I have ran Norton Internet Security since the 2009 incarnation, with generally OK results [I'm a 40-year IT veteran and was curious how a "big box" suite would perform], but when I got the pop-up pushed at me to upgrade to 2011, I was appalled to see that it refused to install unless I uninstalled Threatfire, which it deemed to be "incompatible" - that's it; no other option, no explanation, just uninstall, "trust me, I'm Symantec and know best." Guess who will NOT be renewing their subscription in 24 days? What's the difference between "Security Toolkit" [as an example] telling me I have BAD STUFF on my system, and this?
DISCLAIMER: I am part of the support team of an ISP Yes, we do hate those users who suck bandwidth via bittorrent to the detriment of the majority who simply want to read their email, keep up-to-date via a social networking site and do other non-intensive tasks. However if we were being completely cynical, the over usage charges we can collect (and which our users agreed to in our AUP when they signed up) are a nice earner. PLUS I agree, we don't have to invest so heavily and so often to upgrade our infrastructure. I don't necessarily agree with such a position, but I'm stuck with it. However, I read TFPDF and it bleats about illegal copyrighted downloads which it seems to imply is the only use for bittorrent, nowhere do I see (except after the download is complete) how this violation can be proven. I have lost count over the years of how many iso's of various Linux distros I have downloaded, how many times the kids have updated WoW.... This sanctimonious BS posturing in the guise of protecting copyright leaves me cold.
There are good and bad points to be made on both sides of this contentious subject. Eliminating spurious traffic/spam etc could never be bad, but given the.au government's draconian position, I wouldn't trust them to monitor the corridors in a kindergarten school. As for "How?" - tail -f/var/log/messages works for me. Pipe it to some simple filters and you have it. Want to know who's reaching out on port 445? Or spamming on port 25? There's a filter for that.
The phenomenon is well know and described here among other places. Try living at 55N and above (where I was born) and you realize how geography can affect mental well-being.
article pointed me to
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}]
@="PDF Column Info"
Hoping to mitigate the vulnerability, I deleted the key after exporting it. However it does not cure the idiocy of Adobe allowing executables in something supposed to simply describe a document.
The perception of iPhone being a failure was created by a newspaper in Japan, Sankei Shimbun, Hayashi noted in his original reply to Wired. Last fall, it wrote although Softbank tried to sell one million units by the end of 2008, they only sold about 200,000. This article was wrong in two fronts.
One is that Softbank nor Apple never publicly claimed they would sell 1 million units. Second, their estimate of 200,000 units were also wrong. Although Apple nor Softbank releases the real number of shipment, today, it is strongly believed that they have shipped more than 300,000 and possibly near 400,000 units in Japan.
the goodies OP would have us believe are actually included. From this story
In another move to counter VMware's lead, Citrix will offer its XenServer software free starting in April. One or two high-end features from that product, including the high-availability features, will be moved to Citrix Essentials for XenServer, but many of the existing capabilities will be available for no charge, said Citrix CTO Simon Crosby.
Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V and Citrix Essentials for XenServer each will be priced at US$1,500 to $5,000 per server, depending on the features selected, Crosby said.
.....instructs its drone machines to report to 250 different internet addresses each day. Without the service, admins would have to manually block 1,750 domains each week, or 91,250 each year.
Wouldn't blocking "this weeks" known IP addresses stop the addition of new ones, rendering the infection impotent?
Actually from the video three RFID keys can be seen, and unless I'm wildly mistaken, no actual private, identifiable data was gleaned. [That is if the screen is actually showing data captured - we never see the radio/software in action]
Damn! Wish I had thought of it. As a baby-boomer who only emigrated to the U.S. in 2001, I thought it hilarious when I got these emails, Guess us Brits are just not litigious enough.
To Jeffrey Kaplan: I'm completely baffled why there are such things as 'RP' servers in your network, when in reality they are exactly the same as 'normal' servers, since Blizzard makes no attempt to enforce RP-ing (and how could they anyway?) in WoW.
[rhetorical]
Was this just a deliberate marketing ploy to attract old-time MUDders like me?
[/rhetorical]
250 GB is both transparent and a real shitload of bandwidth.
When a legitimate torrent of [insert your Linux distro of choice here] can run 700MB? I think not. What has been noted ad nauseum in threads all over is that the real problem is lack of investment in bandwidth - "Hey! the suckers have no choice but to accept it, and we make money hand-over-fist."
Anybody care to test it for real using both an apple server and laptop, using dnsoarc, to get some real info?
