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Holland Bans AMD's 'Virus Protection' Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the puffery-is-strictly-for-cafes dept.

Hack Jandy writes "For those of you who didn't see this coming, AMD's Advanced Virus Protection campaign has been banned in Holland since the technology does (almost) nothing to stop viruses! If you recall, AMD's NX bit attempts to stop the processor from executing pages on the stack that have been written to. Does NX even solve more problems than it causes?"

2 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What is a "virus" to most people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its a Hollywood movie

  2. Re:How do you explain it to Joe Sixpack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've been posting on /. since before there were accounts. (Back then, EVERYONE was an AC; there was no login.) I've never trusted accounts, and never will use them. I don't care to leak information, thank you very much. If someone wants to take the trouble to gather information on me and tag all of my public comments, they damn sure better spend like the NSA. I'm not going to make it (trivially) easy for anyone, all because accounts give me a +1 running head start.

    I can even remember when <HR> tags were allowed, which allowed one to do some creative formatting of posts. Sure, there were one or two assholes, but CmdTaco would read through and delete the obviously abusive posts. (He has obviously not made this a priority, now that the volume is waaaaay up.)

    Moderation is broken. Completely. I suggest we demonstrate this fact by creating an opensource program: a perl script that does a quick RTFA, does some google/wikipedia background work, and comes up with a plausible post that consistently gets over a +3 Insightful or better. It will take a little work. The posts the monkey script kicks out have to be something more than "I wonder how this relates to [random google spewage]". You have to be a wee bit more creative. The point is to fool the moderators.

    But fooling the moderators is not hard--that's my point. Slashdot is broken. Let's PROVE this by making a monkey script that automates the whole process. This might spur the slashdot editors to seriously think about fixes.

    Such a perl script would be viewed as if it were a vulnerability or exploit--since it leverages a weakness in the design of the site. One lesson I've seen in the history of the site is: the editors will only respond to live, demonstrated vulnerabilities. So, let's make the MonkeyBot script, and have at 'em.