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Skriven 2007-02-01 08:55:48 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
    Kommentar till text 448 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
Ärende: Re: Really strange Part II
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Part II, Holger, sigh..

ML> How much memory? = 64 Mb

Ouch, wince. Not with any browser that uses shared memory, I'd think.

ML> Tested with memory tester at board level on a DOS boot? = No

Please!  Clone that DOS boot disk with DISKCOPY on OS/2 and use MTEST86 or
whatever just to proof things.

ML> Is drive only OS/2 or has other operating systems on it?
 HG>     On separate FAT partitions PC-DOS v7.0 and WfWG v3.11

Dunno what this might relate to considering the above postings.

ML> Do you have NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP installed?
 HG>     Not unless it's necessary for DialOtherInternetProviders

If your system is connected to the Internet and not through some kind of
firewall and control operation, this leaves it WIDE open for external virus
attacks from a remote source.  It is a horrible hole for an OS/2 system left
connected broadband.  Anyone wanting to download files into your system or
wants access to your directories can do so from afar.  I have personally
watched while an external perp was downloading file after file for a Windows
virus escapade into every subdirectory on an OS/2 box setting it up for botnet
operations!  Of course the modern WIN32 executables wouldn't run on OS/2. 
Notice the word 'modern'?

Surprise!  If you have the WIN32 original driver for OS/2 installed, a lot of
the early WIN95 code WILL run on OS/2!  Which can then be used with whatever
files were downloaded on to your OS/2 system.  As well, it is unbelievable how
uninformed some people seem to be about how easy it would be to compromise an
OS/2 box with NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP.  What is to stop anyone from simply
modifying your CONFIG.SYS file or AUTOEXEC.BAT file to call their own whatever
driver or file during your next boot run or use of a DOS-VDM session?  Or
simply run their own hidden such session?  Or use the RUN! or similar tool to
execute an OS/2 native escapade?  Or run a hidden session of dialing who,
where?

I do *NOT* use DialOtherInternetProviders or anything that requires this
protocol after watching what was done to one of my boxes from afar one day.  In
that I am not working with anything that is WIN-XP or WIN32 file system
interface with another network box, this horrible security hole for OS/2 isn't
worth even enabling.  Anything needing it in OS/2 for my purposes has other
program choices as far as I can see.

ML>What was running on the box when you last left it up and unattended
ML>before you saw this?

 HG> Nothing because it was a cold start after several days.

Sure!  Because the damage to the HPFS file system was done during the previous
operations as a result of the corruption problems explained above.  And HPFS
cheerfully cleaned up what it thought was wrong.  I only wound up really lucky
in starting to trace all this because the corruption didn't start on my boot
partition.


 HG> Have a nice day,

I hope this helps people understand why it is absolutely necessary with Warp 4
to at least update to the FP15 level, fix the Adaptec SCSI drivers and flash
2940 upward cards to the latest Adaptec BIOS code!

--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001



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