Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories, my mistake for testing the guest account thouroghly.
But Avast anti virus software that I run on my BBS caught every instance of this file and deleted them all.
apparently this is a dangerous Trojan Worm but avast took care of it.
This moron spent hours uploading to my vast library of files only to have his handy work destroyed by anti virus software LOL.
also his ip was added to my ip.can.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
Had an Idiot log on to my system as Guest today and tried to upload
a file called photo.scr to every directory, he/she/it <-(covering all genders) was allowed the upload but the BBS rejected it since Guest does not meet all the criteria to upload.
I now set the upload flag on the guest account so it rejects all attempts for guest to upload.
The idiot that uploaded this must not realize that I am alerted to all uploads every time I log into the BBS.
anyway their time was wasted doing this, now I will goto the logs and put their ip in the .can
Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories, my mistake for testing the guest account thouroghly.
But Avast anti virus software that I run on my BBS caught every instance of this file and deleted them all.
apparently this is a dangerous Trojan Worm but avast took care of it.
This moron spent hours uploading to my vast library of files only to have his handy work destroyed by anti virus software LOL.
also his ip was added to my ip.can.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
I've had that happen on my BBS multiple times. I probably should also disallow the guest uploading files to my BBS.. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
Re: Photo.scr
By: Denn Gray to All on Tue Jul 11 2017 08:37 am
Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories, my mistake for testing the guest account thouroghly.
But Avast anti virus software that I run on my BBS caught every instance of this file and deleted them all.
apparently this is a dangerous Trojan Worm but avast took care of it.
This moron spent hours uploading to my vast library of files only to have his handy work destroyed by anti virus software LOL.
also his ip was added to my ip.can.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
Nightfox wrote to Denn Gray <=-
I've had that happen on my BBS multiple times. I probably should also disallow the guest uploading files to my BBS.. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
KK4QBN wrote to Denn Gray <=-
That file will find its way to the root directory of all your
hdd/devices too and then replicate.. I forgot what it was.. but from
what I read, it was damn malicious as hell.
that (photo.scr) is a trojan I believe. I've locked down uploads to ALL directorys except uploads to sysop which NO USER is allowed to view or download from, and canned the photo.scr file.
Harmless to my BBSs (doubt it would run on Linux/ARM ;) ), but a threat for users.
ALL directorys except uploads to sysop which NO USER is allowed to
view or download from, and canned the photo.scr file.
you can rename an executable to .scr and stupid windows will try to
KK4QBN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Harmless to my BBSs (doubt it would run on Linux/ARM ;) ), but a threat for users.
Same here..
Had an Idiot log on to my system as Guest today and tried to upload
a file called photo.scr to every directory, he/she/it <-(covering all genders) was allowed the upload but the BBS rejected it since Guest does not meet all the criteria to upload.
I now set the upload flag on the guest account so it rejects all attempts for guest to upload.
The idiot that uploaded this must not realize that I am alerted to all uploads every time I log into the BBS.
anyway their time was wasted doing this, now I will goto the logs and put their ip in the .can
Re: Photo.scr
By: Denn Gray to All on Tue Jul 11 2017 08:37 am
Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories, my mistake for testing the guest account thouroghly.
But Avast anti virus software that I run on my BBS caught every instance of this file and deleted them all.
apparently this is a dangerous Trojan Worm but avast took care of it.
This moron spent hours uploading to my vast library of files only to have his handy work destroyed by anti virus software LOL.
also his ip was added to my ip.can.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
I've had that happen on my BBS multiple times. I probably should also disallow the guest uploading files to my BBS.. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
that (photo.scr) is a trojan I believe. I've locked down uploads to ALL directorys except uploads to sysop which NO USER is allowed to view or download from, and canned the photo.scr file.
I really don't want regular file uploads. if someone wants to upload custom code to me for some project or something, yeah, thats different, but I believe my files do more than enough to cover what I want..
are you sure he just didnt upload via ftp?
I now set the upload flag on the guest account so it rejects all attempts f
guest to upload.
