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US Government Checking Up On Vista Users?
Paris The Pirate writes "This article at Whitedust displays some very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company; for no reason other than the machine was running Vista. From the article 'After running Vista for only a few days — with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection — so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening. What I found was foundation shaking. The two images below show graphical depictions of what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state'."
You're all idiots. Every last one of you. You all think I'm just an anti-bush activist or something? Well, you're all wrong. Jesus, all I do is bring up an example of a recent event THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE RELATED TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, and all your arguments become directed at that, and ONLY that. GET A BETTER ARGUMENT. I'm NOT promoting anti-bushism here, hell, I don't even FOCUS on that.
I simply state that if it's been done before, it can be done again, and through another medium. Don't throw your "you just hate bush" fodder at me. It's the stupidest reply you could ever give, and makes it seem like you're just looking to pick a fight with anyone who mentions even the slightest negative thing about Bush. I could care less about Bush, you bunch of morons. Santa Claus could be the president now for all I care, but if he and his administration had been accused of illegally wiretapping American citizens, I'd suspect him just the same! STOP focusing on the person, and focus on the whole entity, i.e. the Government, their actions and their record.
And it's real funny how I try to maintain a normal debate, and all of you just add your little "dweeb" or "doofus" comment at the end. Real top notch there. Between the senseless name calling, and the idiotic replies that I've just wasted my time reading, well, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were all Fox employees.
From the article: Again, even when idle and running only a bare minimum of system processes.
With that said, has anyone ever installed Server 2003 on a box, only to realize you booted it for the first time with the ethernet plugged in (and the firewall defaults to "off?") and within 45 seconds it's crippled by one of about 7 different viruses? Yeah, well, it's happened to me more times than I can count on one hand, I KNOW I'm constantly scanned from multiple sources, P2P software or not.