Re: Rogue FTP Servers

[RLVaughn <Randy_Vaughn () BAYLOR EDU>]

Hello James,

Look on the awards link.  <http://www.nirsoft.net/awards.html>
"Call For Help"
"LockerGnome"
"PC World"
"Kim Komando"


Nir has been around since the mid 1990s.


Best regards,

Randal Vaughn
Professor
Baylor University

mailto:Randy_Vaughn () Baylor edu

Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 7:14:40 PM, you wrote:
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> Anyone use utilities from http://www.nirsoft.net/  -- It says that they
> are all written by Nir Sofer (email address: nirsofer () yahoo com) .  What
> concerns me is that the screenshots and documentation look good.  But I
> can find very little about Nir Sofer and not much is listed for
> nirsoft.net Even SecurityFocus doesn't show a single hit for "nircmd"
> and some of the other utilities.

> I know programmers that can program stuff like this in their spare time.
> They are few.  And I know people who protect their privacy well.  This
> combination makes me ask.  Does anyone know Nir Sofer?  Are the tools
> free of any undesirable side effects?

> I would like to think that I am being cautious, and not paranoid.

> Jim
> - - - -
> Jim Moore, CISSP, IAM
> Information Security Officer
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> 13 Lomb Memorial Drive
> Rochester, NY 14623-5603
> (585) 475-5406 (office)
> (585) 475-4122 (lab)
> (585) 475-7950 (fax)

> ""In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein

> "The release of new internet threats have not created a new problem. It
> has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
> Parallels quote by Albert Einstein on atomic energy




> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Justin Azoff
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:17 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Rogue FTP Servers

> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 14:28, Anderson, Brandie wrote:
> > Does the banner say anything about "pubstro"?

> I found one that had a banner of:
> 220-FTP SerVeR ReADy
> 220-_______________________________________________
> 220-                      - = ] MadHouse [ = -
> 220-
> 220-         This Stro is Brought You By Divx_due
> 220-                    & Evisu!
> 220-                ____________
> 220-                 User iNFO :
> .....

> Does "Stro" mean something in another language?

> --
> -- Justin Azoff
> -- Network Performance Analyst

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