The idiot that uploaded this must not realize that I am alerted to all uplo
every time I log into the BBS.
"... Sushi: known to the rest of the world as 'Bait'"
that (photo.scr) is a trojan I believe. I've locked down uploads to ALL K>directorys except uploads to sysop which NO USER is allowed to view or downlo K>from, and canned the photo.scr file.
I really don't want regular file uploads. if someone wants to upload custom K>code to me for some project or something, yeah, thats different, but I believ K>my files do more than enough to cover what I want..
I would like to start carrying a lot of the commodore/amiga files too though.
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
I like to upload or add all my content, several of my file area's are setup as free dirs, most are not I let them dload what they want from the free areas but they have to create an account for all the files.
the guest account can post to my local general message board.
they can read from all message bases but cant post to Dovw-net or BBSLink.
I really don't want regular file uploads. if someone wants to upload
custom code to me for some project or something, yeah, thats
different, but I believ my files do more than enough to cover what I
want..
I tell users that "uploads aren't required". If anyone wants to leech
my file areas, they can go for it. There are a few areas, though for either Verified Users In Good Standing, Confirmed Ham Radio Operators,
or Confirmed GT Power Sysops, that are NOT available to New, Unverified, or Guest callers. So, they won't get those areas...plus to get the GT Power Sysop files, they have to supply the garbled netmail password from GT versions 14-19.
just goto the user editor then to the securtity tab then put a U in the DG>restriction box and save.
"... "La Quinta." Spanish for "Next to Denny's.""
posative, the logs show that he spent quit some time on the BBS as guest doi DG>his dirty work, he'll be disappointed when his log in is rejected.
"... Can you repeat the part after 'Listen very carefully'?"
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
digital man
I've had that happen on my BBS multiple times. I probably should
also disallow the guest uploading files to my BBS.. Not sure why I
hadn't thought of that before.
just goto the user editor then to the securtity tab then put a U in the restriction box and save.
you can rename an executable to .scr and stupid windows will try to execute it. ---
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
digital man
Pretty sure it was a person, they were loged on as guest via Telnet.
you can rename an executable to .scr and stupid windows will try to execute it. ---
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
Pretty sure it was a person, they were loged on as guest via Telnet.
Re: Photo.scr
By: KK4QBN to Denn Gray on Tue Jul 11 2017 05:21 pm
that (photo.scr) is a trojan I believe. I've locked down uploads to ALL directorys except uploads to sysop which NO USER is allowed to view or download from, and canned the photo.scr file.
I really don't want regular file uploads. if someone wants to upload custom code to me for some project or something, yeah, thats different, but I believe my files do more than enough to cover what I want..
I like to upload or add all my content, several of my file area's are setup as free dirs, most are not I let them dload what they want from the free areas but they have to create an account for all the files.
the guest account can post to my local general message board.
they can read from all message bases but cant post to Dovw-net or BBSLink.
KK4QBN wrote to Daryl Stout <=-
I do leave the file areas, and file and descriptions included though so ANYNE can view them, that way google scans all of them, and when a ham comes along needing a certain file to do something, boom.. google
points them to good ol kk4qbn. google tries its best to download file
and all, but nothing doing.. I do however have my Amateur Radio files available for guest download.
Nightfox wrote to Denn Gray <=-
Lately I've had a bunch of Guest logins on Telnet using "Shell" or "sh"
as their location. It's been happening so often (about 5-8 times per
day lately), I've been wondering if it's a bot doing this rather than a person.
you should just block the guest account. no reason for a guest to post to any msg base, too. if they want to look have them make an acct. takes one minute.
I don't have a lot of files, but what I have, I'm happy for guest users to download. These days, BBSs aren't the only place one can get files, and mine have almost no incremental cost to run (a few Watts of electrical power is about it, everything else is effectively a free ride), so "giving" my files away to guests is not a problem. :)
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
digital man
Pretty sure it was a person, they were loged on as guest via Telnet.
