On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Steve wrote: > If you are internal to the LAN -- for the Windows boxes why not look for > the specific drivers -- you can do this with very easy with a perl > script -- of course you are going to need an account that has admin > across the network. If you don't need to identify the exact brand of *if* you have the account :) if you work at a university or any other network without a strict security policy. > All of this of course is kind of unnecessary as War Dialing is going to > be more reliable (read: less false positives) for you, I have seen boxes > with the associated drivers installed and no modem actually installed. i don't know about windows dialups, but under unix you may have to call the box two times in a short period, as the first ring will only activate the dialup (see the mgetty(8) -R flag). this feature is used alot on "illegal" modems, so after all war dialing is not that reliable. there might be a similar feature in windows (although i'm not aware of it). jacek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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