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How Microsoft's Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe (wired.com)

Posted by msmash on from the hacking-for-good dept.

Wired has a story on Windows' red team, which consists of a group of hackers (one of whom jailbroke Nintendo handhelds in a former life, another has more than one zero-day exploit to his name, and a third signed on just prior to the devastating Shadow Brokers leak), who are tasked with finding holes in the world's most used desktop operating system. From the story: The Windows red team didn't exist four years ago. That's around the time that David Weston, who currently leads the crew as principal security group manager for Windows, made his pitch for Microsoft to rethink how it handled the security of its marquee product. "Most of our hardening of the Windows operating system in previous generations was: Wait for a big attack to happen, or wait for someone to tell us about a new technique, and then spend some time trying to fix that," Weston says. "Obviously that's not ideal when the stakes are very high."

[...] Together, the red teamers spend their days attacking Windows. Every year, they develop a zero-day exploit to test their defensive blue-team counterparts. And when emergencies like Spectre or EternalBlue happen, they're among the first to get the call. Again, red teams aren't novel; companies that can afford them -- and that are aware they could be targeted -- tend to use them. If anything, it may come as a surprise that Microsoft hadn't sicced one on Windows until so recently. Microsoft as a company already had several other red teams in place by the time Weston built one for Windows, though those focused more on operational issues like unpatched machines. "Windows is still the central repository of malware and exploits. Practically, there's so much business done around the world on Windows. The attacker mentality is to get the biggest return on investment in what you develop in terms of code and exploits," says Aaron Lint, who regularly works with red teams in his role as chief scientist at application protection provider Arxan. "Windows is the obvious target."

83 comments

  1. Let me guess... by ugen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me guess - "not very well". Wait, is that a trick question?

    1. Re:Let me guess... by SirSlud · · Score: 0

      They are in it for profit

      Oh, my sweet summer child ..

      --
      "Old man yells at systemd"
    2. Re:Let me guess... by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's a good effort, but you can't bolt security on as an afterthought. It needs to be built into the core of the system, and every programmer needs to have it in mind, because any programmer can write a security hole.

      --
      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    3. Re:Let me guess... by TubeSteak · · Score: 1

      Microsoft's solution to insecure code was to graft on a layer of insecure security code.
      They tried. But the hackers are trying harder and winning.
      Again and again and again and again.

      --
      [Fuck Beta]
      o0t!
    4. Re:Let me guess... by phantomfive · · Score: 2

      Microsoft's solution to insecure code was to graft on a layer of insecure security code.

      That's right.

      --
      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    5. Re:Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Microsoft's solution to insecure code was to graft on a layer of insecure security code.

      Their solution to every problem is to graft on a layer of code, instead of fixing the problem. Windows is mostly made of fossilized band-aids at this point, carved into the shape of an awkward semi-tablet OS.

    6. Re:Let me guess... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft's solution to insecure code was to graft on a layer of insecure security code.

      No, the Microsoft solution for insecure code is to have the user run multiple conflicting and insecure antivirus programs constantly in background. This slows down the system enough so viruses don't have time to do much damage before the next Windows Update.

    7. Re: Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No shit Sherlock. It must make wankers like you feel better to pretend they are all idiots unworthy of carrying your mental jockstrap. My guesses you either once worked there and got laid off or got rejected during the interview. Why else would you be so butt hurt?

    8. Re:Let me guess... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually they started out with a fairly secure OS, Windows NT. It had Unix-like permissions and actually went well beyond what most Unix-like systems of the time did in terms of access control.

      They they made it into a desktop OS (2000 and XP) which meant compromising the security in order to make it more compatible with Windows 98/ME. So they took a secure OS and added layers of insecurity on top.

      --
      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    9. Re:Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi there, AHuxley!

    10. Re:Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > No, the Microsoft solution for insecure code is to have the user run multiple conflicting and insecure antivirus programs constantly in background.

      Show me one MS document suggesting people run multiple anti-viruses on a system.

      I think you're confusing MS with end users who are under the impression this is a good idea.