I've had Guest users does this via FTP before I locked my sytem down.. but never telnet.. I'v ehad the same IP that was uploading via FTP login as guest via telnet though..
you should just block the guest account. no reason for a guest to post to any msg base, too. if they want to look have them make an acct. takes one minute.
KK4QBN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
wait until google fills all of your ftp slots available downloading
those files, then eats your bandwidth up while doing it. I don't have
the bandwidth to spare.
Re: Photo.scr
By: Digital Man to Denn Gray on Tue Jul 11 2017 09:56 pm
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
digital man
Pretty sure it was a person, they were loged on as guest via Telnet.
I don't have enough to worry about. :) And if they did it wouldn't take long, bandwidth to burn here. :) Hmm, does robots.txt work on FTP too, out of curiosity?
Digital Man wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I don't have enough to worry about. :) And if they did it wouldn't take long, bandwidth to burn here. :) Hmm, does robots.txt work on FTP too, out of curiosity?
Not normally.
Lately I've had a bunch of Guest logins on Telnet using "Shell" or "sh" as N>their location. It's been happening so often (about 5-8 times per day lately N>I've been wondering if it's a bot doing this rather than a person.
Pretty sure it was a person, they were loged on as guest via Telnet.
Are you *positive* the photo.scr was uploaded via Telnet? That would be reflected in the logs.
Most likely, it wasn't "an individual" or a "moron", just a bot.
digital man
Pretty sure it was a person, they were loged on as guest via Telnet.
Are you *positive* the photo.scr was uploaded via Telnet? That would be reflected in the logs.
"sh" as their location. It's been happening so often (about 5-8 times
per day lately I've been wondering if it's a bot doing this rather
than a person.
I put sh~ in the user.can file, and that took care of that. :)
I found this file in each of my file directories a year or so ago, and flushed them. They definitely came through the fido file system, so I assume everyone got them.
Exactly, and if they don't want to take a minute to create an account, then K>they will not last long on the BBS.
the ONLY items guest has access to on my BBS is free downloads of amateur rad K>files, and I do this for the amateur radio community.
wait until google fills all of your ftp slots available downloading those K>files, then eats your bandwidth up while doing it. I don't have the bandwidth K>to spare.
I don't have enough to worry about. :) And if they did it wouldn't take long V>bandwidth to burn here. :) Hmm, does robots.txt work on FTP too, out of V>curiosity?
... 97.6% or more of my taglines are borrowed. Including this one.
KK4QBN wrote to Daryl Stout <=-
I put sh~ in the user.can file, and that took care of that. :)
Now what if Sherman Hensley calls... you won't let hime move on up..
Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-
Where does the robots.txt file go, and what's the format for it?? I wasn't sure where it was in the SBBS docs or on the Wiki page.
... 97.6% or more of my taglines are borrowed. Including this one.
The words "stolen" or "gathered for research" are more accurate. <G>
Well, according to DM, it wouldn't work on FTP, but if you want to try, it normally goes in the web root directory, or the root of the part of your site that you want to keep crawlers away from, and Google should be able to help with the rest (I don't have specifics on hand).
"sh" as their location. It's been happening so often (about 5-8 times N>>per day lately I've been wondering if it's a bot doing this rather N>>than a person.
I put sh~ in the user.can file, and that took care of that. :)
Now what if Sherman Hensley calls... you won't let hime move on up..
Touche', Tim (hi hi). But, if Mother Jefferson comes on, I'll let them
in. On a train trip my Dad and I took a few years ago, the one black
lady we saw on board was "the spitting image" of Mother Jefferson...and
as I remember, she loved her brandy. :)
I may modify that, and just have Sh and Shell...at least I don't need
to worry about Amoco, Chevron, Mobil, Texaco, or Phillips 66. <G>
Where does the robots.txt file go, and what's the format for it?? IWell, according to DM, it wouldn't work on FTP, but if you want to try, it normally goes in the web root directory, or the root of the part of your site that you want to keep crawlers away from, and Google should be able to help with the rest (I don't have specifics on hand).
wasn't sure where it was in the SBBS docs or on the Wiki page.
