[pchelpers] Re: (no subject)

All I know is I was told back in '99 that the printer port can be used 
as doorway to hack into someone's computer because like COM1- 4 it is a 
communications port.

Lexmark has spyware on my system that is constantly trying to phone 
home. I would like to find the offending file and rename or delete it.

Tonight when I made a rule stopping my computer from communicating with 
a Lexmark site that I didn't tell it to go to, I got a lot of ICMP and 
UDP activity from that site.

The SpoofStick for Firefox told me that, while I thought I was at 
Toast.net, the site I was looking at was really IM2COOL.COM.

What it all means I don't know. I thought you guys could tell me.

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John Durham wrote:

>Secure it? The only place anyone can gain access to the things on your 
>LPT1 port is your own PC, or a fastlynx connection on it. All such stuff 
>is directly under your control. I have never heard of this before. Could 
>you describe it a little more please?
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