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You may find this interesting, I liked your reply
"It undoubtedly helps that I am not using Windows (just why that helps is a separate debate). That to me is basic common sense combined with a few minutes of Googling." - by causality (777677) on Friday April 23, @11:45AM (#31956250)
Windows can be secured, & here's how, for "bulletproof & bugfree operation", especially over "the long haul" & I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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Fact is, what you're saying?
It is the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).
(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))
It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:
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"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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Calling me "mindless"? Ok, done better than this??
"I've also seen your mindless threads" - by sopssa (1498795) * on Sunday April 18, @02:46PM (#31888872)
Calling me mindless now (more name tossing), ok: Show me, show us all reading, that you've done more in this art & science than I have (which *might* start to earn you the right of stating I am "mindless"):
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)
APK
P.S.=> Additionally, vs. what you said here, in your starting of trolling of myself -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31755996
(Where you noted the MEMORY OPTIMIZATION HOAX by Dr. Mark Russinovich (now of Microsoft, & a former "colleague" of mine as we both worked for Sunbelt in the mid to late 1990s no less, who actually THANKED ME via email, for showing him that he HARDCODED (rookie error no less, from a PHD) paths to registry hives and event logs in his pagedefrag.exe app)) ?
You had better take a peek @ what REALLY occurred there @ Windows IT Pro:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1621832&cid=31889042
(So, sopssa: How does it taste, eating YOUR OWN WORDS, troll? "The bitter taste of defeat"?? You deserve it, for trying to make me look poorly here, and being way, Way, WAY OFF on your part, as per usual!)... apk
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Agreed to SOME extent but, Windows can be hardened
"His OS is used 90% of US computers, including military ones. And it security holes you could sail an aircraft carrier through. " - by peter303 (12292) on Wednesday April 07, @11:56AM (#31762284)
It CAN BE SECURITY-HARDENED though, with about 1-2 hours of effort (mostly automated too), see below: but, as you note? MS also ship a security hardened model to the US gov't. &/or military + have done so a couple times over the years (iirc, last year & in 2002 too). They ought to to everyone else too! However, you CAN do it yourself, fairly easily too...
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"MicroSoft has been more diligent about security lately. But the damage has already been done." - by peter303 (12292) on Wednesday April 07, @11:56AM (#31762284)
Again - They have been, but, they also ship a security hardened model to the US gov't. &/or military + have done so a couple times over the years (iirc, last year & in 2002 too).
In fact? Your point's the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).
(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))
I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:
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"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try th
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110% agreed, & here's how to NOT be "weak"
"Virus and malware attacks provoke some immune response, but if we are to become strong something must weed out the weak." - by couchslug (175151) on Wednesday April 07, @12:08PM (#31762428)
110% agreed, I agree, wholeheartedly, which is the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).
(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))
I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:
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"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"Its 2009 - still tro
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110% agreed, & here's how to NOT be "weak"
"Virus and malware attacks provoke some immune response, but if we are to become strong something must weed out the weak." - by couchslug (175151) on Wednesday April 07, @12:08PM (#31762428)
110% agreed, I agree, wholeheartedly, which is the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).
(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))
I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:
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"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"Its 2009 - still tro
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For regular folks, & end nodes in networks
"Therefore, we need to understand what cyber war is, to learn how and why it works, to analyze its risks, to prepare for it, and to think about how to control it." - By Richard A. Clarke, Network World April 07, 2010 08:07 AM ET
And, from the poster I am replying to:
"As nearly anyone working on the "front lines" of security will tell you, most companies don't really care about security past some low level of lip service. Corporate networks [nearly] always have firewalls, but most of the time the IT staff is paid to care more about restricting employees from 'wasting company time' than in managing advanced multi-level defenses (why most networks are 'crunch on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside.') Equipment and software vendors provide password level security, often with authentication integration into LDAP/AD, but rarely support real tokens or PKI's backed by an HSM, as most companies don't want to pay for a real HSM (and with post dot bomb price escalation, that's often understandable - $40k for a 1U server with layered tamper switches and a custom app?) CSO's are treated as a cost center along with the rest of IT, and its often the policy to force people to keep quiet when major breaches occur. Its simpler and cheaper to make sure the board and stockholders don't know how often the databases and repositories are exported to FTP sites in China than to actually make it really difficult to succeed, as real security often costs real money. There's a whole underground industry of targeted penetration, as ethics and patriotism fall to greed - the underlying problems are far deeper than basic "cybersecurity".by kbonin (58917) on Wednesday April 07, @12:03PM (#31762376) Homepag
110% agreed, so I've tried to do my part, since 1997 (however, more currently + far, Far, FAR MORE in its latest iteration) by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok:
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it
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For regular folks, & end nodes in networks
"Therefore, we need to understand what cyber war is, to learn how and why it works, to analyze its risks, to prepare for it, and to think about how to control it." - By Richard A. Clarke, Network World April 07, 2010 08:07 AM ET
And, from the poster I am replying to:
"As nearly anyone working on the "front lines" of security will tell you, most companies don't really care about security past some low level of lip service. Corporate networks [nearly] always have firewalls, but most of the time the IT staff is paid to care more about restricting employees from 'wasting company time' than in managing advanced multi-level defenses (why most networks are 'crunch on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside.') Equipment and software vendors provide password level security, often with authentication integration into LDAP/AD, but rarely support real tokens or PKI's backed by an HSM, as most companies don't want to pay for a real HSM (and with post dot bomb price escalation, that's often understandable - $40k for a 1U server with layered tamper switches and a custom app?) CSO's are treated as a cost center along with the rest of IT, and its often the policy to force people to keep quiet when major breaches occur. Its simpler and cheaper to make sure the board and stockholders don't know how often the databases and repositories are exported to FTP sites in China than to actually make it really difficult to succeed, as real security often costs real money. There's a whole underground industry of targeted penetration, as ethics and patriotism fall to greed - the underlying problems are far deeper than basic "cybersecurity".by kbonin (58917) on Wednesday April 07, @12:03PM (#31762376) Homepag
110% agreed, so I've tried to do my part, since 1997 (however, more currently + far, Far, FAR MORE in its latest iteration) by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok:
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
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"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it
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WoW: U.R. Right on 1 thing, for sure (not joking)!
"Actions speak louder than words" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Tuesday April 06, @06:05PM (#31754900)
You're right, & in my case especially (vs. your "mere words" whilst you post on
Well, here, instead of wasting time as you clearly do here??
I instead:
1.) Make monies
2.) Am further educating myself (heading way, Way, WAY past the A.A.S. degree level now this year, after a long absence from academia in fact, in CSC credits heading WELL into the B.S. range (92/120 done here in fact, after this semester, & in the last 2 semesters?? I have "batted off" 4 A's of 8 classes in that major no less!
(That's really not a "huge trick" for myself, as I have been actually working in this field for 16++ yrs. now as a pro, but, still work (& yes, I am actually learning stuff too, bonus!))).
And, living a decent & happy life!
So, that "all said & aside"... Yes, actions DO speak louder than your ALL DAY LONG - NO JOB WORDS POSTING ON
I'll provide the example (try it sometime):
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)
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ADDITIONALLY - Despite your calling me a malware maker & what not?
