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Demonoid Down For a Week, Serving Malware Laden Ads
hypnosec tipped us to reports that Demonoid is still down after a suffering a massive DDoS last week, and that the domain is now redirecting to a malware-ridden spam site. Notable for surviving a CRIA mandated shutdown, this may be lights out for the torrent tracker: "To begin, while Demonoid’s admin told us that he would eventually bring the site back online, he clearly has other things on his mind. A really important family event puts a torrent site nowhere near the top of his priorities. ... Demonoid has been experiencing staffing issues this year. As we mentioned in an earlier article, there were rumors that one or maybe more Demonoid staffers had been questioned by authorities about their involvement in the site."
to finally start researching private newsgroup servers.
...and not using some form of AdBlock anyway?
IIRC, demonoid has had several outages throughout the years, some lasting weeks at a time. I would be surprised if this lasted much longer, but I would be far more surprised if this really did spell the end of demonoid all together.
fuck all you pirate assholes anyway. I hope you get a virus that blows up your hard drive, you anti-business pricks.
you forgot to add yours sincerely MPIAA :D
http://chimpbox.us
Yep, because when an amateur wants to play around with a professionals tool, they should have no compunctions about paying $3K for the privilege.
I've always been forced (by means of parental guilt-trip) to act as tech-support for family, which basically means being the guy who gets roped into decontaminated malware-laden PCs for them, despite the fact I'm in a full time job and earn more than most of them. Yes, the whole "being the guy who knows PCs" thing is really starting to grate as I move further into my 30s, not least because my knowledge is nowhere near as fresh or as deep as it was a decade ago.
Anyway, rant aside, I've been used to dealing with calls about stuff like this maybe 3 or 4 times a year. And now in the last week, I've had two calls from extended family, both relating to infections acquired from the redirected Demonoid. I'm really seething about this - we're talking about people a generation older than I am, with jobs, who are still getting infections from piracy sites. For a decade now, I've been operating on the basis of "Do I need it? If not, do I want it? Can I justify spending money on it? And if not, is there a free-as-in-beer legal alternative available?"
Anyway, I've said I'll "help" with these infections at the weekend. But I'm not going to be spending hours running malware removal kits and trawling through registries. If they have legal Windows reinstall discs, then fine. If not (and I'll bet they don't), they'll be going out to the shops to buy them and then doing format/reinstalls. Backups? Any that they hadn't made pre-infection (and they won't have done any) will, I shall argue, pose too much of a risk of reinfection (which might even be true).
Might encourage them to think twice next time. But probably won't.
stopping people from getting information about sex and contraception was supposed to solve some problem or other.
Fugue for Aaron Swartz
Why is this an "obama administration" thing? Seems like GWB was just the same. The only difference is the list of who was "more equal" was slightly different.
For a decade now, I've been operating on the basis of "Do I need it? If not, do I want it? Can I justify spending money on it? And if not, is there a free-as-in-beer legal alternative available?"
The problem is that most people don't make it to this point. They only see that FREE FREE FREE FREE, and then use their morals against giant companies/for privacy/ anti-government, what-have-you, to justify their decision. A little bit of research will prove that for most things there is a legal, free version available. It might not be 100% what you want, but it'll be close, and it'll be great considering it's free.
DISCLAIMER: I do pirate things (games usually, or music) to TRY THEM. IF I like them, I BUY THEM. This is because there is no such thing as a good demo anymore.
I usually pirate software before I try them. If it's worth it, I will buy it. Same thing with games. Is it worth it to spend 60 for a 8-16 hours game that I will trow away in the garbarge or let it gather dust in my cabinet cause I only played it once ... or is it worth 60$ cause I still play today and the replay value is very strong. With software, is it worth 50$ and more depending on the usage I need from it. lots of software are just overpriced for my needs. That's bad cause I know some software that I would buy the their price is very questionable.
Prove to me..or us here, people of /. that piracy is anti-business. Give me stats, hard numbers to make me shut up. Afaik, piracy helps business in an indirect way like it or not.
you talk too damn much
obligatory link to The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers
Uhm.... how about charging 50+ USD/hour + miles ?
Perl Programmer for hire
And you post posts that say *zero*. Talk more.
> I've always been forced [...] to act as tech-support for family [...] despite the fact I'm in a full time job and earn more than most of them.
What does your job or how much it pays have to do with whether you should be helping out your family with a topic or task you have more knowledge in than they do?
