RE: New Piece of spyware

["Sarbjit Singh Gill" <ssgill () gilltechnologies com>]

Greetings,

My post is not a direct reply to the original questions of this thread. I
noticed the original poster said he was using a Windows 2003 Server OS for
his IRC client. 

What I don't understand is why would somebody be running a IRC client on a
server OS like Windows 2003. Isn't IRC client software "designed"  to run on
a client(likes of XP Home, Pro, Windows 2000, W98 etc.)

I mean one can see when Windows 2003 is installed by default the IE is
locked down even for local network. This is for one good reason: nobody is
going to use the IE to access a web server while locally logged on the
Windows 2003 server.

Pretty dangerous isn't that a highly "flammable" client is sitting on a
server.

I suppose the original poster is running Windows 2003 for
development/testing. 

But running a IRC on a client would be easier to control. For e.g.. Zone
alarm is not designed to run a windows 2003 server but rather is designed
for a client like XP. On the server there could be a longer checklist to
cover when locking down compare to Windows XP or even W2k Pro.


/Gill
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Smith [mailto:arse () somethingentertainment co uk]
> Sent: 14 May 2004 12:56
> To: Charles Tholen
> Cc: caldcv () students fccj org; incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Re: New piece of spyware?
>
>
> Addition:
> the site addict3d.org doesn't appear to be a skript kiddie type ( the 
> type i'd expect to advertise in that manor ) and there is a message at 
> the top saying  ' We do not Advertise, for complaints: broken at
addict3d.org '
> seems to me someone the owners have annoyed is trying to get them 
> DDoS'd etc.  *
> *
>
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Regards
Kirsty

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