Walker

Woah, I did not notice the hamlinpro.com domain before. It was not associated with that server the last time I checked. What he's selling provided quite a WTF moment too.

...and selling a data harvesting spyware device in Second Life at $20USD a pop, even though I totally don't need the money!

It's definitely him too. The email linked to the domain name confirms that.

Naiki

To my missus who reads this forum, that is infact 12 inches, you have you screen resolution set incorrectly or something.

Boy Lane

Seems he's on it
hamlinpro.com Creation Date: 06-Feb-2011

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Walker

Jesus Christ, this guy is so bad at protecting his own personal data that I have zero confidence the data he's collecting is well secured.

Sione

$300 DVD

Well John Hamlin how does it feel to be spied on?

Elysium Hynes

So he sells DVD´s for 300 dollars to teach gamblers how to cheat casinos?

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Walker

Yeah, but I suspect the only people he's cheating are the buyers.

Boy Lane

Yes, confirmed. primeinx = zFire

Jopsy Pendragon

New Product: CyanIce

Automatically updates your hosts file with known untrustable websites as they're discovered!

Our technology is wide open, anyone can submit any website to our database, heck BLOCK THEM ALL!

(blocking secondlife.com is not recommended however, please don't submit that to the database or 'things will definitely break'... also, yeah, please don't submit google.com to the CyanIce blacklist database, okthxbyeee)

Argent Stonecutter

You should still disable streaming media. Because Redzone isn't the only perp you need to be worried about.

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Elysium Hynes

Seems he´s used to selling snake oil then.

Jopsy Pendragon

@Argent-

Agreed about blocking media. Which is why I was joking about cyanice. Should such a thing catch on, malware media would just move to using IP's instead of hostnames in their urls. Would likely cost them a little extra to have a full virtual machine all to themselves instead... but they'd do it if they felt they had to.

Walker

The story just gets more and more sleazy. First we discovered the beginnings of some creepy looking dating site on the very same dedicated server that avatar names and IP addresses are being sent to, and now a get rich quick gambling scheme designed to part fools from their money. What next I wonder?

Elysium Hynes

CIA spies, russian mobsters, fast cars and zombies. I call dibs on plot for an action packed film.

Lloyd Newman

OK, that's fine for windows.... digging into things for my Mac, I find that apparently I need to go into the terminal and play with the "ipfw" - IP Firewall. However, when I entered "man ipfw", there's a whole load of cryptic commands and I've got no idea what to do there...

Soooo...

I DL'd a free, open-source firewall front end for Mac called "NoobProof", and used it to set up a blacklist of those URLs.

Boy Lane

Macs & Linux also have a hosts file, that should work the same way under /etc/hosts

Argent Stonecutter

Zombie Jerky.

Jamaican style.

Boy Lane

Yes, that would actually simplify the blocking. It is easy to create hundreds of domain names (and this cost money) that point to the very same IP address. Getting a new IP is even costlier as he needs to purchase a new hosting package every single time. Not sure what a VM should change here. So this way or the other, it looks like we will have some fun .

Ann Otoole

google street view for fun: Insanity Productions LLC - Mountlake Terrace, Washington (WA) | Company Profile

Walker

I'd like to know how the hell to block IP addresses using the Windows 7 (Home Premium) firewall. I'm pretty sure it's possible, but Google leaves me confused.

Up yours Microsoft for fragmenting the featureset in Windows!

Chalice Yao

System -> System and security -> windows firewall -> advanced settings -> outgoing rules -> new rule -> custom -> all apps -> yaystuff

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Ann Otoole

The “host” file is under C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ or %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\ and thus cannot be edited by normal users.

Click Start – search for “Notepad“, right-click and select “Run as Administrator“. This should launch notepad with elevated privileges. Now, open the host file from the File menu, edit, install the entries that have been listed earlier, and save.

Walker

Bear in mind that he seems to be running his server from home through his Comcast Cable IP address. It was pointed out in another thread that changing the IP address could be as simple as disconnecting and reconnecting to the net or changing the MAC address on his router.

Walker

You can't block IP addresses with the hosts file. That's why I'm curious about the capabilities of the Windows 7 firewall.

Ann Otoole

then he has to update the DNS tables and for that duration it takes for the address to propagate the system would be dead. Hell the guy might be running the thing on a leeched wireless router lol.