Done! See Swa Frantzen's update at the isc
Seems like they may have patched the server code, but the client is still using sequentially incrementing ports.
AN excerpt from my submission log: 2008-07-26 15:40:03 Apple Lags Patching DNS Poisoning Vulnerability (Apple,Security) (rejected) Seems like I have to improve my karma (or something) to get noticed. Ah well, I'll continue reading, I just won't bother trying to submit.
...FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored.
(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or
exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains -
(A) information contained in a financial record of a
financial institution, or of a card issuer as defined in
section 1602(n) of title 15, or contained in a file of a
consumer reporting agency on a consumer, as such terms are
defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681 et
seq.);
(B) information from any department or agency of the United
States; or
(C) information from any protected computer if the conduct
involved an interstate or foreign communication;
To me it seems as if the end result of such access needs to be very specific for it to be an offense.
The lawsuit may be targeted more to inspire FUD, but from the Glider site:
Q: Is using Glider cause for suspension/ban?
A: Yes, Glider is against the Terms of Service as provided by Blizzard for World of Warcraft. If you are detected using Glider, your account will be suspended for 72 hours and very likely banned completely. While Glider does not violate any of the terms listed under Blizzard's "Client/Server Manipulation Policy", it is still a third-party program and their Terms of Service are very open in what falls under that definition, meaning they can find you in violation for pretty much anything they want.
Glider provides a number of features to help lower the risk of detection - for more information, see the next topic.
Bottom line: use at your own risk.
Justificationn to sue the author? I don't think so. Justification to ban/eject users? Sure!
How in the Nine Billion Names of God did this turn from a note that we're offered an opt-out install of software into an(other) anti MS rant? OK, we can all concede we should not have to opt out of installing extra software that's unrelated to what we're really trying to install, but let's at least stay on topic so those of us who think/. can still inform can sit with their morning coffee without seeing the regurgitation of stale Apple fanboy/MS hater rhetoric. Please?
Yes, and in 5 years time we'll all go rushing to eBay to snap up these 'bargains' - ancient technology - when we can get a system 4 times more powerful at 1/3 of the cost?
OK, let's compare the feature set: The Acer: 2.3GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66 The Apple: 1.8GHz Intel Core2 Duo The Acer: 4GB DDR2 The Apple: 2GB DDR2 The Acer: 250GB Hard Drive The Apple: 64GB SSD The Acer: DVD Super Multi The Apple: None
Seems to me it's not bad what you can get for an extra $100 or so.
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I have ran Norton Internet Security since the 2009 incarnation, with generally OK results [I'm a 40-year IT veteran and was curious how a "big box" suite would perform], but when I got the pop-up pushed at me to upgrade to 2011, I was appalled to see that it refused to install unless I uninstalled Threatfire, which it deemed to be "incompatible" - that's it; no other option, no explanation, just uninstall, "trust me, I'm Symantec and know best." Guess who will NOT be renewing their subscription in 24 days? What's the difference between "Security Toolkit" [as an example] telling me I have BAD STUFF on my system, and this?
IMO, patents are nothing to do with the topic. It is an established theory that when it's "Steam Engine Time", it will surely be invented!
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-169.html is the original source; guess JOELLE TESSLER , quoted in http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_DIGITAL_COPYRIGHT?SITE=MSJAD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT couldn't be bothered linking.
DISCLAIMER: I am part of the support team of an ISP
Yes, we do hate those users who suck bandwidth via bittorrent to the detriment of the majority who simply want to read their email, keep up-to-date via a social networking site and do other non-intensive tasks. However if we were being completely cynical, the over usage charges we can collect (and which our users agreed to in our AUP when they signed up) are a nice earner. PLUS I agree, we don't have to invest so heavily and so often to upgrade our infrastructure. I don't necessarily agree with such a position, but I'm stuck with it. However, I read TFPDF and it bleats about illegal copyrighted downloads which it seems to imply is the only use for bittorrent, nowhere do I see (except after the download is complete) how this violation can be proven. I have lost count over the years of how many iso's of various Linux distros I have downloaded, how many times the kids have updated WoW.... This sanctimonious BS posturing in the guise of protecting copyright leaves me cold.
There are good and bad points to be made on both sides of this contentious subject. Eliminating spurious traffic/spam etc could never be bad, but given the .au government's draconian position, I wouldn't trust them to monitor the corridors in a kindergarten school. As for "How?" - tail -f /var/log/messages works for me. Pipe it to some simple filters and you have it. Want to know who's reaching out on port 445? Or spamming on port 25? There's a filter for that.
