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RE: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall

by Murphy, Ged (Bolton)

> > I've thought occasionally, since the MS Win[9N][xT] TCP/IP > stack is based on > the *BSD one, that it should be possible to adapt the OpenBSD > firewall/s to > the MS Win-compatible TCP/IP stack. I thought of it when my > Mum's MS Win05 > box went online, but haven't had the time to do anything about it. > > What do people think? IIRC, the NT stack is not based on the BSD one. It has been completley rewritten from scratch. Windows firewalls can be implemented in a few different ways. There is a winsock hook, which is quite frankly laughable in terms of security, there are several other means of hooking into the TDI and NDIS. There is also an ip filter driver which was introduced in Windows 2000 (but dropped there after). There is then the more secure, but more complex methods of writing kernel level drivers either sandwiched between NDIS as an intermediate driver, or implementing the new windows technology of Windows Filter Platform / Winsock Kernel which Alex Ionescu has brought to my attention recently. None of the above methods can be derived directly from the BSD implementation. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

19 years, 1 month

RE: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall

by Murphy, Ged (Bolton)

Current thoughts are either an an intermediate NDIS driver, or implementing WFP / WSK. Either way they will both operate at the lower end of the network stack for maximum security. -----Original Message----- From: crashfourit [mailto:crashfourit@gmail.com] Sent: 15 November 2005 02:46 To: ReactOS General List Subject: Re: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall I would say that the firewall needs to be integrated with the TCP/IP stack and the network API. This could give better protection for the end user, but it could come with a curse. To do this, we would need to make sure that eliminate, as much as possible, the possibility of double free and buffer overflow attacks. Also, there need to be an option to log were all the traffic is coming from or going to. In addition, it needs filter, including incoming traffic, outgoing traffic. Also, it need to be able to destignuish between trusted addapters and non-trusted addapter with various levels between them. It would also be nice to have the option to filter out most everything when the screensaver is on or after a certain user inactivity period. Michael B. Trausch wrote: Richard Campbell wrote: That's your opinion. Do you know that on this box i've never run a firewall or a virus scanner? Occasionally i'll run a web based scanner to check suspicious files, etc. but i've never found need for a firewall/virus scanner. As long as you stay up to date and don't run questionable files you are fine. A firewall is not NEEDED as long as the OS is properly configured and working. Richard Many users of Windows like things that "just work." That includes virus protection and the like. While I shy away from questionable files and practices, sometimes prohibitively so, I retain a current, updated virus scanner on my machine, "just in case." People I work with aren't always as careful as I am, and I've found one or two (relatively harmless) things that way. It doesn't bother me much, but it is nice to have. Nobody's perfect. As far as a firewall... I don't like software firewalls, but many do. They like their functionality to block things and whatnot. Also, people just aren't careful. They don't care. They click away, and everything else. That's 70%, if not more, of the computer users that you have out there. If those people aren't protected out of the box, odds are they won't be -- and that puts the rest of us at risk, especially if they get something that can do nasty bandwidth hogging things. When you're talking about "real" end-users, firewalls and virus software are a must. They are there to prevent the Internet from falling apart, in many ways, and while I don't like the fact that they are necessary at all, they are, and that's a result of the world we live in. - Mike _____ _______________________________________________ ros-general mailing list ros-general(a)reactos.org <mailto:ros-general@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general <http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general> ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

19 years, 1 month

Installing ReactOS on a second hard drive.

by Redefined Horizons

I'd like to get ReactOS up and running on my Debian Linux box, so I can try it out. I would like to install it on a second hard drive, and boot to it using Grub, which I already use with Debian. I'm not sure how to do this. Can I choose which hard drive I install ReactOS to when I am installing from the ReactOS CD? If not, how do I install to the slave drive and not the master? Will installing to the slave drive cause me problems with Grub? Will I need to do some configuring of Grub to get ReacOS to boot from the second hard drive? I'm just looking for the basic procedure I need to follow. I can do some digging on the net for the ugly details. I'm not sure where to start with this, or if it will even work. Thanks, Scott Huey

19 years, 1 month

I think we have an Outlook-compatible email client already

by Wesley Parish

Understanding and Replacing Microsoft Exchange by Tom Adelstein http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6368 I've downloaded it in connection with something entirely different (shades of Monty Python! ;) and discoverred this article. So, we've got some network functionality already, we've got a NetBEUI in the form of Sambs-NG, we've got most of the specialized stuff already out there. We've just got to get it all fitting together. (famous last words ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

19 years, 1 month

Test Mozilla w/o Installing it.

by James Tabor

Hi, Just in case some get lost at Mozilla.org. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.12/mozil… Have fun, James

