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Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China
Hello Kitty writes "According to Computerworld, a signature update to Symantec's anti-virus software has knocked out thousands of Chinese PCs. Apparently the latest update for the AV component of the various Norton packages mistook two system files in the Chinese edition of Windows XP SP2 for the 'Backdoor.Haxdoor' trojan. Piracy issues may complicate recovery, since once the updates are installed Symantec says the only hope for reviving an affected system is to re-copy the affected DLLs from the Windows restore disks. Everyone has their official restore disks handy, right?"
Hey, just use your restore disk to replace the files.
Oh, you don't happen to have a restore disk? Oh, you're running a pirated copy of Windows?
Wow, then I guess you're shit out of luck. I can't feel sorry for you. You should have spent the little extra money to buy a legitimate copy of Windows.
Oh, and who said this scenario wasn't tested?
Undoubtedly, the vast majority (if not all) of the machines affected were either
(1) zombies bombarding our machines with annoying brute force attacks and/or
(2) illegitimate/illegal installs of Windows.
Its difficult to believe Symantec would actually go and do something so incredibly helpful and effective, afa computer security is concerned.
The Admin and the Engineer
Suprise! :)
Scientology could do lots of good for people (which is does) but its shadowed by stereotypes - so no one will believe them. Ever.
Scientology isn't some evil 'cult', or at least, I've never came across anything like that.
I always just see it equally as absurd as any other religion.. so choose one that works for you, and ignore all the silly websites claiming otherwise :)
PS, I was never brainwashed, unfortunately - maybe it'd make me forget the likes of goatse and tubgirl...
Out of interest, how much has scientology cost you so far? And how long have you been involved with it? What good has it done you so far?
What do you think about Hubbard's own quotes about profiting from creating ones own religion?
Hmm. Okay... I'm not a believer in the whole Xenu thing, per se. But mainly because I don't know /enough/ about it - I am quite open to the idea, but currently - I personally don't believe it. Yet. The whole Xenu thing is a bit of an interesting sore point for the church, and people are very touchy about it. It sucks when people are too embarrassed to talk about their own religion because of peoples incorrect interpretations of it :)
Hasn't cost me anything, well, nothing significant. The odd donation at a church and so on. Nothing huge, no more than going to any other church and leaving a good will donation. I've been involved with it for 5 or so years (I'm 20ish, young, ack) heard about it from a few friends, at the time I was curious about religion -- decided I'd use my Computer Science Logic whilst looking for a religion, and amusingly Scientology came out top.
What good has it done for me? Lots. More confident, talkative, and generally nicer. Before I took Scientology seriously I was the typical closed computer nerd - Now I'm a totally different, nicer, friendlier person.
Quotes are just that, Quotes. They arent accurate, they aren't a persons final belief. I don't take his quote seriously, and quite frankly I wouldn't care if it was true. Its helped me, and it's helped some friends - and I don't know anyone it has hurt. I really really really recommend you check out the Dianetics, if only for your own curiosity. For the sake of $10, its worth the chance that it may make a difference to you.