Because when you're working full-time, have been doing so for a decade and are generally pretty successful, it really rankles to have people who you only see at Christmas and who only pick up the phone when they have a PC problem expecting you to jump to their aid in the way that you did when you were a teenager or student with plenty of free time.
i went to download some of his more obscure movies (and they're all pretty obscure) and without demonoid i had to pause for a second and think where will i get them? especially since only a few have been released on DVD. well i still found them but it really remind me what a wonderful culture resource demonoid was. i mean any obscure movie from anywhere in the world was probably on there, likewise for music. although i'm still looking for a copy of communist Polish camp classic Hydrozagadka with english subs. wasn't even on demonoid! at least not with subs..
And nothing of value was lost
For me demonoid.me points to localhost so if you're being redirected to a malaware website your system is compromised.
i miss BTJunkie.
BTJunkie had EVERY FUCKING THING!!!112
Dammit.
I have a couple friends who... acquired some of the professional imaging and video software. They used to play with it as a hobby. They then went to school, and are now working-- one designing movies, the other games. They even admit that they probably would never have gotten to where they are without that. The schools that they ended up going to asked them to exhibit some of their work.
good info and something I'll have to check out, but I'd add that at least OpenDNS is practically malware in itself due to their screwing around with dns records to advertise to you. they even break SMTP by returning MX results for *everything*, which point to them.... a user on your network fat fingers an email address and the message ends up with opendns? I don't think so.
the others might be great tho, will try them.
-Lod
...where am I to torrent stuff now? /sadpanda
According to the article in TFA, which has been updated, the ads were put in place deliberately by the site admin to recoup some of his costs. Presumably, he didn't know they were full of malware.
I have developed this method of appearing to be helpful and trying to resolve the thing over the phone but invariably reaching the "I don't know about that" conclusion, and pointing them to a repairshop. After a few such occurrences they stopped bothering me. It also helps that all my relatives live at least 100 miles away and I don't own a car so they don't expect me to travel to fix whatever they broke.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Was wondering what was happening.
This.
My movie/music tastes are pretty strange at times, and I am genuinely trying to buy some obscure movies or albums. Problem is, they can't be found anywhere any more. Some have been released by Iron Curtain state owned companies (communist era stuff from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, URSS), some were released by now-bankrupt companies, etc. Digital copies are the only chance, and now with less and less large torrent sites around, the chances of actually watching that obscure movie or listening to that obscure album are slimmer. That's too bad, because people will be more and more limited to mainstream crap that sucks most of the time.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Same thing here. Except it wasn't software, it was gay porn. When I auditioned for a job, they asked me to exhibit some of my work. Thanks to all the gay porn I illegally downloaded, I was ready for fisting, ass-to-mouth, watersports, etc. So now I'm in the videos you illegally download :)
I use hosts in the following ways (see my 'p.s.' below, in detail, for your reference) to COMPLIMENT & OVERCOME THOSE PROBLEMS IN DNS & OTHER MECHANISMS LARGELY!
Custom hosts files gain me the following benefits (A short summary of where custom hosts files can be extremely useful):
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1.) Blocking out malware/malscripted sites
2.) Blocking out Known sites-servers/hosts-domains that are known to serve up malware (currently, I have 1,797,207++ blocked & growing @ roughly 250-5,000 per day added)
3.) Blocking out Bogus DNS servers malware makers use
4.) Blocking out Botnet C&C servers
5.) Blocking out Bogus adbanners that are full of malicious script content
6.) Getting you back speed/bandwidth you paid for by blocking out adbanners + hardcoding in your favorite sites (faster than remote DNS server resolution)
7.) Added reliability (vs. downed or misdirect/poisoned DNS servers).
8.) Added "anonymity" (to an extent, vs. DNS request logs)
9.) The ability to bypass DNSBL's (DNS block lists you may not agree with).
10.) More screen "real estate" (since no more adbanners appear onscreen eating up CPU, Memory, & other forms of I/O too - bonus!)
11.) Truly UNIVERSAL PROTECTION (since any OS, even on smartphones, usually has a BSD drived IP stack).
12.) Faster & MORE EFFICIENT operation vs. browser plugins (which "layer on" ontop of Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers - whereas the hosts file operates @ the Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode of operation (far faster) as a filter for the IP stack itself...)
13.) Blocking out TRACKERS
14.) Custom hosts files work on ANY & ALL webbound apps (browser plugins do not).
