X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: msdawy AT hotmail DOT com (Mohamed El Dawy) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: could you please compile this? Date: 26 Feb 2002 22:50:05 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 64 Message-ID: <550ec71c.0202262250.25a590b2@posting.google.com> References: <20020219100219 DOT 66362 DOT qmail AT web20807 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <86e34513 DOT 0202201204 DOT 2f97f2b AT posting DOT google DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.131.66.41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1014792606 23926 127.0.0.1 (27 Feb 2002 06:50:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2002 06:50:06 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com roadraat AT aol DOT com (Nelson Fleet) wrote in message news:<86e34513 DOT 0202201204 DOT 2f97f2b AT posting DOT google DOT com>... > cesar tejeda wrote in message news:<20020219100219 DOT 66362 DOT qmail AT web20807 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>... > > > BTW, What is social engineering? > > Why this e-mail sounds you like that? > > > > :-? > > It's jargon from computer security and criminal hacking. It's a fancy > term for fooling people into doing what you want. > > If you were trying to break into something, you might try to crack the > password. That's hard. Or you might try to reverse engineer the > authentication software. That's also hard. > > However, if you call somebody in your target and pose as someone from > the help desk, you might convince them that you're working on the > system and talk them into just giving you their password. That's > social engineering. > > One of the prettier (albeit nefarious) social engineering malicious > pranks was the virus that wasn't a virus. Somebody sent out email > warning people that they might be infected and admonished them to > delete the virus if they found it on their system. Except... it > wasn't a virus. It was a system utility, which disabled certain > functionality when the victims deleted it. > > That's social engineering. There was no virus. The vandal simply > talked the ignorant into damaging their own machines. It really was > as stupid as that joke about the Amish virus ("since we, the Amish, > don't have computers you are on your honor to delete all of your > files...thank you"). > > Nobody is going to compile your code for you. You might have written > your own virus, chum. Then when we compile and execute it, we're > toast. > > If it's not a virus, great. Do your own homework. If you can't > download and install a C compiler, you don't have the personal > resources to program in C anyway. > > Nelson Good Morning... er... no! it's not social engineering! it's a program for burning EEPROMS. i don't know much about the subject, a friend of mine gave it to me, and asked me to compile it for him (he is not a programmer! he is interested in EEPROMS, and he got the code from somewhere on the net). i couldn't compile it, and i thought that somebody may help here. anyway, i didn't ask any one to run the program! i only asked for the compiled version! (the program will not help you anyway). i was worried about the idea of downloading and installing the compiler, then discovering that the code is not for DJGPP. anyway, i think Glenn was right. i should have made it myself from the beginning. no problem, my friend actually got desperate, and started looking for another EEPROM burner that would compile in VC (or one that is readily compiled!!) :) no problem, and no offense... :) thank you very much... yours... msdawy