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RE: Bios programming...
From: Randall Perry <lists () domain-logic com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:17:14 -0500
The program in question is quite legitimate in nature and already exists in several forms. In some instances, it sends the data to 'accountability partners' who are your chosen peers that monitor your activity. Think of it as AA for online porn. Online porn has become a real problem for males age 12 to early 40's. Properly implemented, solutions to combat porn are good business. (mind you, this is not 'spyware' for parents. this is targeted at adults who are trying to curb their own behavior). Those who are not aware of that epidemic should sit quietly and not scoff at the efforts of others. As for the function of BIOS, that is the wrong road to go down. If you are looking for checking if services are disabled, then have a bot call home every so often (much like DirectTV PPV). Any 'net activity could be logged in a seperate file and compared to the monitor's activity report (to determine if it was active or not). It would purge every 2-3 days to the online site. If you do not have an update in 2-3 weeks, then send out an email reminder. To monitor IP activity, you might want to insert into the tcp/ip stack through LSP layers (only for Windows boxes). This lower level monitoring is harder to disable (but not impossible). In this scenario you could either choose to redirect/block sites (through blacklists or other) -or- Just log activity, don't block anything and lean towards the 'accountability' side. Good luck with the project, it sounds noble at root. RP -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.1 - Release Date: 2/27/2005 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: Bios programming... Matt Marooney (Mar 03)
- Re: Bios programming... Bill Humphries (Mar 03)
- Re: Bios programming... dk (Mar 04)
- Re: Bios programming... Steve Kudlak (Mar 03)
- RE: Bios programming... Matt Marooney (Mar 03)
- Re: Bios programming... dk (Mar 04)
- Re: Bios programming... Paul Schmehl (Mar 04)
- Re: Bios programming... Christian Leber (Mar 03)
- Re: Bios programming... Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 03)
- RE: Bios programming... Matt Marooney (Mar 03)
- Re: Bios programming... Steve Kudlak (Mar 03)
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