I have written the most comprehensive Windows NT-based OS security guide there is online, and even got PAID for it no less, in its current version built in late 2007, as my New Year's Resolution of "do the right thing" & pay it forward... (&, the FIRST SECURITY GUIDE FOR WINDOWS afaik, back in 19
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Do it, I will countersue for your LIBELLING me
See subject-line above - because you've been LIBELLING ME HERE, rampantly, & pursuing me thru 3 diff. exchanges I was having with others (go for it):
First of all - Tell us if YOU, or Thor Schmuck (your "credible reliable reputable source" etc. (not)), actually possess degrees around the art & science of computing (or any really, I am curious on this account).
This is to see if you are this "expert" you seem to THINK you are. I already KNOW you haven't done anything of good note int his field in written respected publications, so that much is taken care of in that regard.
Ask your "Credible Source", Thor Schmuck, if he also lists PING.EXE (because it can or could do a PING OF DEATH), or if he lists SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY on his list (because it alters the HOSTS file, & CA says "that's bad", but, funny they don't list Spybot S&D either, eh?)
I mean, lol, look @ your "legal expertise" here (quoting you):
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1607692&cid=31743626
"In case you didn't already know this, changing your IP address to defeat Slashdot's anti-spam mechanism constitutes both fraudulently misrepresenting yourself (A CRIME, as I already told you) and also considered unauthorized access to a computer system (HACKING)." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @08:25PM (#31743416)
Oh, really? Care to show me a legal precedent OR ruling of that being the case, were I switching IP addresses to overcome the "10 posts per 24 hour limit" on AC users? I sign off as APK, so I am NOT "misrepresenting myself" here, in case you hadn't noticed, lol!
(Now, on "changing IP addy"? Uhm, who says I am doing THAT anyhow to beat the restriction - and so what IF I did? I could just as easily say I turned off my modem & PC, & upon restarting it?? I have a new IP address... pretty simple - I'd like to see you backup that b.s., with legal evidence to what you said, because, anyone can turn off their modem & upon restarting be assigned a new IP address, assuming they don't have a STATIC IP!)
Produce some US legal documentation of what you just said... thanks! I, for one, would like to see it - because it appaernty wouldn't account for folks that keep their power off when not using a system... so, show us your LEGAL proof of what you stated now above, ok?
NOW - You show me that, all of it, dated before you said this? I'll be glad to abide by it!
Additionally, so you know?
Well - Despite your calling me a malware maker & what not? I have written the most comprehensive security guide there is online, current version built in late 2007, as my New Year's Resolution of "do the right thing" & pay it forward... (&, the FIRST SECURITY GUIDE FOR WINDOWS afaik, back in 1997 @ NTCompatible.com for Windows NT-based systems... so, so much for your libelling me calling me a malware maker!) & it's gone well over 350,000++ views, to good review, testimonials of its efficacy, being made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE" or "STICKY THREAD" (even MOST VIEWED or top 10 usually) on 15/20 forums its featured on, & more!
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
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Your "credible source", in Thor Schmuck? LMAO!
See subject-line above:
First of all - Tell us if YOU, or Thor Schmuck (your "credible reliable reputable source" etc. (not)), actually possess degrees around the art & science of computing (or any really, I am curious on this account).
This is to see if you are this "expert" you seem to THINK you are. I already KNOW you haven't done anything of good note int his field in written respected publications, so that much is taken care of in that regard.
Ask your "Credible Source", Thor Schmuck, if he also lists PING.EXE (because it can or could do a PING OF DEATH), or if he lists SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY on his list (because it alters the HOSTS file, & CA says "that's bad", but, funny they don't list Spybot S&D either, eh?)
I mean, lol, look @ your "legal expertise" here (quoting you):
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1607692&cid=31743626
"In case you didn't already know this, changing your IP address to defeat Slashdot's anti-spam mechanism constitutes both fraudulently misrepresenting yourself (A CRIME, as I already told you) and also considered unauthorized access to a computer system (HACKING)." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @08:25PM (#31743416)
Oh, really? Care to show me a legal precedent OR ruling of that being the case, were I switching IP addresses to overcome the "10 posts per 24 hour limit" on AC users? I sign off as APK, so I am NOT "misrepresenting myself" here, in case you hadn't noticed, lol!
(Now, on "changing IP addy"? Uhm, who says I am doing THAT anyhow to beat the restriction - and so what IF I did? I could just as easily say I turned off my modem & PC, & upon restarting it?? I have a new IP address... pretty simple - I'd like to see you backup that b.s., with legal evidence to what you said, because, anyone can turn off their modem & upon restarting be assigned a new IP address, assuming they don't have a STATIC IP!)
Produce some US legal documentation of what you just said... thanks! I, for one, would like to see it - because it appaernty wouldn't account for folks that keep their power off when not using a system... so, show us your LEGAL proof of what you stated now above, ok?
NOW - You show me that, all of it, dated before you said this? I'll be glad to abide by it!
Additionally, so you know?
Well - Despite your calling me a malware maker & what not? I have written the most comprehensive security guide there is online, current version built in late 2007, as my New Year's Resolution of "do the right thing" & pay it forward... (&, the FIRST SECURITY GUIDE FOR WINDOWS afaik, back in 1997 @ NTCompatible.com for Windows NT-based systems... so, so much for your libelling me calling me a malware maker!) & it's gone well over 350,000++ views, to good review, testimonials of its efficacy, being made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE" or "STICKY THREAD" on 15/20 forums its featured on, & more!
PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok:
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done,
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OH and by the way? For all the names tossed my way
"You, on the other hand, are a moron and I have no wish to continue arguing with someone as incoherent and stupid as you." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Tuesday April 06, @12:32AM (#31744834)
You care to meet me in person, so you can talk like that to me with all your name tossing, "Mr. NOBODY"? I call you that, because you haven't shown me that you are in fact, an expert, nor are you even KNOWN for anything good in this art & science of computing.
So - As far as me being "stupid" (or any of the numerous names a "brave hero" (not) like you has called me), well...
The day you can do all of this (or more) & get the same notoriety (including your code in commercially sold programs as I have)? Then, you can talk:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
(That last one's also featured here as one of your "ESSENTIAL GUIDES" -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=ded3dfdba4dba2091d4d73d674bbfdf6&showtopic=602537 )
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professsors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)
APK
P.S.=> However, you, by way of comparison? You obviously have NEVER done anything like I have above (which is only a PARTIAL LIST, some of my favorites)... I can say that, because I asked you that before! I mean, for instance: Do you even have a CSC or CIS degree to your name?? Somehow, I doubt it.
Do you even work w/in the field of computing as a network administrator or programmer-analyst/software engineer & for more than a decade
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Are you calling me a spyware author?
"More lies from the spyware author," - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @01:36PM (#31736454)
Answer that question in my subject-line above! Are YOU calling ME a "spyware author"?
(I don't think you will answer up to that... if you do, then it'd probably be time to call my attorney (she's the one who got me into contact with an attorney from another city who said I have a winner, per the below next), who will probably contact slashdot, & I'll get your IP addy & ISP/BSP, & find out who you are with a legal order from my attorney, & then it's YOUR problem, for sure -not MINE!))
Truth, again, for those reading:
An app I wrote, circa 1999-2001 iirc, showw ZERO THREAT LEVELS in my application @ Computer Associates in fact (call Greg Jensen himself the head of CA's SECURITY SUITE (he'll know who I am & what this is about (easiest proof I can offer in fact is this, because I can't put up attached files here for those scans you ask for)))
Why zero threats in my app @ CA (the source of all this in fact)? Well - because I took CA's 21 point removal test (& my app passed EVERY question they had then is why)!