15.) Custom hosts files offer a better, faster, more efficient way, & safer way to surf the web & are COMPLETELY controlled by the end-user of them.
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* & FAR more... read on below IF you are interested (for detail).
AND, for those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:
http://securemecca.com/public/APKHostsFileInstaller/2012_06_01/APKHostsFileEngineInstaller32_64bit.exe.zip
(You simply extract its files to ANY folder you like (usually one you create for it, doesn't matter where, but you MUST run it as administrator (simple & the "read me" tab shows how easy THAT is to do))
What's it do for you?
It's a custom hosts file mgt. program that does the following for end users (Calling it "APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++") after it obtains custom hosts file data from 12 of the reputable & reliable sources listed below:
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1.) Offers massively noticeable increased speed for websurfing via blocking adbanners
2.) Offers increased speed for users fav. sites by hardcoding them into the hosts file for faster IP address-to-host/domain name resolutions (which sites RARELY change their hosting providers, e.g.-> of 250 I do, only 6 have changed since 2006 - & when sites do because they found a less costly hosting provider? Then, they either email notify members, put up warnings on their pages, & do IP warnings & redirectors onto the former IP address range to protect vs. the unscrupulous criminal bidding on that range to buy it to steal from users of say, online banking or shopping sites).
3.) Better "Layered-Security"/"Defense-In-Depth" via blocking host-domain based attacks by KNOWN bad sites-servers that are known to do so (which IS, by far, the majority of what's used by both users (hence the existence of the faulty but for most part working DNS system), AND even by malware makers (since host-domain names are recyclable by they, & the RBN (Russian Business Network & others)) were doing it like mad with "less than scrupulous", or uncaring, hosting providers)
4.) Better 'anonymity' to an extent vs. DNS request logs (not vs. DPI ("
Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube is ABOVE GOD!! Are you educated stupid??
Let old Hairy show you how to seriously cut the time down on a boot and nuke there friend. First go to WSUS Offline and have it download the patches and/or service packs for whatever version of Windows it is, you can then put 'em on a thumbdrive or DVD and have them ready to go once the OS is installed. Once the patches are all installed just go to Ninite on the now clean machine and check the boxes for any third party software you need, AV, flash, media players, codecs, etc.
And then finally once you have it just the way you like it slap in Comodo Time Machine and have it set to make a snapshot on boot. personally depending on how stupid the user is I have CTM take up 10%-20% of the drive, this way next time they do something stupid you can walk them through restoring the system in about 15 minutes. Nice thing is even if they hose the machine so badly it won't boot you can tell them to just hit the Home key on boot and run Time Machine from there. With these little tricks you are talking maybe an hour and a half, maybe six clicks all told, and once set up it'll be damned hard for them to pwn it again. Personally if it were me I'd use Comodo Internet Security for the AV as its not only free it plays nice with time machine, although I've also used Avast and its played nice too.
As for TFA its not like there aren't a bazillion and one warez sites out there, i'm sure if Demonoid goes tits up another will take its place by the end of the week. You'd think they'd learn its like whack a mole with those things but if the *.A.As want to pay some Media Pretender to play whack a site? their money to blow I guess.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
this is just retarded. They said they incurred a bandwidth cost from the ddos and turned on advertising to deal with it. I imagine the bandwidth cost before and after the DDOS were probably substantially different. I don't know if they were aware of the bad ads regardless.
In my personal experience pirate sites are relatively safe even when browsing them from Windows, I've never had any problems with sites like solarmovie.eu, demonoid.ph/demonoid.me or thepiratebay.org. Actually, I've personally had less problems so far with pirated content than with dysfunctional DRM schemes. Perhaps your relatives are a bit too careless or need better anti-virus software? (Porn sites, on the other hand, are full of malware.)
But anyway there is an easy remedy: Install GNU/Linux for them and tell them to use GNU/Linux for downloading all the great pirated content out there. Afterwards they can check their downloads with a nice anti-virus software before using them in any way Windows. Works like a charm, keeps your system 100% malware free.
Maybe it is high time for the reintroduction of shareware? First episode free, the rest for 9.99 a piece?
Worked well for Id Software back in the day.
