Re: Extremely odd thing with Giganews DMCA?

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 09/19/05 

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:41:05 GMT

From: "roadburner" <roadburner^at^comcast^dot^net>

|
| I'll do it tonight when I get home and report back. Thanks so much. I hadn't
| thought of that. I use S&D and Adaware on my other PCs, but this was a new PC
| and I didn't think to install those 2 tools.
|
| MULTI_AV.EXE is one I never heard of. Thanks so very much for bringing it to
| my attention.
|
| I normally keep my PCs locked down so tight that nothing ever gets through.
| Over 13 years on the Internet and many years before beginning with a TRS80, I
| have never had any experiences like this. Never had a virus or anything else.
| So please excuse me if I seem to have gotten excited. Just something I never
| experienced before. It is very troubling to me.
|
| Another troubling thing is a discussion I had about it with another engineer.
| I work in real time process control and he works in the networking, Level 2 or
| data collection side of things.
|
| He has a NAT router on his home PC. He has 2 children. One of the kids did an
| "adoption" of an animal on the net. Not a real animal, just a schooling
| project. So each night his daughter has to take care of her adopted cyberspace
| animal. As a joke, the other sister asked her Dad to block the site for a
| practical joke. He pinged the site, got the IP, and blocked it in his NAT
| router. Then he tested his work with Firefox. It took a while, but the site
| came up in Firefox. (This guy is our networking expert with over 20 years
| experience). The he logged on to her account and was still able to access the
| site though some of it was blocked. We are both starting to think Firefox is
| the root cause.
|
| Mine is a pretty bare bones system, only a few dedicated and trusted programs
| on it. It is destined to sit and execute certain privacy related software such
| as a Tor node. Switching between it and the main computer is done by a USB KVM
| switch. On the dedicated computer, file and printer sharing is off.
|
| If I can't find the source or a good explanation, I'll reformat and reinstall
| the OS.
|
| Once again, may extend my most sincere thanks to you for your suggestions
| which I will follow to the letter.
|
| My warmest regards,
| roadburner

I wrote the Multi AV scanning tool. It is a scripted front end to the Trend Micro Sysclean
utility and for the McAfee and Sophos Command Line Scanner. I saw a need to to help those
infected so I wrote the tool to be as useful as possible. I am always willing to accept
feedback for future improvements or enhancements.

Realize that there *may* be multiple IP addresses associated to the web site you blocked
(such as via DyDNS -- http://www.dydns.com/ ). So if the IP changes, the blocking is
ineffectual. The question would what if you blocked the alias (URL) such as
www.furryanimals.cyberspace.com ? 

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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