Is Earth Station 5 an "abnormal" P2P alternative?

[PMS chick]

A few questions for the experts:

I went through the trouble of installing E.S.5, and discovered the
following strange things:


1.
Why does ES5 need so many ports?

Facts:
ES5 needs so many ports opened up at the router and the user has no
control over changing the port numbers. Does anybody guess why the
application needs more than 2 ports?

Or do you know of any other applications using the same port numbers?
The fact that there is no flexibility built into ES5 could simply be a
poor design.


2.
Is there a decent Internet backbone connectivity in Gaza?

Facts:
I'm highly familiar with Israel, know many people there etc. It is more
than unlikely that Gaza or the Westbank have any decent connection to a
major Internet backbone which could supply the bandwidth to support such
an endeavor. Does anybody have better information than my sources?


3.
Can anybody verify the address of the company?

Facts:
Checking the Whois for earthstation5.com used to reveal some address in
Gaza.
Neither myself nor any of my friends in Israel are permitted to travel in
Gaza. Anybody with the rights to travel into Gaza, can they add any
insights to the address?

3.
Did anybody store the original information reported by netsol.com?

Facts:
The Whois has now been disabled. Strange or not?



4.
The "company info" on the www.earthstation5.com


Facts:
Reading through the hilarious story of the "employees at ES 5" made me
(not really) use Kleenex tissues.
Any opinions?
AFAIK the Middle East rather well, it is all to strange, and I am missing
the typical mistake made in either "Hebrew-English" or "Arabic-English"



5.
No real P2P sources are available

Facts:
Not even searching for very popular items revealed any significant
download sources. I used "Madonna", "Puff Daddy" etc.




Needless to say I disabled the ports on my router, cleaned the installed
files and directories to the best of my knowledge etc. And: I used it
on my non production computer in the first place.



Hope to hear many more interpretations from you.

c.u. (or not) either way

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"PMS chick" <ngpetra-mue@gmx.de> wrote in message
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In regards to your questions, I may have posted it all in a below thread and what I did
not fill in, others ferreting will..it seems all the IP's are from 1 MS source or
another..strange..not really since MS and the RIAA are working together(more $$ for both)
to throttle the P2P into their private domain, more "Pigolopolists" are helping another..

did you check and clean your registry of all references to Excalibur???
(not hidden in start up as I found with Magic Tweak, was not shown in a standard view)...

Also Freeweb is also a bit intriguing too since I am not broadcasting anything to their
servers after 4 weeks since deinstalling, why they keep probing for a custom port I
configured???


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Come Visit Florida, Where the Speed Limits
are just MERE a Suggestion....
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Yes..but did you do a back trace orn the IP's also???


"Malev" <malev@selamer.com> wrote in message
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| On 7 Jul 2003 00:46:16 GMT, PMS chick <ngpetra-mue@gmx.de> wrote:
|
| >
| >Facts:
| >The Whois has now been disabled. Strange or not?
| >
| >
| >
| inetnum: 213.152.100.0 - 213.152.101.255
| netname: EARTHSTATIONV
| descr: Peer to Peer Ebay Web Pages
| country: PS
| admin-c: RAS9905-RIPE
| tech-c: NKA9905-RIPE
| status: ASSIGNED PA
| notify: admin@earthstationv.com
| remarks: Speednet's #2002122740
| mnt-by: SPEEDNET-MNT
| mnt-routes: EARTHSV-MNT
| mnt-lower: EARTHSV-MNT
| changed: speednet@email.com 20021231
| source: RIPE
|
| route: 213.152.100.0/24
| descr: Earthstationv
| origin: AS25276
| mnt-by: SPEEDNET-MNT
| changed: speednet@email.com 20030225
| source: RIPE
|
| person: Ras Kabir
| address: 121 Gaza
| address: Gaza, Palestine
| phone: +972 673 51065
| fax-no: +972 673 51065
| e-mail: raskabir@gaza.net
| nic-hdl: RAS9905-RIPE
| changed: raskabir@gaza.net 20021119
| source: RIPE
|
| person: Nasser Kabir
| address: 121 Gasa
| address: Gaza, Palestine
| phone: +972 673 51065
| fax-no: +972 673 51065
| e-mail: raskabir@gaza.net
| nic-hdl: NKA9905-RIPE
| changed: raskabir@gaza.net 20021119
| source: RIPE
|
|
|
|

[Anon]

I must admit to being confused about references to spyware in ES5 called
Excalibur. Adaware, spybot, TDS-3 and etrust virus scan showed zilch after
several test installs of this program. Nothing in my win98 startup -
although I didn't tick run at start up in ES5.

Then I scanned the registry. Excalibur appears to be the name given to ES5
for its registered componants. It is NOT the same as the Excalibur trojan
which locates itself into the registry run services. The registry entries
relate to ES5 program settings and don't look particularly unusual.