19 years, 1 month

instalation/liveCD

by Ulrikhe Lukoie

<hi> can somebody help me, plz with instalation of reactos? i've downloaded livecd iso, burned it onto cd, but when i try to load - nothing happens it says that itz not bootable, cannot find bood sector, and so on.. whats wrong? and one more quostion - how to install this os? cause i dont see nothing that is suitable for install(for xample in VMWare) thanx in advance.. </hi> --

19 years, 1 month

RE: [ros-general] Re: Freeldr UI modifications

by Murphy, Ged (Bolton)

I agree with mf on his changes. The black theme looks much better, and stops the flicker on my screen. I think the changes should be merged to usetup (with the timer put back in) -----Original Message----- From: mf [mailto:mf@mufunyo.net] Sent: 09 November 2005 19:15 To: ReactOS General List Subject: [ros-general] Re: Freeldr UI modifications Alex Ionescu wrote: > That's exactly how my freeldr looks, but I only had to modify > freeldr.ini. Why touch bootsup.c? > > Best regards, > Alex Ionescu bootsup.c is the code where usetup "generates" a freeldr.ini upon install. I usually format the virtual drive before I install a new build of ReactOS on it to prevent registry corruption, so any local changes will be wiped this way. Casper Hornstrup wrote: > Why not just make it as simple as ntldr while you are at it? Because even though I have touched my C book for the first time in roughly 3 years (it was dusty) and started reading it, I am still in no position to call myself a programmer or modify any ReactOS code. Until I advance at least a few chapters I will keep myself to modifying parameters, drawing artwork and motivating programmers instead of writing my own code. In this case I have simply modified some color parameters to change Freeldr's look. mf _______________________________________________ ros-general mailing list ros-general(a)reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

19 years, 1 month

unwanted spam from the mailing list

by Hartmut Birr

Hi, if I send a message to the ros-general mailing list, I get always a spam mail like the mail below. I don't like this. It is possible to remove info(a)uol.com.br from the list? - Hartmut AntiSpam UOL wrote: > ANTISPAM UOL » TIRA-TEIMA <http://antispam.uol.com.br> > > Olá, > > Você enviou uma mensagem para *info(a)uol.com.br* > Para que sua mensagem seja encaminhada, por favor, *clique aqui* > <http://tira-teima.as.uol.com.br/challengeSender.html?data=J0RbYeou31cdWTH9P…> > > > Esta confirmação é necessária porque *info(a)uol.com.br* usa o Antispam > UOL, um programa que elimina mensagens enviadas por robôs, como > pornografia, propaganda e correntes. > > *As próximas mensagens enviadas para info(a)uol.com.br não precisarão > ser confirmadas*.* > *Caso você receba outro pedido de confirmação, por favor, peça para > info(a)uol.com.br incluí-lo em sua lista de autorizados. > > *Atenção!* Se você não conseguir clicar no atalho acima, acesse este > endereço: > http://tira-teima.as.uol.com.br/challengeSender.html?data=J0RbYeou31cdWTH9P… > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi, > > You´ve just sent a message to *info(a)uol.com.br* > In order to confirm the sent message, please *click here* > <http://tira-teima.as.uol.com.br/challengeSender.html?data=J0RbYeou31cdWTH9P…> > > > This confirmation is necessary because *info(a)uol.com.br* uses Antispam > UOL, a service that avoids unwanted messages like advertising, > pornography, viruses, and spams. > > *Other messages sent to info(a)uol.com.br won't need to be confirmed*.* > *If you receive another confirmation request, please ask > info(a)uol.com.br to include you in his/her authorized e-mail list. > > *Warning!* If the link doesn´t work, please copy the address below and > paste it on your browser: > http://tira-teima.as.uol.com.br/challengeSender.html?data=J0RbYeou31cdWTH9P… > > > > Use o *AntiSpam UOL* <http://antispam.uol.com.br> e proteja sua caixa > postal > >

19 years, 1 month

logon on the forum and bugzilla

by Hartmut Birr

Hi, sometimes I try to login to the forum or to bugzilla from work (I do hope my boss didn't read this). It has worked in the past. Since the changing to the new web page, it isn't possible. After the login, I'm again on the login page. I see no error. I'm using W2k and the Internet Explorer 6.x. All settings are predefined. What is different between the old and the new login? - Hartmut

19 years, 1 month

Freeldr UI modifications

by mf

Hi, I recall having heard several suggestions to make freeldr easier on the eyes (don't underestimate 60Hz VGA resolutions on a CRT) and/or make it look more familiar to ntldr. I have experimented with editing bootsup.c and the result implements both suggestions. The black background makes it less flickery on CRT displays and looks more in line with ntldr (the Windows boot loader). Please see the attached image and tell me your thoughts and observations. Best Regards, mf.

19 years, 1 month

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