Blunderboy

I recently installed COMODO Firewall and when I get the chance I will try and open a meterpreter session and see what happens. I will disable the firewall and then bring it up and see if it will allow the already active session to stay active. Again when I get the chance to do this I will return with my results.

Thanks for the link. So far it has worked really well.

I have yet to see or at least find anything associated with a Merterpreter removal tool other then antimeter which is difficult to find. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about how to search and eliminate hidden Merterpreter sessions that may be leaving a computer wide open for attack?

Good luck white hat hacking for anyone unless you put in an ass ton of time in school. These days hacking has been standardized into a degree and that's what people are looking for amongst other things. If your cousin needs help managing his server I would start with a book that runs you through how to secure that type of server, such as a win2003 exchange server. People write trillions of lines online about how to do this or you could take the consolidated route and go to boarders and buy a book on 2003 exchange server and/or get a hardening a win2003 server. M$ puts books on the topics out or you can get a book written by O'reilly, which in my experience are some of the best computer books around. Trying to learn to hack will help a seasoned user with their server but if you have no idea on the workings of the type of server he is using it would be more beneficial to learn about how it works and learn about possible well known security risks and then branch off from there.

Buying a router would be so much easier then dual network cards and some other alternatives. I do see the attraction and the fun to doing that but a router will more then do the job and comes with a hardware firewall rather then having a comp with 2 network cards and a software firewall and other overhead.

Get a router. It will use your static IP address from your school and make it the default gateway and issue out its own IP addresses, giving you all the IP addresses you could need in a dorm. You just need a router and another cat5 or 6 cable. Most new routers come with a cat5 cable in it.

First of all reading about it practical techniques will only help you so much. You need to work with the skills to master them. I would tell you though attack your own stuff. Setting up a Server, breaking into it, then fixing it will show you 3 points to learn from. But 2 books right off the top of my head are "Hacking Exposed 5th Edition" and "Gray Hat Hacking the Ethical Hacker's Handbook" I would at least get a firm basis in at least one programming lang. plus a firm understanding of computers and networking.

If your router supports this: of course change your passwords, disable anonymous ICMP echo requests, enable MAC filtering, once in a while set up a passive scanner or some etherape to monitor connection volume. I also would just flip the power on your wireless router when you know you aren't going to use it for hours if you get really paranoid. Also keep your router's firmware up to date to prevent some vulnerabilities from being exploited.

Just out of personal experience I would only use WinXP firewall if you have a hardware firewall in front of it. The default WinXP firewall is a unidirectional firewall that only monitors inbound traffic. This seems ok unless the client gets compromised.

If you still want to stick with the Ubuntu feel. try Kubuntu. It is a much lighter version and will run on a lot of those really old systems. I have a 7 year old system that is running who the hell knows what running 128mb RAM and it was running well until the video card died. Now it's just sitting there. But anyways, good luck.

Wow your wit is astounding and I can not combat it. Nor do I wish to waist my time.

Are you referring to me or to the assessment of the guy on the video?

This guy is so retarded. He dresses in Chinese classical clothing while displaying his book collection. Then his crazy ass starts sticking his knife into a busted house to hear the interdementional gateways that might suck you in. Then a clean baby sandal is sitting in a very dirty place and he happens to see after he has been "observing" that one spot like 3 times for future venturing. He looks like a medic from WW1 who's pants got a flash forward in time. After that he spends 10 min. talking about a door with a hole and how he doesn't like the hole because the rest of the house is boarded up pretty tightly. Then 15min. later he uses a clean pallet that's just sitting on the ground with nothing in it to clime into this huge hole in the side of the house called a window. This guy is so dumb it's hilarious. His assessments of the religions were so shallow that I think that he is about to confuse himself on his own beliefs. He is about 3 brain cells away from becoming one of those PETA nazi conspiracy nuts who live in the wild and compains that the radio waves are used by the government to manipulate his brain. Anyways thanks for the funny video. :-D

U3 is an auto ran program from an external device and optical disks auto run too. All within winXP of course. All it would really take for windows boxes was an auto running batch script or an auto run command linking to a piece of software on the HDD. Most likely though the AV would find these.

What do you guys think of Fedora? I have been using it for about 3 months now and everything seems to be cool with it. I can't say everything was as flexable as my old Ubuntu box but since I somehow kept crashing the X server. I was like fuckit I'm going to try this out. So far the only 2 problems I've had with it is that 1. The wireless card on my gateway (broadcom) of course wont work unless I do a firmware alteration, which I'm not doing since the box runs dual booted winXP pro and fedora 8. 2. When I did an update from fedora 7 to fedora 8 I could no longer log into my old account I have to log in as root and create another account and log into that and redo all my settings again. But other then that it has been cool. Getting use to yum was pretty easy rather then apt-get. It is kinda rougher then starting Ubuntu though because fedora core 7 is the first fedora core that used the yum command so some of the walkthroughs for fedora are kinda dated. But hell all it takes was a quick obvious change of commands.