[KLUG Members] Legal Liabilty?

Richard Vincent members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 06:15:29 -0400


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Hello all,

Early this morning my Zone Alarm Firewall software started alerting me to
the fact that a particular IP was trying to access my system. Upon further
investigation I found that the IP in question was trying to access my PC
using Netbios. So I in turn scanned the ip using a basic NT net view \\[IP]
command.

Well I found that the person computer was wide open. A share without a
password was established on the PC's c:\ drive ... very bad.

I felt sorry for the owner of the PC so I left a text file in the
c:\windows\desktop\ folder named [SECURE YOUR SYSTEM.txt] with information
on how to secure their broadband connection and remove some of the worms I
noticed on their system.

I also alerted the ISP of the PC.

My question is... Can I get busted for this ? I didn't appreciate my
Firewall blowing up like crazy so I wanted to take action.

Thanx
Rich

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