Yeah, but if a trojan is written to send everything back to the thief, it
will certainly be noticed. The user's computer will only run HALF as fast
and the thief will be overloaded with data.
If I were to turn to the dark side, I'd write a Trojan horse that just logs
the stuff locally and
On 24 May 2001, at 2:07, Viking Coder wrote:
Instead of restricting
where you can't go, the firewall would restrict where you can go.
Well I didn't know that some firewalls were doing that. Mine does
not restrict on the destination, but put a restriction on the origin. In
other words, I
If they can sniff keyboard strokes they can sniff anything in the input
stream, including mouse clicks...
Sidd.
Certainly true - however the idea I supposed would be to temporarily
win an escalating war.
Not really. In fact, it might be more work to write a sniffer that records
only
Not really. In fact, it might be more work to write a sniffer that
records
only keyboard events instead of just logging all Windoze messages. I
think
it's safe to assume that any sniffer knows everything you do with your
computer. The only protection is not to install a sniffer.
OK, how
OK, how about a website which sent back an image to the user's browser,
which had a visible keypad to which the user was to 'mouse-click' the
passphrase? Now, imagine that the browser sent back a picture of a gif,
generated 'on-the-fly', with the keypad in different locations, and with the
On 24 May 2001, at 0:53, Viking Coder wrote:
OK, how about a website which sent back an image to the user's browser,
which had a visible keypad to which the user was to 'mouse-click' the
passphrase? Now, imagine that the browser sent back a picture of a gif,
generated 'on-the-fly', with
Good... until two weeks later when somebody writes a trojan virus that
intercepts anything, and everything, at the browser-level before it leaves
the computer. The trojan then sends out the gathered info to it's
recipient without the mark even knowing anything has happened.
Viking,
