DiseasedPunk Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 With the right tools you can prevent yourself from ever having a problem in the first place. You can't kill them so we're forced to coexist with them. Take preventive measures and you'll never have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctogher Posted December 31, 2003 Author Share Posted December 31, 2003 You can't kill them so we're forced to coexist with them. And that's the point, isn't it. We will always be one step behind these "misunderstood" and "unfairly accused" brats thanks to the actual hacker who created the generator in the first place. I mean, YES!, if you created it for your own use so that you could bypass the relatively simple comparison algorithms in virus checkers, (most of the generators mutate their code on each compilation so that it appears to be something other than it is). But why then go and make it available to kids who have no concept of why it was created in the first place and start using it to get their kicks from Internet Cafe's so that they can brag to their buds about how wonderfully cool they are while sipping their cuppocino and fingering their cultist sportswear in the hope that someone will ask them who's credit card paid for it? This mutation renders your scanners obsolete. A firewall is only there to keep someone out. It will never deny your machine an apparently "legitimate" request to connect to an external source.... I'm beginning to feel that the best form of prevention is disconnection. :blink: Anyone want to swap smoke signals..... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakkara Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 You don't have to be completely disconnected. A lot of trojans gain access to your PC via Windows File and Printer sharing, and disabling that alone will keep a lot of people that don't know what they are doing out of your machine. Also, use your head. If you hear strange harddrive activity, check out what connections are on and what processes are running. Or get a program that displays everything sent to and from you on your desktop. Also, don't use outlook to get your mail, and don't even read the text of mails that have attachments since there might be scripts in there. The safest thing to use is still telnet ^_^ (if you use windows that is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmid Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 A firewall is only there to keep someone out. It will never deny your machine an apparently "legitimate" request to connect to an external source.... True, but I have my firewall set so that if an external source requests a connection to my machine or a program requests a connection to an external location, it will do nothing except alert me about it until I take a quick look and authorise/deny it. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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