Re: Tracking Kazaa?

Irregardless of this working or not working, consider carefuly the security (or lack of same) implications of sharing the root of the c: drive, even as a "hidden" share. Constantly, we hear about viruses scanning for shares named c$, and attempting to infect those computers.

Instead of searching for Program Files/Kazaa on them, search for machines that have a //$_/c$/ share, and close them.

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Re^2: Tracking Kazaa? by LAI (Hermit) on May 21, 2003 at 13:46 UTC
C$ is an administrative share, meaning that anyone with administrative privileges on the box can browse the hard drive(s). Those shares are useful; I use the administrative shares all the time, but none of my users can access them. Of course, if you've got a virus running with superuser privileges you're in trouble anyway. LAI `__END__`	[reply] [d/l]