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Re: TROJAN !!! [message #303378 is a reply to message #303046]

Sat, 15 December 2007 16:48

Ghostshaw
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What I mean is this: for a virus to communicate with your PC (IE infect) there needs to be either a listening or a connecting socket. A connecting socket is what we usually use to open web pages and such. Its hard to infect through unless theres an exploit in the program using the connecting socket.

The real vulnerability lies in listening sockets. Those accept connections from other PC's. Most of the automatically spreading virusses go through these and the specifically 2 windows components.

One is windows DNS server (which somehow is on by default, but is easily secured by your routers firewall), and the other is RPC (which needs to be on, but can also be secured by your routers firewall).

Funny thing is that all those software firewalls don't protect these 2 services properly because they can't properly block the socket acceptance.

The real problem with a PC is like someone else already pointed out the user behind it. Don't open suspicious executables, or other files, block ActiveX if your use IE, and if you use any other browser make sure you stay up to date. Oh and the occasional virus scan is nice too.

-Ghost-

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		TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Fri, 14 December 2007 07:51
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: sadukar09 on Fri, 14 December 2007 08:15
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Fri, 14 December 2007 08:17
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Fri, 14 December 2007 08:50
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: DutchNeon on Fri, 14 December 2007 08:50
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Fri, 14 December 2007 08:59
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Caveman on Fri, 14 December 2007 10:43
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: IronWarrior on Fri, 14 December 2007 09:22
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: The Elite Officer on Fri, 14 December 2007 09:31
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Lone0001 on Fri, 14 December 2007 09:50
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Veyrdite on Fri, 14 December 2007 22:43
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: CarrierII on Fri, 14 December 2007 10:04
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ghostshaw on Fri, 14 December 2007 10:09
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: cheesesoda on Fri, 14 December 2007 10:46
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Fri, 14 December 2007 12:45
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: HORQWER on Fri, 14 December 2007 12:54
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: sadukar09 on Fri, 14 December 2007 13:29
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: nikki6ixx on Fri, 14 December 2007 14:36
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Oblivion165 on Fri, 14 December 2007 15:56
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Caveman on Fri, 14 December 2007 16:43
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: HORQWER on Fri, 14 December 2007 17:04
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Caveman on Fri, 14 December 2007 17:18
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: terminator 101 on Fri, 14 December 2007 13:18
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Oblivion165 on Fri, 14 December 2007 13:20
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: CarrierII on Fri, 14 December 2007 15:31
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Memphis on Fri, 14 December 2007 17:12
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ryu on Fri, 14 December 2007 17:20
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: IronWarrior on Fri, 14 December 2007 18:34
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: newcheese on Fri, 14 December 2007 22:47
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: sadukar09 on Sat, 15 December 2007 05:54
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: nikki6ixx on Sat, 15 December 2007 02:15
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ethenal on Sat, 15 December 2007 11:21
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ghostshaw on Sat, 15 December 2007 06:35
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: CarrierII on Sat, 15 December 2007 08:04
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ghostshaw on Sat, 15 December 2007 09:37
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Caveman on Sat, 15 December 2007 09:54
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: CarrierII on Sat, 15 December 2007 10:09
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: sadukar09 on Sat, 15 December 2007 10:43
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: JPNOD on Sat, 15 December 2007 10:47
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ghostshaw on Sat, 15 December 2007 12:30
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Caveman on Sat, 15 December 2007 14:09
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: CarrierII on Sat, 15 December 2007 15:27
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Caveman on Sat, 15 December 2007 15:42
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ghostshaw on Sat, 15 December 2007 16:48
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Sat, 15 December 2007 17:43
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ethenal on Sat, 15 December 2007 17:48
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Sat, 15 December 2007 18:20
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ethenal on Sat, 15 December 2007 18:21
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: sadukar09 on Sat, 15 December 2007 18:37
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: Ethenal on Sat, 15 December 2007 18:56
		Re: TROJAN !!! By: cnc95fan on Sat, 15 December 2007 18:27

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