I don't know how many games I played where I did the first episode and wanted to play the rest. That scheme made me buy DN2, DN3d, Commander Keen, Descent, Jill of the Jungle, Secret Agent, Raptor: call of the shadows, peganitzu (sp?) and more I have probably forgotten about. I think the reason why is that they were full blown games and you'd play and get all excited that you finally beat it and were attached to the characters and everything and right when you were in the high of victory, they then nailed you with the sales pitch.
Its a much better approach than demos. They usually just throw you in the middle of it and cut off early, rather than being a whole experience themselves.
Oh man...this is techie porn, right here. Time machine+win updates+one click installs=awesome.
Bits of code, random ramblings: jakimfett.com
Who is ddos'ing these guys and why? Cant this be found out? If its somebody associated with mp/riaa multi million dollar lawsuit and criminal charges should be filed.
When working on a network on the job, I tend to go with whatever a network admin has "in house" for the EXACT reasons you noted in fact: Messing up mail - specifically Active Directory related stuff regarding Outlook (full outlook that is, the part of Office)!
I had "issues" with that myself, @ work, due to AD dependencies on DNS, & perhaps I ought to note that in that reply you just replied to (my initial one on DNS servers) next time I use it!
Plus, as to YOUR point? Well... It's been one of mine before too (but I overlooked it here)!
E.G. -> I've noted it online before -> http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/secure-windows-2000-xp-server-2003-and-even-vista-make-fun-do-t3511888p2.html
Look for this quote on that page as my proof to you of this much -> "DO NOT USE THIS WITH A HOME or BUSINESS LAN THAT HAS ActiveDirectory going (because, for example - it will mess up things like FULL Outlook binding to EXCHANGE SERVER for instance, because of INTERNAL DNS SERVER dependencies AD has (ActiveDirectory is HEAVILY dependent on DNS resolutions is why)"
* Thus, I'll have to amend the post you replied to fro that... thanks!
(I have it saved in a "cut & paste" reply on things "malware", DNS related, SO, I'll have to add in this about MAIL MX records + Active Directory related stuff I noted above... )
APK
P.S.=> Thanks for that much... LOL, man!
I am sure you've been here, but... it gets to the point you forget SO much after learning so much, you can overlook stuff (sort of like the saying "I've forgotten more than most folks will ever learn", etc./et al)...
... apk
Obvious the ac troll here's doing it -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40858749 & then "trolling" me by ac posts (via one of his std. "timecube" b.s posts)... that much is obvious!
I also KNOW how it's done & how/why:
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1.) Downmoderate me via a registered /. user account (probably 1 of many) ala this quote from Open Source big name Bruce Perens:
"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal
SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192
2.) Logout to preserve your registered 'luser' cookie state
3.) Troll me by AC posts (that, or use multiple registered accounts here to do so)
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I would NOT doubt you use both methods (trolls use such puny tricks, HBGary & the Chinese Water Army are 2 groups that have been caught doing so, as well as "PR FIRMS" doing the same... pitiful, and transparent!)
All I can say to that troll is disprove my points on hosts files in my intial post here -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40856945
* Good luck - you'll NEED it (as many trolls like yourself have tried it, and failed, over the years here MANY times & have yet to prove a single point of mine in it incorrect!)
APK
P.S.=> My guess as to this troll's motivations? He's 1 of 3 kinds of people:
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1.) An advertiser (since hosts are the BEST THING GOING for blocking out adbanners, mainly for efficiency & easy end user control)
2.) A webmaster losing revenues due to folks blocking adbanners (quit using ones that put infestations on our systems & sucking our bandwidth + electricity and CPU cycles WE PAY FOR as end users)
3.) A malware maker/botnet herder (because hosts are excellent in THAT capacity as well, by blocking out hosts-domains that are KNOWN to serve up malicious content)
... apk
Best you have's an illogical off topic ad hominem attack? U FAIL, off topic troll.
How's about using NNTP just for distributing the .torrent only :-)
I did a quick search... amazingly I haven't seen anyone doing this?
A blog I run for the wealth
Hairyfeet,
I've been reading your banter for years, and while I generally perceive that you're trying to be helpful, this is the first time that you've helped me.
Thank you for re-introducing me to WSUS Offline (the last time I saw that concept was many years ago and somewhat broken and/or German), and Comodo Time Machine (which I'd not yet found).
These things will make my life, and the lives of my customers, immeasurably easier.
Best regards,
adolf
Kid-proof tablet..
