Agreed that the MSE package is pretty good. Avira free edition runs fine too (you can block the popup of the free edition by blocking the avnotify.exe through the policy manager) but, just as MSE, failed to recognize newly packed editions of several recent rootkits. MalwareBytes Anti-Malware thus far detected everything I could throw at it though. It's also free but the free version has no realtime scanning, only on-demand. I do suggest however installing it anyway and do a manual update+scan every now and then since it seemed to detect far more than any other AV I've had installed in the past so consider it a double check (you can also buy it to have the realtime scan enabled).
Please see my previous reply. I agree with the title but I see how it makes assumptions and I do not applaud it. WikiLeaks should only summarize the information that it is leaking without bias. I'm wondering though. If WikiLeaks did a leak on some mass murder of dealers/whatever in Mexico by armed forces and named it "Mass murder by armed forces in Mexico" would anyone give a shit about the title? Sometimes things that happened are pretty damn obvious, especially when you have the act itself on tape from the perspective of the one with the smoking gun.
Maybe so and I do not applaud this behaviour but please don't generalize the entire organisation for a slip-up in a TITLE. The OP is assuming they do this with all their releases creating a wrong picture of the organisation. Also he is misquoting the title as "murder by US troops". People don't realize that misquote after misquote end up being entirely different quotes.
Why are you assuming he gathers his own intel? First of all, it's an organisation consisting of multiple people. Secondly, they have to work with what is leaked to them. They are not people who infiltrate governments or hack databases. Your examples are laughable to say the least. Do you think they can pull such documents out of their ass or something? They need to be LEAKED to them.
You're just making stuff up now. The airstrike video was labeled exactly that: "Baghdad airstrike video" pre-release and later "Collateral Murder" (which is exactly what it was). And then there's the "Iraq War Logs". The media gave it titles as "murder by us troops" not WikiLeaks.
That's the media for you nowadays. OT: this is obviously tapping in on some of the public responses that WikiLeaks focusses too much on America. What are they going to do, ignore leaks they receive that are related to America? It just happens to be so that the biggest leaks they received, or rather, the biggest media spectacles around leaks, were related to the American gov. If you take a look at their past leaks it also includes a lot of other leaks related to Scientology, the Bildenberg Group and Australia's censorship list. This site has been around for years now, as most/. readers will know, but has only recently gained fame in the media due to major leaks related to the US military.
Aren't you forgetting about the monstrosity that is Quicktime? God how I hate that software. Even now you still have to buy the pro version to use the FULL SCREEN, basic functionality for a player. Luckily there's at least 1 alternative with hacked codecs.
Apparently he is saying it IS NOT a DDoS which is slightly interesting to say the least. I'd have to come back on my previous claims that this attack involves no skill at all. It's still wrong what he is doing and counts as terrorism in my book.
Just some random guy who thinks he's right about the world and uses terrorism himself to make his point. It's ironic really. Also it's not special if one can take out such a site using a DDoS, I could teach my mother how to do that, there is 0 skill involved.
1) Calling botnet owners hackers (lol'd) 2) You obviously have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Wikileaks exists longer than 1 year you know, they have leaked tons of documents in relation to other countries. The fact that the media only reported on these major leaks is not their problem.
Did you even try any of their games? I was able to run Crysis fine on an old 2ghz athlon with 1gb of mem and an old nvidia g-force 4 card (about the same requirements for Minecraft btw). Sure it didn't look as amazing as it could but it ran flawlessly. I'm not saying crysis in specific was very innovative though but it could run fine on a great variation of hardware including the very old. And how can you make any claims about innovation on a game that isn't even out yet. Also, some people actually do care if a game looks realistic because it CAN add something to the experience and I do believe that highly realistic physics can make a game 'innovative'.
You should never keep your mouth shut just because someone might find what you're saying offensive. But now I'm talking about real life, a blog/forum post, etc. You can add context then and that's exactly the point of this guy, eventhough I don't like the cocky way he presents his opinion. I do have a major problem with developers having to censor out swastikas in games that are supposed to be in the time of WW2 though. Eventhough games are usually not 100% historically correct I feel like you're censoring history when you replace/delete swastikas from these games.
Hell, the Germans are going way overboard when it comes to this. I pasted a video involving a hitler parody (hitler vs darth vader rap battle) to a guy I know in Germany and the video was blocked in his country. I'm not talking about copyrighted content here, just some youtubers who made that video. I later discovered it was banned in France too though..
You can get swarm information (IP's, percentages, etc) without seeding yourself. The problem here lies with the fact that they'll have to know for sure that the content beeing shared between peers is their copyrighted content, for this they would have to download it at least once. I don't think this would be a problem since they would be downloading their own content.
I have a box infected with this and thought I had removed it. After running the utility you linked I found out its mbr is still infected though, so thanks for the link, but it's not able to 'cure' the infection. Some solutions on the Kaspersky forum suggest rewriting the MBR which I will attempt now.
