The company has "innovations" in it's name, so their product probably won't work.
I actually tried it with a Truecrypt volume and a random file (/dev/urandom) and it seems to work. The Truecrypt is identified as "Encrypted Data (Headerless)" and the random file is identified as "Data File (Unknown)".
Purposefully installing malicious software does not indicate a vulnerability. The user intentionally installed a piece of software that is doing exactly what it is designed to do.
It's a Trojan horse. However, isn't that what a majority of Windows viruses are? The only difference is that this is distributed via pirated software, not email attachments, IM file transfers, or other distribution techniques that Windows viruses use to propagate.
Even Mac and Linux systems can suffer from remote exploits like Windows suffers from (Slammer, Conficker, etc). With UAC, Vista and Windows 7 are theoretically as secure as a Mac or Linux OS, but Microsoft's security bugs and wide distribution make it practically less secure.
There is a way to protect against Trojans, however. Not ever letting typical programs run with administrative privileges (i.e. no installers) and using an privilege combination system like OLPC's Bitfrost should prevent Trojan programs from being able to effectively work.
Why does Windows have so much more overhead for creating processes? What is it about the Windows processes that makes them cost that much?
Linux Zealot: It's because of all the spaghetti code behind it!
Seriously though, a Windows CreateProcess() call is much more complicated than a simple fork() and exec(). It has 10 arguments and and last two arguments are pointers to structures with more arguments. Windows has always been slow to create processes, this is why they run multiple services in single "svchost" processes instead of having a process for each service. For more information on CreateProcess(), see the MSDN Page.
And then finding that the OS even after reboot has locked you out of your own Local Settings folder; has denied you permission to move or delete the modified DLL; and refuses to allow the replacement of the Local Settings folder after it is unlocked with Unlocker to move it to the Desktop for examination (where it also denies you entry to your own folder). Setting permissions to 'allow everyone' was disabled!
This is a bug in the beta, not some crazy DRM scheme. It has happened to me with downloaded executables and my own programs. The file has been deleted, but the operating system won't recognize that it's gone and reports it as locked. Unlocker doesn't work because nothing is locking it, it's just a bug in the filesystem or explorer code. To fix it, rebooting usually works. If that doesn't work, schedule a boot time disk check and reboot. This has always worked for me.
Check the site, it's MP3. The subscription music is in WMA, but not the purchased music. They probably chose it because it's guaranteed DRM free, works on any player (including the iPod), and can compete with Amazon and other music sites.
Well now that ITunes is going DRM free the Zune is even less interesting.
Purchased Zune music is DRM free. It's only the ZunePass subscription service that uses DRM to ensure that you don't keep the music after you cancel your subscription. Music purchased with Microsoft Points or the 10 credits ZunePass subscribers get every month is in DRM-free MP3 format.
I'm a student at the University of Evansville. We can study at Harlaxton college (which is owned by UE) in Grantham England for a semester for the same tuition costs.
I like the idea of studying in England because it is in English and I can still travel around Europe.
I've tried most of them and I've found it to be the best. It not only defragments, but it also consolidates free space at the front of the drive. It makes my hard drive noticeably faster.
Sarah Palin's technical competency has nothing to do with Yahoo's password recovery policies. Just because Yahoo makes it easy to game the system if you know a little about the target doesn't mean that the target is stupid, just that the programmers at Yahoo are stupid.
Maybe you ought to go back to posting on DailyKooks.
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Just click on the link labeled "Print this story" to get the printer friendly version.
Simple solution, just develop the patch now and release it when the company goes bankrupt.
Even better, put the patch in escrow so if the company just shuts down, then the patch can still be released.
Is there anything actually wrong with the NT6.1 Kernel?
I mean, Vista has it's problems, granted, but can any informed person here state what's so bad about the Kernel itself, since that's what's causing all the fuss??
It's not necessarily a problem with the existing kernel, it's the potential of a smaller kernel like MinWin or Singularity. They have a lot better stability and security than monolithic kernels. It also make componentization easier, which is a design goal of Windows 7.
I think what we're looking at is what will be an evolutionary step like we saw going from Win95 to Win98. And as I recall, it was quite an improvement. Not to say of course that Win98 was perfect, it had its (huge) flaws, but it was quite a step in the right direction.
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Yeah, Windows 98 crashed even more than Windows 95. Windows ME crashed a lot more. I hope the Vista-Windows 7-Windows 8 line won't be like that. If it does, that means that a lot of programs won't work on Windows 8 and the system will require that terabyte of RAM.
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Seriously, Microsoft has a bad track record when it comes to bloat and focusing on features instead of fixing problems. This might be changing as they market the fixes as features themselves.
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The company has "innovations" in it's name, so their product probably won't work.
I actually tried it with a Truecrypt volume and a random file (/dev/urandom) and it seems to work. The Truecrypt is identified as "Encrypted Data (Headerless)" and the random file is identified as "Data File (Unknown)".
I am from the new Generation and I know what Auschwitz is, you insensitive clod!
