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Submission + - Yahoo Tracking me? 1

Submitted by
ashraya
ashraya writes: "In the recent times, everytime I login to Yahoo! from a new location or computer, Yahoo will reject my userid and password, even if they are correct, and prompt me again for the same, along with the captcha. Only if I get the captcha right, I get to login. Once this is done on a computer, I can login without the captcha everytime. This is not cookies, since I clear the cookies everytime I close the browser, and this behaviour is not repeated — this happens only when I change systems, and try it from a PC from where I have never logged on.

How is Yahoo! tracking me? Why? I provide the userid/password correct, it should log me in irrespective of my location, or is there any other reason?

Ashraya"

Comment Some Answers to the questions asked here... (Score 5, Interesting) 491

by ashraya (#28979419) Attached to: How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet?
A good many replies here - so I will answer a few questions that have been asked.

1. For this time, I assumed the systems were owned, and they have now been rebuild (Windows Reinstalled).
2. The Linksys is re-secured - but I hadnt thought of that being owned - so I have to now do a firmware upgrade on that - Thanks for the suggestion.
3. Other suggestions are to confirm botnet or sniff traffic - I am in the UK, and I can only do so much remotely.
4. One of the quesions was how I managed to remote into the windows hosts - No, I managed to remote into the Linksys, not the windows hosts.
5. The bizzarre situation in the Windows host before it was rebuilt was that if we did (I told the commands over the phone for my dad to execute) ping or traceroute to a destination like www.google.co.in, it would work. It would resolve the right IP. However, with any of the browsers, as soon as access to a site was attempted - We would get a message "Connection Reset" or the browsers equivalent. (Firefox, Chrome and IE tried). Has anyone seen that one before?
6. Another question asked was if the Windows in question was legit - Yes, I bought him a OEM XP the last time I was there and installed it.

Regards,
Ashraya
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Submission + - How do I detect if I am part of a botnet

Submitted by ashraya
ashraya writes: My father (Not too computer literate) has a desktop and a laptop both running windows in his network back in Hyderabad, India. I set up a Linksys router for him to use with his broadband service. For some reason, he reset the config on the Linksys, and connected it up without Wireless security, and also with the default admin password for some time. As you would expect, both the windows computers got 'slow', and the desktop stopped connecting to internet completely for some reason. As I logged in remotely to 'fix' things — I noticed on the linksys log that the laptop was making seemingly random connections to high numbered ports on various IPs. I did a nslookup on the IPs to see that they were all either in Canada or US, with comcast and other ISP addresses.

Is that a sign that the computers were in a botnet? Are the other hosts part of the botnet too?

I have since rebuilt the windows hosts, and this connections are not happening now. I have also secured the Linksys.

Comment Brilliant & Dangerous - Use it to your advanta (Score 1) 1134

by ashraya (#27210403) Attached to: Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous?
15 years back, When I was younger, I would have probably fallen into that category. However, I had an ingenious manager who turned it into the companys advantage - He assigned and encouraged others to work around me, and do the mundane things around / for me, so that as a team we were successful. Eventually, he taught me to work within a structure, and not feel that structures limit productivity.
I am very grateful to him, and today when I see some one like that, I try to emulate that formula. Works sometimes.

Ashraya

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