So my Windows system was compromised...

So finally it happend.

I recently got my self a broadband/DSL router with a lot of features. Wireless, printerserver, ethernet-hub, etc. I am still amazed about the stuff you can buy nowadays. And this thing isn't even sophisticated, by other peoples standards.

But what it has as well, is a built-in firewall. So I have a firewall. I fired that thing up, set up my broadband connection, enabled the firewall, switched on some default rules. As I use webmail, I even blocked POP3 and SMTP ports. And voila, I feel a lot saver.

Now comes the second part. Reinstalling Windows. As you can never know, if your Windows is rooted, once it has been connected to the internet without "protection", your only option is to reinstall (And once you’re rooted, there is NO way of knowing that you’re rooted – A good root kit covers its tracks so that it is essentially undetectable). I have been trying to stay up to date with all MS patches, but even then there is a chance that somebody made an exploit BEFORE the patch was released. So I want to remove any parts of my Windows, before reinstalling. For this, I have a second Windows install, just for these little things. I boot into this "backup" windows. But wait, I want to check my emails. I start the browser, start checking mails, but suddenly the internet connection goes dead. I open the admin web-site for the router, to check the state of the connection (Gee, the router even has a built-in webserver!). And here is what the status windows has to say:

10/27/2004 20:26:21 **SYN Flood** 192.168.2.xx, 4072->> 167.204.187.xx, 135 (from PPPoE Outbound)
10/27/2004 20:26:21 **SYN Flood** 192.168.2.xx, 4071->> 167.204.187.xx, 135 (from PPPoE Outbound)

A system I have used once some month ago to get into the internet, has been infected. So I need delete that windows installation as well...

Cmdr. Ferraday : If there's one thing that cannot happen on board a submarine by accident... is both ends of a torpedo tube open to the sea at the same time!
David Jones : You cross-connect the hydraulic manifold to the outside door mechanism so the indicator reads shut when the door is actually open. The same sort of electrical cross on these two panels, and the open position reads green when it should flash red. Then you plug up the inlet to the test cock with chewing gum, sealing wax, anything... just so that it shows a dribble. And then you open the tube, and Good Night.
From Ice Station Zebra

The Final Casemod

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/27/caseless_casemod.html

ESI Juli@ - Gimmick or Cool?

ESI has a new PCI soundcard which is

- White (gimmick or cool?)
- Changable between 1/4 inch and RCA (gimmick or cool?)

I can't decide. Judge yourself.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/esi-julia/

http://www.google.de/search?q=esi+juli@

http://www.google.de/search?q=esi+julia

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM04/Content/ESI/PR/JULIA.html

[Added digital-life and harmony-central link]

kbAlertz

What is kbAlertz.com?
kbAlertz.com is an e-mail notification system that scans the entire Microsoft Knowledge Base every night, and e-mails you when updates or additions are made to the technologies you subscribe to. Since we scan the entire knowledge base, we also have a pretty good search system for you to use on the left menu.

http://www.kbalertz.com/

You can get this as an RSS feed, if you don't like to subscribe via email.

(Thanks Robert Scoble)

Tinyurl? Koehntopp!

Der Herr Koehntopp macht jeden Link klein.

:-)

http://kris.koehntopp.de/service/link

Verlinken verboten - Ein Bild zum Schmunzeln

http://outrage.blogger.de/stories/149748/

Invisible Train

http://studierstube.org/invisible_train/

(Thanks Robert Scoble)

More on XP SP2 Problems

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000227.html

(Thanks Robert Scoble http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/25.html#a8496)

PrePal

Internet used musical intrument prices

http://www.prepal.com

World of Meters

Finally a web-site, which shows what the internet is good for. :-)

http://www.worldometers.info/

(Source: Rober Scoble http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/23.html#a8471)

Found a blog about Recording Gear

http://recordinggearnews.blogspot.com/

ATOM feed: http://recordinggearnews.blogspot.com/atom.xml

RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecordingGearNews

MS Design Guidelines

Here are some MS Design Guidelines. I find them very interesting.

http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2004/09/28/235232.aspx

If you can program it - Part II

Well, the TomTom Go, Standalone-GPS-Navigationsdevice, already runs Linux, but it wasn't open to the public. Doh! Well, Linux is GPL, so here we have it. Now anybody can programm this little device :-)

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/52474

Cray verwendet AMD Prozessoren fuer Superrechner

Jetzt ist es schon soweit. Ich erinnere mich noch an die Zeiten, als man den Namen Cray erfurchtsvoll ausgesporchen hat. Einmal in die Naehe einer Cray kommen, das war ein Traum. Im Rechenzentrum der Regensburger Uni stand so ein Ding, das konnte man durch eine Fensterscheibe bewundern, wie einen seltenen Panda-Baer im Zoo. Und jetzt kann sich jeder eine Mini-Cray aus Teilen zusammenbauen, die er beim Kisten-Schieber um die Ecke bekommt?

Nein, nein, nein.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/52203

Some music links

http://audioworld.com/
http://www.audiodirectory.nl/
http://www.dancetech.com
http://www.sonicstate.com
http://www.synthzone.com/
http://www.tweakheadz.com/

Stolen from http://armadaelectro.free.fr/liste-ar.html

Apple, iPod and PortalPlayer

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64286,00.html

http://portalplayer.com/

Fucking Bastards

Well, one more reason why to oppose these "software patents". Apple has one on translucent windows.

http://justonemorething.com/comments/149_0_1_12_C/

If you work at apple: You should be very ashamed. And stop using BSD as kernel.

Sir, would you please step back from that Open Source software. Sir, drop that patent, right now.

Supramanie. Vom Pflichtmenschen zum Score-Man

Oder:
Die Entartung des Galileischen Imperativs

Auf Telepolis ist ein interessanter Artikel ueber ein Buch von Gunter Dueck.

http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/eco/18239/1.html

Jazz Mutant

It's a touchscreen control surface.

http://www.jazzmutant.com/
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2004/10/psychedelic-touch-screen-delight.html

Music Plasma

Type in your favourite band and be surprised!



http://www.musicplasma.com/

Need more help about XP SP2?

Go to this webpage and click on 'Need More Help?' in the top right corner.

http://support.microsoft.com/windowsxpsp2

When XP SP2 turns your machine into Frankenstein...

... and what to do.

What Raymond Chen has written about it:
http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/10/14/242241.aspx

I usually read Raymond Chens log, but Gerald Himmelein from the german computer magazine c't was faster in writing something about this problem than I was reading Raymond Chens blog:
http://www.ctmagazin.de/Redaktion/ghi/retch/etc/SPFrankenstein.html

Debugging Tools for Windows

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx