Perhaps that was a piece of FUD on my part. I looked at the first redirecter page and found the CLSID right there. As for what this object is, I'm not sure. I think it's probably harmless though. Sorry for the FUD.:)
Here is some log data to possibly back it up
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Here are some log files to show you exactly what happens during the *first two HTTP requests* of a Windows Update session. I didn't submit any form, just went to the URL. What is that CLSID? I don't know. I searched to registry, to no avail.
******* *** Received Server Data *** HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:20:15 GMT Content-Location: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/Default.htm ETag: "80781bcc3f5cbe1:c4a" Content-Length: 0
Tell them that they are going to be associated with a company that tries to enforce a copyright by attacking the little guys first to support an unfounded copyright claim (see Apple vs. Microsoft).
This release will mean a lot for a lot of people. OSS is slowly taking over. Imagine the quality after the world's users get six or seven months to pour over the source code and fix the bugs that make it crash!
All you need for scripting is Perl (and possibly awk or sed). Even TCL/TK! I just wish one of those was adopted as the standard inline scripting language, not the broken, clunky Javascript.
I think we'll be seeing more and more Linux items in the news as time goes by. This next year should be just as exciting as the last for the OSS world. Maybe we'll take a significant chunk of the OS (at least server and home) market.
Perhaps this will give the MP3 industry a little more swing in the grand scheme of things.:)
With the money available, MP3.com could even become a fully-fledged music company, giving the fair share of royalties to the artists that they deserve. No more record execs riding in limos from their signee's successes. Wouldn't that be the day.
I hate paying $17 CDN for a CD, knowing the artist gets very little. I'd prefer something like $1 per track, with 50% or more going to the artist. People say this money goes toward promotion of the album, but I think most good music can promote itself.
Well, as the article said, it's not very fast (at least for beginners). Perhaps with further training and practice, we could become adept mind typers.:)
Hopefully the technology improves. This could be a new revolution.
So, does this open the handheld player market further by providing pre-built MP3 chipsets?
I'm guessing that with a bit more development, the chipset could possibly be merged with a portable CD player and become a *very* big player in the market.
I'd love to drop all the CDs I own onto a half-dozer or so CD-R's. You can't argue with convenience like that. Any comments? POKEY NOW
Wouldn't it be great to come downstairs in the morning and found out that hackers have burnt your toast AGAIN? Never shoulda got that TCP/IP enabled toaster...
Home networking is cool, but I'd prefer an open-source open-standard solution. If I can't get the thermostat to work exactly how I want it to, there shouldn't be any problem with me popping open Emacs (or vi for some of you) and editing a few things here and there.
I'll be first in line for this stuff, but I'll be damned if I pay $98 bucks to upgrade my blender, my stove and my Home Fusion Recycling Unit(tm) from M$ Home Kitchen 2001 to M$ Home Kitchen 2003.
There is a good firewall article previous to this one for those that don't understand firewalling. I'd also recommand the HOWTO on IP-Masquerading -- another good source of info.
BTW, there are a few things he didn't mention:
- You should flush out the old rules before inputting your new rules and setting the default action, just to ensure that any previous rules are gone:
ipfwadm -I -f ipfwadm -O -f ipfwadm -F -f
- Rules can sometimes be redundant. If your default action is "deny", you'll find that a lot of your deny rules won't really do anything, unless the packets they deny are a subset of the packets accepted by a later rule.
- The more rules you have, the slower the packets will traverse the firewall. Make sure you balance your security needs with your speed. Fewer, simpler rules will save you some headache.
Anyways, have fun and remember: a Linux box can replace an NT Server box with lower cost and higher speed. I have proof.:)
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Perhaps that was a piece of FUD on my part. I looked at the first redirecter page and found the CLSID right there. As for what this object is, I'm not sure. I think it's probably harmless though. Sorry for the FUD. :)
Here are some log files to show you exactly what happens during the *first two HTTP requests* of a Windows Update session. I didn't submit any form, just went to the URL. What is that CLSID? I don't know. I searched to registry, to no avail.
