BE AWARE! What TSR *really* do with your account details...
Ali:
well, I'm really not surprised at this development
I would advise everyone to change your passwords here, just in case
Zordac - what was that about UDP searches - what the heck does that mean and how do I check for it?? *is very paranoid*!
saowens:
Quote from: Ali on March 31, 2009, 02:14:46 pm
Zordac - what was that about UDP searches - what the heck does that mean and how do I check for it?? *is very paranoid*!
Ali,
UDP port scans are one of the ways to find out if there are open ports on your system. There are a multitude of utilities out there in the clouds to use for this. There are also lots of utilities you can use to test your own system and close those ports. The best way to find the utilities would be to just do a google search for UDP port scanners or UDP port scanning utilities. If an open port is found then that is a back door so to speak into your system.
After the door is open anything is possible. Anything.
As far as how to check for it. That depends on how your firewall logs inbound traffic. You just have to look through the inbound logs. Mine logs them by ip address and web site name and the type of attempt. Like UDP or ICMP etc. so it's pretty cut and dried as to what or who is doing the scan.
Nothing is fool proof but double layering your security, Nating your ip address and turning off ICMP requests is a good start.
There are to many fish in the sea for a hacker to waste time trying to break into something that doesn't seem to be there in the first place.
Feisty32:
ok i'm really getting annoyed here if tsr is so bad why has'nt somebody reported it yet? untill then of somebody can give me hardcore and solid evidence of this thing with tsr maybe then i will believe and don't give me links to read about tsr i want evidence some evidence that will prove this about tsr.
i have never downloaded from the booty and i never will end of story. :-\ :mad:
Ali:
Feisty - have you read Delphy's posts where he shows the IP addresses that relate to the usage of buggy's account and the one that it Thomas's account?
TSR certainly aren't going to come right out and say it was them. Delphy is being very diplomatic in reporting back what TSR said about a security breach.
And if that IS correct about the breach then it's going to be pretty certain that your data isn't safe anyway
it's certainly your prerogative not to download from the booty, no-one is going to argue with you about that
saowens:
It's going to be really hard to give you any solid evidence with out sending a link. The news about TSR and MTS2 is all over the internet. Not just this site.
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt at this point because I don't judge anything based on what I read some where. I do have personal experience with them trying to hack my system though.
The only reason any one would do a UDP port scan on someones system is so they can gain unauthorized access to it.
I have their ip address the scan was performed from and the name of the domain that it came from. The time it happened. In my case the domain name is thesimsresource.com (yes this is a fully qualified domain name). I am not going to send any of my firewall logs to anyone or post them anywhere though. Sorry. That in it's self would be a foolish thing to do.
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