So you know, again - plus, again, the same has happened to Dr. Mark Russinovich of Microsoft (he & I used to do work for Sunbelt software @ the same time in the mid to late 1990's in fact, & I helped HE out of bugs in his pagedefrag.exe program, & he thanked me in email for it no less), plus, Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT had it happen on a LOT of his wares (which sux, because his wares are quite useful & NOT spywares)...
APK
P.S.=> And, for a "spyware author" as you seem to be saying I am? Funny - I wrote the most viewed security guide for Windows there is afaik, @ 350,000 views strong, with replies like this in regards to its efficacy (and versions of the same, from as far back as 1997-1998 online too):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=8acc7ab351b4e3f0718acf427bb4257e&showtopic=2662
TESIMONIALS OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told hi
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Are you calling me a spyware author?
"More lies from the spyware author," - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @01:36PM (#31736454)
Answer that question in my subject-line above! Are YOU calling ME a "spyware author"?
(I don't think you will answer up to that... if you do, then it'd probably be time to call my attorney (she's the one who got me into contact with an attorney from another city who said I have a winner, per the below next), who will probably contact slashdot, & I'll get your IP addy & ISP/BSP, & find out who you are with a legal order from my attorney, & then it's YOUR problem, for sure -not MINE!))
Truth, again, for those reading:
An app I wrote, circa 1999-2001 iirc, showw ZERO THREAT LEVELS in my application @ Computer Associates in fact (call Greg Jensen himself the head of CA's SECURITY SUITE (he'll know who I am & what this is about (easiest proof I can offer in fact is this, because I can't put up attached files here for those scans you ask for)))
Why zero threats in my app @ CA (the source of all this in fact)? Well - because I took CA's 21 point removal test (& my app passed EVERY question they had then is why)!
So you know, again - plus, again, the same has happened to Dr. Mark Russinovich of Microsoft (he & I used to do work for Sunbelt software @ the same time in the mid to late 1990's in fact, & I helped HE out of bugs in his pagedefrag.exe program, & he thanked me in email for it no less), plus, Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT had it happen on a LOT of his wares (which sux, because his wares are quite useful & NOT spywares)...
APK
P.S.=> And, for a "spyware author" as you seem to be saying I am? Funny - I wrote the most viewed security guide for Windows there is afaik, @ 350,000 views strong, with replies like this in regards to its efficacy (and versions of the same, from as far back as 1997-1998 online too):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=8acc7ab351b4e3f0718acf427bb4257e&showtopic=2662
TESIMONIALS OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
----
It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told hi
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Changing the subject wont cover your errors
"LOL, very, VERY lofty claims for someone who writes SPYWARE!" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @12:53PM (#31735632)
Why change the subject now? Oh, & on THAT note??
Well, I wrote those sites, & they got their information from Computer Associates, whom I also contacted & with Mr. Greg Jensen no less (head of their security suite's development)...
My ware shows as NO THREAT LEVELS (zero) there, and it failed NONE of their 21 question "removal test" criteria either, to have it removed!
Yes, you have to go thru that too, as a software dev (which apparently, you are not).
I also spoke to an attorney in that regard no less, & he stated:
"You have a winning case, but, they'd drag it out in court for a decade, exceeding my percentage of the award, making it not worth my time or rather costs in pursuing it" & he estimated it to be worth $150,000 U.S. Dollars, for libel.
So you know:
The same has happened to Dr. Mark Russinovich, & Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT (write this 2nd fellow especially - he is OUTRAGED by it, & I used to be, but not anymore - I passed all of CA's tests, & they lowered the alleged "threat level" of my app to ZERO).
I wrote it to help out a guy on some forums in the "olden days", when Apache ran not as a service, but as an app (& he couldn't STAND THAT, so it was easy to write up a program to spawn any process that uses a visible hWnd to do so, albeit, invisibly (almost as "light" as a service process that way, because no visible windows have to be "painted" on the screen device context).
Not even a "NICE TRY", because what's in my P.S.? BLOWS YOU AWAY, too easily! See below...
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NOW, for a "guy who writes spyware" as you say I do? Well... funny: My work & ideas went to Microsoft TECH ED, 2 yrs. in a ROW no less, as a FINALIST in their hardest category there: SQLServer Performance Enhancement... & I've been cited as doing nice work from many respected trade mags & such (newspapers & books too), while you were STILL IN DIAPERS I wager also... see below:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d9
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Quotnig Mr. Oliver Day of SECURITYFOCUS.COM
"Hey, are you the same loser that believes it is appropriate to abuse the hosts file as a security measure?" - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03, @03:17PM (#31717934)
I believe they are effective in security, yes (and for speed gains as well)... & per my subject-line above? Well, so does someone who works for SECURITYFOCUS.COM (a respected site for computer security no less). See this quote:
====
RESURRECTING THE KILLFILE:
(by Mr. Oliver Day)
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491
PERTINENT EXCERPTS/QUOTES:
"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."
"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."
====
And, per his quote? Well, so do the folks @ SPYBOT "SEARCH & DESTROY" (a known & respected antispyware program).
(So, how's THAT MUCH suit you?)
Additionally, per a security guide I wrote up that is over 350,000++ views strong online across 15 forums I put it onto (late 2007 I did it) & that even got me PAID for writing it up, and has been rated "5/5 stars" on 15 of the forums its on, OR, it has been made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE" on them (or both combined), and also usually it's in those forums "MOST VIEWED POSTS" as well too!
Here are some testimonials to its efficacy (and specifically on HOSTS files no less from 1 of the repliers):
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/show...8430&page=2
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" (04/2008)
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/show...8430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
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Quotnig Mr. Oliver Day of SECURITYFOCUS.COM
"Hey, are you the same loser that believes it is appropriate to abuse the hosts file as a security measure?" - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03, @03:17PM (#31717934)
I believe they are effective in security, yes (and for speed gains as well)... & per my subject-line above? Well, so does someone who works for SECURITYFOCUS.COM (a respected site for computer security no less). See this quote:
====
RESURRECTING THE KILLFILE:
(by Mr. Oliver Day)
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491
PERTINENT EXCERPTS/QUOTES:
"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."
"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."
====
And, per his quote? Well, so do the folks @ SPYBOT "SEARCH & DESTROY" (a known & respected antispyware program).
(So, how's THAT MUCH suit you?)
Additionally, per a security guide I wrote up that is over 350,000++ views strong online across 15 forums I put it onto (late 2007 I did it) & that even got me PAID for writing it up, and has been rated "5/5 stars" on 15 of the forums its on, OR, it has been made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE" on them (or both combined), and also usually it's in those forums "MOST VIEWED POSTS" as well too!
Here are some testimonials to its efficacy (and specifically on HOSTS files no less from 1 of the repliers):
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/show...8430&page=2
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" (04/2008)
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/show...8430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
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Quotnig Mr. Oliver Day of SECURITYFOCUS.COM
"Hey, are you the same loser that believes it is appropriate to abuse the hosts file as a security measure?" - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03, @03:17PM (#31717934)
I believe they are effective in security, yes (and for speed gains as well)... & per my subject-line above? Well, so does someone who works for SECURITYFOCUS.COM (a respected site for computer security no less). See this quote:
====
RESURRECTING THE KILLFILE:
(by Mr. Oliver Day)
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491
PERTINENT EXCERPTS/QUOTES:
"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."
"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."
====
And, per his quote? Well, so do the folks @ SPYBOT "SEARCH & DESTROY" (a known & respected antispyware program).
(So, how's THAT MUCH suit you?)
