[GLLUG] putty titlebar

[Caleb Cushing]

very strange.... it seems to have gone away... but I don't like it. it
appears that it might be my windows box that's been comprimized (the one i'm
running putty on)... to soon to tell I think when I get home I need to
review some logs. I've already changed my password for my login from a
different terminal.

On 8/22/06, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
>
>
> Caleb Cushing said:
> > no... it reads a some sort of a DNS hostname.domainname record. but I'm
> > not
> > sure how it determines that. could be localsetting could be forward
> lookup
> > reverse lookup. am I missing anything? how would I determine.
>
> It's possible for a hacked server to lie to you about this.  Xterm allows
> the setting of the title bar, and PuTTy supports this feature.  There's an
> option under the PuTTy Windows settings to control this.
>
> >
> > On 8/22/06, Charles Ulrich < charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> >> > when using putty to ssh where does it get the info from  that's in
> the
> >> > title bar? seems I've been cracked. I need to be more paranoid. but
> >> > first I need to figure out how much damage was caused.
> >>
> >> At a guess, it's probably reading the escape sequences mentioned here:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html
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