The best the ac troll has was downmodding apk's post a day after (about 3-5 minutes prior to my post reply now after I challenged him to disprove each of apk's points on custom hosts files here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40867439 and here also http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40867457 ). The pitiful part's that the ac troll posted 3-4 hours ago spouting profanities and more illogical off topic ad hominem attack attempts failing to meet the challenges apk put to him to disprove his points on custom hosts files and was lurking around waiting for a responder. He's obviously some OCD rage afflicted sicko that apk has gotten the best of before who has a registered account here and does exactly what apk outlined on how and why he does it here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40863047 At this point he's not even worth my time or apk's. Apk was right about the how/why of his antics in that last link and right about hosts files benefits to end users of them since the troll can't disprove a single point of apk's on custom hosts files. I had to see if apk was right and sure enough, he was, on the bogus downmods his post gets here nearly every time. He's probably right about who's doing it and why as well from that last link. Good enough for me. I downloaded apk's program and it works like a charm too.
Why a downmod when uprated before? You show how to stop it. You're on topic and yet moderated off topic? Makes no sense to go from a +1 Insightful rating to a -1 Off Topic rating. Must be trolls stalking apk again. I tried the program. Good work. Thanks.
freedns.afraid.org /END PLUG
Haven't you had enough blowing it vs. apk here and here today http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=40867985 ? Talk about a massive fail and being stupid on your part. No wonder you stalk and troll apk with ac posts. You know you're going to fail and look stupid every single time you do it. 2 days in a row and 2 fails? Take your meds.
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski
We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusive emails to the operator of OSY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatening to sue him for libel, claiming that the APK on OSY was fake.
My reputa
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40869777
APK
P.S.=> You really do have issues, & I actually laugh everytime you try this stuff, going completely off topic... & you FAILED 2x in a row in 2 days with your ac stalking of myself, lol - agin/once more: THANK-YOU, for making ME, look good, & YOURSELF? "Not so good"... apk
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski!
We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusive emails to the operator of OSY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatening to sue him for libel, claiming that the APK on OSY was fake.
My reput
Disprove APK's points on custom hosts files and their being effective vs. malicious content online here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40856945 (You being off topic the entire time here isn't "logical" alongside anonymous coward trolling!) APK defeated? Beg to differ. You were defeated by your own stupidity. You can't disprove his points nor are you on topic.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40871179
On custom hosts files here -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40856945 and their effectiveness vs. not only threats like this article's about (the topic, remember, you off topic troll), but FAR more that benefits end users of them. You fail, you know it, I know it, as would anyone else reading knowing it.
APK
P.S.=> You've GOT to be some juvenile child, because no adult would act as you do...
QUESTION - How many times have I utterly THRASHED you that you must resort to trolling + stalking me off topic, illogical off-topic ad hominem failing attacks, & downmoderating my posts for no justifiable reason based on the topics @ hand, hmmm?
Too many I wager, lol, based on your reprehensible behaviors, & your being forced to use ac stalking/harassing posts vs. myself!
(Get over your "geek angst", because you'll have to know a HELL OF A LOT MORE in computing, to ever get the best of me & you KNOW it)...
... apk
Glad to help, just a little shop owner in BF nowhere that tries to make things easier, both for the common folk and the fellow fixit guys. WSUS was a little buggy the first year or so but now they have it down to a science, just pick whatever updates you want and let it package them however you'd like. I have mine set to once a month download all the updates from XP to Win 7 X64 and that way i can have all the updates and service packs on a single shared drive which cuts out a HELL of a lot of work.
Now with Time machine there is ONE little catch, but I usually don't mention it because its such a rare condition most don't run into it. if you try to install TM into a system that has both WinXP and Win 7 in a dual boot? it won't work. don't screw anything up, just won't work. That is because Win 7 changes the drive letter so no matter where you install it it looks like C: to the OS and with 2 C: drives TM doesn't know how to handle it. It hasn't be updated in awhile but it works great on XP- Win 7 and while I haven't personally tried it i'm told Win 8 works great as well, and the nicest thing is your grandma can run this. Just tell her to click the home key at boot or pick the clock from Windows, pick how far back she wants to go, and that's it. You can even run it and system restore if you'd like, but TM runs so much better frankly it makes SR pointless. also unlike SR I've found malware don't know how to infect TM so its an easy way to get rid of nasties if they refuse to listen and click on the "free porn/iPad/movies' and get a bug.