Additionally, per a security guide I wrote up that is over 350,000++ views strong online across 15 forums I put it onto (late 2007 I did it) & that even got me PAID for writing it up, and has been rated "5/5 stars" on 15 of the forums its on, OR, it has been made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE" on them (or both combined), and also usually it's in those forums "MOST VIEWED POSTS" as well too!
Here are some testimonials to its efficacy (and specifically on HOSTS files no less from 1 of the repliers):
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/show...8430&page=2
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" (04/2008)
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/show...8430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
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Disk caches make up for it (or DNS cache)
Bit of clarification for you, my man (& thanks for bolstering my points too):
"1 is only semi-false. Using a HOSTS file doesn't use significant CPU that you aren't already using because your request is already going to hit your HOSTS file anyways. I suppose technically having a very large HOSTS file would consume more parsing it than a small one, but in comparison to alternatives, it's CPU light at the least." - by Schadrach (1042952) on Tuesday March 23, @02:24PM (#31587184)
A relatively "smallish" HOSTS file resides in the native DNS Clientside caching service on Windows (so it is constantly in memory, inside of what C/C++ folks call a "structure" (either standalone, or part of an object), or what PASCAL "fiends" like myself, call a record (or again, object) since PASCAL RECORD = C/C++ STRUCTURE).
Also - this avoids being "diskbound slow"... now, if you use a relatively "LARGISH" hosts file? You have to disable your DNS Clientside cache service - or, it "breaks down" & you lag, rather horribly (I have pointed this out to Microsoft on their blogs (S. Sinofsky's, head of Windows development iirc) & Foredecker (a senior mgt. figure @ MS too, who posts here no less)... so, what makes up for that? See subject-line... answer = YOUR DISKCACHE!
HOSTS files, after all, are JUST ANOTHER FILE... & what caches repeatedly used files? Caches do!
("&, there ya are")
APK
P.S.=> Loads & POSSIBLY reloads (if you stop your connection, OR, change entries in your HOSTS file) of a HOSTS eat FAR LESS CPU than ADBLOCK'S constant parsing of each webbrowser page you load in FireFox (the ONLY browser family that ADBLOCK COVERS, mind you, not all others as HOSTS files do, as well as email programs & really ANY WEBBOUND PROGRAM YOU HAVE)... period!
The "right idea" here though? Layered security - use BOTH methods of protection! I expound on that in this security guide for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Windows VISTA/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008, here -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=705f48ab441c8cafce3f0657e1309b87&showtopic=2662 & it works! Nearly 300,000 views strong, with testimonials like this are its results:
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it wor
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Disk caches make up for it (or DNS cache)
Bit of clarification for you, my man (& thanks for bolstering my points too):
"1 is only semi-false. Using a HOSTS file doesn't use significant CPU that you aren't already using because your request is already going to hit your HOSTS file anyways. I suppose technically having a very large HOSTS file would consume more parsing it than a small one, but in comparison to alternatives, it's CPU light at the least." - by Schadrach (1042952) on Tuesday March 23, @02:24PM (#31587184)
A relatively "smallish" HOSTS file resides in the native DNS Clientside caching service on Windows (so it is constantly in memory, inside of what C/C++ folks call a "structure" (either standalone, or part of an object), or what PASCAL "fiends" like myself, call a record (or again, object) since PASCAL RECORD = C/C++ STRUCTURE).
Also - this avoids being "diskbound slow"... now, if you use a relatively "LARGISH" hosts file? You have to disable your DNS Clientside cache service - or, it "breaks down" & you lag, rather horribly (I have pointed this out to Microsoft on their blogs (S. Sinofsky's, head of Windows development iirc) & Foredecker (a senior mgt. figure @ MS too, who posts here no less)... so, what makes up for that? See subject-line... answer = YOUR DISKCACHE!
HOSTS files, after all, are JUST ANOTHER FILE... & what caches repeatedly used files? Caches do!
("&, there ya are")
APK
P.S.=> Loads & POSSIBLY reloads (if you stop your connection, OR, change entries in your HOSTS file) of a HOSTS eat FAR LESS CPU than ADBLOCK'S constant parsing of each webbrowser page you load in FireFox (the ONLY browser family that ADBLOCK COVERS, mind you, not all others as HOSTS files do, as well as email programs & really ANY WEBBOUND PROGRAM YOU HAVE)... period!
The "right idea" here though? Layered security - use BOTH methods of protection! I expound on that in this security guide for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Windows VISTA/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008, here -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=705f48ab441c8cafce3f0657e1309b87&showtopic=2662 & it works! Nearly 300,000 views strong, with testimonials like this are its results:
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
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"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it wor
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Sprocket, what is wrong about the truth?
"I couldn't have made my point any better myself. You quote me about your irrelevant wandering and then you reply with irrelevant wandering. 'Nuff said indeed!" - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Thursday March 25, @12:56AM (#31607340)
What is irrelavant (or wrong) about telling people that Opera's been shown, time & again, that OPERA IS THE FASTEST & SAFEST WEB-BROWSER PROGRAM THERE IS WITH THE LARGEST NATIVE FEATURESET BUILT-IN NATIVELY THERE IS?
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"The fun thing here is that you didn't talk about how difficult it is to create complex systems without defects." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Thursday March 25, @12:56AM (#31607340)
Now wait a second: Didn't I say "HELLO WORLD" level programs 'need not apply' etc. et al? Sure I did, right here -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31599332...
Sprocket? Who screwed up here now?? You did!
(You've done that before & you're skimmning man (or, lying, take your pick))!
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"You put Opera up as an example. And Operas has a history of defects. Yes - currently there's no unpatched vulnerabilities. That we know about. But there's a history of defects. And that hardly makes Opera the slam-dunk answer you make it out to be." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Thursday March 25, @12:56AM (#31607340)
OPERA CURRENTLY SHOWING ZERO SECURITY VULNERABILIES, AND OPERA BEING THE FASTEST BROWSER ON ALL THINGS WEB (plus having the largest & best NATIVELY BUILT IN FEATURESET) DOES A HECK OF A JOB FOR ME (or anyone really), in extolling Opera's virtues as probably the best overall webbrowser on this planet.
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"You're caught clueless again, apk. And you can't avoid it." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Thursday March 25, @12:56AM (#31607340)
Now look whose tossing names - Pot calling the kettle black? Now, on "clueless"?? Sprocket, as far as this art & science is concerned, the day you can do all this in this field to YOUR CREDIT (as I have):
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"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> htt
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Some "counter-testimonials" to the contrary... apk
"Average Joe User is cheap and lazy, that's a given" - by Ethanol-fueled (1125189) * on Tuesday March 16, @04:33PM (#31501726) Homepage
Not every "avg. 'Joe User'" is that way - you're "over-generalizing" on your part man! I've got proofs of guys JUST LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU STATE TOO man, keep reading, IF you are interested...
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"What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.; if not bothering or paying somebody else to do it. I'd been toying aroung with Linux and Unix for years for business and personal use, but I finally switched for good when I realized that I was wasting more time with Windows than I would with a *NIX O.S."" - by Ethanol-fueled (1125189) * on Tuesday March 16, @04:33PM (#31501726) Homepage
Well, because of that, & especially vs. that which I quote from you above, initially in my reply here? There are also MANY "avg. 'Joe User'" types who, conversely & in response to what you stated of them above (again, what I quoted from you above 1st/initially in this very reply of mine to you): They start reading & learning HOW it's done to secure a Windows system properly (as well as habits/behaviors online to avoid for "smarter/safer" websurfing too)... & know what?
