Rootkit doesn't necessarily imply 'backdoor'. A rootkit CAN open a backdoor, but it's possible to rootkit a system for other reasons.
Example: Daemon Tools, a popular virtual drive program, uses rootkit-esque behavior to hide its drivers from the various game copy protections it aims to defeat. It's a rootkit for a legitimate purpose. This is not.
It's a malicious driver attempting to hide things from the user without their consent. QED.
They are patching 2 API functions, FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile(), not to report the presence of a directory. They are doing this by loading a malicious *DRIVER*.
This is quite different than simply toggling a flag for a given directory.
A malicious driver is being installed that patches the Win32 API ( FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() ) not to report the presence of a directory when enumerating through your C:\Windows folder.
How is this *NOT* a rootkit? This is the very definition of one!
What sort of performance do you get on the 7900gs? My laptop is a 2ghz Core 2 Duo, 2gb ddr2, 256mb 7900gs, and I'm interested to see how well this game will run.
I was walking through the family room at a friend's house yesterday when I saw something crazy on TV. I actually stopped in my tracks and watched for a few seconds before realizing it was a commercial.
It was the commercial for BioShock. I was actually drawn in by it... that hasn't happened in a long time.
I was actually considering buying this game through Steam after looking at the Wikipedia article earlier today. I'm not rootkitting my Windows machine to play a game though.
MAC address whitelist isn't worth the time you take to set it up.
I could still crack your WEP key in 5 mins (I'm slow), and possibly disconnect all your devices remotely. Then I would fake one of your devices' MACs and connect.
It's stupidly easy with a Debian Linux laptop + the aircrack-ng suite of tools.
A judge can reinstate a business for the duration of a trial though, even if it was dissolved (with no objections) through the normal channels.
Just because your business was officially dissolved (through the Secretary of State's office) doesn't mean that you're off the hook for bad shit you pulled.
If an employee or contractor was found to be negligent or acting outside of their role within the corporation, they can be found personally liable. That usually results in employee/contractor suing the business and vice versa.
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Sounds like somebody should be out of a job. Incompetence of this magnitude should not be tolerated.
Nice... hope the mods see you.
Seems someone found an earlier article on his blog that is a bit hypocritical. :-)
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Haha, wait until you get to level 9... you have to swim through an underwater maze without getting crushed by fast-moving gears.
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I never made it past level 9.
... Other than the fact that one scenario is desired, while the other is not.
Rootkit doesn't necessarily imply 'backdoor'. A rootkit CAN open a backdoor, but it's possible to rootkit a system for other reasons.
Example: Daemon Tools, a popular virtual drive program, uses rootkit-esque behavior to hide its drivers from the various game copy protections it aims to defeat. It's a rootkit for a legitimate purpose. This is not.
It's a malicious driver attempting to hide things from the user without their consent. QED.
Hi.
They are patching 2 API functions, FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile(), not to report the presence of a directory. They are doing this by loading a malicious *DRIVER*.
This is quite different than simply toggling a flag for a given directory.
A malicious driver is being installed that patches the Win32 API ( FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() ) not to report the presence of a directory when enumerating through your C:\Windows folder.
How is this *NOT* a rootkit? This is the very definition of one!
How on Earth did you manage to use you're/your both correctly and incorrectly in the same sentence?
Wow... long time since I heard that one.
Mods, +Funny?
Took Razor 1911 about 5 seconds to patch.
Thanks for the info!
Cool, thanks!
What sort of performance do you get on the 7900gs? My laptop is a 2ghz Core 2 Duo, 2gb ddr2, 256mb 7900gs, and I'm interested to see how well this game will run.
This mistake will probably stop occurring around the same time that people realize "it's" isn't a possessive.
I was walking through the family room at a friend's house yesterday when I saw something crazy on TV. I actually stopped in my tracks and watched for a few seconds before realizing it was a commercial.
It was the commercial for BioShock. I was actually drawn in by it... that hasn't happened in a long time.
I was actually considering buying this game through Steam after looking at the Wikipedia article earlier today. I'm not rootkitting my Windows machine to play a game though.
No.
It would probably be an unwise business decision to automatically exclude over half of your potential customers at this juncture.
Well, TPB doesn't actually distribute content, but allofmp3 does.
MAC address whitelist isn't worth the time you take to set it up.
I could still crack your WEP key in 5 mins (I'm slow), and possibly disconnect all your devices remotely. Then I would fake one of your devices' MACs and connect.
It's stupidly easy with a Debian Linux laptop + the aircrack-ng suite of tools.
Debian has apt-build if you really want to waste your time manually compiling stuff...
apt-get install apt-build; man apt-build
Please don't randomly spew forth information (in this case, incorrect information) without at least citing a source.
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Also, 24 is pretty far from 1. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-
I'd consider a few of those nations in front of us on that list to be "developed".
There is a correlation.
Rampant misspellings and grammatical inconsistencies usually imply a lack of education or attentiveness.
A judge can reinstate a business for the duration of a trial though, even if it was dissolved (with no objections) through the normal channels.
Just because your business was officially dissolved (through the Secretary of State's office) doesn't mean that you're off the hook for bad shit you pulled.
If an employee or contractor was found to be negligent or acting outside of their role within the corporation, they can be found personally liable. That usually results in employee/contractor suing the business and vice versa.
American business law is very interesting.
That's because with Linux, you actually *CAN* harden your system. (e.g. kernel-level security patches, exec-shield, SELinux, etc.)