Redirect to SMB--An Unresolved Windows Vulnerability Dating Back to 1997

[hjlbx]

Nico@FMA explains it very thoroughly.

I'm not an IT professional but I do understand there's limits to what home AV can do. I stated as much...

 

[marzametal]

S**t happens, and then you wipe your ass... if you can't handle the pace, get off the internet... back in the day, nothing was sooked or fussed over. Nowadays, every little breadcrumb is scrutinised. I refuse to be technology's bitch...wake up in the morning just to do your head in with PC crap... there is more to life, seriously...

I'd go for a Fire Sale if I had the chance. F**k technology. Mind you, it's my birthday and I am buckled beyond belief... so make of this what you will

Seriously, don't you see we are being played like puppets... I rue the day I asked a classmate in my secondary college career, what a PC was... ugh, the trauma. Oh yeah, go out and buy your first desktop... friggin' Windows 3.1 with 4MB RAM... nah you won't need more than that, it'll last forever. Will it now... mind you, the yanks landed a man on the moon with s**tbox hardware... *cough*

 

[frogboy]

Well i could not agree more if i tried. Very well put.

 

[bitbizket]

BUT out of the 8 hacks that have been found at least 70% happens from within the OS itself. Which technically means that without sitting physically behind the victims pc, and without a vast array of hacking tools and the needed resources & knowledge this particular hack cannot happen in the first place as its a technical requirement to target the OS from the inside out.

Sure there are programs that can be packed with very nasty yet brilliant malware that do a large part of the work for you, but with the introduction of routers and security software deployed by most western ISP companies it becomes a whole different story to being able to target a machine directly like that. My point is that these hacks require hands on.

Simple moral and habits nothing more.
At home when you stick your USB drive into the PC and your AV starts yelling you can't do that then people are like.
<facepalm> really? F windows, Slow pc F*ck this i am in control <hit ignore & allow> and still run the drive despite their security telling them not to or do a certain action first. Your security will in most cases respect your choice and move to a different config based upon the scenario you just created to counter act your stupid acts and tries to keep you as safe as possible keeping in mind that you ignored most of its protection.

Totally agree. Sad but true.

I have ESET. ESET's advanced firewall covers SMB redirection it's not necessary to block ports 139 & 445 here.