I'll go one better: I run XP with no anti-malware at all, free or paid. I've done so for years, and I've never picked up anything.
If I do what I do and don't get in trouble, I really have to wonder what other folks do and where they go to get these horrible virus/spyware/rootkit infections they pay me to clean up?
Ah, I see now. My apologies for assuming too much.
That is wrong, but it isn't something wrong with WHOIS. Your registrar screwed up, either by accident or design. You should fix that. Only the really cheap, fly-by-night registrars charge for changing contact information (as opposed to registrant information).
Oh, and the only contact that needs to be related to contol of the DNS zone is the technical one. You want that one like that so they can make necessary changes if the name service changes. The rest of the contacts are usually related to the registrant.
The "study" was comissioned by AOL, and involved two random keyboards sent in to the lab.
The whole reason they did the study is 'cause you can use AOL to order pizza from Domino's. They're selling people on the idea that the "WonderBread" of pizza is a cleaner workspace snack than other things.
You notice there's no "Pizza sauce" on the list...
I saw this nearly a week ago on The Register, and now it's on the BBC too.
The performance data used in Service Metrics' offerings are collected by Data Collection Agents (DCAs) located throughout the worldwide Internet and stored in a centralized Data Warehouse.
The difference appears to be that Service Metrics pitches its data collection services to contracted customers, then monitors those clients. Quova is mapping the space now, and will probably use the traceroutes to figure out the best virtual places to put similar agents for a similar service.
There's no surprise that they're hosted by / running through Exodus. From their own web pages:
Founders Rajat Bhargava, President & CEO Rajat has successfully started and run a number of Internet companies. Most recently he was co-founder of Interliant (NASDAQ: INIT), a public company in the hosting services space. Rajat was also a founder and board member of Service Metrics, which was acquired by Exodus Communications (NASDAQ: EXDS) in November 1999. Prior to this, Rajat was founder, president and CEO of net.Genesis.
If you use software from Network Associates, including commercial PGP, McAfee Anti Virus, and Gauntlet firewall software, you're subject to their EULA, of course.
But these products are often (or exclusively) used in corporate networks where the end users may have no knowledge of such licenses, or even be aware of the use of that particular software. And even if you examine the license, you might not know that...
2. The customer shall not disclose the results of any benchmark test to any third party without Network Associates' prior written approval.
3. The customer will not publish reviews of the product without prior consent from Network Associates.
... unless you manually log in to FTP.NAI.COM using an FTP client that shows you the log on messages. These terms (and others) apply to all NAI software, but they're only stated at the FTP site - they actually aren't in the EULA at all.
As I understand the UCITA and DMCA, you're liable in some unspecified way if you, say, are a consultant evaluating the relative performance of NAI software for a client, or if you are contributing to a software purchasing decision at a company by writing an internal review.
Really, you could look it up if you wanted, but the usual citation against the slow flow of glass is old ground and polished lenses. Accuracy of these lenses is measured in fractions of a light wave front, so if a 500 year old window shows visually perceptable flow, certainly it would show up in a 100-200 year old lens?
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Thanks for playing, AC, but a) I didn't say "unprotected", and b) I'm really good at what I do.
I'll go one better: I run XP with no anti-malware at all, free or paid. I've done so for years, and I've never picked up anything.
If I do what I do and don't get in trouble, I really have to wonder what other folks do and where they go to get these horrible virus/spyware/rootkit infections they pay me to clean up?
Ah, I see now. My apologies for assuming too much.
That is wrong, but it isn't something wrong with WHOIS. Your registrar screwed up, either by accident or design. You should fix that. Only the really cheap, fly-by-night registrars charge for changing contact information (as opposed to registrant information).
Oh, and the only contact that needs to be related to contol of the DNS zone is the technical one. You want that one like that so they can make necessary changes if the name service changes. The rest of the contacts are usually related to the registrant.
Isn't your address and phone number also contact information?
And is there a good reason you provided your home address and phone as administrative contact information?
The "study" was comissioned by AOL, and involved two random keyboards sent in to the lab.
The whole reason they did the study is 'cause you can use AOL to order pizza from Domino's. They're selling people on the idea that the "WonderBread" of pizza is a cleaner workspace snack than other things.
You notice there's no "Pizza sauce" on the list...
I saw this nearly a week ago on The Register, and now it's on the BBC too.
I haven't yet seen a comment that points out a critical factor for this bug:
You need to use Outlook(Express) as your Internet mail client, and not in its "Corporate and Workgroup" mode.
This saves a lot of the hassle for office types running their own mail servers.
See the NTBUGTRAQ article for more details.
Okay, bad form following up to my own post, but...
Got more info from the Service Metrics pages:
The difference appears to be that Service Metrics pitches its data collection services to contracted customers, then monitors those clients. Quova is mapping the space now, and will probably use the traceroutes to figure out the best virtual places to put similar agents for a similar service.
If you use software from Network Associates, including commercial PGP, McAfee Anti Virus, and Gauntlet firewall software, you're subject to their EULA, of course.
But these products are often (or exclusively) used in corporate networks where the end users may have no knowledge of such licenses, or even be aware of the use of that particular software. And even if you examine the license, you might not know that...
As I understand the UCITA and DMCA, you're liable in some unspecified way if you, say, are a consultant evaluating the relative performance of NAI software for a client, or if you are contributing to a software purchasing decision at a company by writing an internal review.
There are (relatively) many Enigma machines, but there are only two -other- machines exactly like the missing one.
Glass does not "flow".
Really, you could look it up if you wanted, but the usual citation against the slow flow of glass is old ground and polished lenses. Accuracy of these lenses is measured in fractions of a light wave front, so if a 500 year old window shows visually perceptable flow, certainly it would show up in a 100-200 year old lens?
It hasn't happened yet.
See the FAQ for more details.
I hope I'm not the only person out there who read this and thought I'd see a story about address hijacking...