Re: Weird connection

2002-05-21 Thread Tremaine Lea
This is definitely your Yahoo! Messenger. Based on the information cs12.msg.sc5.yahoo.com:smtp I would suggest your YM app was checking your Yahoo account for mail since there is an SMTP connection going on. Cheers, Tremaine On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 10:40, Alex Tarata wrote: > Hey everyone ... I

Re: Personal firewalls question (for Windows)

2002-05-21 Thread Tremaine Lea
I would personally recommend against the free version of ZoneAlarm. In my not so humble opinion, you get what you pay for ;) As I work in an IRT, I can tell you that in my experience the free version may not be what you are looking for. Additionally, don't be lulled into a false sense of securi

Re: Yahoo Account Security

2002-05-06 Thread Tremaine Lea
Simple is definitely best, but I would recommend including something to check for HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR to take care of the chance the Bad Guy is using a proxy of some kind that would mask the source IP. Tremaine On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 12:57, CHRIS GRABENSTEIN wrote: Or better yet, just ma

Yahoo Account Security

2002-04-29 Thread Tremaine Lea
he only way someone can access an account is with your password. Now short of a lucky guess, the next most likely place to obtain your password is from your own machine via a trojan or other keystroke logging utility. You might want to check out the TDS-3 utility (Trojan Defense Suite) at http:/