Fw: [Xitami] Download Resume.

[admin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "carlos" <carlos@zonacharrua.com>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Download Resume.


> About the proxy, you can choose to use the sockets or not.
>
> Then you use it behind the firewall.
>
> At last you can get a very good tool from http://grc.com wich can close
the
> infamous sockets.
>
> Carlos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
> To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Xitami] Download Resume.
>
>
> > In message <02a501c29e0c$d0f92420$67646464@carlos> "admin" writes:
> >
> > > Then you can use a little Proxy as ANALOGX `s to acces the internet.
> >
> > Big warning to anyone thinking of using AnalogX proxy: at one time, this
> > was distributed such that the default configuration would allow an open
> > SOCKS proxy; many people have found to their cost that their computer
was
> > being hijacked to relay spam/UCE by news and e-mail --- the first they
> > would know was when their ISP would cut them off for misusing the
> > service.
> >
> > The author seemed quite unconcerned about this, and had no means of
> > contacting the thousands of users that already had this product and were
> > vulnerable.  I hope by now that the documentation has been made clearer,
> > and that the default configuration does not include the open SOCKS.  All
> > the same, current and potential future users are urged to check that
> > their systems are not acting as wormholes for the spammers!
> >
> > --
> > Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
> bhk@dsl.co.uk
> >     "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
> >     untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
> >                                               George Macaulay Trevelyan,
> 1919
> >
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