bubu
February 12th, 2003, 01:16 AM
[Cakkie: moved from VB to general discussion ]
Please help me.
I used to scan people of my local ISP for network shares for FUN, never damaged nobody. I used to have WinME in my PC.
Then I installed XP and I scanned myself. Guess what?!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Never saw an easier PC to hack/crack/destroy than mine!
The things is I can't see anything shared here!
Is this a XP vulnerability?!! Man that sux!
Please help me before one of my friends scan me!!!!!!
WizBang
February 12th, 2003, 07:19 AM
Yep, I believe it. Maybe m$ wants your pc open for "inspection" or something. You have to go into all the admin stuff, and basically turn everything off. I don't know if that will do all of what it should, but it's a starting point anyway. If you do get it any better, please let us know. Remember too that the newer media player sends info back to m$, and I think I heard of a vulnerability because of it.
Isn't it interesting how when realplayer was sending back info to real.com, we all heard about it, and they had to stop, but when m$ does the very same thing, they get away with it?
Just keep in mind that windows was NOT designed to be secure, and it will never be. If you want security, get a mac, or run linux or something.
Insidently, I was testing a small app in xp the other day, and after just a few seconds, the entire system froze! Then, suddenly, it rebooted by itself. I laughed, and thought "so where is this supposed 'crash-proof' OS they claim?" Seems there are also some problems with various API as well. The same app runs perfect on 95.
Boumxyz2
February 12th, 2003, 08:03 AM
This little C application will make xp reboot faster than selecting shutdown in the start menu :)
#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
for (;;)
{
printf "\t\b\b";
}
}
mwilliamson
February 12th, 2003, 10:33 AM
You should seriously take windows xp back and buy Windows 2000. But if you don't, at least disable your guest account and remove all that ms remote desktop bs. Then get a hardware firewall.