    11. Re:Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NT Backspace Bug

      What I find amusing is the Nintendo 3DS hacker they hired is smea. And the 3DS is a great example of how the whole secure in principle is pretty meaningless. The joke of the 3DS hacking scene is "more stability". For a long time there was only one main hack on the 4.5 firmware. Then it was 9.2 with a variety of ways to downgrade with each "more stability" and yet another entry point as each was patched out. They finally patched out the ability to downgrade the firmware directly--until another entry point allowed rewriting the whole NAND. Once the boot rom was dumped, it was clear there was a hardware backdoor--likely meant for reflashing the NAND--so there was no more "more stability".

      So, Nintendo learned from their mistakes and built in fuses to prevent downgrade the firmware and made the security better, right? Except the GPU can be booted into recovery mode by using a paperclip to shorting a pin on the rail. Time for a hardware update?

      I can only imagine how much "fun" smea is having now. Driver exploits, especially GPU ones, are almost certainly in such massive quantities that it puts the core Windows ones to shame. But there's so many services and so many interactions, it's almost certain that there's hundreds of exploits from the NT4 era waiting to be exploited even to this day. Microsoft, like most companies, is horrible at writing robust code. Add to that the complexity of multiple processes, message passing, and privileges across multiple subsystems, and it's unlikely they've spent near enough effort to actually quarantine privilege. Yes, 2000/XP introduction of Power User or default Administrator on the desktop didn't help, but it only slowed down finding the extant privilege escalations.

    12. Re:Let me guess... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      MS document, hell! In my residential IT practice, I run into this situation all the time on Windows systems. Although the customer's new PC comes preloaded with the Windows Defender / MS Security Essentials that is now bundled with Windows, the hardware manufacturer often adds a trial copy of Norton Plugitallup 24/7 from force of habit. Then when the user's great-grandchildren come to Arizona (America's Hunzaland) for Christmas they install Avast because that's what they run on their old PC at home.

      When I approach a home where this is happening I don't even have to look at the street address. I just home in on the banshee scream of processor fans.

  2. Are these the nice people by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are these the nice people that call me all the time from Microsoft who want to help fix my computer?

  3. "Windows is the obvious target." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I would have thought Cisco was the obvious target given how often Cisco is used in major internet infrastructure and that there are CVEs for hard coded credentials in Cisco products just about every month.

    1. Re:"Windows is the obvious target." by stooo · · Score: 2

      Cisco is not a target.
      It's an open bar everyone can get drunken fro free.

      --
      aaaaaaa
    2. Re:"Windows is the obvious target." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can open bar everyone can get drunken fro free.

      I see you have been there.

  4. What a coincidence, they just called me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Said my PC was infected, and PROVED it to me! Now that is service. The phone person showed me how my PC was infected and he fixed it! He could even move my mouse! Amazing.!

    1. Re:What a coincidence, they just called me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did they offer you the total protection service against malware, spyware, virus's, rootkits, SJW's, STD's, and Hillary supporters for the low price of $795 per year?

    2. Re:What a coincidence, they just called me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The licensing fee is $695.00 you cocksmoking teabagger.

    3. Re:What a coincidence, they just called me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well fuck, it's $699.00. Sorry.

    4. Re:What a coincidence, they just called me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh that guy with indian accent and telling you he will scan your system? He will then fire-up cmd.exe and quickly type c:\dir /S *.* and tell you to wait because he is scanning your computer for viruses. LOL

  5. It's a paid ad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The article is part of a rebranding exercise from Microsoft.

    Not since DOS time M$ could keep our PCs safe.

    1. Re:It's a paid ad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's not true. Many a virus was written to infect DOS machines. They just had to be passed around by hand, none of this Internet of Thingies shit we have today.

    2. Re: It's a paid ad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Totally paid. Did slashdot get included with the gitub snatch?

  6. If you believe all this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You are sorely mistaken.

  7. Nice by realhacker2015 · · Score: 0

    Good Good

    --
    Vikas Sahu
  8. The only way the blue team wins is to power down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The only way the blue team can beat the red team is to turn off their computers...
    how demoralising would it be to work on either team!!!

    You just can't polish a turd like windows to a high gloss finish...

    It's bandaids all the way down to a festering infected herpies cluster that should have been cut out long long ago!!

  9. Keeps your PC safe by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    so the NSA can collect on you.
    All that effort kept the very best security experts guessing at what PRISM was for years.
    MS kept NSA collection safe on your PC.

