Re: Livingston Portmaster Crasher (fwd)

Richard Windmann (richardw@ns.telegroup.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 1997 23:07:46 -0500

At 05:11 PM 4/26/97 -0700, MegaZone wrote:

>Oh, pmcrash, how quaint...
>
>This won't work on anything after ComOS 3.1.4, which is a year and a half
>old now. And it never worked the way it claims to. Most of what it did
>was smoke and mirrors, and it was really tripping over a problem in the
>telnet interface. Something you could do by hand just by telnetting to
>the box and then sending a break. An old, forgotten feature from way, way
>back. It was yanked when we were reminded of it.

Not only that, but you can implement filters on your router to deny access
to the pm telnet port, run the telnet port on an odd port number, etc.,
etc. You can also threaten to kill the family of anyone who dares to try ;->

Pmcrash was like compiling a batch file that deleted your hard drive - very
elementary.