--- CUT ---
*** Received Client Request ***
GET http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:41:09 GMT
If-None-Match: "80781bcc3f5cbe1:d6a"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)
Host: windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: MC1=GUID=ca530262d4bb11d298830008c7d9e3db; page=ProductUpdates
*******
*** Received Server Data ***
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:20:15 GMT
Content-Location: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/Default.htm
ETag: "80781bcc3f5cbe1:c4a"
Content-Length: 0
*******
*** Received Client Request ***
POST http://activex.microsoft.com/objects/ocget.dll HTTP/1.0
Accept: application/x-cabinet-win32-x86, application/x-pe-win32-x86, application/octet-stream, application/x-setupscript, */*
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)
Host: activex.microsoft.com
Content-Length: 44
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: No-Cache
Cookie: MC1=GUID=ca530262d4bb11d298830008c7d9e3db
CLSID={2DE96BE6-FD91-11D1-AA0B-00C04FB16F9E}
*******
Email:
esp@blueplanetsoftware.com
dlucas@blueplanetsoftware.com
Tell them that they are going to be associated with a company that tries to enforce a copyright by attacking the little guys first to support an unfounded copyright claim (see Apple vs. Microsoft).
This release will mean a lot for a lot of people. OSS is slowly taking over. Imagine the quality after the world's users get six or seven months to pour over the source code and fix the bugs that make it crash!
When will copyright law die? 10 years MAX for copyright, 5 years MAX for patents. NO SOFTWARE PATENTS.
;))
(my two cents
All you need for scripting is Perl (and possibly awk or sed). Even TCL/TK! I just wish one of those was adopted as the standard inline scripting language, not the broken, clunky Javascript.
sigh
I think we'll be seeing more and more Linux items in the news as time goes by. This next year should be just as exciting as the last for the OSS world. Maybe we'll take a significant chunk of the OS (at least server and home) market.
We can always hope.
Perhaps this will give the MP3 industry a little more swing in the grand scheme of things. :)
With the money available, MP3.com could even become a fully-fledged music company, giving the fair share of royalties to the artists that they deserve. No more record execs riding in limos from their signee's successes. Wouldn't that be the day.
I hate paying $17 CDN for a CD, knowing the artist gets very little. I'd prefer something like $1 per track, with 50% or more going to the artist. People say this money goes toward promotion of the album, but I think most good music can promote itself.
I wonder what the future holds...
Well, as the article said, it's not very fast (at least for beginners). Perhaps with further training and practice, we could become adept mind typers. :)
Hopefully the technology improves. This could be a new revolution.
The world would not be good if someone patented the binary search algorithm or one of the other heavily used ones.
We are where we are now because algorithms are open.
HOORAY!
http://www.yellow5.com/pokey
So, does this open the handheld player market further by providing pre-built MP3 chipsets?
I'm guessing that with a bit more development, the chipset could possibly be merged with a portable CD player and become a *very* big player in the market.
I'd love to drop all the CDs I own onto a half-dozer or so CD-R's. You can't argue with convenience like that. Any comments? POKEY NOW
Wouldn't it be great to come downstairs in the morning and found out that hackers have burnt your toast AGAIN? Never shoulda got that TCP/IP enabled toaster...
Home networking is cool, but I'd prefer an open-source open-standard solution. If I can't get the thermostat to work exactly how I want it to, there shouldn't be any problem with me popping open Emacs (or vi for some of you) and editing a few things here and there.
I'll be first in line for this stuff, but I'll be damned if I pay $98 bucks to upgrade my blender, my stove and my Home Fusion Recycling Unit(tm) from M$ Home Kitchen 2001 to M$ Home Kitchen 2003.
:)
Augh... looks like I'll have to spend some more time learning Linux firewalling. Thanks for the pointer.
There is a good firewall article previous to this one for those that don't understand firewalling. I'd also recommand the HOWTO on IP-Masquerading -- another good source of info.
:)
BTW, there are a few things he didn't mention:
- You should flush out the old rules before inputting your new rules and setting the default action, just to ensure that any previous rules are gone:
ipfwadm -I -f
ipfwadm -O -f
ipfwadm -F -f
- Rules can sometimes be redundant. If your default action is "deny", you'll find that a lot of your deny rules won't really do anything, unless the packets they deny are a subset of the packets accepted by a later rule.
- The more rules you have, the slower the packets will traverse the firewall. Make sure you balance your security needs with your speed. Fewer, simpler rules will save you some headache.
Anyways, have fun and remember: a Linux box can replace an NT Server box with lower cost and higher speed. I have proof.