Hey - They also do well @ it!
Proofs? Ok - First, the security guide they used (I wrote it, & have been writing it/building upon it, since late 1997 in fact (for Windows NT-based OS users)):
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy? Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the k
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Some "counter-testimonials" to the contrary... apk
"Average Joe User is cheap and lazy, that's a given" - by Ethanol-fueled (1125189) * on Tuesday March 16, @04:33PM (#31501726) Homepage
Not every "avg. 'Joe User'" is that way - you're "over-generalizing" on your part man! I've got proofs of guys JUST LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU STATE TOO man, keep reading, IF you are interested...
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"What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.; if not bothering or paying somebody else to do it. I'd been toying aroung with Linux and Unix for years for business and personal use, but I finally switched for good when I realized that I was wasting more time with Windows than I would with a *NIX O.S."" - by Ethanol-fueled (1125189) * on Tuesday March 16, @04:33PM (#31501726) Homepage
Well, because of that, & especially vs. that which I quote from you above, initially in my reply here? There are also MANY "avg. 'Joe User'" types who, conversely & in response to what you stated of them above (again, what I quoted from you above 1st/initially in this very reply of mine to you): They start reading & learning HOW it's done to secure a Windows system properly (as well as habits/behaviors online to avoid for "smarter/safer" websurfing too)... & know what?
Hey - They also do well @ it!
Proofs? Ok - First, the security guide they used (I wrote it, & have been writing it/building upon it, since late 1997 in fact (for Windows NT-based OS users)):
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
----
It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy? Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the k
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Windows, albeit AFTER security hardening & use
"So tell me, which OS would you choose that could stop all malware even with stupid users?" - by Galestar (1473827) on Monday March 15, @01:45PM (#31485434)
Reiterating my subject-line, once more: Windows, albeit AFTER security hardening & user education!
How so? Ok:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
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It works!
It's based on the concept computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET
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(Those results are only a SMALL SAMPLING TOO, mind you - I can produce more such results, upon request, from other users & sites online)
Addtionally - Users
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Windows, albeit AFTER security hardening & use
"So tell me, which OS would you choose that could stop all malware even with stupid users?" - by Galestar (1473827) on Monday March 15, @01:45PM (#31485434)
Reiterating my subject-line, once more: Windows, albeit AFTER security hardening & user education!
How so? Ok:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
----
It works!
It's based on the concept computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET
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(Those results are only a SMALL SAMPLING TOO, mind you - I can produce more such results, upon request, from other users & sites online)
Addtionally - Users
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Exactly: Layered Security IS "the way"
"Protection from malware should function like the immune system, with many lines of defense and many avenues of detection and counter attack. Prevention will never be perfect by itself.' - by spun (1352) on Monday March 15, @11:58AM (#31483716)
Which is EXACTLY why I wrote up this guide (mostly for end-users that aren't aware of the concept you're putting out, & yes: Even the more "techie ones")!
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
----
It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault.
keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET----
(Those results are only a SMALL SAMPLING TOO, mind you - I can produce more such results, upon request, from other users & sites online)
HOWEVER - There's ONLY 1 WEAKNESS TO IT: Human beings, & they not being 'disciplined' about th
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Exactly: Layered Security IS "the way"
"Protection from malware should function like the immune system, with many lines of defense and many avenues of detection and counter attack. Prevention will never be perfect by itself.' - by spun (1352) on Monday March 15, @11:58AM (#31483716)
Which is EXACTLY why I wrote up this guide (mostly for end-users that aren't aware of the concept you're putting out, & yes: Even the more "techie ones")!
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662
----
It works, & is based on the concept you lay out via your quoted words above - what computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...
Proofs to its efficacy?
Ok, some quoted testimonials:
----
"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral
AND
"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault.
keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET----
(Those results are only a SMALL SAMPLING TOO, mind you - I can produce more such results, upon request, from other users & sites online)
HOWEVER - There's ONLY 1 WEAKNESS TO IT: Human beings, & they not being 'disciplined' about th
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Others in respected publication & more disagre
"Jesus Christ APK, you're useless." - by metrix007 (200091) on Thursday February 04, @01:31PM (#31025064)
See subject-line above, & prove me incorrect is all!
(OH: Please also see my 'P.S.' below, as to my being "useless"... & "argue with the numbers", ok?)
APK
P.S.=> If I am "so useless", then how did all of these happen then?
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
(That last one's also featured here as one of your "ESSENTIAL GUIDES" -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=ded3dfdba4dba2091d4d73d674bbfdf6&showtopic=602537 )
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professsors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)
apk
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He said this is a good site + that you only talk
The day you can prove you're the first to come up with a widely used technique to improve performance that is widely used now as this exemplifies:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405012842/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml
Search this there SWAPFILE PLACEMENTS & IDEAS FOR IT from as far back as 2001 or earlier and is the oldest one of its kind I have found on that note no less?
and when you've done what he has per one of his posts here
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
(That last one's also featured here as one of your "ESSENTIAL GUIDES" -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=ded3dfdba4dba2091d4d73d674bbfdf6&showtopic=602537 )
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professsors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)
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then you can talk, talker. You are nothing but a jealous troll it seems and especially now since he has gotten the attention of a very important person at microsoft on his points on hosts files and pagefile too.
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Re:A Question - AN ANSWER (w/ proofs)
"Microsoft held liable for these issues? Why do we even use Windows for Government systems?" - by koan (80826) on Friday January 15, @11:07PM (#30787586)
I feel that MS ought to ship a system TOTALLY "closed off", personally (or, @ least, security hardened, per the guidelines I set below)
I do show guidelines for security that DO actually work no less there!
Simply due to the usage of "layered security", conscientious patching, & knowing when and when NOT to use things like JAVASCRIPT + FAR MORE!
(E.G.-> AND, even a "return to antiquities teachings" (per Ozymandias of "The Watchmen" in that quote) by using things like HOSTS files for example, which is 1970's thinking (but, it works like no tomorrow for BOTH added speed, but more importantly, for ADDED LAYERED SECURITY, especially nowadays...)).
Then, when the END-USER elects to "turn those features" on again (or rather, the protection vs. them, off)? He/She, as said end-user, assumes the responsibility for what happens... NOT MS!
(MS ships these OS' nowhere NEAR where they can be 'security-hardened' to, & probably so "everything just works" + so it's easier to "mass deploy" quickly, imo @ least, as to the "WHY" of why MS' OS are so damned 'wide open' outta the box/oem stock!)
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"Hackers are cutting edge people, the government seems to be dwelling in 1990's tatics and security" - by koan (80826) on Friday January 15, @11:07PM (#30787586)
Ah, ACTUALLY in my experience (more than a year professionally dealing with their junk, disassembling & tracing it, & removing it etc. et al as part of my job duties when level 1 folks failed vs. them)?
They're MOSTLY "script kiddies" actually...
I.E.-> Using & REUSING the stuff the TRULY "cutting edge" people's (hacker/cracker) designs & work + tactics, over & over again, prefab style. Sometimes with only SLIGHT variations...
HOWEVER, for security THAT ACTUALLY WORKS (with a testimonial I'll supply, just one of MANY like it, from those that applied my guide's techniques/methods/suggestions)?