Finally be sure to give Ninite a spin, I've been using them for a couple of years now and they really take the work out of a clean install. Browsers, codecs, media players, flash, Libre office, you can pick as many as you like and with one button it all installs unattended with NO toolbars or other crap. Another nice feature most don't know about is you can use Ninte to update any software that is already on the system, simply check the boxes and ninite will skip anything that is already current.
So glad you enjoyed Adolf, with WSUS and Time Machine frankly it takes no time to set a system up and more importantly with TM its a hell of a lot harder for them to break it and ruin all the work you've done. Just be sure to tell it to lock the clean install, where you have everything set up just right, and no matter how many years pass you can send it right back to your own version of "factory fresh" with a single click.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
On custom hosts files here -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40856945 and their effectiveness vs. not only threats like this article's about (the topic, remember, you off topic troll), but FAR more that benefits end users of them. You fail, you know it, I know it, as would anyone else reading knowing it.
APK
P.S.=> You've GOT to be some juvenile child, because no adult would act as you do...
QUESTION - How many times have I utterly THRASHED you that you must resort to trolling + stalking me off topic, illogical off-topic ad hominem failing attacks, & downmoderating my posts for no justifiable reason based on the topics @ hand, hmmm?
Too many I wager, lol, based on your reprehensible behaviors, & your being forced to use ac stalking/harassing posts vs. myself!
(Get over your "geek angst", because you'll have to know a HELL OF A LOT MORE in computing, to ever get the best of me & you KNOW it)...
... apk
Ac troll can't write a better one for hosts import and processing http://securemecca.com/public/APKHostsFileInstaller/2012_06_01/APKHostsFileEngineInstaller32_64bit.exe.zip
Glad you enjoyed it, with those little tricks you can take the hassle out of an install and more importantly make it a HELL of a lot harder for them to break it. Another nice trick with Time machine is you can "lock" a snapshot, so once you get the PC exactly how you like it, with all the programs you or the customer wants, you can then lock it and no matter how much time passes you'll have your own 'factory fresh" option just a single click away.
Heck I walked a former customer over the phone in another state on how to restore the system using the Time Machine I had installed, took her less than 15 minutes to go from a machine her niece had hosed so bad she couldn't even get a desktop to a perfectly running system, you just can't beat that kind of ease of use friend.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
You can't respond to his arguments because you know nothing, so you resort to personal attacks. You are a sad little child.
Do not download!
Alexander Peter Kowalski is a well-known spammer and author of viruses and other malware.
Google his name to learn the truth.
Alex, you project your fail + defeat.
From this & disproving my points on HOSTS files -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40872153
APK
P.S.=> You FAIL, troll... apk
It does the job well (data accuracy is excllent) in both 32-bit + 64-bit code (99.999% the same too, only differs in resource strings that say "32-bit" vs. "64-bit").
For details of what benefits (many) it can yield for you, refer to my initial 1st post here @ the start of it again:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40856945
The nicest part is, since it's written in Object Pascal, that I can FAIRLY EASILY "port" it to Linux &/or MacOS X too in Delphi XE (MacOS X) & soon XE2 (Linux again, like Borland Kylix was, & FreePascal with Lazarus IDE, is)...
(I wrote version 1.0++ in 2003, & 2.0++ - 4.0 in Delphi thru versions 3.0 -> 5.0 -> 7.0 in 32-bit, & now Delphi XE in 32/64 bit)
Plus, Delphi absolutely "knocked-the-chocolate" outta:
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1.) Symantec JAVA (no "big trick", it's a slow totally interpreted language)
2.) Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 (first 32 bit one that had a "true" compiler, but still used runtime libs on the interface, same with MSVC++ 5.x)
3.) Microsoft Visual C++ 5.x
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From back in 1997, in of ALL places, a competing trade journal called "Visual Basic Programmer's Journal" Sept./Oct. 1997 issue titled "Inside the VB Compiler", in 7/10 tests - it "stole me away" from using THOSE tools primarily in fact!
(It kicked butt, losing only by a PUNY margin to MSVC++ in the "graphics methods", however, it "NUKED" MSVC++ in Math & Strings by HUGE margins, & every program does those...)
* Some "Food for Thought" there... trends in the art & science of computing come & go, but I've ALWAYS been a fan of TRUE "stand-alone" single file contained executables for that reason - performance!
