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Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? )
From: rich () owl wsc mass edu (Matthew SAMS)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 15:17:08 -0400
RE: win95 dirscan >> com1: A certain online service was the last folk to be accused of this. What was wrong with that, was they were opening a scratch file to write data into, and didn't over write the old data first, so it appeared they were 'stealing your harddrive' one sector at a time. So, win95 may be up to no good, they may be doing something careless ala the above, some simple software license checking, or the blackest deed in the universe as alluded here. Or a competitor could be starting a rumor. OTOH, if you want nasty, consider a trojan horse in software which if it detected a winsock running, would transit UPD packets over net to momma server who would collect data. I don't see this as being particularly easy to detect unless a site has a full firewall up, and then only maybe. W4W has TCP/IP? Hmmmmm. <g>.
Current thread:
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Peter Sivo (Jun 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Jan Vandenbos (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) John Mayo - NSM (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) George Mullins (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Jonathan Stott (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Joe Konczal (Jun 07)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Matthew SAMS (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Larry Kealey (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Matthew SAMS (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Tatu Ylonen (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Heath I Hunnicutt (Jun 07)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) tws () wh bayer com (Jun 07)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) -Reply RFORNO (Jun 07)