>> ^Hanns:
Firewalls stop virus infections? :rolleyes:

NERD!

Firewalls stop virus infections? :rolleyes:

I tried it out, searching for 'free tibet' on youtube will get you blocked. I read somewhere that chinese who want to can get past the firewall easily, but what really chills me is that this is only the censorship and the monitoring that you _can_ notice...

There are many different ways to sniff and spoof. These things are not common knowledge but they are the required learning for network IT guys.

Spoofing: Making a persons router think that you are the admin, and making the persons computer think you are the router. Man in the middle attack. This is a compromised network. See ARP spoofing, or UDP Spoofing, or SYN ACK attack.

Sniffing un compromised networks: In these we can snoop traffic, therefore any thing sent over a HTTP session can be snooped for and ripped open with a packet sniffer, HTTPS makes this harder. You throw a baseball, some one catches it, and then reads whats on the ball then sends it along. No network is safe from that unless, its a private network with no internet connection. Now it is possible to find these snoopers, by hop transfer time estimation. If a normally fast connection takes forever to return a page, then it could be a sign of an attack. If you have a notable ISP, or a good firewall and a secure HTTPS site like .gov or bank sites then it is a bit safer. That doesnt stop the ISPs from tracking your stuff.

In short if you have a firewall, you are safe from hijacking, but when you send stuff out over the internet (Like this comment here) then it is possible some one will read it. That is the nature of the beast.

If you suspect that the traffic is going some where it shouldn't be, trace its route to the server. I did a trace to this page from my gateway and it has about about 11 hops, traffic spikes once it makes its way over towards the west coast, thats normal from the east coast.

http://visualroute.visualware.com/

http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php - this page doesnt send you to a web server, it sends you to a gateway, where your traffic stops.

I am not a professional, and I have no affiliation with the above systems linked. From your friendly neighborhood white hat.

PS: The odds of a computer with a good firewall being attacked are pretty slim.

The Great Firewall of China has already removed this from YouTube.

It's not auto playing for me, but I'm also at a computer with strict firewall settings and strange network configurations.

Press Ctrl + Alt + Del and hit "end program", then turn off firewall and disable anti-virus, then join every file sharing site you can and download everything you find. That should do the trick.

"Enough of our foolishness... I want to talk about Firewall."

If Conan had seen Firewall, the first half of that sentence would not exist.

Oh, Harrison played that so well, very well indeed.

Great stuff, and I was going to ask when this was from, but his query regarding 'Firewall' answered that...

I've never had that happen before and have double firewall protection. I have a hardware firewall plus a software one, though I usually disable the software firewall before playing any MP games. I haven't played TF2 in a few of days though, and I noticed it downloaded an update when I launched Steam today.

^Yes, there are some problems with invoking dead. We may need to make clear to those you invoke * undead should first check if the video is regionblocked..someone who invokes dead should add information about regionblocking+the specific region if (s)he's aware of it (one can check this by going to the original site where one will see a message "this video is not available in your country" (YouTube))
Isn't there a site where one can check if a site is available in other countries??
I remember the Great Firewall of China
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
which is no longer functioning..there may be similar sites? Anyone?

I'm an Obama supporter, and as an Obama supporter I beg people not to pretend he has a chance in Texas. He's going to lose by 20 points -- it's important that people understand this so Hil can't turn it into some kind of "comeback" victory when she wins a state she's had a double-digit lead in for the entire race. Same with Ohio, only probably worse. The "firewall" bullshit will only work if we let it.

How did China let this one slip through the great firewall?

I'm presuming this machine is Vista, which apparently ships with rather restrictive network access control. Have you looked at the windows firewall/security as well as disabling mcafee?

If I was trying to stop malevolent code from accessing the network I would probably write something that the hyper ajaxiness of VS would set off in a heart-beat.

Since you are getting something from VS you may want to try a fix arvana suggested that got me around an earlier problem http://www.videosift.com/talk/infinate-loop-in-VS-30#comment-273826
I set dom.max_script_run_time to 200 in firefox and it stopped all manner of page load problems.

I'm gonna take a wild guess that the first two bytes of your internal IP addresses are 192.168. It's a standard subnet which is reserved for local networks.

I think you have a problem with your router setup, probably with NAT or the firewall.

Have you tried connecting your son's computer directly to your cable/dsl/whatever connection, bypassing the router?