[Xitami] Download Resume.

[carlos]

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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