new drive? that's a bit lame.. reminds me of story about how infected floppies were shredded at some AV research center.
if you feel the need to physically destroy the drive to clean it from virus, I'd say try Linux or something.
well we can see where this is going.. next thing, AV software will install itself in MBR.
but, seriously, booting from CD or USB or even floppy is not that hard. modern BIOSes bring up simple menu.
then there is that option of 'write-protecting' MBR too.
perhaps, but if the network was secured properly it couldn't be damaged in such way.
infected computers are damaging only non-secured ones.
I still believe one day all exploits will be patched and people will be smart enough not to infect their PCs, even though software is getting more and more complex.
well, it is not so well known if it gets regular updates and 'mutates'.
made me move from samba to ftp.
blocking 'security-related sites' is actually a good thing, so you know host is infected.
your reply sounds like one of those "Red herring fallacies" or "straw man"..
part of the problem is they (in the end) care more about damn drugs than me, you or even their friends, families and themselves.
no, the solution is to stop abusing drugs. if that's difficult to grasp, go seek help from family, friends, doctor, etc
other animal species seem to live fine without drugs.
oh, by the way, virustotal.com has started offering whitelists (they call it "goodware information") but unfortunately only in 'private API' and I presume that means not for free.
there are not so many executables to whitelist. at least we should have such md5sum database of all windows versions and service packs. drivers might be problem, but manufacturers could include the hashes. other than that, nothing else would load on startup (preferably) so at least you get clean boot and do rest of cleaning from hdd.
another option is to make that database yourself after the fresh install. but I guess it won't do for same reasons as making a (ghost) image.
even.arj archiver had an option of making a hollow archive many many years ago (and checking if files have changed), but it seems common people haven't used it (much) in that way.
I'm not sure if slashdot crowd would agree with your point of view if that AV was Norton, for eg.
I'd advice that user to do 'format c:'
After reinstalling everything himself, he'll think twice before running unknown.exe again.
there must be better solutions.
why don't banks send a sms message with total sum and code, so that customer needs to enter code in order to authorize payment.
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new drive? that's a bit lame.. reminds me of story about how infected floppies were shredded at some AV research center.
if you feel the need to physically destroy the drive to clean it from virus, I'd say try Linux or something.
well we can see where this is going.. next thing, AV software will install itself in MBR.
but, seriously, booting from CD or USB or even floppy is not that hard. modern BIOSes bring up simple menu.
then there is that option of 'write-protecting' MBR too.
perhaps, but if the network was secured properly it couldn't be damaged in such way.
infected computers are damaging only non-secured ones.
I still believe one day all exploits will be patched and people will be smart enough not to infect their PCs, even though software is getting more and more complex.
which you do, because you made regular offline backups before the infection.
I would prefer if wikipedia remained free to use. besides, javascript is 'evil'
well, it is not so well known if it gets regular updates and 'mutates'.
made me move from samba to ftp.
blocking 'security-related sites' is actually a good thing, so you know host is infected.
um, Pirate bay is probably in those "top 200 websites"
your reply sounds like one of those "Red herring fallacies" or "straw man"..
part of the problem is they (in the end) care more about damn drugs than me, you or even their friends, families and themselves.
no, the solution is to stop abusing drugs. if that's difficult to grasp, go seek help from family, friends, doctor, etc
other animal species seem to live fine without drugs.
unfortunately? you wouldn't want that stuff to reach Earth..
oh, by the way, virustotal.com has started offering whitelists (they call it "goodware information") but unfortunately only in 'private API' and I presume that means not for free.
there are not so many executables to whitelist. at least we should have such md5sum database of all windows versions and service packs. drivers might be problem, but manufacturers could include the hashes. other than that, nothing else would load on startup (preferably) so at least you get clean boot and do rest of cleaning from hdd. another option is to make that database yourself after the fresh install. but I guess it won't do for same reasons as making a (ghost) image. even .arj archiver had an option of making a hollow archive many many years ago (and checking if files have changed), but it seems common people haven't used it (much) in that way.
..if you don't like your job. (no, not salary)
heh.. you can get there faster with xvnc to localhost..
hmm, it would be interesting to see what happens if two large, fast-spinning objects were close and spinning in same direction.
some newer TVs have built-in players. So you just plug in USB flash or SD card and play movies straight from it.
I'm not sure if slashdot crowd would agree with your point of view if that AV was Norton, for eg. I'd advice that user to do 'format c:' After reinstalling everything himself, he'll think twice before running unknown .exe again.
we need display-less calculators that will beep the result in morse code..
My Amiga struggles with Google as it is. What will happen when 'SPDY' becomes mandatory?
My first thought was 'no DIlbert?' but that one is already mentioned in comments. Another 'greatest engineer' would be Grunf from Alan Ford. and my fav: Gaston Lagaffe http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Gastonpied.gif
you can, depending on whose lap-top you are.
Seems to me Mr Burns already did that with slashdot..
you recon Godzilla is 'not detectable'?
but, now you can buy an iphone and use mp3 player to make phone calls..
there must be better solutions. why don't banks send a sms message with total sum and code, so that customer needs to enter code in order to authorize payment.