17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
That person asks that I post instructions for recovering from so heinous an attack. All I can suggest is escaping to a shell and doing a 'clear' (or, under MS-DOS, 'cls').
I have found that some attacks that leave your screen doing strange things can be recoverd from by ussing the talk command. This program, on UNIX machines seems to reset alot of things that might have gone array with your screen.
If you hit the control button with both mouse buttons at the same time in twm(an X windows manager) there pops up a menu--choose the 'reset terminal' option. Ben. Who's not signing cause the DEC Rainbow he's using to dial in isn't secure.