I traced the initial infection back to a vulnerable Flash installation which locks certain flash files so they can not be updated anymore after infection keeping you vulnerable for future infections.
You might be right at most of your points but there is no need to talk an enthusiastic person down like that. I for one am glad that people who haven't even studied this matter take interest in their local area and try to find out what it actually is. I agree though that you should always go for the most logical assumption first.
After watching the video from the source article I can't say I'm impressed and I don't see any advantages when using this compared to my general PC hardware. He says the applications of the commercial version will (for example) be replacing in-game democams so you can film it yourself as if you were really there. Oh please. We all use slick traced animations for that not shakey videos shot by hand, why would we want to have that? We could easily emulate that afterwarts too if we wanted it. Then he tells us about a game idea where the character is part of a journalist film crew..
Only globally read that but I think I agree. I'm tired of the hypocrites trying to justify piracy. I'm a pirate, have been for many years, and if I get a fine, fine. I'll deal with it. I knew I was doing something wrong when I started and I don't go around acting like I have the RIGHT to download copyrighted content. It's not a right, it's a privilege. Without trying to sound too elitist; the oldskool sceners know what I'm talking about.
Are you going to tell me that I couldn't find any popular MP3 as a webdownload through google in 5 seconds? Should Apple ban webbrowsers too then? Oh well, what do I care, It's not like I would ever restrict myself to using an iPhone while phones with Android are available.
Oh and adding to this. I know anonymous networks like Freenet and the Tor network exist but these solutions -if applied to/used by torrent networks- are not okay for anonymous file sharing because even if applied on a scale where everyone is a 'node' it wouldn't make the network usage fair. You will always have people who just browse the web and download the occasional file versus the mass downloaders.
No thanks. They did some research recently on how easy it is to track users in swarms. As soon as you're in the swarm you can know every other IP transfering those files (depending on tracker usage ofcourse). It's easy to compile a list of IP adresses and the content they downloaded over time.
I like my privacy and I have no intention to let people know what software I'm downloading. And as stated before, it's a security risk too. This doesn't only apply to software updates, it applies to any software that is downloaded.
For example: there is an outdated version of some application still hosted on the tracker of download.com and I'm someone who knows of a vulnerability in it. I join into the swarm, collect all IP's and eventually just exploit them as I go. Hell, I don't even have to scan entire ranges for this application port anymore!
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Agreed that the MSE package is pretty good. Avira free edition runs fine too (you can block the popup of the free edition by blocking the avnotify.exe through the policy manager) but, just as MSE, failed to recognize newly packed editions of several recent rootkits.
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware thus far detected everything I could throw at it though. It's also free but the free version has no realtime scanning, only on-demand.
I do suggest however installing it anyway and do a manual update+scan every now and then since it seemed to detect far more than any other AV I've had installed in the past so consider it a double check (you can also buy it to have the realtime scan enabled).
Please see my previous reply. I agree with the title but I see how it makes assumptions and I do not applaud it. WikiLeaks should only summarize the information that it is leaking without bias.
I'm wondering though. If WikiLeaks did a leak on some mass murder of dealers/whatever in Mexico by armed forces and named it "Mass murder by armed forces in Mexico" would anyone give a shit about the title? Sometimes things that happened are pretty damn obvious, especially when you have the act itself on tape from the perspective of the one with the smoking gun.
Maybe so and I do not applaud this behaviour but please don't generalize the entire organisation for a slip-up in a TITLE. The OP is assuming they do this with all their releases creating a wrong picture of the organisation. Also he is misquoting the title as "murder by US troops". People don't realize that misquote after misquote end up being entirely different quotes.
Why are you assuming he gathers his own intel? First of all, it's an organisation consisting of multiple people. Secondly, they have to work with what is leaked to them. They are not people who infiltrate governments or hack databases.
Your examples are laughable to say the least. Do you think they can pull such documents out of their ass or something? They need to be LEAKED to them.
You're just making stuff up now. The airstrike video was labeled exactly that: "Baghdad airstrike video" pre-release and later "Collateral Murder" (which is exactly what it was). And then there's the "Iraq War Logs". The media gave it titles as "murder by us troops" not WikiLeaks.
That's the media for you nowadays. OT: this is obviously tapping in on some of the public responses that WikiLeaks focusses too much on America. What are they going to do, ignore leaks they receive that are related to America? It just happens to be so that the biggest leaks they received, or rather, the biggest media spectacles around leaks, were related to the American gov. /. readers will know, but has only recently gained fame in the media due to major leaks related to the US military.
If you take a look at their past leaks it also includes a lot of other leaks related to Scientology, the Bildenberg Group and Australia's censorship list.
This site has been around for years now, as most
Aren't you forgetting about the monstrosity that is Quicktime? God how I hate that software. Even now you still have to buy the pro version to use the FULL SCREEN, basic functionality for a player.
Luckily there's at least 1 alternative with hacked codecs.