APK
P.S.=> I told myself that IF things didn't get better on the malware front online by 2012, I'd put it out for "General Public Consumption", & here we are today, & as Capt. America said to Peggy Carter in the great film "Capt. America":
"This things moving too fast, & it's heading for New York. Right now I'm in the middle of nowhere: If I wait any longer, a lot of people are gonna die..."
Since hosts files are not only excellent for more speed & bandwidth you pay for, CPU usage decreases in browsers, reliability & even anonymity to an extent, but also for stopping malicious code exploits too!
See - I also tend to think of my "taking a break" from writing wares (2003- present day), also sort of like Col. Nick Fury speaking to Steve Rogers @ the termination/ending of the GREAT 2012 film, "Captain America" when he says:
"You've been asleep Cap, for almost 70 years" (internet-time-wise, that is (10x as long with all the change))
No more...
In any event, enjoy the program - it was a real "labor of love" for nearly a decade++...
... apk
Ok - when you can show us you've done MORE, earlier & to better acclaim than I did only a year outta my studies for a CSC degree (AAS level then) that's in my p.s. below? Then, you may have a point, speaking as my "peer", but not until then (& that was while you were probably STILL IN DIAPERS I wager)...
"Alexander Peter Kowalski is a well-known spammer and author of viruses and other malware. Google his name to learn the truth." - by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03, @08:31PM (#40874463)
Time to expose truth, since "the truth shall set ME free", as it ALWAYS does!
1st - I've knocked over Computer Associates on that account no less!
(Who had to sell of their AntiVirus & entire utilities suite in fact, lol, largely because of that & how terrible it was with "false positives" + the email scanner tore up emails on folks left & right (did that @ a place I worked for in 2008-2009 & we REMOVED IT, even though they sold it too, lol!)).
Yea, CA... real "nice guys" (not) - see here:
http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Computer+Associates%22+and+%22Accounting+Scandal%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=vXkcUL7dDMqm6wHC1IGoBQ
BUSTED in ACCOUNTING FRAUD!
Real criminals no less!
(They had the NERVE to call a 5 line program I wrote a "malware", well... "lil' ole me" took it to them, & the program PASSED ALL 21 OF THEIR QUESTIONS FOR REMOVAL no less, & was downgraded to ZERO THREAT LEVELS!).
Some "malware maker" I am, lol... & when I found out WHO submitted it to them, a Thor Schmuck guy?
I confronted him & asked "Why doesn't Spybot 'Search & Destroy' appear on their lists? It violates their requirement about HOSTS files" & why PING isn't on there, as it could @ THAT time, issue a "ping of death"...
On Spybot though - Albeit in a good way, as does my program I noted here in fact!
They all shut up in the end & more... I love it!
(or in CA's case, got shot down by "yours truly" easily, & shut up, sold off... lol!)
Yes - Couldn't happen to a 'nicer' bunch of guys, & Karma is a bitch (since "what comes around, goes around", everytime - this, is life!)
No skin off MY behind!
The same's happened to Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT (good programmer, makes TONS of utilities, & I thought I did over time... he's a "next gen" developer after my group really, & works hard + does well) - ask him yourselves.
He & I had HUGE long discussions on it in fact & he did a tremendous blog on it that influenced many!
He agreed, as do many others, "False Posities" happen way, Way, WAY too much & often, & we BOTH have a feeling that the "big software houses" fear the "little guys" like he & myself... I agree - they *try* to crap on us with libel!
The same happened to Dr. Mark Russinovich having his pstools suite used & abused in malwares plus, some of his many wares also being called "malwares" too, because they are OR can be, double-edged swords... ask him, he won't deny it either!
My attorney @ the time whom I consulted with, a Mr. John Lowe of HISCOCK & BARCLAY said I had a winning case to the tune of 250k++ for libel - but, he wouldn't take it on a 33.3% std. fare deal as his cut of the "take"/award... he told me:
"They'll drag it out for 20++ yrs. with FLEETS of attorneys they keep on retainer, & by the time I get done? My part would be MORE than the entire award..."
This is life in the 20th-21st century in the USA: You aren't rich? You get NO justice (& certainly NO LAW either).
Anyhow/anyways:
My code's always "clean", proven by the 2 guys who are hosting THIS app for
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40874731
When you use custom hosts files of relatively LARGE size? Turn off the local DNS clientside cache service in Windows!
