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No real surprise in all of this, tbh. ~15 years of writing AV stuff getting me absolutely nowhere, and I got burned out, hence pulling the plug. I've said this many times, but there needs to be a centralized database that vendors pull their info from. The next step is seeing which AV vendor can write the most efficient detection algorithm. The only thing I brought table with my project was a bare minimum standard of efficiency. The result was this:

1 Dependency installer
No further "installation" needed
Comprehensive databases (Whitelist, blacklist, port list, API calls, filenames/sizes (forensic blacklist/whitelist), default install paths - ~400 million unique matches)
Fast data access times (only limited by hardware and internet latency 0/0000-F/FFFF hash database format @ avg 220 bytes per file, 17GB overall)
Small frontend with low overhead (5MB package size, ~2MB overhead)

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And sauce - https://www.planet-source-code...
This particular industry is indeed a popularity contest. At this juncture, I can at least prove I know what I'm talking about.

• Codase
  
• Koders
  
• Planet Source Code
  

I can see why Slashdot doesn't allow post editing or retraction, but sometimes it would be nice.

... but imagine the trolling possibilities if they did :-)

Back on-topic - I would hope that mssql also has a default limit that's reasonable. If not, forgetting to spec a LIMIT would be pretty fatal to any server that has a lot of records.

... well, I googled for "mssql select query limit rows", and it looks like its mostly people trying to find ways to immitate myslq's limit, like here: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowC ode.asp?txtCodeId=850&lngWId=5, and finding that what works in case x doesn't in case y.

And the second hit was "Microsoft SQL Server: how to make mysql's LIMIT m,n function in Ms-sql" Oh, well.

I have a little PHP script that I use whenever I get a phishing email...

Post it on Planet Source Code -- thousands of people could be using it tomorrow.

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowC ode.asp?lngWId=4&txtCodeId=6312 with a client-side VB Script (took me some time to find this, but it does exist). Might be IE specific though...not sure.

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowC ode.asp?lngWId=4&txtCodeId=6312 with a client-side VB Script (took me some time to find this, but it does exist). Might be IE specific though...not sure. As for it being trivial to change- well it's rather trivial to delete a tracking cookie also. But which is a luser more likely to know how to do? Hit "clear cookies" in IE or change their MAC address?

Go client side with the coding and return it as a CGI variable in the login script: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowC ode.asp?lngWId=4&txtCodeId=6312

I was just thinking off the top of my head- but as it turns out while you can't do it in JavaScript, if your site is IE based anyway you CAN do it in client-side VB script (http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/Show Code.asp?lngWId=4&txtCodeId=6312). As for the MAC spoofing part- you're not going to be perfect, but hey, it's easy to delete a tracking cookie too.

Rentacoder
Its from the same people that run planet source code
I cant see any requirement for GPL though.

Here is some code that supposedly decomplies... not that I've tried it.

Quote from the FAQ:

[35.4] How can I decompile an executable program back into C++ source code?

You gotta be kidding, right?

Here are a few of the many reasons this is not even remotely feasible:
* What makes you think the program was written in C++ to begin with?
* Even if you are sure it was originally written (at least partially) in C++,
which one of the gazillion C++ compilers produced it?
* Even if you know the compiler, which particular version of the compiler was
used?
* Even if you know the compiler's manufacturer and version number, what
compile-time options were used?
* Even if you know the compiler's manufacturer and version number and
compile-time options, what third party libraries were linked-in, and what
was their version?
* Even if you know all that stuff, most executables have had their debugging
information stripped out, so the resulting decompiled code will be totally
unreadable.
* Even if you know everything about the compiler, manufacturer, version
number, compile-time options, third party libraries, and debugging
information, the cost of writing a decompiler that works with even one
particular compiler and has even a modest success rate at generating code
would be significant -- on the par with writing the compiler itself from
scratch.

But the biggest question is not how you can decompile someone's code, but why
do you want to do this? If you're trying to reverse-engineer someone else's
code, shame on you; go find honest work. If you're trying to recover from
losing your own source, the best suggestion I have is to make better backups
next time.

Davak

An AMEX Card has 15 numbers, and is always in the following format:

• 37XX XXXXXX XXXXC

The first two digits are alwys 37 for AMEX, and the last digit is a LUHN10 checksum (I wrote some groovy code in VB to calculate this). That makes 10^12 possible valid card numbers.

Another dirty secret is that several online Credit Card processors don't actually check expiration dates, so that elminates the possibility of using it to allow for duplicate assingments.