RE: New Piece of spyware

[Meidinger Chris <chris.meidinger () badenit de>]

To be honest, Server 2003 is the only windows OS I allow to sit at my desk
with me. I need at least one windows box at work, and server 2003 does
really great. Much less ugly than XP. (Not to mention, I prefer to learn the
quirks of server OS that I have to deal with on a regular basis, and not the
children's wonderland known as XP)

Cheers,

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarbjit Singh Gill [mailto:ssgill () gilltechnologies com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 3:40 PM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: New Piece of spyware
>
>  
> 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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