklists? Michel.

RE: Problems with private justice (was Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious)

2004-07-13 Thread Michel Py
oops I just realized that I incorrectly quoted William Warren instead of Brian Battle in my previous post. Sorry guys, cut/paste casualty. /oops Sean Donelan wrote: Could this be a Joe job by someone who doesn't like the owners of Cool Web Search? The owners of the Cool Web Search company

Re: Problems with private justice (was Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious)

2004-07-13 Thread William Warren
LOL..not a problem..:) Michel Py wrote: oops I just realized that I incorrectly quoted William Warren instead of Brian Battle in my previous post. Sorry guys, cut/paste casualty. /oops Sean Donelan wrote: Could this be a Joe job by someone who doesn't like the owners of Cool Web Search? The owners

tunnel PMTUD with mss adjustment

2004-07-13 Thread Joe Maimon
Hello All, I have been talking to Company C' Tac trying to understand if this is a problem. ( For reference to some things mentioned here see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk827/tk369/technologies_white_paper09186a00800d6979.shtml#subthirdtwo ) 1) C has a command to adjust the tcp mss option

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
The authors of these coolwebsearch variants are extremely intelligent programmers with far more understanding of the bowels of the windows platform than your average script kiddies. If you get hit with the version I saw, it's no 10 minute piece of cake. It makes spywire more dangerous

Looking for historical BGP announcement information

2004-07-13 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Hello, I am looking for a database that would have BGP inserts/withdrawals from mid 1999 time frame. Any help is appreciated. -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [EMAIL PROTECTED], latency, Al Reuben -- --Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --

Re: Looking for historical BGP announcement information

2004-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
I am looking for a database that would have BGP inserts/withdrawals from mid 1999 time frame. oregon route views project

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:37:37 EDT, Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: alt with at the browser level in MS Security Bulletin MS03-011. I have a hard time blaming MS for everything since in most cases of these things they do react. How do they force the users to update? Could they

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Petri Helenius
Brian Battle wrote: For another hastily-thought-out analogy, it's like someone breaking into your house and reprogramming your cable box to keep changing the channel to the home shopping club every 30 seconds. That would be the result of the broadcast bit. Pete

OT: xDSL hardware

2004-07-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm wondering if there are any ISPs here that are Covad partners that have found a need to terminate a DSL line alongside a T1 for backup. The problem I'm finding is that the Covad-supplied/approved routers are fairly feature-less, making any type of backup application impossible without

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Brian Battle
Alexei Roudnev wrote: It is not a bug; it is specially designed IE feature. MS always was proud of their full automation - install on demand, update automatically, add new software to start at a startup without need to be system admin, etc etc... As a result, we have a field full of bugs,

Re: OT: xDSL hardware

2004-07-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: I'm wondering if there are any ISPs here that are Covad partners that have found a need to terminate a DSL line alongside a T1 for backup. Yes. Not doing it currently, but when we did we used a FlowPoint 2200 in routed mode into the second

Off-Topic: N.Y. Buyout Firm Has Its Eye on MCI

2004-07-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Leucadia National Corp., a New York buyout firm, has expressed interest in acquiring a controlling stake in MCI Inc., raising new questions about the telecommunications giant's future just three months after it emerged from bankruptcy.

Re: OT: xDSL hardware

2004-07-13 Thread Eric Kagan
Is anyone aware of a WIC card that will work with the lower end Cisco gear (1700 or 2600 series) that will allow me to terminate an ADSL or preferably an SDSL line directly on the router? The idea being that the router is then aware of link up/down status... There is a WIC-1ADSL for

RE: xDSL hardware

2004-07-13 Thread Michel Py
Charles Sprickman wrote: I found an ADSL card (WIC-1ADSL), but Covad is unable to tell us if this works with their dslams or not. I doubt it would, as the WIC-1ADSL does only ADSL, not SDSL and all the Covad I have seen so far is SDSL. However, there is a Single Port G.shdsl WAN Interface

Re: Off-Topic: N.Y. Buyout Firm Has Its Eye on MCI

2004-07-13 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Jul 13, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Leucadia National Corp., a New York buyout firm, has expressed interest in acquiring a controlling stake in MCI Inc., raising new questions about the telecommunications giant's future just three months after it emerged from

Re: Off-Topic: N.Y. Buyout Firm Has Its Eye on MCI

2004-07-13 Thread William Warren
they have a large stake yes..:) Patrick W Gilmore wrote: On Jul 13, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Leucadia National Corp., a New York buyout firm, has expressed interest in acquiring a controlling stake in MCI Inc., raising new questions about the telecommunications giant's

Re: Off-Topic: N.Y. Buyout Firm Has Its Eye on MCI

2004-07-13 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Doesn't Leucadia also own ... WilTel? I forgot (and am not registered for the Washington Post). Using lynx bypasses the Post's BigBrotherBot... -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] no one will talk to a host