I remember

Anyone remember SANTA?
And no, I have no idea what is still relevant :(
 
Which are the modern & up-to-date alternatives? I.e. network vulnerability scanners? Idealy they supply hints how to fix detected holes?
 
I remember when they announced the launch of Back Orifice 2000, Symantec (not really sure if it was really Symantec, but still) asked the crew "can you give us the source code so we can make the antivirus before the launch?"
They distributed cds with BO2k in a defcon convention.

Update: And don't forget Netbus and Sub7 that was very popular with script kiddies.
 
vigole said:
Everyone missed glorious ping(8). First, you need to have a reachable destination, then other stuffs!
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Absolutely, all one wanted to do was measure the round trip time but somehow the jerk on the other end never bothered to reply and just went offline. This happend all the damn time with some people... what an annoyance... The golden age of dialup.
 
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There are so many... Which ones are a reasonable (lite) choice to monitor and/or secure a desktop workstation? Ideally the (N)IDS & NVS runs silently in the background and informs me via e-mail only if it detects a suspicious attempt of exploitation. A Qt/KDE desktop notification would be nice to have. Any suggestions?
 
ekvz said:
Now that you say it: I don't have the slightest clue what happened to mine :(
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Years ago, finally I decided to try some UNIX! I had a few books on the subject, i.e. computers, with lots of exotic terms about usenet (comp.*, alt.*), mail and finger. Finger?! anyway, it was chinese to me.
I had a bunch of Linux CDs and two FreeBSD 6.2 CDs. CD1 and CD2! Non of the Linux distros recognised my CD-drive civilly. Some did boot, some didn't, non reached to final phase, namely Installation. FreeBSD installed perfectly. When I've tried FreeBSD for the first time, I had a (lots of!) problem. In particular, one of them was the stumbling block! a few days after installation, I decided to connect to internet, and it failed.
At the time, I didn't know that my PC was plagued by Winmodem aka Softmodem. I was under the impression that modems are modem. What's a winmodem?! That situation led me to study about modems and device drivers. I was familiar with MASM 5 and a little Turbo C 2. I tried more assembly and C. It didn't went anywhere! Finally I gave up and bought a USRobotics 56k message MODEM.
That modem caused me to learn about csup and src, ports and Forums! Here we go, years later and I still hate git and github and it's on csup and 56K diaup MODEM.
 
vigole said:
Years ago, finally I decided to try some UNIX! I had a few books on the subject, i.e. computers, with lots of exotic terms about usenet (comp.*, alt.*), mail and finger. Finger?! anyway, it was chinese to me.
I had a bunch of Linux CDs and two FreeBSD 6.2 CDs. CD1 and CD2! Non of the Linux distros recognised my CD-drive civilly. Some did boot, some didn't, non reached to final phase, namely Installation. FreeBSD installed perfectly. When I've tried FreeBSD for the first time, I had a (lots of!) problem. One of them was stumbling block: a few days after installation, I've tried to connect to internet.
At the time, I didn't know that my PC was plagued by Winmodem aka Softmodem. I was under the impression that modems are modem. What's a winmodem?! That situation led me to study about modems and device drivers. I know MASM 5 and a little Turbo C 2. I tried more assembly and C. It didn't went anywhere! Finally I gave up and bought a USRobotics 56k message MODEM.
That modem caused me to learn about csup and src, ports and Forums! Here we go, years later and I still hate git and github and it's on csup and 56K diaup MODEM.
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What can i say? I was an AOL user in the 90s. Maybe not most common subtype but AOL is AOL after all.
 
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