As far as I can tell those claiming ES5 is installing the spyware program
Excalibur (which is actually a trojan) are talking bollocks of the highest
order.

[Secret]

"Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
news:B8kOa.4588$YS.36217927@news-text.cableinet.net
|| I must admit to being confused about references to spyware in ES5
|| called Excalibur. Adaware, spybot, TDS-3 and etrust virus scan
|| showed zilch after several test installs of this program. Nothing in
|| my win98 startup - although I didn't tick run at start up in ES5.
||
|| Then I scanned the registry. Excalibur appears to be the name given
|| to ES5 for its registered componants. It is NOT the same as the
|| Excalibur trojan which locates itself into the registry run
|| services. The registry entries relate to ES5 program settings and
|| don't look particularly unusual.
||
|| As far as I can tell those claiming ES5 is installing the spyware
|| program Excalibur (which is actually a trojan) are talking bollocks
|| of the highest order.

Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to see if
anything was missed and let us know.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
---------------
Secret

[Anon]

Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.


> Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to see if
> anything was missed and let us know.
> http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
> ---------------
> Secret
>
>
>

[Anon]

Also tried the Cleaner trojan detector. Still no Excalibur.

So to recap, three installs of ES5 including full and beta versions, no
Excalibur showed up with scans of :

Etrust anti virus
Panda online anti virus
TDS 3 anti trojan
The Cleaner anti trojan
Spybot
Adaware

The only references in my registry with 'Excalibur' are related to ES5
functions. No reference in the run services key where the trojan Excalibur
would put an entry. No start up reference to Excalibur unless load with
windows specified.

I suspect they originally called the program Excalibur, then realised a
trojan existed by the same name, renamed it ES5 but didn't bother
reprogramming the registry entries.

"Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
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> Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.
>
>
> > Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to see if
> > anything was missed and let us know.
> > http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
> > ---------------
> > Secret
> >
> >
> >
>
>

[Secret]

"Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
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|| Also tried the Cleaner trojan detector. Still no Excalibur.
||
|| So to recap, three installs of ES5 including full and beta versions,
|| no Excalibur showed up with scans of :
||
|| Etrust anti virus
|| Panda online anti virus
|| TDS 3 anti trojan
|| The Cleaner anti trojan
|| Spybot
|| Adaware
||
|| The only references in my registry with 'Excalibur' are related to
|| ES5 functions. No reference in the run services key where the trojan
|| Excalibur would put an entry. No start up reference to Excalibur
|| unless load with windows specified.
||
|| I suspect they originally called the program Excalibur, then
|| realised a trojan existed by the same name, renamed it ES5 but
|| didn't bother reprogramming the registry entries.
||
|| "Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
|| news:GFAOa.5208$Hf.41451646@news-text.cableinet.net...
||| Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.
|||
|||
|||| Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to
|||| see if anything was missed and let us know.
|||| http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
|||| ---------------
|||| Secret

Another possibility the Trojan is added at some point while using the
program, maybe when you enter a profile for the dating service or one of the
other features. Maybe even after a download so you do not notice the file
transfer.
--------------
Secret

[Anon]

There is no trojan. The entry on startup for Excalibur only appears when I
set 'run ES5 on startup'. There is still no sypware or trojan on my system.

It just looks like Excalibur was the name given to the program originally,
then they changed it to ES5 but didn't alter the registry settings.


"Secret" <sendtosecret@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:befd5a$4jsc4$1@ID-131552.news.dfncis.de...
> "Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
> news:xLFOa.5588$pY2.44370016@news-text.cableinet.net
> || Also tried the Cleaner trojan detector. Still no Excalibur.
> ||
> || So to recap, three installs of ES5 including full and beta versions,
> || no Excalibur showed up with scans of :
> ||
> || Etrust anti virus
> || Panda online anti virus
> || TDS 3 anti trojan
> || The Cleaner anti trojan
> || Spybot
> || Adaware
> ||
> || The only references in my registry with 'Excalibur' are related to
> || ES5 functions. No reference in the run services key where the trojan
> || Excalibur would put an entry. No start up reference to Excalibur
> || unless load with windows specified.
> ||
> || I suspect they originally called the program Excalibur, then
> || realised a trojan existed by the same name, renamed it ES5 but
> || didn't bother reprogramming the registry entries.
> ||
> || "Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
> || news:GFAOa.5208$Hf.41451646@news-text.cableinet.net...
> ||| Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.
> |||
> |||
> |||| Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to
> |||| see if anything was missed and let us know.
> |||| http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
> |||| ---------------
> |||| Secret
>
> Another possibility the Trojan is added at some point while using the
> program, maybe when you enter a profile for the dating service or one of
the
> other features. Maybe even after a download so you do not notice the file
> transfer.
> --------------
> Secret
>
>
>