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| Thread ID: 28428 | 2002-12-19 03:53:00 | Paradise 128k Broadband | Steve Askew (119) | Press F1 |
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| 107502 | 2002-12-20 05:06:00 | > is there anyone here who can sniffed the packets and > tell us what infomation is being sent?? I had a quick look a while ago when I was fixing someones HP. I didn't find anything readable but I only want as far as looking for plain text. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 107503 | 2002-12-20 20:28:00 | Thankyou Steve, Not just for pointing out the keyboard that phones home, but also for pointing out that we could use paradises traffic monitor in this way. I never realised till now that i could click on the data/month > day > hour to get a display of what IPs i communicated with. Theres another tool on my belt now! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 107504 | 2002-12-20 20:40:00 | I hate to say this, but another resource hog is Windows. | agent (30) | ||
| 107505 | 2002-12-20 20:50:00 | Is ther any way of blocking the IP using something like a host file entry? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 107506 | 2002-12-20 21:11:00 | There is a small chance that, by altering the hosts.sam file, you could fool your computer into thinking that IP address refers to "localhost", but I'm not sure how good this would be for your computer, sending itself all that traffic. Most hosts.sam files are located in C:\WINDOWS (depending on what version of Windows, your customisation, and what drive it's actually installed on. # Copyright (c) 1998 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP stack for Windows98 # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost You could ad in the IP address the keyboard program sends data to and put "localhost" after that too. |
agent (30) | ||
| 107507 | 2002-12-20 21:19:00 | wouldn't that just mean that ones computer would look for localhost at 207.26.131.137???????? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 107508 | 2002-12-20 22:55:00 | Hi Steve, You can download the Drivers for the netropa keyboard directly from them, the ones that come from them do not include all the BS that comes with the HP's. I have an HP multimedia keyboard (the only HP thing on my computer) using the netropa drivers and nothing is "Phoning Home" on mine. If you email the guy's at netropa they will supply you with a link to a downloads page that contains pics of the HP keyboards ... then you can select the corresponding driver, this page is seperate from the normal downloads page. As for the spyware issue this is a well known issue and has been discussed quiet well previously: bizforums.itrc.hp.com I think if you have a rummage around there you will find the links to the proper drivers (spyware free) |
TazzieNZ (463) | ||
| 107509 | 2002-12-20 23:49:00 | Hey Tazzie, that link seems to be dead?. I have sent an email to Netropa asking for drivers without spyware :-) Be interesting to see what they have to say. cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 107510 | 2002-12-21 01:17:00 | > I hate to say this, but another resource hog is > Windows. No ****, SHERLOCK!!! Stating the obvious now are we?! |
Bambi (1486) | ||
| 107511 | 2002-12-21 01:27:00 | The hosts file is used to map an alphanumeric URL to the IP address. If the spyware is sending information to http://imthespywareking.com then you would have the entry. 0.0.0.0 imthespywareking.com The file to edit is HOSTS located in the windows directory or windows/system32/drivers/etc. HOSTS.sam is a sample hosts file. |
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