“To help stop the spread of worms, viruses, and other hostile activity, it is important to track down and report the servers used in these attacks along with those used to send spam. Many Web admins, however, don’t take the time to track them because the manual process can be quite cumbersome. The Microsoft .NET Framework comes to the rescue with several networking classes, including the Dns class and the TcpClient class, that abstract away the complexity of performing DNS and WHOIS lookups. These classes make it easy to create a simple, straightforward ASP.NET-based utility for performing these lookups and automating this very important task.” Read the article at MSDN.
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I can see how reporting an attack makes the spreading of the worm a bit less effective but that does not create a ‘virus-resistant’ application at all. It’s not by looking up what was the hostname of the attacker that the application will be safe.
The original article title was better, but the title used here is IMNSHO unjustified buzzword.
Uh, I dont things that preforming DNS/Whois lookups make your App Virus resitant .. I mean if it did then everone would have PortSpy installed and i would be rich
Secondly i think that useing .net to do simple dns/whois lookup is a masiv overkill.
I gess this was just a promo by the smart people over at msdn to show how kewl it is that they have built in networking. Oh my, what a tech advance that is, i just must go out and download a copy today.
Hmm, i gess i didn’t take that too well
to bad
The more of .Net i see, the more REBOL makes sense…
DNS: read dns://www.rebol.com
Whois: read whois://[email protected]
Finger: read finger://[email protected]
Time: read daytime://10.5.5.2
SMTP: send [email protected] “some spam”
POP: read pop://user:[email protected]
HTTP: read http://www.rebol.com
Sometimes people actually design languages that make sense and are a joy to work with…
Secondly i think that useing .net to do simple dns/whois lookup is a masiv overkill.
I think, as the article states, that the primary reason this is a fairly big deal is that Windows’ support for dns/whois was rather poor before the .Net framework.
Of course, I think the examples they give are rather poor, though simple enough to give someone a decent overview of the functions (of course doing it in VB clutters things a little as usual). For example, a program that monitors the server log for known attack signatures and/or possible attack signatures and sends an alert to the administrators with the dns and whois information as well as the original log entry would be much more useful, and is quite possible.
..I am afraid that .NET will -really- open the pandora box of the Internet Virus era.
ooh lets take advice from microsoft on how to design virus resistant software. just think, some day i could release software just as secure as internet explorer or outlook express.
One more of these pointless .NET articles and I’ll stop reading OSNews.
Be my guest. OSNews is here to publish dev articles for all OSes and platforms, not only the alternative one, but MAINLY the Windows platform, simply because they are not “alternative”, but “standard”. If you do not like it, I suggest you visit the 100% “alternative” news sites, like newsforge or linuxjournal instead.
I do understand that this site has to write about Windows too, but .NET is not windows, and this small feature in .NET is not directly related to Windows, nor is it in this case remotely interesting.
If this was a developer-site then that article would be in the right place. But it’s not.
When was the last time you wrote about small wonderful features in Perl, Rebol, C++ etc? Or various API’s? Right..
If you are going to post something unrelated, then post something interesting and new. That was my point.
I did not say that you should stop writing about Windows, I’d actually like to know what’s happening with my “enemy”. But since you are an intelligent person, you should have a clue about what’s interesting and what’s not, from the readers perspective.
Sorry to make such a big deal out of this. But I’m just so tired of the “big players” getting a lot of interest from the press just because they are big players, not because they have something interesting to say.
> but .NET is not windows
No, but .NET is the NEXT BIG thing in operating systems platforms (please refer to my .NET editorial). It is the next step FOR windows and not only just for windows. Ms has bet their asses on it. Therefore, it 100% _more_ relevant than Windows itself.
> nor is it in this case remotely interesting.
I can give you that. It is plainly personal taste if someone likes an article or not.
> If this was a developer-site then that article would be in the right place. But it’s not.
Oh, you are SO wrong. This web site IS NOT only about dryily reporting on some news. IT IS about development. In fact, I feel that I haven’t publish as many dev-only articles on osnews yet as I would like to, while this was on the scope of the original target when I got to OSNews. DEVELOPMENT ARTICLES are 100% relevant for osnews and they will be here for ever and ever. You forget that I am a developer myself.
> you should have a clue about what’s interesting and what’s not, from the readers perspective.
Windows (and other dev articles from other OSes) will continue to arise on osnews. This site is not just a news site. It was my goal since day 1 to include dev articles over here.
I did not see you whining on the (also highly dev) Altivec article, but you DO whine on the .NET article. YOU get a clue.
> not because they have something interesting to say.
I found that article interesting that’s why I linked it. You didn’t. Next news item please.
> No, but .NET is the NEXT BIG thing in operating systems platforms
This can be argued, really. I don’t know how you can be so sure about such a thing. But I won’t discuss it since it has nothing to do with my point really.
> This web site IS NOT only about dryily reporting on some news. IT IS about development.
OK then. I thought it was a site about operating systems, but I guess I was wrong then. My mistake. I’d like some more indepth articles about development then please.
> I did not see you whining on the (also highly dev) Altivec article, but you DO whine on the .NET article. YOU get a clue.
No, that’s mainly because I rarely whine these days. But sometimes I get fed up, and feel like I have to make a comment. I was a bad comment in this case, not very constructive. My apologies. But I tried to explain my point in the second post.
It has nothing to do with the article being about MS technology, if you had posted a link to an article about Rebol’s whois and DNS implementations, I would have thought it was just as bad. Not that anyone would care enough to write a whole article about that, because it’s not very exciting.