disguising Linux as winblow$

[asymblor]

greetings fellow penguinistas,

While browsing the net I came across a site: http://onion-router.nrl.navy.mil
that had some links to pages that would run a scan on ur box that told you what browser ur using, o/s, screen res, memory etc I was wondering how this was done (or what the process is technically called)how it is accomplished and if theres any way to fool such a process? i.e. having it think my Linux sys is actually a win system?

Thanx for any help,

andrew a.k.a asymblor

-=LONG LIVE TUX=-

p.s. I don't want explicit info just a start 8-) so I can learn to do it myself.

[ph34r]

Not sure about memory, but for screen res/color depth, os, browser, etc. you can do it thru javascript.
http://cisit.santafe.cc.fl.us/~sjensen/screen/

Also, you can prolly do a lot more than the sample I whipped up with java.

[asymblor]

I appreciate that info but what I was asking is how can I fool a site or say a operating system scanner into thinking im running a different o/s than Linux or what part of my Linux o/s or netscape browser is responsible for giving out information on the version of operating system and various other tidbits that snoopy sites try gathering from your system?

asymblor

[Molecule Man]

Opera can do it. It depends on certain tag generated by the http request. I think you can find more about it on www.netcraft.com (http://www.netcraft.com)