2009-06-18 15:25:37 New Apache DOS Tool (Index,The Internet) (pending)
The phenomenon is well know and described here among other places. Try living at 55N and above (where I was born) and you realize how geography can affect mental well-being.
article pointed me to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}] @="PDF Column Info"
Hoping to mitigate the vulnerability, I deleted the key after exporting it. However it does not cure the idiocy of Adobe allowing executables in something supposed to simply describe a document.
The perception of iPhone being a failure was created by a newspaper in Japan, Sankei Shimbun, Hayashi noted in his original reply to Wired. Last fall, it wrote although Softbank tried to sell one million units by the end of 2008, they only sold about 200,000. This article was wrong in two fronts. One is that Softbank nor Apple never publicly claimed they would sell 1 million units. Second, their estimate of 200,000 units were also wrong. Although Apple nor Softbank releases the real number of shipment, today, it is strongly believed that they have shipped more than 300,000 and possibly near 400,000 units in Japan.
(My emphasis)
shipped!=sold
In another move to counter VMware's lead, Citrix will offer its XenServer software free starting in April. One or two high-end features from that product, including the high-availability features, will be moved to Citrix Essentials for XenServer, but many of the existing capabilities will be available for no charge, said Citrix CTO Simon Crosby. Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V and Citrix Essentials for XenServer each will be priced at US$1,500 to $5,000 per server, depending on the features selected, Crosby said.
.....instructs its drone machines to report to 250 different internet addresses each day. Without the service, admins would have to manually block 1,750 domains each week, or 91,250 each year.
Wouldn't blocking "this weeks" known IP addresses stop the addition of new ones, rendering the infection impotent?
Actually from the video three RFID keys can be seen, and unless I'm wildly mistaken, no actual private, identifiable data was gleaned. [That is if the screen is actually showing data captured - we never see the radio/software in action]
Microsoft could not check whether mshtml.dll was actually in memory before they insisted on a reboot?
Damn! Wish I had thought of it. As a baby-boomer who only emigrated to the U.S. in 2001, I thought it hilarious when I got these emails, Guess us Brits are just not litigious enough.
To Jeffrey Kaplan: I'm completely baffled why there are such things as 'RP' servers in your network, when in reality they are exactly the same as 'normal' servers, since Blizzard makes no attempt to enforce RP-ing (and how could they anyway?) in WoW.
[rhetorical] Was this just a deliberate marketing ploy to attract old-time MUDders like me? [/rhetorical]
250 GB is both transparent and a real shitload of bandwidth.
When a legitimate torrent of [insert your Linux distro of choice here] can run 700MB? I think not. What has been noted ad nauseum in threads all over is that the real problem is lack of investment in bandwidth - "Hey! the suckers have no choice but to accept it, and we make money hand-over-fist."
There must be _something_ that you must have found interesting or enjoyable there....
The cybersex of course!
Done! See Swa Frantzen's update at the isc Seems like they may have patched the server code, but the client is still using sequentially incrementing ports.
AN excerpt from my submission log:
2008-07-26 15:40:03 Apple Lags Patching DNS Poisoning Vulnerability (Apple,Security) (rejected)
Seems like I have to improve my karma (or something) to get noticed. Ah well, I'll continue reading, I just won't bother trying to submit.
To me it seems as if the end result of such access needs to be very specific for it to be an offense.
Justificationn to sue the author? I don't think so. Justification to ban/eject users? Sure!
How in the Nine Billion Names of God did this turn from a note that we're offered an opt-out install of software into an(other) anti MS rant? OK, we can all concede we should not have to opt out of installing extra software that's unrelated to what we're really trying to install, but let's at least stay on topic so those of us who think /. can still inform can sit with their morning coffee without seeing the regurgitation of stale Apple fanboy/MS hater rhetoric. Please?
Yes, and in 5 years time we'll all go rushing to eBay to snap up these 'bargains' - ancient technology - when we can get a system 4 times more powerful at 1/3 of the cost?
OK, let's compare the feature set:
The Acer: 2.3GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66 The Apple: 1.8GHz Intel Core2 Duo
The Acer: 4GB DDR2 The Apple: 2GB DDR2
The Acer: 250GB Hard Drive The Apple: 64GB SSD
The Acer: DVD Super Multi The Apple: None
Seems to me it's not bad what you can get for an extra $100 or so.