TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Today my norton personal firewall has told me the attached message. Its in swedish though so here is a translation (hope its correct in english) A computer with the adress 127.0.0.1 sent information looking like the information in the attack: Raq_apache_dot_htaccess What does it mean and mostly what can i do about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I have gotten this error sevaral times when working with htaccess. If you want to duplicate it try searching for ".htaccess" without the qoutes. I have had it happen searching the forums and google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 It would appear when working (or possibly just loading?) an htaccess file, it can trigger NIS to think there's an attack. All I could find was I've got an attack called Raq_Apache_dot_htaccess which mentions the same scenario. Since the vulnerability Raq_apache_dot_htaccess is specific to antiquated cobalt servers, you shouldn't have any concerns. Were you working on your htaccess files per chance, today? [edited by D. Scott Demmin: changed the link text to be more descriptive ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 when working with htaccess Thanks Dick, unfortunately Im lost. I dont work with htaccess. Last time i did that was months ago when setting up an errorpage after some tips here. But no htaccesswork on those things after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 Addition: I keep an eye on norton for a while (was reading what Big Gorilla suggested i should read) and it doesnt look too emergency. Now if i could only figure out if he bribes some search engine since i didnt find that page when searching for Raq_apache_dot_htaccess through google and when seeing 127... i paniced. Thank BG and TCH-Dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Now if i could only figure out if he bribes some search engine It's all about the magic banana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 Hey, come on... where did you get that banana..please please please? Ive seen it in other places but no where to download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Ive seen it in other places but no where to download it. Thomas, download it right here. Right click on it and do a "Save picture as" using IE6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 Ok, I didnt wanna steal, so i thought with "please please please", he might tell. Thanks Bruce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEO Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Monkey Guru does love his nanners.... especially the 'magic' ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Yea... what bruce said. As far as I know that image is freely distributable (but I'm working on confirming that by trying to find it's original source). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 (edited) Hey BG! Can Thomas snatch your dancing banana graphic? ^^ You beat my asking! Edited February 6, 2004 by TCH-Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 127.0.0.1 is known as the "loopback" connection. Is is used to test the network connect to your OWN PC. When you connect to it you are actually ON the PC you started out from . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 To Madmancp (or anyone) When you connect to it you are actually ON the PC you started out from That means I do surf from my own computer? To Big Gorilla Thanks, those bananas were tasty. To Bruce Im a big boy (atleast last time i looked at my id-card, even if my site tries to say something else) so i can ask next time. But for this time, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 To BruceIm a big boy (atleast last time i looked at my id-card, even if my site tries to say something else) so i can ask next time. But for this time, thanks. Thomas, all in jest. Hoping I didn't offend you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 No worries. Thanks for asking BG though. Have a nice weekend everyone. (Ok, Im gonna post same in open discussions, so no accusing of crossposting please). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted February 18, 2004 Author Share Posted February 18, 2004 I figured out when the warning for "Raq_apache_dot_htaccess" appears now, its when i enter these forums. Anything I should submit a ticket for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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