Denn Gray wrote to Vk3jed <=-
According to Google you can block google bot from indexing your FTP
server using commands in robot.txt and also using meta tags http://www.wikihow.com/Block-Google-Bot https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt
"... OS/2 VirusScan - "Windows found: Remove it? [Y/y]""
Well, according to DM, it wouldn't work on FTP, but if you want to try, it V>normally goes in the web root directory, or the root of the part of your site V>that you want to keep crawlers away from, and Google should be able to help V>with the rest (I don't have specifics on hand).
I put sh~ in the user.can file, and that took care of that. :)
Now what if Sherman Hensley calls... you won't let hime move on up..
Or shazza (a common nickname here). :D
Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-
I got a message from KK4QBN, and another Sysop...found the file...and juiced it up. <G>
Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-
So, Shazzam would result in a POOF??!! <G>
Yet, poofing can get pretty dicey. LOL
Mother Jefferson loved her Brandy, the good stuff too, not the stuff he keeps K>out for the guests :)
I may modify that, and just have Sh and Shell...at least I don't need
to worry about Amoco, Chevron, Mobil, Texaco, or Phillips 66. <G>
lol :)
"... "La Quinta." Spanish for "Next to Denny's.""
In a word, really. It sure seemed like it at one time, anyway. <G>
I remember using a small calculator to put 77345 in the number
display. When you turned it upside down, it read "Shell". <G>
I mean back in the BBS days, if you were to spend 2 hours on a long distance call to download a scanned GIF of a playboay picture, it would end up looking like that anyway.. Pixelated 8008s with blurred out "Rusty n' Edys" on the corner...
I remember using a small calculator to put 77345 in the number
display. When you turned it upside down, it read "Shell". <G>
þ OLX 1.53 þ Venison for dinner? Oh deer!
I mean back in the BBS days, if you were to spend 2 hours on a long
distance call to download a scanned GIF of a playboay picture, it
would end up looking like that anyway.. Pixelated 8008s with blurred
out "Rusty n' Edys" on the corner...
I remember when Rusty and Eddy's got busted by the feds, huge news story, not sure if I ever called their BBS because of LD charges.
I got a message from KK4QBN, and another Sysop...found the file...and juiced it up. <G>
Let's see what happens. :)
So, Shazzam would result in a POOF??!! <G>
Yet, poofing can get pretty dicey. LOL
Just don't rub your lamp. :P
Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories, my mistake for testing the guest account thouroghly.
But Avast anti virus software that I run on my BBS caught every instance of this file and deleted them all.
apparently this is a dangerous Trojan Worm but avast took care of it.
This moron spent hours uploading to my vast library of files only to have his handy work destroyed by anti virus software LOL.
also his ip was added to my ip.can.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
I remember when Rusty and Eddy's got busted by the feds, huge news story, not sure if I ever called their BBS because of LD charges.
trust me.. I never called it either.. was just making a joke.. it was long distance to call my mail hub 1 county over back when I first started. as a
I remember when Rusty and Eddy's got busted by the feds, huge news
story, not sure if I ever called their BBS because of LD charges.
trust me.. I never called it either.. was just making a joke.. it was
long distance to call my mail hub 1 county over back when I first
started. as a
did you see the pic of rusty and eddie i posted?
did you see the pic of rusty and eddie i posted?
where did you post it? I must have missed that post.http://i.imgur.com/K0ALjv0.png
I remember when Rusty and Eddy's got busted by the feds, huge news story, not sure if I ever called their BBS because of LD charges.
trust me.. I never called it either.. was just making a joke.. it was long distance to call my mail hub 1 county over back when I first started. as a
did you see the pic of rusty and eddie i posted?
they were like someone's sweet grandparents.
Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-
This BBS will self destruct in 5 seconds...Good Luck, Sysop. :P
(cue the music from "Mission Impossible") <G>
Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-
Just don't rub your lamp. :P
I'll get Jasmine to do it...just like in one of the IGMs for L.O.R.D. LOL
did you see the pic of rusty and eddie i posted?
where did you post it? I must have missed that post.http://i.imgur.com/K0ALjv0.png
I saw it, I also read the article in the 1993 Boardwatch magazine that told the whole story of how the heavy handed Feds siezed $200,000 worth of equipment from them.
they had 14,000 users and 124 nodes that they charged $89 per year ea.
where did you post it? I must have missed that post.http://i.imgur.com/K0ALjv0.png
I found another picture of them. ftp://Denn%20Gray:XRAYMAN1@outwestbbs.com/main/GRAPHICS/Rusty_and_Edies2.jpg I put it on my BBS
did you see the pic of rusty and eddie i posted?
they were like someone's sweet grandparents.
doesnt look like him. look at his nose.where did you post it? I must have missed that post.
http://i.imgur.com/K0ALjv0.png
rusty died a few years ago, i posted his obituary on bbsnews.
he was a successful guy, no matter what he did.
KK4QBN wrote to Daryl Stout <=-
I remember using a small calculator to put 77345 in the number
display. When you turned it upside down, it read "Shell". <G>
bleh.. you know you did 4377 and 8008 more than any of them :)
I mean back in the BBS days, if you were to spend 2 hours on a long distance call to download a scanned GIF of a playboay picture, it would end up looking like that anyway.. Pixelated 8008s with blurred out
"Rusty n' Edys" on the corner...
the innocence of those days.. now all a kid has to do is look up a
recipe for cookies and they get bombarded with smut. I fear the
longterm effects of what that is doing to their fragile minds at that point in development.
This BBS will self destruct in 5 seconds...Good Luck, Sysop. :P
(cue the music from "Mission Impossible") <G>
:-D
rusty died a few years ago, i posted his obituary on bbsnews.
he was a successful guy, no matter what he did.
That he was.. and they were my inspiration for my first business venture when I first got started.. never made any money off the site.. I did off the domain and perl scripts we had rigged up to track peoples likes and dislikes though.
Re: Photo.scr
By: Mro to Denn Gray on Sat Jul 15 2017 06:39 pm
doesnt look like him. look at his nose.where did you post it? I must have missed that post.
http://i.imgur.com/K0ALjv0.png
it is himI swear.
I did off the domain and perl scripts we had rigged up to track peoples likes and dislikes though.
What he did was nothing compared to the piracy that goes on today, you can get anything off the internet these day's
distance call to download a scanned GIF of a playboay picture, it
would end up looking like that anyway.. Pixelated 8008s with blurred
out "Rusty n' Edys" on the corner...
Haha, why call long distance, there were local boards that offered that, if you were on good terms with the sysop. :)
This BBS will self destruct in 5 seconds...Good Luck, Sysop. :P
(cue the music from "Mission Impossible") <G>
:-D
Ironically, that TV theme was written over 50 years ago, and it became
an iconic classic.
That he was.. and they were my inspiration for my first business
venture when I first got started.. never made any money off the
site.. I did off the domain and perl scripts we had rigged up to
track peoples likes and dislikes though.
What he did was nothing compared to the piracy that goes on today, you can get anything off the internet these day's
Haha, why call long distance, there were local boards that offered
that, if you were on good terms with the sysop. :)
Yeah, I was joking.. I actually was one of those bbses "back in the day" that offered that.. only tasteful stuff though.. nothing that would be over an r rating, and stuff that is pretty much shown on network tv now..
freaking innovators man.
What he did was nothing compared to the piracy that goes on today, you can g DG>anything off the internet these day's
"... "Criminal Lawyer" is a redundancy."
KK4QBN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yeah, I was joking.. I actually was one of those bbses "back in the
day" that offered that.. only tasteful stuff though.. nothing that
would be over an r rating, and stuff that is pretty much shown on
network tv now..
but I did this at the age of about 13 or 14..
then at about 16 or 17 I actually had a couple sites up.. still
tasteful pics though.. we had created statitics monitors to see what people wanted the most, and of course they wanted stuff that I really did'nt want to deal with looking at.. much less putting it out for others.. so I sold out of all that..
