| Rooted, the facts. | | | | secure). |
| Looking around several irc networks you will inevitably | | | | The problem is, in certain areas, radmin is pre-installed |
| see bots in most of the wares channels. | | | | into a pc before it leaves the shop, WITH NO |
| You know the sort, something with the nick | | | | PASSWORD ON IT! |
| Wares-[-0001-] amd the like. | | | | Now as you have guessed, this pc is now open for |
| Now basically for those people who dont know what | | | | anyone to control that has radmin. |
| a bot is, its basically this:a hacked computer with a fast | | | | The user can be on the pc at the time and usually he |
| connection has a rootkit put on it. | | | | wont know anyone is there, a hacker can even watch |
| This rootkit contains many files and all are slightly | | | | exactly what the user is doing!! |
| different, but on the whole they all do the same job. | | | | Scary! |
| They install mirc on the target computer, and then set it | | | | The hacker will have many scan bots, which will scan |
| to serve files automatically to the leechers (people that | | | | an ip range for installed versions of radmin on remote |
| download). | | | | machines, that have no password. |
| The most common form of rooting is through a | | | | So basically the lesson is this... |
| program called radmin. | | | | Dont put a remote administrator program that lets |
| Radmin is a perfectly legitimate program that has | | | | anyone in with no password!!!! |
| many uses in business. | | | | If you need this program, PUT A PASSWORD ON IT!! |
| With radmin you can basically take full control over a | | | | We will never be 100% secure either on the internet or |
| target pc that has radmin installed. | | | | on IRC. But we can still do a lot to combat things like |
| There is a password option with the radmin server | | | | this. |
| and if this is set, then the pc is secure (well a lot more | | | | |