So far, in 2004, 26% of all of the tech calls we've gone on for our clients and customers have been spyware removal.
While its simply amazing how many people claim to get "tricked" into installing this garbage I have to admit...being able to charge people and make money in this sluggish economy is fine with me.
If, due to people's inability/lack of know-how/tech department to update their machines or simply use firefox or any other non-ie browser is a good thing to my business.
So far we've had our clients buy more copies of adaware professional and hfnetcheckpro than we've sold copies of office 2k3.
If your behind any kind of firewall, and I know I'm saying *if*, then remote admin wont do you much good for remote connections unless you've got port 4899 open. If they are using a different port mapping in the registry file the it will conflict if you have another service running on that 'standard' port. Seem's pretty bad to install an app like remote admin for that purpose.
According to our logs for the past 6 months totalling some 400,000 unique visitors and ignoring all internal based browsing we're at 94.5% IE, firefox is 0.8% along with mozilla. We have two business sites hosting here. There might be a downward trend but were not seeing it in the business world, at least not yet. Come to think of it, the firefox browsing might just be me doing work from home.
As a consultant I've been asked on many occasions to not bring my iPod into the clients offices while I work on their servers and network systems. I have no problem with it either. The iPod is not alone though. I've been asked to leave my camera phone at the main desk as well, which, is frankly annoying but, if thats what the client wants...
1/2 a million emails, Microsoft's 10 second delay math-calculation mechanism (does 1. implement method 2. xxxx 3. profit fit at this point? ) would make that say...
500,000 x 10 seconds = 5,000,000 seconds 5,000,000 seconds @ 3600 secs/hour = 1,388 hours of non stop emailing 1,388 hours = 57.8 days of straight emails....
If they time it wrong the damm election will be over by that time.
We monitor, using a combination of two programs, all web traffic (without blocking), email and ftp traffic as well as (a nice battle) block all IM programs.
Our employee's know we do this and honestly over the past six years I dont think they really care. Our productivity hasn't diminshed and overall employee's are happy in the offices.
But, unlike the cut and dry approach of some larger corporations we use a common sense approach to things. If your log shows you looked at the playboy website, either through an errant link or a direct lookup once, then we see no true harm. If the same employee is looking at playboys website every day, then we email him a simple (dont do this at work) message and 99.9% of the time they "get it".
Maybe it's because were a smaller company (45) but I really dont mind if at lunch or even while doing proposals someone wants spend 5 minutes and look at the last interception of the superbowl.
We monitor and to a degree, restrict, and our employees dont care.
Someone breaks into my house holding one of 220+ millions guns that do NOT have electronic control and points it at me; me, being scared to death have a very sweaty hand, possibly holding it in the wrong hand, jittering and nervous pull the trigger only to be told by the gun "Sorry, thats not my owner holding me" and refuses to fire while the bad guy, who doesnt' give a shit about these things, shoots me dead.
The minute a gun refuses to fire in a situation due to bad battery, loose wire, bad reception, mis-red palm print, battery in the watch is dead or whatever and the owner ends up dead the lawsuits are going to be insane.
And, back to whats been said 1,000 times during these hearings. This does not actually *STOP* people killing themselves, nor does it *STOP* minors from shooting their friends. There are 200+ million guns out there that are not flagged in this manor.
This law makes people "feel good" while preventing nothing.
Are they actually referring to the fact that in photocrap and illumastrator you can re-arrange the dialog boxes and move certain objects (such as layers) into the color selection box?
You can do the same in flash generator too.
If they are trying to get a product, who gives a damm if it's flash, off the market because the UI has a the ability to re-arrange tabs then I feel very sorry for Adobe and wish the 9 year old in charge up there would stop staring at his winky and go play in the sandbox.
When aliens come down from space and look at the miserable, pathetic sue happy idiots we've all become I for one hope they do vaporize this planet and make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Bloody miserable humans.
I lived in Bury St. Edmunds for five years when my father was stationed at the two air force bases.
The abbey gardens are quite large. I would like to know which bench it's on. I carved my name into each one of them:)
From all of us, sorry for the inconvienence. This guy got me through high school and college by simply reminding me that life is simply to absurd to take seriously.
I am sad.
In one full year with over 500+ viruses emailed into our networks, 492 of which were stopped at the fire wall the most a virus ever caused our 40 million dollar company was a wasted lunch time for me applying a drive image pro file on top of an infected machine.
17 billion in lost damages??? If the dummies would just spend 2 grand on good firewalls and antivirus programs then they wouldn't loose all that money.
I agree about the advertising. But then again, I firmly believe that's where DELL does it's damage by making sure that the CIO of the company get's the add's and using those #'s, which we all know to be crap, in nice bold type, makes them believe that NT is the way to go.
And that's why we, the people who do know the difference have slashdot. To get the hard evidence and make sure that the CIO does not get carried away with #'s.
Slashdot Mirror
So far, in 2004, 26% of all of the tech calls we've gone on for our clients and customers have been spyware removal.
While its simply amazing how many people claim to get "tricked" into installing this garbage I have to admit...being able to charge people and make money in this sluggish economy is fine with me.
If, due to people's inability/lack of know-how/tech department to update their machines or simply use firefox or any other non-ie browser is a good thing to my business.
So far we've had our clients buy more copies of adaware professional and hfnetcheckpro than we've sold copies of office 2k3.