Yeah, I was joking.. I actually was one of those bbses "back in the
day" that offered that.. only tasteful stuff though.. nothing that
would be over an r rating, and stuff that is pretty much shown on
network tv now..
Yeah, I had a small collection as well, I think most boards had some pr0n squirreled away back then. :)
Denn Gray wrote to Vk3jed <=-
My first BBS was started in 1998 - 1990 never had more than a few text files, a text game and a single message base it was ran on a Color Computer 2. then in 1993 I ran PCBoard and offered allot more there but never any smut.
I had the main file folders was part of behivenet messages and had a couple of Doors and had a shareware CD for more downloads.
My BBS in 1993 ran on a 286xt with a >40 meg< hard drive so the 640
meg CD drive gave it a huge boost, 40 Gigs would be small by todays standards. and my BBS now still carries 0 smut or porn pics.
drive gave it a huge boost, 40 Gigs would be small by todays standards. and my BBS now still carries 0 smut or porn pics.
Had an Idiot log on to my system as Guest today and tried to upload
a file called photo.scr to every directory, he/she/it <-(covering all gender
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?
The guest account allows people to anonymously download files from your BBS via FTP. It's useful if you want to easily share a file from your BBS with someone who doesn't have an account on your BBS.
Darkwing wrote to Denn Gray <=-
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to
create a named account?
The guest account allows people to anonymously download files from
your BBS via FTP. It's useful if you want to easily share a file from
your BBS with someone who doesn't have an account on your BBS.
yeah but ftp://username:password@host.com
Darkwing wrote to Denn Gray <=-
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?
These days, anonymous FTP. I find it handy for distributing things like infopacks (mine lives on my Synchronet BBS). I don't like being forced to register for something for one little file, so I don't inflict it on others.
yeah but ftp://username:password@host.com
That's not anonymous. Someone would have to have an account on the BBS to
Had an Idiot log on to my system as Guest today and tried to upload
a file called photo.scr to every directory, he/she/it <-(covering all
gender
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?
By: Darkwing to Denn Gray on Mon Jul 17 2017 04:58 pm
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to
create a named account?
The guest account allows people to anonymously download files from your BBS via FTP. It's useful if you want to easily share a file from your BBS with someone who doesn't have an account on your BBS.
Mro wrote to Vk3jed <=-
i would just use http for that.
also rick parrish made efreq (windows only). that's a cool program.
email the system with a subject line and get a file
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to
create a named account?
These days, anonymous FTP. I find it handy for distributing things like infopacks (mine lives on my Synchronet BBS). I don't like being forced to register for something for one little file, so I don't inflict it on others.
you can mark some of your folders as free and they still have access to the folders that are free, thats why I am considering giving up the guest account.
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to
create a named account?
The guest account allows people to anonymously download files from
your BBS via FTP. It's useful if you want to easily share a file
from your BBS with someone who doesn't have an account on your BBS.
The guest account allows people to anonymously download files from
your BBS via FTP. It's useful if you want to easily share a file
from your BBS with someone who doesn't have an account on your BBS.
you can mark some of your folders as free and they still have access to the folders that are free, thats why I am considering giving up the guest account.
These days, anonymous FTP. I find it handy for distributing things
like infopacks (mine lives on my Synchronet BBS). I don't like being
forced to register for something for one little file, so I don't
inflict it on others.
i would just use http for that.
Re: Photo.scr
By: Darkwing to Denn Gray on Mon Jul 17 2017 04:58 pm
Had an Idiot log on to my system as Guest today and tried to upload
a file called photo.scr to every directory, he/she/it <-(covering all
gender
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?
At this point I'm really not sure why :(
I really don't need it and may get rid of guest access soon, maybe when I upgrade to 3.17
Mro wrote to Vk3jed <=-
i would just use http for that.