YOU DO THIS:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA/Server 2008/Windows 7, & make it "fun-to-do", via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=fc2d534ea11b15071b6ffc04ad948f00&showtopic=2662
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A testimonial to its effectiveness, for a year straight no less of uptime (& beyond, this reply is quite old actually):
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PERTINENT QUOTE(s)/EXCERPT(s):
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machi
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Re:A Question - AN ANSWER (w/ proofs)
"Microsoft held liable for these issues? Why do we even use Windows for Government systems?" - by koan (80826) on Friday January 15, @11:07PM (#30787586)
I feel that MS ought to ship a system TOTALLY "closed off", personally (or, @ least, security hardened, per the guidelines I set below)
I do show guidelines for security that DO actually work no less there!
Simply due to the usage of "layered security", conscientious patching, & knowing when and when NOT to use things like JAVASCRIPT + FAR MORE!
(E.G.-> AND, even a "return to antiquities teachings" (per Ozymandias of "The Watchmen" in that quote) by using things like HOSTS files for example, which is 1970's thinking (but, it works like no tomorrow for BOTH added speed, but more importantly, for ADDED LAYERED SECURITY, especially nowadays...)).
Then, when the END-USER elects to "turn those features" on again (or rather, the protection vs. them, off)? He/She, as said end-user, assumes the responsibility for what happens... NOT MS!
(MS ships these OS' nowhere NEAR where they can be 'security-hardened' to, & probably so "everything just works" + so it's easier to "mass deploy" quickly, imo @ least, as to the "WHY" of why MS' OS are so damned 'wide open' outta the box/oem stock!)
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"Hackers are cutting edge people, the government seems to be dwelling in 1990's tatics and security" - by koan (80826) on Friday January 15, @11:07PM (#30787586)
Ah, ACTUALLY in my experience (more than a year professionally dealing with their junk, disassembling & tracing it, & removing it etc. et al as part of my job duties when level 1 folks failed vs. them)?
They're MOSTLY "script kiddies" actually...
I.E.-> Using & REUSING the stuff the TRULY "cutting edge" people's (hacker/cracker) designs & work + tactics, over & over again, prefab style. Sometimes with only SLIGHT variations...
HOWEVER, for security THAT ACTUALLY WORKS (with a testimonial I'll supply, just one of MANY like it, from those that applied my guide's techniques/methods/suggestions)?
YOU DO THIS:
====
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA/Server 2008/Windows 7, & make it "fun-to-do", via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=fc2d534ea11b15071b6ffc04ad948f00&showtopic=2662
====
A testimonial to its effectiveness, for a year straight no less of uptime (& beyond, this reply is quite old actually):
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PERTINENT QUOTE(s)/EXCERPT(s):
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machi
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Aw, somebody likes to skim (I covered that)
"Awe look, someone who thinks they know threading talks about how to do it
LOL, "look before you leap" & per my subject-line above? I cover that inside my original post, via this link in its P.S. section here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1497542&cid=30653170 Still, do read on (instead of skimming only on your part):
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"By default, you have no reason to make those API calls unless you want to limit to a certain CPU or set of CPUs, out of the box, by default, all CPUs are fair game for any thread." - by BitZtream (692029) on Friday January 15, @06:21PM (#30785542)
Once more/again: See here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1497542&cid=30653170
Which was DEEPER in my original post (& if you'd read it, you'd see I covered that which you speak of, due to your obvious "skimming" & NOT reading my post & it's URL's inside of it too).
APK
P.S.=> As far as "just talking about it"? I've been writing multithreaded apps since, oh, 1996-1997 or thereabouts. Here is one in fact ->
APK Registry Cleaning Engine 2002++ SR-7:
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http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/APK_Registry_Cleaning_Engine_2002++_SR-7_.html
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AND
APK Matrix ScreenSaver:
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http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/390/.html
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& here are evidences of even MORE, both professionally AND in the shareware/freeware circuit (probably for years before you were in highschool possibly), one even making it into COMMERCIAL APPLICATION CODE (as well as being a finalist @ Microsoft Tech Ed 2000-2002, 2 yrs. in a row no less, in its HARDEST CATEGORY - SQLServer Performance Enhancement):
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c
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China's NO threat IF this is implemented
"we're in deep shit if China decides to turn malicious." - by fluffy99 (870997) on Thursday January 14, @09:10PM (#30774326)
Not really. Not if companies & their LAN/WAN security setups, ESPECIALLY @ THE WORKSTATION & SERVER LEVEL, this way ->
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, + VISTA (& beyond), and, make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b35dfec0da75d7dab52dab8b321d373e&showtopic=2662
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It works, if it is followed TO-THE-LETTER, & implemented properly!
A testimonial of its results also? Here is one:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
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Especially if users are EDUCATED vs. these kinds of threats + others (but, per what happened here? It's useful, specifically these kind, where 'social engineering' & PUNY TRICKS like a malscripted
I covered ADOBE PDF EXPLOITS THERE, & HOW TO STOP/STALL THEM, & YEARS AGO NO LESS (2006) + FAR MORE & how to work around or protect one's self vs. them... & guess what? IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
By the by:
I actually wrote the FIRST "Security & Speedup guide" for Windows (1997-2001 -> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/01/11/29/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text & it did very well for its day, back in 1997 for NTCompatible.com (& that's Neowin's "take" on it, an excellent rating no less in that URL I just posted)...
AND, that guide is now carried forward to today & does well there in the URL above from TECH CONNECT MAGAZINE, & elsewhere online as well... because it actually WORKS & well!
(Today, vs. my older guide's models? It is mostly on security now though, more than speed, because that IS the "bigger problem" out here nowadays))
So far, it's done to the tune of over 250,000++ views online, being made an "Essential Guide" or "Sticky/Pinned" thread, or "most viewed" or "5/5 s
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China's NO threat IF this is implemented
"we're in deep shit if China decides to turn malicious." - by fluffy99 (870997) on Thursday January 14, @09:10PM (#30774326)
Not really. Not if companies & their LAN/WAN security setups, ESPECIALLY @ THE WORKSTATION & SERVER LEVEL, this way ->
----
HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, + VISTA (& beyond), and, make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b35dfec0da75d7dab52dab8b321d373e&showtopic=2662
----
It works, if it is followed TO-THE-LETTER, & implemented properly!
A testimonial of its results also? Here is one:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
Especially if users are EDUCATED vs. these kinds of threats + others (but, per what happened here? It's useful, specifically these kind, where 'social engineering' & PUNY TRICKS like a malscripted
I covered ADOBE PDF EXPLOITS THERE, & HOW TO STOP/STALL THEM, & YEARS AGO NO LESS (2006) + FAR MORE & how to work around or protect one's self vs. them... & guess what? IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
By the by:
I actually wrote the FIRST "Security & Speedup guide" for Windows (1997-2001 -> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/01/11/29/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text & it did very well for its day, back in 1997 for NTCompatible.com (& that's Neowin's "take" on it, an excellent rating no less in that URL I just posted)...
AND, that guide is now carried forward to today & does well there in the URL above from TECH CONNECT MAGAZINE, & elsewhere online as well... because it actually WORKS & well!
(Today, vs. my older guide's models? It is mostly on security now though, more than speed, because that IS the "bigger problem" out here nowadays))
So far, it's done to the tune of over 250,000++ views online, being made an "Essential Guide" or "Sticky/Pinned" thread, or "most viewed" or "5/5 s
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Others tend to disagree w/ you (see inside) 100:1
"Please create an account and use it so we can downmod you into the oblivion you so richly deserve." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11, @06:03AM (#30721370)
Idiots like yourself are the reason WHY I do not register here (so fools like yourself now have to "struggle" to find all of my posts). I don't intend to make it easy on trolls like yourself is all... so, lol, to you.
