As I said earlier, there is a GREAT HACK for XOLOX out now

#11 (**permalink**) December 5th, 2001

If someone has written in a "security hole" none of the items mentioned above will track or detect it. Granted, a *known* virus will get detected. A firewall will track traffic from xolox.. but who can tell what that traffic is reading.. or copying, or scanning.

It's probably just me being paranoid... but when my HD starts to click.. and I'm not running anything to read it (other than xolox), I always wonder.

How hard would it be to put in a back-door for a malicious user? My guess is that it would not be a radical change to allow this sort of thing.

"It's not paranoia.. if they're really after you."

Iamnacho · #12 (**permalink**) December 5th, 2001

Quote:

Originally posted by Moak
Iamancho,
speaking technical nothing from 1-3 will protect you about a backdoor, at least not until it was found (we can discuss every point more detailed if you want). So it's just a matter of trust....

If you need a 100% clean version, take the old original Xolox 1.12, install and then patch it yourself as Pataya described:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=6145

yeah, i knew that it wasnt 100% fool proof, but it made me feel better. so it didnt bother me to use it. and i would have gotten rid of it if it screwed with my computer. and i need to reformat and start over anyway.... thanks moak

Moak · #13 (**permalink**) December 5th, 2001

np.

PS: Ultraedit is a fine HEXedit

#14 (**permalink**) December 9th, 2001

Believe me, there's no backdoor in my release.
I also checked the original 1.13 source and found nothing of interest.

DONnerkopf

X_Man · #15 (**permalink**) December 10th, 2001

i think you did a real nice job on it DON, been running GREAT here since dec 2.
Forget the hacks, this one is good. xolox113.zip thanks DONnerkofp for keeping the torch burnning.

#16 (**permalink**) December 10th, 2001

http://all2all.virtualave.net/p2p/xolox113us.zip

#17 (**permalink**) December 10th, 2001

Anything new worth mentioning in the 1.13 unofficial version?

#18 (**permalink**) December 10th, 2001

well there seems to be 2 xolox113.zip files going around one is a cracked v1.12 exe file that you must copy over your working xolox.exe, and the other one http://all2all.virtualave.net/p2p/xolox113us.zip is the full installer. it shows as v1.13 on the splash screen, GUI and about menu. and at least on my computer, seems to use less memory. DON?

#19 (**permalink**) December 11th, 2001

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Originally posted by Unregistered
How do you know this new "patch" is nor some backdoor to let people into your hard-drive without you knowing? A virus, or some other nasty could be easily wrtten in.. no?

Anyone have an answer for how to watch what is getting pulled, read, or otherwise off your HD?

as a pger, i know the tedious task that was involved here... they wanted it to work, to make a backdoor would be adding functionality which would require source... i imagine they just removed the limitations of the last xolox update... however, you are right in your assumption, it is of course possible, but IMHO improbable. peace.

#20 (**permalink**) December 13th, 2001

Quote:

Originally posted by Unregistered
and at least on my computer, seems to use less memory. DON?

Memory.. No, but less CPU because I NOPped a timer.
(they used different timers for their checks).

DONnerkopf

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