Either way, still want to be able to do it without a login/password.
also rick parrish made efreq (windows only). that's a cool program. email the system with a subject line and get a file
Not much use to me, though in Linux, one can usually script something up. :)
Re: Re: Photo.scr
By: Mro to Vk3jed on Mon Jul 17 2017 11:33 pm
These days, anonymous FTP. I find it handy for distributing things
like infopacks (mine lives on my Synchronet BBS). I don't like being
forced to register for something for one little file, so I don't
inflict it on others.
i would just use http for that.
I don't think Synchronet uses HTTP for its file links though, only FTP..
Nightfox
Denn wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I have just been testing without a Guest account for FTP downloads,
Yeah I need to keep my Guest account for that reason (FTP Dloads) I
just severely limit what a guest can do on the BBS, basically they can look areound, they can't post other than to sysop and on my BBS General message Base, they cant play the Door games, they can't upload period.
yeah but ftp://username:password@host.com
That's not anonymous. Someone would have to have an account on the BBS to download a file. For instance, if you wanted to share an FTP link to a file on your BBS for others to download, having the guest account enabled would allow people to download it even if they don't have an account.
I don't think Synchronet uses HTTP for its file links though, only FTP..
yeah but ftp://username:password@host.com
That's not anonymous. Someone would have to have an account on the
BBS to download a file. For instance, if you wanted to share an FTP
link to a file on your BBS for others to download, having the guest
account enabled would allow people to download it even if they don't
have an account.
you culd make that u/p combo though and just have it for downloads.. don't know if could through flags and restrictions lock it from the rest of the system.
I don't think Synchronet uses HTTP for its file links though, only
FTP..
It can be accomplished through JS, check out ecwebv4
Yeah, I've heard ecwebv4 does it.. I have ecwebv4 installed on my BBS but haven't looked in detail how it does the file links. I thought I heard ecwebv4 does its own thing to use http for files.. Not sure if it uses its own web server or something, but I doubt it's something built into Synchronet.
I have just been testing without a Guest account for FTP downloads, Yeah I ne D>to keep my Guest account for that reason (FTP Dloads) I just severely limit D>what a guest can do on the BBS, basically they can look areound, they can't D>post other than to sysop and on my BBS General message Base, they cant play t D>Door games, they can't upload period.
KK4QBN wrote to Nightfox <=-
you culd make that u/p combo though and just have it for downloads..
don't know if could through flags and restrictions lock it from the
rest of the system.
I have just been testing without a Guest account for FTP downloads,
Yeah I ne to keep my Guest account for that reason (FTP Dloads) I just
All I allow the Guest to do on the BBS is:
1) Read messages in Message Board 1 ONLY -- no posting allowed, except
for Feedback To Sysop.
By which time, you might as well just use a highly locked down guest user. :) Probably the only advantage of doing this is it makes it harder for the bots to crawl your file areas. :)
I let the guest basically look around and thats it, when they apply for an account I give them lvl 60 access.
I let the guest basically look around and thats it, when they apply for an D>account I give them lvl 60 access.
Denn wrote to Vk3jed <=-
for the time being, I am blocking googlebot and plan to allow just
certain folders for google bot to crawl.
Im new to synchronet, how do i set up my guest accounts to be read-only?
Im new to synchronet, how do i set up my guest accounts to be read-only?
Why keep a guest account active when it's trivial for anyone to create a named account?The guest account allows people to anonymously download files from your BBS via FTP. It's useful if you want to easily share a file from your BBS with someone who doesn't have an account on your BBS.
of BBS's seems at odds with the anonymous nature of most FTP servers. I'd
most ftp servers dont have anonymous access. it's an option.
Nightfox wrote to Mro <=-
Many of the files I've downloaded online are from FTP links. Linux distros are one thing I can think of offhand that I remember having FTP links.. I'm sure there has been other software I've downloaded online using FTP - although many use HTTP links as well.
