Need a copy of Adobe Photoshop
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Adrenalin

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32 posts

260 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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PetrolTed

34,459 posts

320 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Sorry, can't really be seen to condone software piracy in our forums.

.Mark

11,104 posts

293 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Interesting, joins today, puts no profile info to speak of up, and comes straight out with a request for dodgy software.

Some sort of subversive action taking place, is someone testing PistonHeads???

PetrolTed

34,459 posts

320 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Just did a trace and it came from the NEC! Must be a journo at the Autosport Show. Are you sitting here somewhere?

luca brazzi

3,982 posts

282 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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PetrolTed said:
Just did a trace and it came from the NEC! Must be a journo at the Autosport Show. Are you sitting here somewhere?
Excellent

liszt

4,334 posts

287 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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How do you do a trace like that?

PetrolTed

34,459 posts

320 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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I've got an echo sounder.

_DJ_

5,024 posts

271 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Ted will get the IP address of the clients visiting the web site through the logs. He's also able to trace username -> IP so presumably the site itself logs the information when people log in. When you've got the IP address a reverse lookup will get the name from the IP address (or traceroute to get an idea of the general vicinity).

DJ

>> Edited by _DJ_ on Thursday 8th January 12:37

Plotloss

67,280 posts

287 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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PetrolTed said:
I've got an echo sounder.


and a blue peaked cap, a white beard and a pipe no doubt

Adrenalin

Original Poster:

32 posts

260 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Chaps,

To clear this up, I am not a Journalist working at the Motor Show, or a Law Enforcement Officer attempting to report anybody or for that matter, a person involved in any kind of criminal activity.

Quite simply, I am a Law abiding citizen who is attempting to get hold of a copy of Adobe Photoshop. I have now decided to purchase a copy from a local pc store.

I note however that a number of people using this forum use either Kazaa and other p2p sites and so was just curious as I haven't used these sites before. My understanding after having conducting a little research, is that the majority are compliant with UK law.

Hope that this clears this up.

Regards,

AD

p.s. I emailed Ted stating the above.

.Mark

11,104 posts

293 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Thanks for the explaination. Welcome to PistonHeads - enjoy the ride!

Surely you can understand some cynicism from us here? Perhaps a 'Hello, I've just joined' type post fist?

PS Copy in the post, along with PaintShop Pro, WinXP Pro, and all the top 10 Games titles.

Adrenalin

Original Poster:

32 posts

260 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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Hi Mark,

That would of certainly made sense

Thanks for the welcome.

Regards,

A

simpo two

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282 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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_DJ_ said:
When you've got the IP address a reverse lookup will get the name from the IP address (or traceroute to get an idea of the general vicinity).

When I put an IP number into this site: www.energis.com/service/search.asp I get the name of the ISP. Is that what you mean? Tracing an e-mail to 'Hotmail' isn't much use!

TheHobbit

1,189 posts

268 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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simpo two said:

_DJ_ said:
When you've got the IP address a reverse lookup will get the name from the IP address (or traceroute to get an idea of the general vicinity).


When I put an IP number into this site: www.energis.com/service/search.asp I get the name of the ISP. Is that what you mean? Tracing an e-mail to 'Hotmail' isn't much use!


ah, but in the mail headers, hotmail add an entry that tells you the IP that the mail sender was using when they sent the mail. you can trace this to their ISP.....

The line looks like:

X-Originating-IP: [X.X.X.X]

jam1et

1,536 posts

269 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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This is quite a fun/useful traceroute tool:
[url]http://visualroute.visualware.co.uk[/url]

dontlift

9,396 posts

275 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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I normally use www.dnsstuff.com/ very very useful


BTW Adrenalin you can get older versions of photoshop on cover CD's etc for next to nothing often worth looking as it is fecking expensive, although there is no better tool outthere IMHO

>> Edited by dontlift on Thursday 8th January 15:52

simpo two

89,683 posts

282 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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TheHobbit said:
ah, but in the mail headers, hotmail add an entry that tells you the IP that the mail sender was using when they sent the mail. you can trace this to their ISP.....


OK, so that might lead you to (say) Freeserve. So I suppose all you can do is report spam to them and then they sort it out from there and rap the guys knuckles?

TheHobbit

1,189 posts

268 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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simpo two said:

TheHobbit said:
ah, but in the mail headers, hotmail add an entry that tells you the IP that the mail sender was using when they sent the mail. you can trace this to their ISP.....



OK, so that might lead you to (say) Freeserve. So I suppose all you can do is report spam to them and then they sort it out from there and rap the guys knuckles?


yeah. basically, isps should keep some kind of logs for a short period so that they can trace who had what ip when. they may also log the phone number your modem was calling from at the time. some isps are quite good at responding to spam, others aren't. usual policy is to cut the spammer off if there is sufficient evidence of intended spam, sometimes there are second chances, sometimes not.. it really depends on the isps policy. most publish their policy and acceptable usage policy.

other ways to report spam include registering for a spamcop style account and/or reporting spam to them.

i've performed the role of "abuse master" for the company I work for in the past, and one of our products is an anti-spam product, so if I can answer any questions on this or anti-virus, just shout and I'll *try* my best.

cheers,

karl

_DJ_

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271 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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TheHobbit said:

simpo two said:


TheHobbit said:
ah, but in the mail headers, hotmail add an entry that tells you the IP that the mail sender was using when they sent the mail. you can trace this to their ISP.....




OK, so that might lead you to (say) Freeserve. So I suppose all you can do is report spam to them and then they sort it out from there and rap the guys knuckles?



yeah. basically, isps should keep some kind of logs for a short period so that they can trace who had what ip when. they may also log the phone number your modem was calling from at the time. some isps are quite good at responding to spam, others aren't. usual policy is to cut the spammer off if there is sufficient evidence of intended spam, sometimes there are second chances, sometimes not.. it really depends on the isps policy. most publish their policy and acceptable usage policy.

other ways to report spam include registering for a spamcop style account and/or reporting spam to them.

i've performed the role of "abuse master" for the company I work for in the past, and one of our products is an anti-spam product, so if I can answer any questions on this or anti-virus, just shout and I'll *try* my best.

cheers,

karl


I'd almost agree with that. It's not a short period of time though. Extensive logs are kept. I could probably get the phone numbers of all the lines that were used to call Freeserve over the last year for my account(which is as long as I've had the account). Most ISP's take reports of spam/abusive mail/hacking very seriously and have dedicated teams devoted to dealing with queries. The last thing that an ISP needs is to get blacklisted when one of their customers repeatedly sending spam.

TheHobbit

1,189 posts

268 months

Thursday 8th January 2004
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_DJ_ said:
I'd almost agree with that. It's not a short period of time though. Extensive logs are kept. I could probably get the phone numbers of all the lines that were used to call Freeserve over the last year for my account(which is as long as I've had the account). Most ISP's take reports of spam/abusive mail/hacking very seriously and have dedicated teams devoted to dealing with queries. The last thing that an ISP needs is to get blacklisted when one of their customers repeatedly sending spam.


agreed, but in my experience for every isp that takes it seriously, there are a small collection that don't give a rats ar5e. that said, 99% of UK isps are extremely good... but all the worst spam either comes through compromised pcs in legit places, or from places that really don't care about spam (russia, and large bits of asia for starters).