    --
    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    1. Re:Keeps your PC safe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Like Kaspersky keeps FSB collection safe on your PC.

    2. Re:Keeps your PC safe by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      Strange how so many people are total experts on data moving globally out of the USA but they totally missed years of junk crypto and US wide domestic collection AC.

      --
      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  10. Create problem, solve problem, such HEROS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Microsoft, our savior for Microsoft security... oh wait!

  11. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Oh I feel safe knowing that my corporate data is protected by some 0-day gameboy hackers.

  12. Sad times indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I went out to *BSD's grave on Decoration Day. The old forgotten cemetery is by the dark woods beyond the edge of town. There within olfactory distance of the municipal treatment plant you will find *BSD's final resting place.

    *BSD's tombstone was shrouded by thick mosses and knots of noxious ivy. I gently pulled aside the tangled twists of thorns, and cleaned the decaying marker the best I could. My melancholy thoughts pondered that this indeed was *BSDs figurative charnel house of which so many have plaintively spoken.

    Nothing is so sad as an untended grave, a loved one now forgotten. The short sad life of a doomed and fated OS makes us realize that there but for the grace of God go all of us.

    I planted some wilting marigolds which I had found discarded behind Bud's Garden Center. By some miracle perhaps they will take root and bring a modicum of cheer to that God forsaken plot. My freverant hope is that the torpid colored boy who carelessly mows the cemetery doesn't slice them down, mirroring *BSD own fate against death's irresistible scythe.

    Funny how things work out. Linux, that brilliant novam stellam, now runs the Internet and the world's fastest computers, while *BSD lies moldering within its forgotten grave. Let the barren silence of *BSD's tomb be a mute reminder that hubris and braggadocio were no defense when the Angel of Death's bleak umbra fell upon *BSD.

    1. Re:Sad times indeed by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 1, Funny

      It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      --
      "Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
    2. Re:Sad times indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just wow. Thanks for the background information. I knew BSD was dead, but wasn't aware of all these facts.

      The only thing I know is that if BSD hadn't stolen source code from ATT they might have survived. But not only did they steal the source code, they changed some of the header files to obscure the fact. Hardly an innocent mistake. That's why ATT took BSD to court.

    3. Re: Sad times indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Impressive. I haven't read anything this inane on the interwebs since, well, Trump's last tweet.

      Show us on the doll where the BSD community touched you.

    4. Re:Sad times indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't work out if you're playing along with this or whether you don't realise that "BSD is dying" is not only a troll, but an exceedingly old one at that.

      (The linked article is dated late 2002, and it's implied that the troll had been around for quite some time even then! "Its impressive that after so long it still gets people responding").

  13. The security of a screen door by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lots of holes.

  14. Voting machines still run Windows 98 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yet electronic voting machines are still running Windows 98 and XP. Fixing modern OS's won't mean a damn because of all the crap old OS's out there.

    US mid terms are being hacked again, Russia again:
    https://gcn.com/articles/2018/06/01/voting-security.aspx
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/republicans-reticent-over-use-of-hacked-documents-in-midterms/559346/

    And our favorite puppet in chief is trying to get Russian into the G7, while trying to stir nationalism by attacking Canada over its trade deficit.... US has a $12.5 billion *surplus* with Canada, not a deficit.

    But that's OK, because Trump can pardon any hacker. He's already pardoning a foreign man who gave an illegal campaign donation (i.e. Trump has received illegal foreign donations and knows it), wanted to pardon Ali for draft dodging (he's a draft dodger). Wants to pardon Martha Stewart (i.e. he's done insider trading), pardon Scooter Libby (obstruction of justice, perjury.... both Trump crimes), ... you get the drift, he's saying to his co-defendants that he can pardon *their* crimes, so don't turn states evidence. /rant

    Microsoft cannot secure its OS, because USA cannot secure its democracy.

    1. Re:Voting machines still run Windows 98 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      President Trump knows your ISP. President Trump has your IP address. He has a camera pointed at you right now.

      Ivanka and Jared have a good laugh watching you beat that stubby little pecker of yours to a pulp watching anime pron. Seriously dude, you need to get a life. Sarah Sanders took a screenshot and passed her it around the White House press room. Even crabby old Jim Acosta got a laugh out your anatomical challenge, that and your octupus pron. Really, kid, it's 2018.

