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| Network (in)Security Interesting hacks and cracks. Info on firewalls, TCP/IP, encryption, networks, and security. The ins and outs of the phone system, caller services, how things work, what's illegal and what's not, cellular phones, beepers, telephony legislation, the PUC, ISDN, taps, who's listening, and switches. Talking about phones, hacking systems, technical advice, and such is completely LEGAL in the United States -- it's covered by the First Amendment. What's illegal is conspiracy to commit a crime. So if you say something like "Meet me at 2am so we can crack a can" or "I changed my cell phone's number myself" you are criminally liable. Stating "You can crack a can by doing thus-and-so" or "If you wanted to change a cell phone's number, you could do it like so" is perfectly OK. Posting passwords, calling card numbers, or credit card numbers is forbidden on this network. Posting such info will get you booted off the net. |
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2009-01-04, 05:28
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You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
So, I've noticed for a while now that torrent sites like ThePirateBay and Mininova have been giving me these login prompts when ever I try to vist them. Knowing that neither of these sites would ever require a crude login just to access their homepages, I figured it had to be something nasty on my machine. After digging I around, it occurred to me it had to be my hosts file that was restricting access to these sites. Guess how surprised I was when I opened it up in Notepad++!
I think it was modified when I installed a Alcohol 120% crack, but I'm not certain. I'll just delete those *ahem* invalid entries and everything should be fine. What do you guys think about this? Should I be more worried that something tried to mess with my hosts? I'm running a full scan with Norton 2009 and AdAware at the moment, just to play it safe. |
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2009-01-04, 05:56
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Jesus, why the fuck do you people put up with this?
I am honestly surprised every time a post like this comes though NS&H. I mean really. Monkey noises, anti-piracy viruses, what fucking next? You get a piece of spyware that rapes you in the ass with the CD-ROM drive?
You will not get any viruses if you run GNU/Linux. Why the fuck would you put up with this bullshit....
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# 3
2009-01-04, 06:04
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
.... I actually dual boot Vista and Fedora 10. I use Windows to run programs needed for work, so I was trying to download some Daft Punk on TPB while I worked.
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2009-01-04, 06:13
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Jesus, put that shit in a VM and don't let it get on the net whatever you do
It was running a daemon on your own machine?
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# 5
2009-01-04, 06:45
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
No, as far as I can tell, it only modified my hosts file to not allow me to connect to mainstream torrent sites.
Why a software crack would do this? I haven't got a clue.
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2009-01-04, 19:35 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
But the "crude login screen" was running on your computer.
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#7
2009-01-04, 21:28 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
This is an example of what I was talking about:
http://i40.tinypic.com/23l4bq.png
Its just Firefox's default Login prompt for protect areas.
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2009-01-05, 00:54 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Okay, so your computer was redirecting it to 192.168.1.1.
Apparently the virus only changes the hosts file. Here's a Torrentfreak article about it. (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/-FQQyKiKatY/)
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# 9
2009-01-05, 10:26
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
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Originally Posted by Prometheum
Jesus, put that shit in a VM and don't let it get on the net whatever you do
It was running a daemon on your own machine?
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Dude, you can't run a 'daemon' on windows, you can't fork in the first place.
Welcome to Windows world.
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#10
2009-01-05, 19:41 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Dude, you can't run a 'daemon' on windows, you can't fork in the first place.
Welcome to Windows world.
On Windows they're called services, but it's the same damn concept.
Forking isn't supported in the WinAPI side of things, but it is supported in Services for Unix-based Applications (SUA), as well as Cygwin (which has a hack to emulate the copy-on-write behavior). fork()'s also not needed for a daemon-style process, since most recent implementations of daemons in the Unix-world use POSIX threads for concurrency due to its low cost compared to copying an entire process. Windows threads can be made to act exactly like POSIX threads for practical purposes.
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2009-01-05, 20:01 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
On Windows they're called services, but it's the same damn concept.
Forking isn't supported in the WinAPI side of things, but it is supported in Services for Unix-based Applications (SUA), as well as Cygwin (which has a hack to emulate the copy-on-write behavior). fork()'s also not needed for a daemon-style process, since most recent implementations of daemons in the Unix-world use POSIX threads for concurrency due to its low cost compared to copying an entire process. Windows threads can be made to act exactly like POSIX threads for practical purposes.
A daemon has to fork, unless invoked by init itself.
Otherwise it's not a daemon.
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2009-01-05, 21:21 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
I agree with prometheum. People always say comparing windows to linux is like comparing an apple and an orange. If we were talking about a rotten worm infested apple that you wasted money on I'd agree but in my personal experience linux beats windows in most areas. Playing games is one of the only exceptions.
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2009-01-05, 21:25 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Dude, you can't run a 'daemon' on windows, you can't fork in the first place.
Welcome to Windows world.
I meant "daemon" as "process going on in the background and occasionally doing things like requiring HTTP authentication".
