-----Original Message----- From: Fab Siciliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:36 AM To: 'william taylor' Subject: RE: aol IM "sniffer"?
Well...favorites aren't sent across anywhere unless you actually want them to. Many AOL users' systems are compromised. He probably downloaded a malicious file, with an extension of something.jpg(lots of spaces).exe. AOL likes to hide file extensions. Something like Sub7 will just flat out record EVERYTHING. You can protect yourself by getting some AV software. It usually picks up those kinds of things. ./fab -----Original Message----- From: william taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: aol IM "sniffer"? I had a friend who uses AOL. he told me that someone he knew had bugged his AOL account so that his IMs were logged, his sites visited was logged, and all of his settings (favorites, buddy list, etc.) had been recorded. i know that this is done by cracking and is probably some juvenile prank, but how could i protect myself against someone doing that? i.e. is it a packet sniffer sniffing packets coming out of a specific ip address with specific headers, or is it some sort of spoofer that asks AOL for that information? and if so, how could i prevent an attack like that from succeeding? charles _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