However, myself, by way of comparison to yourself & the other "trolls" around here? Well, you may not like this, but too bad, it is just statements of fact:
In this art & science/field of computing, I can (below) & have shown I have SOME small measure of notoriety in respected publications & such over time for wares I have done (and, even commercial applications code, such as in Windows IT Pro magazine and my code & ideas placing as FINALIST 2 yrs. in a row @ Microsoft Tech Ed 2000-2002 in its hardest category no less - SQLServer Performance Enhancement)... have YOU done anything remotely the same? See below:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
----
Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
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So, that all "said & aside"? Until you have done the same AND YOU CAN PRODUCE A PHD IN ENGLISH, to prove you are some sort of 'authority on writing'?? Please - get over yourself already, & don't even BEGIN to think you can speak for "everybody" (especially when you are clearly a NOBODY, period).
Get it?
APK
P.S.=> Funny - I can show (in seconds) 100++ people who tended to disagree over time here & rated my posts upwards in fact on grounds of "INFORMATIVE", "INTERESTING", & more... that's a 100++:1 ratio vs. your "mere opinion" & you're no expert on writing.
Until you show me a PHD to YOUR NAME? So much for "your opinion"... g
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You're not "everybody", don't speak for us all
"Your poor writing is everybody's problem" - by mosb1000 (710161) on Monday January 11, @02:59AM (#30720738) Homepage
See my p.s. below, & quit speaking for "everybody", because you are not "everybody"... in fact? You're a NOBODY in this art & science/field of computing... Please - feel free to prove otherwise.
You also contradict yourself rampantly in your reply I am replying to now, like EVERY TROLL HERE has, per the quotes in my p.s. below no less... and, you're telling ME how to write? Please... lol!
However, myself, by way of comparison to yourself & the other "trolls" around here? Well, you may not like this, but too bad, it is just statements of fact:
In this art & science/field of computing, I can (below) & have shown I have SOME small measure of notoriety in respected publications & such over time for wares I have done (and, even commercial applications code, such as in Windows IT Pro magazine and my code & ideas placing as FINALIST 2 yrs. in a row @ Microsoft Tech Ed 2000-2002 in its hardest category no less - SQLServer Performance Enhancement)... have YOU done anything remotely the same? See below:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
----
Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
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So, that all "said & aside"? Until you have done the same AND YOU CAN PRODUCE A PHD IN ENGLISH, to prove you are some sort of 'authority on writing'?? Please - get over yourself already, & don't even BEGIN to think you can speak for "everybody" (especially when you are clearly a NOBODY, period).
Get it?
APK
P.S.=>
"They will tell you the same thing I am telling you." - by mosb1000 (710161) on Monday January 11, @02:59AM (#30720738) Homepage
Oh, "really"
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Bob advise AFTER you get a list like mine, ok?
I didn't say it, others did (even others here from
(I only know I received a 780 score on my SAT in verbal, & that I generally score in the A+ thru B ranges in English in academia on my collegiate transcripts, and A+ solid thru highschool in that area).
Thus, vs. your UNQUALIFIED 'critique'?
Well, I only let OTHERS do MY TALKING, for me, per this list below
(Just for your reference again, lol, & of which YOU clearly have NOTHING TO EVEN COME CLOSE TO MATCH IT, inclusive of others "modding up" my posts here (not bad for a guy you can "cannot write" & direct it MY way)
"Argue with the numbers" Bob, because apparently?
Opinions vary, & you and the trolls here??
LOL, are HUGELY outnumbered by this list below, which was done by others here and in noted/respected international publication in this very field (of which YOU ARE OFFTOPIC to the max in no less) to MY credit:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
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+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26975021
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Others feel otherwise on this very forums... apk
"Dude, you write like crap." - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10, @03:44AM (#30713392)
Oh, sure... & note your "sheer eloquence" in your "see jane run" reply! Ah, yes... your prose rivals the likes of T.S. Elliot (not)... however?
Others seem to feel otherwise, both in international publication AND on these very forums (& unlike the "likes of you"? I have actual proofs), see these:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
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+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26975021
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26974507
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170545&cid=14210206
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175774&cid=14610147
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+4 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=13531817
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167071&cid=13931198
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28571315
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461288&cid=30273506
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Re:Bob, prove you have a PHD in English, ok?
"I do not have a degree in english. However, I have read many books, and I write a lot (for money) so I know a thing or two about the subject." - by mosb1000 (710161) on Sunday January 10, @03:26AM (#30713352) Homepage
Really? You mean like children's book with sentences like "see jane run"?? I wonder who makes more money - you, or a professional software engineer (the title I have held in this field, along with others like programmer/programmer-analyst/network administrator)??
Don't even TRY to use money Bob... you'll be EASILY "outclassed" (unless you are really Stephen King or others of his ilk that is, which I severely DOUBT you are).
Now, on getting paid to write? You're not the only one -> http://www.pcpitstop.com/news/winners.asp (3rd one down, January 2008) which also happens to be their MOST VIEWED there (& its a widely travelled forums, & guess what? I was paid for it, & it's by NO MEANS a "see jane run" topic it's on).
In fact?
That same posting has crossed over 250,000 views (search "HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP" on GOOGLE, & see just who it is who "owns" the topspot, and most of the top 50++ in fact (answer = yours truly)), & has also been rated "5/5 stars", or is in the MOST VIEWED, or is put into "Sticky/Pinned Threads" or "Essential guide" sections of the forums it is on, with rating of this nature from others:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything!"
and
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=10f9ba9ad5ff990aaae1e7ec91f593a2&t=28430&page=3 [xtremepccentral.com]
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
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So, please - don't try to "preach to me" on how to write, ok? I just basically have "overwhelmed" your "self-proclaimed" so called expertise (and your arrogance @ telling ME "how to write" or "what is good writing per Bob" from you, with a LOAD of evidences from others to the contrary).
"too, Too, TOO EASY"... always is.
As usual I knew you had no PHD in English either so... you think your having written a few things qualifies you as some expert on writing? GET OVER YOURSELF, & your arrogance.
Now, also, there is of course 2 kinds of people in this art & science: Those who do the job, & those who merely WRITE ABOUT OTHERS WHO DO THE JOB... have I, & had it appear internationally in publication (with proof on my end, unlike "you & yours" the off topic trolls here)? Sure, see these:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King o
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Uhm, I'm a software engineer (so you know)... apk
"Yup. Also, for a guy who claims to know so much about statistics and measurement, it's weird how he judges programmers so sweepingly on the sole basis of his anecdotal experiences." - by LSD-OBS (183415) on Saturday January 09, @08:34PM (#30711460)
Per my subject-line above, vs. your quoted reply above?
INCORRECT - as to "anecdotal", especially for Comp. Sci. related things?
Well - See these:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
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Those are mine... do YOU possess the same, I wonder?
Now, that all "said & aside": I put that out, first to disprove your attempt @ "cutting me down", & secondarily, so you know WHERE it is I am coming from (i.e.-> MOSTLY from the "POV" of that OF a programmer/programmer-analyst/software engineer (the titles I've held professionally in the art & science/field of computers - where you seem to imply I "have no clue"... & you are incorrect on THAT note, bigtime)).
APK
P.S.=> Better luck next time @ trolling me... & please: Realize that I do NOT claim to be a "mathematician", but only that I have enough exposure to higher forms of mathematics by this point to be able to compare both math & comp. sci. is all, because that is ALL I ever stated OR implied, period... & on mathematics, I wonder if YOU personally have a greater exposure to said maths, as well as those in Comp. Sci. both professionally & academically as well?? apk
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Re:I don't know if he is about THAT, but...
"So what if he does?" - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07, @01:22PM (#30685458)
Well, no sweat to me... it's more HIS reputation here on
In this field/art & science? Well... I've "done my share" of decent things, such as:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
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QUESTION: Have YOU? Somehow... I strongly DOUBT it (@ least to THAT extent, as I have above (when I still gave a hoot about stuff like that @ least, which was years ago 1996-2002)).
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"Even if he did" - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07, @01:22PM (#30685458)
Oh, he did alright, after all... he ADMITS it (again for readers' reference here), right here on this very website:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1147437&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=27056589
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"one modpoint does little when an army of mods are available to cancel out his self-serving moderation." - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07, @01:22PM (#30685458)
You're right... just like how my 1st post in this exchange was FIRST "modded up" as +1 INFORMATIVE, & now, downmodded by (obviously) "The End of Days" and his MULTIPLE REGISTERED ACCOUNTS HERE, to which he admitted to above... lmao!
As to "mod up or down"?
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Re:System tuning... It works, see inside... apk
"Yes, you might also be able to disable some services and squeeze out a couple extra cycles, but how much does it matter these days?" - by nine-times (778537) on Monday January 04, @05:03PM (#30647024) Homepage
Really? Ok: How about 31++% differences to the good then (or more in some cases) in scores on benchmarks, as a single example I will put out testimonials of here for then (& from guys that DO know about system tweaking, albeit MORE on the hardware o/c'ing side, until I showed them the "ins & outs" of how it's done OS & software side)?
E.G.-> Back in mid to late 2006, I used to belong to a heavy "overclockers & tweakers" site, to learn how to 'tweak' my systems' CPU & memory (I knew how to do INTEL stuff, but I had never done AMD before & @ that time I bought an AMD X2 4800+ & needed to know how it was done, so I went there (the person who codes GPU-z owns the site, by the by)):
Folks on BOTH the AquaMark & ScienceMark 2 benchmarks weren't able to move any higher, until I showed them about tuning services, thus (for both the test & less radical services trimming for permanent settings, once they figured out what they needed for daily usage in services, & what they did not):
THE RESULTS? Ok, take a read from just 1 of many there (Like 31++% boosts in scores):
"Just thinkin
"You're much more likely to break something than to effect significant performance improvements." - by nine-times (778537) on Monday January 04, @05:03PM (#30647024) Homepage
That's a statement from someone who hasn't "done their homework" & read what each service does... because, you can say what you wish & all you like, but... I can show otherwise & have, above.
By the by:
I actually wrote the FIRST "Security & Speedup guide" for Windows (1997-2001 -> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/01/11/29/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text for NTCompatible.com (& that's Neowin's "take" on it, an excellent rating no less)...
AND, which is now carried forward to today & does well here & elsewhere online (mostly on security now though, because that IS the "bigger problem" out here nowadays) to the tune of over 250,000++ views online, being made an "Essential Guide" or "Sticky/Pinned" thread, or "most viewed" or "5/5 star rated" etc. et al on 15/20 forums it is on (Search "HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP" online, & you'll see it "owns" the top spot & top 50-100 in fact) -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b35dfec0da75d7dab52dab8b321d373e&showtopic=2662
AND?
It works... A testimonial of its results also? Here is one:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an
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You are ANYTHING BUT remarkable, you nobody
"I would have used their ignorance to amplify my message with dozens of applicable links and so in the view of search engines amplify the importance of those links. I would have been motivated to do so by the challenge presented. The idiots would have continued to argue and let me post rebuttals with links for weeks, to the detriment of their message in favor of mine. But now there's not any of that. It would have been modded down first before the mods rescued it from obscurity and metamodded the downmods until the people who had downmodded it could no longer moderate." - by symbolset (646467) * on Sunday January 03, @01:51AM (#30629956)
You ARROGANT, done nothing with your life, unaccomplished & ignorant bastard... &, that above from "the likes of you"?
What a mass of frothing b.s. from that pie hole of yours.
Just like this was from you, which I quote below (and I don't see you say anything in reply, vs. this below either though... I suppose that says it ALL FOR ME though, just like your b.s. above):
SymbolNOBODY? After all, You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. G
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You are ANYTHING BUT remarkable, you nobody
"I would have used their ignorance to amplify my message with dozens of applicable links and so in the view of search engines amplify the importance of those links. I would have been motivated to do so by the challenge presented. The idiots would have continued to argue and let me post rebuttals with links for weeks, to the detriment of their message in favor of mine. But now there's not any of that. It would have been modded down first before the mods rescued it from obscurity and metamodded the downmods until the people who had downmodded it could no longer moderate." - by symbolset (646467) * on Sunday January 03, @01:51AM (#30629956)
You ARROGANT, done nothing with your life, unaccomplished & ignorant bastard... &, that above from "the likes of you"?
What a mass of frothing b.s. from that pie hole of yours.
Just like this was from you, which I quote below (and I don't see you say anything in reply, vs. this below either though... I suppose that says it ALL FOR ME though, just like your b.s. above):
SymbolNOBODY? After all, You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. G
-
Glad yourself & Foredecker are here... apk
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na
-
Glad yourself & Foredecker are here... apk
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na
-
Re:Stuck in your "Big Talk", You bullshit artist
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na
-
Re:Stuck in your "Big Talk", You bullshit artist
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na
-
This is really not happening: This is "Big talker"
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na
-
This is really not happening: This is "Big talker"
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na
-
No, actually YOU suck (U "big talker")
SymbolNOBODY: You said what's quoted below from you, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30428430
"It's tolerated (perhaps encouraged) in part because these annoying actors are otherwised engaged in improving Linux. Major Debian and BSD contributors, for example, use slashdot as a workspace for their human-machine interaction side experiments, of which APK is probably one. In addition many of these trolls post links which, if you follow them, will completely hose a Windows machine. This is part of the game. - by symbolset (646467) on Monday December 14, @01:15AM (#30428430) Journal
I took offense to the BOLDED part... & ALL you EVER seem to have is "ad hominem" based attacks on people, not the points they make. So, "symbolNOBODY": The day you can make something like this (& that got you PAID for it, & that has done as well for others online):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=b861a743aa23c4568b7d73e07ef7ecec&showtopic=2662
That's also gone over 250.000 views worldwide in 1++ yrs.' time online, & across 15 forums where that guide for Windows Security has been made either an:
1.) "Sticky/Pinned" thread
2.) An "Essential Guide"
3.) Rates 5/5 stars (etc.)AND, gets "feedback" like this from users that have applied it:
----
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28430
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"...recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual. Now I don't recommend this for the average joe, but it if can work for a kids PC it can work for anything! Now, i substituted OpenDNS and activated the Adult Content filter with them for this kids computer. I know its not perfect, but will catch over 99.5% of said sites."
and
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
Thronka - forums member @ xtremepccentral.com
----
THEN, when you have done so, on THAT account? THEN, you can talk (and, ESPECIALLY about that which you said about myself which I quoted from you above shows YOU, libelling ME, clearly. It's clearly immaterial & outright b.s. from you, vs. the kind of feedback my guide on securing Windows gets, quoted above from others? It CLEARLY disproved your outright b.s., period...)
Also?
When you have done all of this as I have over time in this Art & Science of computing:
"My Na