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Spyware in Audio Galaxy
LintMan and a zillion other people wrote in about the story on Portal of Evil discussing spyware bundled with Audio Galaxy that seems to be even more nasty than usual. Others have written about it as well - there's Counterexploitation and Wired stories. Frankly, we're kind of bored by all these spyware/shareware stories (don't people learn?) so we let it sit around in the submissions bin for a few days, until, say, a slow Saturday night.
Whut the fuck did I fucking say about damage being limited to user permissions. If you've got backups of your home directory that is really fucking nice for you. I'm so damned proud of you I could fucking burst. What about that BIG project you just finished that hadn't been backed up yet? What does it matter if you do monthly backups if the shit you just spent a good deal of time working on just got toasted by some asshole kid who think's he's 1337 by rm -rf'ing someone's home directory. Stuff that rm -rf's home directories of course doesn't affect everybody just like alot of virii don't cause everyone problems. However if you're the one guy who got fucked by some virus or just malicious shell script you going's to be fucking pissed. Work on your reading comprehension before you press the submit button next time.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
Why did all the retards decide to respond to this post. Did I ever once suggest there was ActiveX for Linux? Don't go and make stupid assumptions. If Linux ever managers to get a signifigant number of users there will be plenty of virii running around that do all sorts of bad things to a user's system. This is especially true as Linux actually gains the sort of functionality ActiveX was developed for and runs code from places other than /usr/bin. Software libre is less likely to contain spyware but popular software isn't always going to be software libre man. Get the net. That whole free (libre) alternative thing doesn't work with people like AOL users when they want to do stuff with as little hassle as possible. Of course you're realing you're preaching about an OS whose default operating system does more damage to your files than most virii ever do right?
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
That is absolutely ridiculous. Why are there no BeOS virii running around? No one fucking uses it. Why are there Windows and before that DOS virii all over the place? Because it was the most popular thing since stupidity. It doesn't matter that it isn't there now because Linux doesn't matter. If all of the companies developing Linux stopped tomorrow and all the major distributions just closed their doors would ANYONE give half a shit? No. A couple slashdotters would probably hurl themselves off building. Except for the guy who's new car just got totaled by a fatass Linux geek falling 50 stories onto it most people wouldn't notice. If Linux WAS popular you would be damn sure that it wouldn't be 100% open source free as in libre software running on it. Alot of proprietary shit would be running on it because the selling software service business plan has not been working. You can also be damn sure there'd be as many or more exploits for it as there are for Windows. Just because the source is open doesn't make it somehow magically secure.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.