      Tomorrow is a big day. John Bolton has a map which plots the tracking device hiddent deep within the engine of your vehicle. He's waiting for one false move and then it's off to Gitmo for you. Tough break, kiddo.

      Keep your chin up. The muslims at Gitmo are especially friendly to pale pimple faced white boys like yourself. Peace out.

  15. Red versus Blue? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

    Are the members of the Red and Blue teams sure they're actually doing what they've been told that they're doing? Is the head of Red team a super gung-ho moron? Is there a Spanish-speaking robot somewhere in the mix?

    --
    #DeleteChrome
    1. Re:Red versus Blue? by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      What happened to the few actual security professionals who reported domestic PRISM collection?
      What team was used to suggest they could totally trust the privacy and crypto settings?

      --
      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  16. I wish they'd stop the Creators Update malware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This trojan wreaks havoc on our systems twice a year.

  17. How Microsoft's Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe? by najajomo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    HAAAA, nice one :]

    The Microsoft cyber attack DW Documentary

  18. Red Team by DrYak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let me guess too :
    "Red Team" - also known as, the team at Microsoft with the highest stress-related burnout and suicide rates ?

    --
    "Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
    1. Re: Red Team by phantomfive · · Score: 2

      No, they have the easiest job in the world: attacking Windows It's the blue team with the stressful job.

      --
      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  19. Safe windows by stooo · · Score: 1

    >> How Microsoft's Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe
    Windows.
    Safe.
    Yeah, right.

    --
    aaaaaaa
    1. Re:Safe windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >How Microsoft's Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe

      The answer is obvious: Re-imaging the PCs with Linux.

    2. Re:Safe windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Linux is no safer then Windows. Both operating systems are only as secure as the person administering the system makes them. And MS still dominates the desktop because Linux is bereft of applications. Linux applications tend to be poorly written clones of existing MS applications.

    3. Re:Safe windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So that they just stop working entirely...well yes I suppose that does make them safer.

    4. Re:Safe windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Linux is no safer then Windows.

      Linux: Possible and practical (for some distros at least) to run only signed code from trusted repositories. Will not run emailed executables unless you explicitly and manually change the permission bit. Anti-virus not installed by default and not generally required, only anti-virus products needed or used are to prevent pass-through of Windows viruses.

      Windows: Runs a lively assortment of software downloaded from random websites. Will also run emailed executables with a couple of click-through warnings which no-one reads. Anti-virus comes as standard, and is needed to protect against the approx 60K viruses in the wild.

      I rest my case.

  20. Ob by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    They found the "off" switch?

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    1. Re:Ob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't be silly - you have the management engine to thank for 'off switch management'.

      Nailgun through the wifi card, microphone, USB ports, and an RJ45 socket if you have one

      Then throw it in the bin

      Then throw the bin in a volcano.

      Then throw the planet with the volcano on, into a black hole.

      That should get you about a C rating in security at that point.

  21. MSFT Shilling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are by now more Android/Linux devices out there than Windows computer. Still they don't get infected at the rate of Windows computers.

    So: useless Progaganda.

    Microsoft still views bugs as a nuisance which do not create revenue.

  22. Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Boycott MSFT operating systems. That is a major step towards securing your intellectual property.

  23. NOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Whoever needs a top security server won't use the corporate-infected/NSA pwned alternatives to OpenBSD.

    The Kremlin uses BSD to run their email servers. They have NSA moles and they know what they must do.

  24. Re:The only way the blue team wins is to power dow by hlavac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only way the blue team can beat the red team is to turn off their computers...

    Nope, thanks to the Intel IME bullshit, not even turning off will help

  25. Windows 7? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Most used desktop operating system

    Is that still Windows 7, or did OSX take over the position?

    I mean, "desktop operating system" specifically excludes OSes targeting touch-devices, e.g. IOS, Android and Windows 10.

  26. Registered /.ers opinions of the Win64 model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

    (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016

    his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

    I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    * See subject: Best part is this Linux 64-bit model is 10x faster & more efficient (does 2x the work in 1/2 the time, literally)

    APK

    P.S.=> Enjoy a faster/safer/more reliable internet... apk

  27. I thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Windows 10 actually was the security loophole. Thatâ(TM)s how it feels when I boot into it at least (on a very rare occasion).