I.E. -> Set it to DISABLED state (using services.msc, OR, the "Tools" menu in my program)
Yes - this is a KNOWN issue I've pointed out to Microsoft years ago & one thing Linux has going for it, hands-down, over Windows (since NO SUCH ISSUE EVER OCCURS WITH HOSTS FILES OF ANY SIZE ON LINUX) - I'll give it that!
* This program most definitely yields custom hosts files of large size since it imports, filters, sorts & removes problem or invalid entries + bloat in them into a uniform faster/smaller format!
(Which I also proved to an MS mgt. figure from the "Windows Client Performance Division" in Foredecker, Richard Russell, former VP of that division no less, for Microsoft, and, here on /. too, where he conceded my points on that since smaller files WILL parse & load faster than larger ones (using 127.0.0.1 as a blocking address for hosts records, vs. the smaller/faster & NO LOOPBACK overhead 0.0.0.0)).
APK
P.S.=> Other than that? Enjoy surfing faster, safer & more securely, + more reliably (than relying on DNS alone since it has KNOWN faults/issues, mainly in redirect poisonings) using a custom hosts file... apk
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski?
We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusive emails to the operator of OSY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatening to sue him for libel, claiming that the APK on OSY was fake.
My reput
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski!!
We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusive emails to the operator of OSY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatening to sue him for libel, claiming that the APK on OSY was fake.
My repu
From this & disproving my points on HOSTS files -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40872153 & all your off topic stupidity only shows you're nothing but a piece of trolling online scum trash, & nothing more...
* I pity you, I truly do - since doubtless the rest of your pitiful existence exemplifies that of you as well!
(Best part is, I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & anyone else reading here knows it as well...)
APK
P.S.=> It truly has been a pleasure watching a skulking worm like you RUN from something that's essentially untouchable, by "yours truly" & thus? Well - you KNOW I've just GOTTA SAY IT, as-is-per-my-usual 'inimitable style':
This? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2EZ'" - especially vs. an off-topic trolling worm, like yourself...
... apk
From this & disproving my points on HOSTS files -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40872153 & all your off topic stupidity only shows you're nothing but a piece of trolling online scum trash, that trolls off-topic, & nothing more...
* I pity you, I truly do - since doubtless the rest of your pitiful existence exemplifies that of you as well!
(Best part is, I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & anyone else reading here knows it as well...)
APK
P.S.=> It truly & absolutely has been a pleasure watching a skulking worm like you RUN from something that's essentially untouchable, by "yours truly" & thus? Well - you KNOW I've just GOTTA SAY IT, as-is-per-my-usual 'inimitable style':
This? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2EZ'" - especially vs. an off-topic trolling worm, like yourself...
... apk
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3026593&cid=40878687
You have no rebuttals to her arguments so you cry and spam.
I pity your horrible life.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3026651&cid=40879293
You have no rebuttals to her arguments so you cry and spam.
I absolutely pity your absolutely horrible life.
From this & disproving my points on HOSTS files -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40872153 Still having trouble keeping on topic, off-topic troll, as well?
* Oh well, that's what you get, when you "mess with the best"!
APK
P.S.=> YOU seriously have mental ISSUES - no doubt about it, ac stalking/harassing/trolling me: Tell me, how many times did I absolutely "smoke" you that you're so full of "geek angst" to do that so much? apk
From this & disproving my points on HOSTS files -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3022017&cid=40872153 Still having trouble keeping on topic, off-topic troll, as well?
* Oh well, that's what you get, when you "mess with the best"!
(By the way - illogical off-topic ad hominem attacks won't cut it... you FAIL as usual, troll!)
APK
P.S.=> Without question, YOU seriously have mental ISSUES - no doubt about it @ this point, ac stalking/harassing/trolling me: Tell me, how many times did I absolutely "smoke" you on "Things Technical" in computing that you're so full of "geek angst" to do that so much? apk
Good program. Thanks apk.
there is no such thing as a good demo anymore.
Ugh, I know right? I miss the good old days when a demo was a 30-day trial, with every feature intact.
Right when dual core processors came out I built a PC with the most expensive processor I could find. Most games would not even recognize the second processor and have tremendous difficulty running. After the FIRST time that happened, I switched to downloading the game first, just to see if it could even operate on my machine. It probably saved me from buying hundreds upon hundreds of dollars of incompatible games.
Baahaha! Good advice for getting rid of pesky family members posted by something that looks like a spam-bot. Nice.
Don't be silly.
Businesses don't hate piracy because it makes them lose money
They hate it because it threatens their monopoly control of the market.