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[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Gareth

I'm with Paul M on this one... why exactly are you doing it?

Because I have a spare box, a spare Saturday and I'm interested in learning more about security.

[MrBen]

Originally Posted by monkeybreath

I doubt it will effect a machine connected via nildram

D'oh... read the profile first Ben

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Well I wasn't worried about it being done before. I'm just curious about the reason for doing on a box with no SP at all, as SP1 has been around for so long now. I would be interested in that link about 40% of XP machines having no SP, as that's quite a surprise to me.

If the machine survives a week, then I'll install SP1 then give that another week.
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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

***** (probably)

EDIT: Removed IP because after a traceroute I don't think it is.
EDIT #2: Ping phpfuture.net to see

Definitely isn't phpfuture.net:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router [192.168.254.254]
2 20 ms 21 ms 20 ms lon1-adsl9-3.nildram.net [81.6.205.66]
3 29 ms 21 ms 20 ms lon1-9.nildram.net [213.208.106.194]
4 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms 84.12.225.132
5 22 ms 21 ms 20 ms 0125.ge-0-0-0.gbr1.ltn.nac.net [64.21.115.61]
6 90 ms 89 ms 90 ms 0.ge-6-2-0.gbr2.nyc.nac.net [209.123.11.181]
7 89 ms 89 ms 89 ms 94.gi4-2.esd1.nyc.nac.net [64.21.102.14]
8 89 ms 89 ms 90 ms 10.gi1-1.esd1.tlw.nac.net [209.123.11.230]
9 90 ms 89 ms 89 ms ezzi.customer.tlw.nac.net [207.99.110.174]
10 91 ms 91 ms 93 ms 65.125.239.146

Perhaps you should put up a Linux box as well for comparison Rich?

Good idea but I don't have any other spare machines ATM - the XP "0wned" machine is going to have XP SP2 installed soon because I need another Windows box.

[Gareth]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Because I have a spare box, a spare Saturday and I'm interested in learning more about security.

Ahh, fair enuff then. I thought you were doing it to prove a point, and to publicise it to denounce MS, etc... in which case it'd likely be ignored by many. As a personal learning experience, I'm sure you'll find it useful. I find actually doing stuff to be the best way to get my head around something.

Originally Posted by Richard M

If the machine survives a week, then I'll install SP1 then give that another week.

If it survives a week without getting infected by blaster it'll be a miracle. I still see it hitting my external server firewalls regularly.

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Definitely isn't phpfuture.net:

That's bizarre, I would swear my traceroute last night terminated in a machine connected via nildram. Oh well, back to the drawing board

[Richard M]

Hmm... I'm having a problem.
Windows blue screened during the installation and now it keeps doing it.

[Flubflow]

Have you taken precuations to make sure that, when compromised, it does not get used as a spam drone.

[Richard M]

Nope, I want this to be as realistic as possible.

BTW - I'm formatting the IDE hard disk in my main PC now because it seems that Windows was BSOD'ing when getting to that stage in the setup.

[Millay]

I silly connected a pc to an adsl connection a few months ago, after I had installed xp home sp1... within 2 minutes the machine was down and I was reformatting it... It can be quick trust me..

[Richard M]

There seems to be a big problem with this machine - it won't install without BSOD'ing.
I got nearly to the end of the installation but then it blue screened.
I'll have to delay this for a week or so until I can get hold of another box.

[Matthew]

Any update?

[bdav]

Easy - You want to zero-write the hard disk.

Dump it in another windows machine, and google "(hard drive manufacture) low level format". Run this, and you should be laughing!

What happens when someone turns it into an annonymous proxy, and you end up as the hub of some internet crime spree? I had that - claranet not happy!

[Richard M]

Aah cheers, tried to reinstall today but kept blue-screening.

[bdav]

Is that before 0-Writing the disk, or after?