I'm most likely going to get rated dumb etc, but can you tell me is it possible to send software or in this case a virus or some type of spyware/trojan by just knowing someones ip?
no
*But perhaps the rare super military chinese hackers can, or a hacking site known as 4chan. They can hack you in a instant.
Well, ya gotta send it to them.
Or is it possible?
Yeah you can. I just put the files on your desktop through your IP address.
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;23296313]no
*But perhaps the rare super military chinese hackers [b]can[/b], or a hacking site known as [b]4chan[/b]. They can hack you in a instant.[/QUOTE]
Not with the IP only, but once you know the IP, you can do a port scan for a opened port and tada!
So if it IS possible to send software if they only know your ip?
It is possible, yeah, but the chance that anyone is hacking you is pointing towards 0.
It is possible, but most unauthorized file transfers are done via system exploits and vulnerabilities.
In another word, don't worry about it.
Thanks FP.
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I'm pretty sure that if you're hardcore enough, you could compile a virus into a 65k ping, however it would require some serious balls and most nowdays firewalls would probably block it.
[QUOTE=Tools;23298236]I'm pretty sure that if you're hardcore enough, you could compile a virus into a 65k ping, however it would require some serious balls and most nowdays firewalls would probably block it.[/QUOTE]
And all the PC would do is ping it right back at you.
Duh. It's not going to execute the code in a fucking ping.
Besides, that's handled by the router.
[QUOTE=Tools;23298236]I'm pretty sure that if you're hardcore enough, you could compile a virus into a 65k ping, however it would require some serious balls and most nowdays firewalls would probably block it.[/QUOTE]
ICMP? compile? I'm confused
[QUOTE=Ericsson;23299024]ICMP? compile? I'm confused[/QUOTE]
Some assholes found a way of compressing or compiling or whatever, a ping's packet so that it'd be ale to crash things, also known as "the ping of death", and so I had an idea that you could somehow modify it to contain a form of malware.
But even if you had the balls to do it, any router or firewall would remove it.
What kind of retarded system runs code inside a ping packet?
The ping of death was caused by buffer overflows on systems expecting ping packets no larger than 65535 bytes, by fragmenting a packet in such a way that when re-assembled it was over this size the system crashed because it simply was not designed to cope with it.
So basically it WASN'T a virus compiled into a ping packet as those others seem to be suggesting?
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;23296313]no
*But perhaps the rare super military chinese hackers can, or a hacking site known as 4chan. They can hack you in a instant.[/QUOTE]
like the Kuang Grade Mark Eleven.
[QUOTE=Chris220;23299657]So basically it WASN'T a virus compiled into a ping packet as those others seem to be suggesting?[/QUOTE]
No, not a virus at all. It was simply a malformed ping packet that the system was not prepared for.
You should be perfectly safe if you are not clicking links you don't trust and you have a 'router with no ports forwarded to insecure services' running on your PC.
- Don't click links in chat/email.
- Don't run server software that is outdated or that you have reason not to trust.
- Don't run executable software acquired from peer to peer networks without antivirus and/or sandboxing software installed in your system. (Why would you acquire software from peer to peer networks?)
- Keep your system up-to-date.
[QUOTE=D!ffr@c+0r;23302546]You should be perfectly safe if you are not clicking links you don't trust and you have a 'router with no ports forwarded to insecure services' running on your PC.
- Don't click links in chat/email.
- Don't run server software that is outdated or that you have reason not to trust.
- Don't run executable software acquired from peer to peer networks without antivirus and/or sandboxing software installed in your system. (Why would you acquire software from peer to peer networks?)
- Keep your system up-to-date.[/QUOTE]You sound a little paranoid
Yeah I know, but it's so nice to be able to go more than a year without re-imaging due to some silly mistake. :)
Well I do all of those things, and I haven't reformatted in a year(installed 7). (P2P Linux ftw)
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;23308720]Well I do all of those things, and I haven't reformatted in a year(installed 7). (P2P Linux ftw)[/QUOTE]
Yeah man I love torrenting Linux distros. So much faster than a server to peer download.
Back to the topic, unless you're actively running an FTP server with port 21 open, you're fine.
[QUOTE=AndrewPH;23323187]
Back to the topic, unless you're actively running an FTP server with port 21 open, you're fine.[/QUOTE]
Even if you are, unauthorized binaries still cannot be sucessfully sent to your computer (at least not to execute it as well) without the need of an vulnerability or exploit.
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