Eggheads: RE: Strange questions from a N00B

[Derek Kuliński]

Hello Jeeves,

Monday, August 28, 2006, 1:36:45 PM, you wrote:

> Wow, it looks like I really stirred the pot with this one.  Yes, you guys
> are right, it COULD be used as a malicious piece of software, but it's too
> big.  As for those who would be reading it, it's more than likely only going
> to be the prof and the associated IT guys who will have to do the network
> observation.  It wasn't my intent to use this software to cause harm, but
> I'm defiantly seeing that a few people are taking it as such.  If you guys
> have a better idea (other than eggdrop), I'm open to suggestions.  The paper
> is about network security, and how little the average user knows.  Now
> couple this with how easy it would be for a low bandwidth user to exploit
> this, and you've got my paper.  I look forward to hearing any further ideas.

If you try, you can make any scriptable program for a malicious use.
Can you imagine, that recently I got winrar self-extracting archive
with extracted and installed mIRC with some scripts?
I got three e-mails from those guys. I guess the mIRC didn't work as
good as they hopped, because last one uses EnergyMech (in the archive
they even left Readme, Todo and even GNU licence file.

In the userlist there is:
handle          Crash
mask            *!*@LoveIrinuca.users.undernet.org
prot            4
aop             1
channel         *
access          100

handle          sexi
mask            *!*@LoveOvidiu.users.undernet.org
prot            4
aop             1
channel         *
access          100

if anyone cares.

If you want to use specialized program for your paper, you can search
for it on Google (there are more malware, but sdbot was really most
widely used). Or you can send me an e-mail (I don't really want to
give any links on this group). 

-- 
Best regards,
 Derek                            mailto:takeda at takeda.tk
CCNA, SCSA, SCNA, LPIC, MCP certified
http://www.takeda.tk

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