Right,

Just been having an ogle on the sun's website - as you do, of an evening.

I then paid a visit to www.thedailysport.co.uk

Hang on, where's all the t1ts!!!- there were none. I thought I had found the alladdin's cave of download sites - tons of music,apps,games OS's,movie clips, etc - all my kind of stuff.

I downloaded a grandmaster flash track - about 6.5 meg came through in 21 seconds at a scorching 380 + Kbs, miles more than I have ever seen before.

At this point I am quite chuffed - until i started to study some of the files listed, most of them looked familiar, very familiar -because they are all feckin mine !

At first glance it appears that this site is displaying the contents of my hard drive, but on closer inspection it is actually the folder I designate downloads to go to from Kazzalite.

Question 1 : how can this be done, or do I have a virus ( according to NAV 2002 I dont) ?
Question 2 : how can I stop it ?
Question 3 : can anyone else see it ?
Question 4 : what can be done with the info / data this "website" collects, if indeed it collects it at all ?

I just tried this on another pc in the office, and got the standard "http/cannot be found" nonsence, so I can only assume it related to Kazzalite or I have a virus.

Will someone else give it a whirl and let me know what you get.

thanks,

mj.

ps,
I'm off to Kazza to get me a firewall.

 

ttt cos the BBS was playing up!

 

It will just be the page displaying the contents of your drive. I expect no-one else would be able to download off you - especially if you have a firewall.


Andy

 

how does it do it though, and why is it my Kazza shared folder?

 

Was Kazza running at the time? I know you can access your own machine on a certain port and you'll see your files, it was a way of upping your score on Kazza.

All of the above could be complete rubbish.

 

yes, i forgot to mention that, kazza was running.

but why does it do it with that url?

gutted, i thought i had found the mother of all websites, no wonder i got such amazing transfer rates.

 

Name: thedailysport.co.uk
Address: 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 is a loopback address ie. it is pointing to your computer, from your point of view.

[Edited by SL2 - 1/29/2003 4:02:24 PM]

 

Get a Firewall.