I prefer FTP for downloading, as it is more reliable. I have seen HTTP downloads terminate early and the browser happily report that the download is complete, which is very frustrating when you think you have the file and find it's corrupt. Never seen this with FTP - if a transfer dies, it gives an error message every time.
There's a download manager (for Windows) I've used called GetRight, which can resume transfers if they abort for some reason (I think the server has to support resuming), and it can also download a file from multiple sites at the same time to increase the downloading speed (if the file is available in multiple places). It has been quite a while since they updated GetRight, but their web site is still up.. (getright.com)
Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I prefer FTP for downloading, as it is more reliable. I have seen HTTP downloads terminate early and the browser happily report that the download is complete, which is very frustrating when you think you have the file and find it's corrupt. Never seen this with FTP - if a transfer dies, it gives an error message every time.
I haven't seen that very often, but I suppose it can happen.
There's a download manager (for Windows) I've used called GetRight,
which can resume transfers if they abort for some reason (I think the server has to support resuming), and it can also download a file from multiple sites at the same time to increase the downloading speed (if
the file is available in multiple places). It has been quite a while since they updated GetRight, but their web site is still up.. (getright.com)
Re: Photo.scr
By: Denn Gray to All on Tue Jul 11 2017 09:03 am
Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories, my mistake for testing the guest account thouroghly.
But Avast anti virus software that I run on my BBS caught every instance of this file and deleted them all.
apparently this is a dangerous Trojan Worm but avast took care of it. This moron spent hours uploading to my vast library of files only to have
his handy work destroyed by anti virus software LOL.
also his ip was added to my ip.can.
and now I set the flag to dis allow uploads by the guest account.
I've had that happen on my BBS multiple times. I probably should also disallow
the guest uploading files to my BBS.. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
Turns out looking into this further that this individual actually
was sucessful in uploading photo.scr to all my file directories,
my mistake for NOT testing the guest account thouroghly.
I've had that happen on my BBS multiple times. I probably should also
disallow the guest uploading files to my BBS.. Not sure why I hadn't
thought of that before.
maybe a ftp bug?Naw, I don't think most of us realized just how dangerous the Interwebs has become.
Naw, I don't think most of us realized just how dangerous the Interwebs has become.
For me, that moment came when I realized there were no actual gold farmers in World of Warcrack... When you buy gold, you're buying gold that
activity, had my real name and account info in it, and I checked the headers... Sure enough, not really from blizzard, but DAMN it looked legit when viewed on my cellphone. I let the gold seller know that I really
Yeah I can recall seeing that file on multiple BBSes too. Has anyone examined it? I'm curious now.
Yeah I can recall seeing that file on multiple BBSes too. Has anyone examined it? I'm curious now.
Yeah I can recall seeing that file on multiple BBSes too. Has anyone examined it? I'm curious now.
Yeah I can recall seeing that file on multiple BBSes too. Has anyone examined it? I'm curious now.
It probably would be best to just delete it, don't examine it.. I've had virus scanners say it's a virus.
Yeah I can recall seeing that file on multiple BBSes too. Has anyone examined it? I'm curious now.
Yeah I can recall seeing that file on multiple BBSes too. Has anyone examin it? I'm curious now.
Google seems to indicate that it's a trojan/worm that installs a cryptocurrency miner.
On 17 Sep 2019, DaiTengu said the following...
Google seems to indicate that it's a trojan/worm that installs a cryptocurrency miner.
It's been a year or so ago, but the warnings going around then indicated it was a trojan definitely designed to install and propagate a botnet of bitcoi miners. Later incantations used the same methods for spreading other
Re: Re: Photo.scr
By: Scarecrow to All on Tue Sep 17 2019 09:28 pm
On 17 Sep 2019, DaiTengu said the following...
Google seems to indicate that it's a trojan/worm that installs a cryptocurrency miner.
It's been a year or so ago, but the warnings going around then indicated it was a trojan definitely designed to install and propagate a botnet of bitcoi miners. Later incantations used the same methods for spreading other
that photo.scr file has been uploaded to our bbses before bitcoin
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