  28. The red team increases telemetry anyway possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    because that's what Microsoft is known for. Microsoft = Untrustworthy.

  29. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Windows, which has been around for over 20 years, has only been internally pentested for the past four years? ... what the actual fuck. What the actual fucking fuck. So now they're four years into fixing exploits on a system that's been around for over two decades. Yeah, good luck with that!

    This has got to be one of the most negligent tech companies in the world. Why anyone ever trusts them is a complete mystery to me. In any sane society they'd be sued into bankruptcy for their negligence. Imagine if this was ADT or Brinks or some other company you pay with the expectations of making your workplace secure. Holy shit.

    Now I'm going to sit back and wait for the flood of morons to respond to this, saying that this is all part of the "new Microsoft" and I need to get over "the past".

  30. Oh wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and they ride skateboards too !!

  31. Re:How I keep Linux PC's safer (& faster) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Y'know, I've been thinking for a while now that it might be time to switch to BSD...

  32. Re:How I keep Linux PC's safer (& faster) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nope. Your software is reactive not proactive. The MS team is actually preventing attacks, your work only tries to deal with problems in an indirect way long after the attacks have happened. You are the jizz mopper of security.

  33. doing a good job? by sad_ · · Score: 1

    an exploit a day? they've been awefully quit about it, all big vulnerabilities on windows i read about are found by other teams outside MS.
    right now, i got the impression Google is doing a better job finding vuls in Windows, and i can assume the 'red team' has access to the source code!

    --
    On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
  34. You're the jizz mopper do nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My ware blocks attack by script/bad links blocking them before they get you (does your non-existentware?) https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12213976&cid=56763942/ & even registered /.ers know that (you aren't smart enough to know it OR skilled enough to have done better yourself).

    * You're just an UNIDENTIFIABLE Jealous JOWIE "ne'er-do-well" DO-NOTHING ZERO waste of life, & you know it...

    (See subject - The only this I MOP is the FLOORS w/ "your kind", everytime, & you make it SO easy to do - lol!)

    APK

    P.S.=> ... & thanks again for proving it as you & "your kind" ALWAYS does (it's all you do, FAIL - It's all you've done in this life, lol)... apk

  35. You're in luck then (I have a port to BSD too) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You're in luck then (I have a port to BSD too from the same codebase for Linux, Windows & even MacOS X).

    * It's NOT easy being "World-Class" & MULTIPLATFORM (like me).

    APK

    P.S.=> "Onwards & UPWARDS"... apk

  36. How I keep Linux PC's safer (& faster) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p (remove spaces between characters & download)

    Created in FreePascal/Lazarus 1.8.2 using GTK3 on OpenGL 3.1 via KDE Plasma desktop on Kubuntu 18.04 plus patches.

    (Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any SINGLE solution (99% of threats = hostnames vs. IP address (that most firewalls use)) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!)

    Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" competitors slowing you, hosts speed you up 2 ways (adblocks + hardcodes u spend most time @) vs. competition loaded w/ bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + their overheads (messagepass ('souled-out' to advertiser addons) + filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation.

    APK

    P.S.=> Enjoy - it's even better vs. the Windows model on many fronts (speed & efficiency, mostly (plus a new merge feature))... apk

  37. Registered /.ers opinions of the Win64 model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

    (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016

    his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

    I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    * See subject: Best part is the Linux 64-bit model is faster & more efficient (does 2x the work in 1/2 the time, literally)

    APK

    P.S.=> Enjoy a faster/safer/more reliable internet... apk

  38. Three letters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ess Pee Aitch

  39. Three letters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ess Pee Aitch

  40. LOL! OK answer a question.. apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & NO AMOUNT OF YOUR BS works vs. it https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12213976&cid=56765030/ scumbag... lol!

    * It is ALWAYS A PLEASURE showing how WEAK you & yours are "hiding" behind UNIDENTIFIABLE "weezil" not-men posts, lol!

    APK

    P.S.=> QUESTION: What is it LIKE being a no good "ne'er-do-well" FAIL in this life that you are? Seriously, lol... apk

  41. I didnt read your post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought you were not going to reply for a while there. SPH.