And it's just called CreateProcess. Here's an example:
CreateProcess(NULL, NULL, NULL, (DWORD)NULL, NULL, (int)(DWORD)NULL, (DWORD *)NULL, NULL, NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL, NULL
It just goes on like that.
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#14
2009-01-06, 02:41 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
A daemon has to fork, unless invoked by init itself.
Otherwise it's not a daemon.
Most system-level background processes are in fact spawned from init, much as Windows services are spawned from winlogon.exe. It's an equivalent mechanism. Since services are started by the Windows equivalent of the *nix init process, you yourself have indicated that services are the equivalent of daemons.
Actually, there is a second startup mechanism for Windows services: services.exe. However, the only difference between services launched via services.exe and those launched by winlogon.exe is that services.exe launches them before login. Otherwise, they're perfectly equivalent -- both have direct access to kernel function calls, for example. They can both be considered equivalents to the init process, except that Windows effectively allows per-user init runlevels.
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2009-01-07, 00:39 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
I meant "daemon" as "process going on in the background and occasionally doing things like requiring HTTP authentication".
And it's just called CreateProcess. Here's an example:
CreateProcess(NULL, NULL, NULL, (DWORD)NULL, NULL, (int)(DWORD)NULL, (DWORD *)NULL, NULL, NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL, NULL
It just goes on like that.
Yes, but is CreateProcess the ONLY way to create a new process?
BTW, everybody knows what you meant by daemon :).
Cuz the ONLY way to create a new daemon is by being invoked by init, or forking then killing the parent. (sounds twisted...)
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2009-01-07, 00:45 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Yes, but is CreateProcess the ONLY way to create a new process?
BTW, everybody knows what you meant by daemon :).
Cuz the ONLY way to create a new daemon is by being invoked by init, or forking then killing the parent. (sounds twisted...)
Yeah, killing your parents with a fork is a rather extreme measure. :o
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2009-01-07, 01:24 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Yeah, killing your parents with a fork is a rather extreme measure. :o
Well, extreme needs call for extreme measures. There really are few other ways of becoming an daemon.
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2009-01-07, 04:55 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Yeah, killing your parents with a fork is a rather extreme measure. :o
lol
This is my favorite thread since the one in which Xpenguin was owned.
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2009-01-08, 06:20 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Back on topic: That login prompt is for your router dude. So that "crude login screen" is nothing but the routers access login. No surprise since it's routing you to 192.168.1.1 Odd though as 127.0.0.1 is just localhost, ie it shouldn't be the default gateway address.
I'm probably missing something though
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2009-01-15, 05:14 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
try pinging 192.168.1.1 and 127.0.0.1. It should be the normal <1ms if you have a clean hosts file for that ip.
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2009-01-15, 20:37 |
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
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Originally Posted by Lundmark
try pinging 192.168.1.1 and 127.0.0.1. It should be the normal <1ms if you have a clean hosts file for that ip.
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IP addresses don't require consulting a hosts file. |
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2009-01-15, 20:49
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
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Originally Posted by Prometheum
Jesus, why the fuck do you people put up with this?
I am honestly surprised every time a post like this comes though NS&H. I mean really. Monkey noises, anti-piracy viruses, what fucking next? You get a piece of spyware that rapes you in the ass with the CD-ROM drive?
You will not get any viruses if you run GNU/Linux. Why the fuck would you put up with this bullshit....
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My god your such a pretentious Linux idiot. Your a fool if you think Linux is good. Linux sucks if not only for the fact that all the "good" software is written for Windows and by "good" I don't mean open source software written for Linux by people like you that try to promote the shit and user-friendless operating system Linux, I mean user friendly and potentially commercial software, the kind of software you could be writing if you weren't in denial of the fact that Windows is a success story and Linux is not. So I am going to go use Windows now and not have to worry about navigating my way through a fucking spaghetti maze, because when you are looking for software drivers for the new hardware you just bought that was designed for Windows and you cannot find any for Linux I'll know I'm right. P.S. you could be making money but your made of fail.
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2009-01-15, 21:53
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My god your such a pretentious Linux idiot. Your a fool if you think Linux is good. Linux sucks if not only for the fact that all the "good" software is written for Windows and by "good" I don't mean open source software written for Linux by people like you that try to promote the shit and user-friendless operating system Linux, I mean user friendly and potentially commercial software, the kind of software you could be writing if you weren't in denial of the fact that Windows is a success story and Linux is not. So I am going to go use Windows now and not have to worry about navigating my way through a fucking spaghetti maze, because when you are looking for software drivers for the new hardware you just bought that was designed for Windows and you cannot find any for Linux I'll know I'm right. P.S. you could be making money but your made of fail.
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shut up, you killed yourself.
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# 24
2009-01-16, 03:14
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
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Originally Posted by Prometheum
shut up, you killed yourself.
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This.
Nobody will ever trust you again.
Your not the welcome here, gtfo.
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# 25
2009-01-16, 09:34
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Re: You'll never guess what I found in my hosts file
Don't try distract people from the fact that you are wasting your time and skill on an OS nobody uses or likes.
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