Apparently he is saying it IS NOT a DDoS which is slightly interesting to say the least. I'd have to come back on my previous claims that this attack involves no skill at all. It's still wrong what he is doing and counts as terrorism in my book.
Yep. And you were right too, see the post above.
Just some random guy who thinks he's right about the world and uses terrorism himself to make his point. It's ironic really. Also it's not special if one can take out such a site using a DDoS, I could teach my mother how to do that, there is 0 skill involved.
1) Calling botnet owners hackers (lol'd) 2) You obviously have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Wikileaks exists longer than 1 year you know, they have leaked tons of documents in relation to other countries. The fact that the media only reported on these major leaks is not their problem.
Did you even try any of their games? I was able to run Crysis fine on an old 2ghz athlon with 1gb of mem and an old nvidia g-force 4 card (about the same requirements for Minecraft btw). Sure it didn't look as amazing as it could but it ran flawlessly.
I'm not saying crysis in specific was very innovative though but it could run fine on a great variation of hardware including the very old.
And how can you make any claims about innovation on a game that isn't even out yet. Also, some people actually do care if a game looks realistic because it CAN add something to the experience and I do believe that highly realistic physics can make a game 'innovative'.
I like your irony.
You should never keep your mouth shut just because someone might find what you're saying offensive. But now I'm talking about real life, a blog/forum post, etc. You can add context then and that's exactly the point of this guy, eventhough I don't like the cocky way he presents his opinion.
I do have a major problem with developers having to censor out swastikas in games that are supposed to be in the time of WW2 though. Eventhough games are usually not 100% historically correct I feel like you're censoring history when you replace/delete swastikas from these games.
Hell, the Germans are going way overboard when it comes to this. I pasted a video involving a hitler parody (hitler vs darth vader rap battle) to a guy I know in Germany and the video was blocked in his country. I'm not talking about copyrighted content here, just some youtubers who made that video.
I later discovered it was banned in France too though..
You can get swarm information (IP's, percentages, etc) without seeding yourself. The problem here lies with the fact that they'll have to know for sure that the content beeing shared between peers is their copyrighted content, for this they would have to download it at least once. I don't think this would be a problem since they would be downloading their own content.
I have a box infected with this and thought I had removed it. After running the utility you linked I found out its mbr is still infected though, so thanks for the link, but it's not able to 'cure' the infection.
Some solutions on the Kaspersky forum suggest rewriting the MBR which I will attempt now.
I traced the initial infection back to a vulnerable Flash installation which locks certain flash files so they can not be updated anymore after infection keeping you vulnerable for future infections.
You might be right at most of your points but there is no need to talk an enthusiastic person down like that. I for one am glad that people who haven't even studied this matter take interest in their local area and try to find out what it actually is.
I agree though that you should always go for the most logical assumption first.
How the hell did your post get a score 5 insightful. What is wrong with some people these days? Bitter people filled with jealousy.
After watching the video from the source article I can't say I'm impressed and I don't see any advantages when using this compared to my general PC hardware. He says the applications of the commercial version will (for example) be replacing in-game democams so you can film it yourself as if you were really there. Oh please. We all use slick traced animations for that not shakey videos shot by hand, why would we want to have that? We could easily emulate that afterwarts too if we wanted it. Then he tells us about a game idea where the character is part of a journalist film crew..
Only globally read that but I think I agree. I'm tired of the hypocrites trying to justify piracy.
I'm a pirate, have been for many years, and if I get a fine, fine. I'll deal with it. I knew I was doing something wrong when I started and I don't go around acting like I have the RIGHT to download copyrighted content.
It's not a right, it's a privilege. Without trying to sound too elitist; the oldskool sceners know what I'm talking about.
I'm not a fanboy by far but that sentence made me twitch a little..
Are you going to tell me that I couldn't find any popular MP3 as a webdownload through google in 5 seconds? Should Apple ban webbrowsers too then? Oh well, what do I care, It's not like I would ever restrict myself to using an iPhone while phones with Android are available.
Oh and adding to this. I know anonymous networks like Freenet and the Tor network exist but these solutions -if applied to/used by torrent networks- are not okay for anonymous file sharing because even if applied on a scale where everyone is a 'node' it wouldn't make the network usage fair. You will always have people who just browse the web and download the occasional file versus the mass downloaders.
No thanks. They did some research recently on how easy it is to track users in swarms. As soon as you're in the swarm you can know every other IP transfering those files (depending on tracker usage ofcourse). It's easy to compile a list of IP adresses and the content they downloaded over time.
I like my privacy and I have no intention to let people know what software I'm downloading.
And as stated before, it's a security risk too. This doesn't only apply to software updates, it applies to any software that is downloaded.
For example: there is an outdated version of some application still hosted on the tracker of download.com and I'm someone who knows of a vulnerability in it. I join into the swarm, collect all IP's and eventually just exploit them as I go.
Hell, I don't even have to scan entire ranges for this application port anymore!
Seriously now? You just came up with that 20% and 80% comparison? You're obviously biased.