New LOL Politician: Monorail Obama builds high speed train.
Maybe the quickest way to stop software piracy is through evil copies of legitimate software.
Isn't that called SecuROM?
Purposefully installing malicious software does not indicate a vulnerability. The user intentionally installed a piece of software that is doing exactly what it is designed to do.
It's a Trojan horse. However, isn't that what a majority of Windows viruses are? The only difference is that this is distributed via pirated software, not email attachments, IM file transfers, or other distribution techniques that Windows viruses use to propagate.
Even Mac and Linux systems can suffer from remote exploits like Windows suffers from (Slammer, Conficker, etc). With UAC, Vista and Windows 7 are theoretically as secure as a Mac or Linux OS, but Microsoft's security bugs and wide distribution make it practically less secure.
There is a way to protect against Trojans, however. Not ever letting typical programs run with administrative privileges (i.e. no installers) and using an privilege combination system like OLPC's Bitfrost should prevent Trojan programs from being able to effectively work.
~~FutureDomain~~
Sarah Palin is the best politician ever!!!
In Soviet America, politicians vote out YOU!
It's proper Latin, you insensitive clod!
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Nah, that's only for the Australian servers that are now required to filter naughty images.
Why does Windows have so much more overhead for creating processes? What is it about the Windows processes that makes them cost that much?
Linux Zealot: It's because of all the spaghetti code behind it!
Seriously though, a Windows CreateProcess() call is much more complicated than a simple fork() and exec(). It has 10 arguments and and last two arguments are pointers to structures with more arguments. Windows has always been slow to create processes, this is why they run multiple services in single "svchost" processes instead of having a process for each service. For more information on CreateProcess(), see the MSDN Page.
And then finding that the OS even after reboot has locked you out of your own Local Settings folder; has denied you permission to move or delete the modified DLL; and refuses to allow the replacement of the Local Settings folder after it is unlocked with Unlocker to move it to the Desktop for examination (where it also denies you entry to your own folder). Setting permissions to 'allow everyone' was disabled!
This is a bug in the beta, not some crazy DRM scheme. It has happened to me with downloaded executables and my own programs. The file has been deleted, but the operating system won't recognize that it's gone and reports it as locked. Unlocker doesn't work because nothing is locking it, it's just a bug in the filesystem or explorer code. To fix it, rebooting usually works. If that doesn't work, schedule a boot time disk check and reboot. This has always worked for me.
Check the site, it's MP3. The subscription music is in WMA, but not the purchased music. They probably chose it because it's guaranteed DRM free, works on any player (including the iPod), and can compete with Amazon and other music sites.
Well at least they're trying a new bad idea, unlike SCO...
Well now that ITunes is going DRM free the Zune is even less interesting.
Purchased Zune music is DRM free. It's only the ZunePass subscription service that uses DRM to ensure that you don't keep the music after you cancel your subscription. Music purchased with Microsoft Points or the 10 credits ZunePass subscribers get every month is in DRM-free MP3 format.
Obligatory: I own a Zune, you insensitive clod!
I'm a student at the University of Evansville. We can study at Harlaxton college (which is owned by UE) in Grantham England for a semester for the same tuition costs.
I like the idea of studying in England because it is in English and I can still travel around Europe.
~~FutureDomain~~
I think it's called the "Ministry of Truth".
In other news, Australia is renaming itself "Oceania".
I've tried most of them and I've found it to be the best. It not only defragments, but it also consolidates free space at the front of the drive. It makes my hard drive noticeably faster.
~~FutureDomain~~
What about the time it takes to switch to Firefox because Chrome doesn't work properly with Facebook?
Facebook works fine with Google Chrome. There was issues when Chrome was first released, but they've cleared most of them up by now.
Try this site: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/
Sarah Palin's technical competency has nothing to do with Yahoo's password recovery policies. Just because Yahoo makes it easy to game the system if you know a little about the target doesn't mean that the target is stupid, just that the programmers at Yahoo are stupid.
Maybe you ought to go back to posting on DailyKooks.
That's because they must use Javascript or cookies to prevent linking to the printer friendly version.
Just click on the link labeled "Print this story" to get the printer friendly version.
Simple solution, just develop the patch now and release it when the company goes bankrupt.
Even better, put the patch in escrow so if the company just shuts down, then the patch can still be released.
~FutureDomain~
IE7Pro does ad blocking and a lot more.
It's not necessarily a problem with the existing kernel, it's the potential of a smaller kernel like MinWin or Singularity. They have a lot better stability and security than monolithic kernels. It also make componentization easier, which is a design goal of Windows 7.
<cynical>
Yeah, Windows 98 crashed even more than Windows 95. Windows ME crashed a lot more. I hope the Vista-Windows 7-Windows 8 line won't be like that. If it does, that means that a lot of programs won't work on Windows 8 and the system will require that terabyte of RAM.
</cynical>
Seriously, Microsoft has a bad track record when it comes to bloat and focusing on features instead of fixing problems. This might be changing as they market the fixes as features themselves.