I'm amazed how hard it was to turn off the filtering of images with their staggering "are you sure your over 18" yes/no questionaiire.
If its that simple of a bypass, whats the point in having it to begin with?
If your behind any kind of firewall, and I know I'm saying *if*, then remote admin wont do you much good for remote connections unless you've got port 4899 open. If they are using a different port mapping in the registry file the it will conflict if you have another service running on that 'standard' port. Seem's pretty bad to install an app like remote admin for that purpose.
According to our logs for the past 6 months totalling some 400,000 unique visitors and ignoring all internal based browsing we're at 94.5% IE, firefox is 0.8% along with mozilla. We have two business sites hosting here. There might be a downward trend but were not seeing it in the business world, at least not yet. Come to think of it, the firefox browsing might just be me doing work from home.
As a consultant I've been asked on many occasions to not bring my iPod into the clients offices while I work on their servers and network systems. I have no problem with it either. The iPod is not alone though. I've been asked to leave my camera phone at the main desk as well, which, is frankly annoying but, if thats what the client wants...
1/2 a million emails, Microsoft's 10 second delay math-calculation mechanism (does 1. implement method 2. xxxx 3. profit fit at this point? ) would make that say...
....
500,000 x 10 seconds = 5,000,000 seconds
5,000,000 seconds @ 3600 secs/hour = 1,388 hours of non stop emailing
1,388 hours = 57.8 days of straight emails
If they time it wrong the damm election will be over by that time.
We monitor, using a combination of two programs, all web traffic (without blocking), email and ftp traffic as well as (a nice battle) block all IM programs.
Our employee's know we do this and honestly over the past six years I dont think they really care. Our productivity hasn't diminshed and overall employee's are happy in the offices.
But, unlike the cut and dry approach of some larger corporations we use a common sense approach to things. If your log shows you looked at the playboy website, either through an errant link or a direct lookup once, then we see no true harm. If the same employee is looking at playboys website every day, then we email him a simple (dont do this at work) message and 99.9% of the time they "get it".
Maybe it's because were a smaller company (45) but I really dont mind if at lunch or even while doing proposals someone wants spend 5 minutes and look at the last interception of the superbowl.
We monitor and to a degree, restrict, and our employees dont care.
Microsoft is part of the BSA and in their agreement they can damm well do this. Still didn't stop me from ignoring it.
As my lawyer told me, replying to it simply gives them a name and address to send more correspondance to.
So I threw mine away.
Someone breaks into my house holding one of 220+ millions guns that do NOT have electronic control and points it at me; me, being scared to death have a very sweaty hand, possibly holding it in the wrong hand, jittering and nervous pull the trigger only to be told by the gun "Sorry, thats not my owner holding me" and refuses to fire while the bad guy, who doesnt' give a shit about these things, shoots me dead.
The minute a gun refuses to fire in a situation due to bad battery, loose wire, bad reception, mis-red palm print, battery in the watch is dead or whatever and the owner ends up dead the lawsuits are going to be insane.
And, back to whats been said 1,000 times during these hearings. This does not actually *STOP* people killing themselves, nor does it *STOP* minors from shooting their friends. There are 200+ million guns out there that are not flagged in this manor.
This law makes people "feel good" while preventing nothing.
Amazing america.
Are they actually referring to the fact that in photocrap and illumastrator you can re-arrange the dialog boxes and move certain objects (such as layers) into the color selection box?
You can do the same in flash generator too.
If they are trying to get a product, who gives a damm if it's flash, off the market because the UI has a the ability to re-arrange tabs then I feel very sorry for Adobe and wish the 9 year old in charge up there would stop staring at his winky and go play in the sandbox.
When aliens come down from space and look at the miserable, pathetic sue happy idiots we've all become I for one hope they do vaporize this planet and make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Bloody miserable humans.
You failed to realize then that this article shows people who not only pirated the copy of the program but then attempted to upgrade it.
i.e. these people did *not* copy it for spite, they copied it, used a fake registration and were probably running the program often.
The article does mention software piracy as a whole but this guy just backed up his article with cold hard (and very readable IP addresses) facts.
free to play, no monthly access, no charge to get the software.
and they plan on making money on this how?
you invest $100 bucks in the game and then after one month they go bankrupt.
where is the profit plan in this?
I lived in Bury St. Edmunds for five years when my father was stationed at the two air force bases. The abbey gardens are quite large. I would like to know which bench it's on. I carved my name into each one of them :)
From all of us, sorry for the inconvienence. This guy got me through high school and college by simply reminding me that life is simply to absurd to take seriously. I am sad.
In one full year with over 500+ viruses emailed into our networks, 492 of which were stopped at the fire wall the most a virus ever caused our 40 million dollar company was a wasted lunch time for me applying a drive image pro file on top of an infected machine.
17 billion in lost damages??? If the dummies would just spend 2 grand on good firewalls and antivirus programs then they wouldn't loose all that money.
UCLA tried sent notice to me because my domain name contained the characters "ucla".
What a crock.
I agree about the advertising. But then again, I firmly believe that's where DELL does it's damage by making sure that the CIO of the company get's the add's and using those #'s, which we all know to be crap, in nice bold type, makes them believe that NT is the way to go. And that's why we, the people who do know the difference have slashdot. To get the hard evidence and make sure that the CIO does not get carried away with #'s.
And just fuck that one up as well.