On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:02:09 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:31:15 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> Hi Sam, >> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:59:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: <snip> >> Does this sound familiar ? > That sounds very familiar. :( > Each time it has happened to me. > I switch to 'outside DNSs' and everthing works just fine. > The next time it happens to you. > Try switching to these DNSs > 128.32.136.9 > 128.32.136.12 > -- It sounds all too familiar to me too, Ron. :( Glenn: I have tried using "outside DNS's" too, but only as an experiment to see if I can. Yes, I can. I don't know why I can. I don't know why an "outside DNS" would even allow let my use of it since I am not a paid or a signed up subscriber for its services. I don't know why they would let me use their services for free unless they would benefit somehow by advertising or by spamming or by identity theft or by my creating new back roads for them to travel on or new back doors for them to enter. Are there any known dangers of using "outside DNS's"? How does one know in advance which "outside DNS's" would work for him and which ones won't. Is there a web page somewhere that provides a listing of "outside DNS's" which throw out the welcome mat for everybody? Another question: In using DOS for doing the internet, how would one know when somebody is trying to break into his back door? What would be the symptoms? Are there some good burglar alarm systems for DOS, and perhaps some that are already built in and requiring no additional software? Also, is there any known spyware that works under DOS? Spyware is the software that peeks into your activities and lets unauthorized personnel find out about all your little secrets like your credit card numbers and passwords and your private suspicions about what the government is doing. Spyware is supplied for free with all modern Windows operating systems. It sure is nice that nobody has to pay for it. People just have to pay for all of the other crap that comes with Windows. One thing that I believe about DOS systems is that there is no way that a DOS system could automagically grab my private data and insert it into an email which it automagically writes and sends to a mailing list of hundreds of people I don't even know, and all this happening under some background processes that I don't even know about and that I might not ever find out about. Most people like to run an alternative operating system known as Windows, which is very well supplied with features that are very well known for doing things like that. I have no idea why that alternative operating system is so popular. Oh, and BTW, another very nice feature of DOS is that whenever you are running DOS you will never see your hard drive being accessed at times and at apparently random intervals when you cannot figure out why. I have a big problem when running Windows about seeing my hard drive being accessed under circumstances when I cannot figure out why. Most all other people see this kind of thing happening too when they are running Windows, but most people don't even understand why this kind of activity just *might* be a symptom of a very serious problem. If I were using Windows there probably would be no symptoms at all of back door attacks because Windows is an operating system especially designed for facilitating back door entry and for very cleverly masking the symptoms of an attack and for providing very deep cover for spies. In Windows unexplainable hard drive activity is considered "normal". Professional spies are very well trained in noting what is considered normal. They take advantage of their knowledge of what is considered normal activity to employ in a ruse to get in and to copy a document, or to plant a bomb, and and then to get out without anyone ever noticing that something that is not normal has ocurred. When one leaves the Windows open all the bugs fly in. Some of the most pesky bugs of all are the "no-see-ums" because they are so small that they can easily pass through some very fine screens. After a while some of the very small stuff can easily become a major annoyance. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
