Fortres Hack on the Horizon?? (fwd)

[David Atkins]

Hello all,

Below, please find Fortres' answer to the pending hack.  I haven't had
time to implement it myself.

Happy girding,
DA

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David P. Atkins
Electronic Resources Librarian
John C. Hodges Library                            datkins at utk.edu
The University of Tennessee                    me  (423) 974-0014
Knoxville, Tennessee  37996                    fax (423) 974-9242
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:34:11 -0500
From: Technical Support <support at fortres.com>
To: David Atkins <atkins at aztec.lib.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: Fortres Hack on the Horizon?? (fwd)

David,
To protect the Fortres101 password files, please read the below information.
Instructions are sorted by version.

Fortres101 v4.0
   1)  Add the following Privileged application: C:\FGC\APPMGR.EXE
   2)  Give it access to APPMGR.SET and APPMGR.NET
   3)   On the General File Protect page, add APPMGR.SET and APPMGR.NET to
the Do Not Run list.  NOTE: make sure you either have all drives synced or
specifically choose drive C:\ first.

Fortres101 v3.0
   1)  Add the following Privileged Application: C:\FORTRES.101\FORTRES.EXE
   2)  Give it access to *.FG3
   3)  Add *.FG3 to the Do Not Run list on the Execution page of Fortres.

Fortres101 v2.5
   1)  Add the following Privileged Application: C:\FORTRES.101\FORTRES.EXE
to both No Registry Restrictions and No Disk Restrictions.
   2)  Add FSET to the Do Not Run list on the Execution page of Fortres.




Please let me know if you have any further questions.  Because of the high
volume of email to which we respond, please leave all of the previous
message (unless it's unbearable) in your reply so we can better remember
your original message.

Aaron T. Kaminski
Fortres Grand Corporation
Technical Support

Phone:   1.800.331.0372 x 231 (219.935.3868)
Fax:       1.800.882.4381 (219.935.3869)
Web:      http://www.fortres.com
E-mail:    support at fortres.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Atkins <atkins at aztec.lib.utk.edu>
To: Support <support at fortres.com>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 12:07 PM
Subject: Fortres Hack on the Horizon?? (fwd)


> Hello Fortres,
>
> I posted the below message to the web4lib listserv.  Are you all aware of
> this coming hack?  What preparations do you recommend?
>
> DA
>
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> David P. Atkins
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> John C. Hodges Library                            datkins at utk.edu
> The University of Tennessee                    me  (423) 974-0014
> Knoxville, Tennessee  37996                    fax (423) 974-9242
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
> From: David Atkins <atkins at aztec.lib.utk.edu>
> To: web4lib <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Fortres Hack on the Horizon??
>
> Hey all you Fortres 101 users.
>
> Check out http://www.confine.com/st0rmer/information.html for information
> concerning a Fortres password cracking application due out in a month or
> so.  Pretty wild.
>
> DA
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> David P. Atkins
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> John C. Hodges Library                            datkins at utk.edu
> The University of Tennessee                    me  (423) 974-0014
> Knoxville, Tennessee  37996                    fax (423) 974-9242
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