All of this virus scanning stuff is like using a condom with a hole in it. I cannot even remember the number of owned machines I have fixed the last couple of months with a virus scanner installed and sitting behind a firewall. In nearly every case the machines are being exploited through the browser or preview in outlook. I run a virus scanner on a system now as a initial pass but then go to the process list to see how many bots are running on the machine collecting and sending data.
If enjoy sharing your credit card information with internet vandals keep using Windows and Internet Explorer.
Actually I ran clam on it also and it did not find anything since it was not really a virus just a bunch of executables that look fully legit to the system.
It probably does have more stuff on it but it is a windows machine and I could really give a damn less about it. Running windows is like russian roulet, you might get by with it for a little bit but you are still going to get it sooner or later.
I did battle with a xp machine yesterday that got zombied. This thing was blasting out thousands of mail messages. It tried nearly everything to keep me from removing it from the machine, morphing, auto reinstall, hiding in different locations, modifying start registry at every shutdown. This is not your average script kiddy stuff somebody wrote it that knew what he was doing. Spybot, norton, clam or adware never even recognized it. This is a machine behind a firewall, virus scanning, spybot scanning etc but it still got infected through yes you guessed it Internet Explorer, and yes it had every security patch installed.
Before I left I disabled internet explorer and installed firefox. It may still get infected through outlook or some other means but I made it one hell of alot harder by switching them to firefox.
If you want to keep a windows machine clear of adware, don't use the internet. Most all of this stuff installs using holes in internet explorere which allow remote execution. Using firefox in most cases will eliminate this problem.
Shutup apple fan boys osx is nothing more than linux gnome without any damn software. Load up a linux distro what do you have? a ton of software. Load up a osx box what do you have? a crappy version of ie.
I am currently running 200 workstations in a thin client environment and we really could not be happier. Not to mention that those 200 are running of a single redhat cluster with nearly 100% uptime for the year. What possible benifit am I going to get over my current environment? Our clients are a mixture of junk we got from a recycler, cdboot from a hacked slax distro or flashboot mini-itx boxes. Total maintenance time per month is measured in mere minutes. And no I am not running LTSP, to complex and I can just buy neoware boxes already configured as a redhat x terminal.
Not to mention that most of the client software is too nasty to use in a work situation. For work we don't need kitchen sink software just simple messaging. The whole jabber protocol is cool but if tools for managing it in a sane way do not exist it just becomes a nightmare.
We currently running about 150 linux desktops here at work. I can safely say that nearly 80% of these users had never ever used a computer when we installed these desktops. These are all manufacturing employees with little to absolutely no computer training. We spend less than two minutes training them how to log in and click a icon on the desktop to launch their program. The enivronment is a entirely controlled thin client environment.
Hell a monkey can use linux in a properly managed environment.
TCO don't even get me started our desktops are up five nines and we spend at most a few minutes a week adding new accounts, or adding icons to somebodies desktop.
I wrote software on a windows platform for years. The problem with MS is that it is first and foremost a marketing driven company. They don't release any software unless it somehow ties you to the operating system.
I don't want to be chasing their tails I like technically driven solutions. If you want to make me a linux developer happy give me this. Take mozilla and make it a real development platform. Put a nice clean api on it and let me use mozilla to write all of my software so it will run fast on anything. This is what I want, doing so would neutralize the platform, the only thing I care about.
The best part about the blackberry is the damn keyboard, what a bunch of tards. I use mine to ssh the boxes at work all the time. I am sure this adaptive bullshit is going to really work with vi commands.
Actually I think you are blowing smoke up our asses. I have done 4 novell to samba migrations in the last year and all of them where rather easy. The first little bit of advise I can give you is to migrate into samba gradually, dont try to bang it in over night. Load a server and just start migrating, it just is not that hard. If it is too hard then just pay microsoft all the bucks and leave this stuff to the experts.
Years ago when they first started putting these things in the trucks I was driving I came up with a very effective solution to the problem. It us just amazing just how useless that black box is when you ground the spedo input. I used a wire, gator clip and a very fine needle to penetrate the spedo signal input wire. The guys at the shop always got damn mad at me because they knew I was screwing with the computer because it always came back blank but they could never prove it.
We buy neoware capio one machines now that run redhat with remote x capabilities. The price is outstanding and it can hook to anything plus a kitchen sink.
No and that is not the intent, nx is x protocol compression that increases the efficiency and responsiveness of applications over slow high latency connections.
Have you actually tried a connection using NX? I have and I can tell you that is damn responsive remote x even over a slow link. I run 400 remote x terminals on a lan and it is not much use for me but if I needed to support road warriors I would not hesitate to use it.
Considering I am running 400 remote x thin client terminals on the shop floor I guess the answer is yes, thin client is cool. Now of course we run bluecurve desktops and don't care much about the network efficency but I have actually tried NX and it is damn responsive over slow links.
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I just sent a link to that to the MCSE slags at work. How long till they figure out they just got owned.
All of this virus scanning stuff is like using
a condom with a hole in it. I cannot even remember the number of owned machines I have fixed the last couple of months with a virus scanner installed and sitting behind a firewall. In nearly every case the machines are being exploited through the browser or preview in outlook. I run a virus scanner on a system now as a initial pass but then go to the process list to see how many bots are running on the machine collecting and sending data.
If enjoy sharing your credit card information with internet vandals keep using Windows and Internet Explorer.
Actually I ran clam on it also and it did not find anything since it was not really a virus just a bunch of executables that look fully legit to the system.
It probably does have more stuff on it but it is a windows machine and I could really give a damn less about it. Running windows is like russian roulet, you might get by with it for a little bit but you are still going to get it sooner or later.
I did battle with a xp machine yesterday that got zombied. This thing was blasting out thousands of mail messages. It tried nearly everything to keep me from removing it from the machine, morphing, auto reinstall, hiding in different locations, modifying start registry at every shutdown. This is not your average script kiddy stuff somebody wrote it that knew what he was doing. Spybot, norton, clam or adware never even recognized it. This is a machine behind a firewall, virus scanning, spybot scanning etc but it still got infected through yes you guessed it Internet Explorer, and yes it had every security patch installed.
Before I left I disabled internet explorer and installed firefox. It may still get infected through outlook or some other means but I made it one hell of alot harder by switching them to firefox.
No linux is the answer you are just too stupid to realize it. Have fun chasing your bots and cleaning systems.
If you want to keep a windows machine clear of adware, don't use the internet. Most all of this stuff installs using holes in internet explorere which allow remote execution. Using firefox in most cases will eliminate this problem.
Sounds like a nice supplement to my income I only need to bust one a year to make a really nice living. Bring it on I am more than ready!
Shutup apple fan boys osx is nothing more than linux
gnome without any damn software. Load up a linux distro what do you have? a ton of software. Load up a osx box what do you have? a crappy version of ie.
I am currently running 200 workstations in a thin client environment and we really could not be happier. Not to mention that those 200 are running of a single redhat cluster with nearly 100% uptime for the year. What possible benifit am I going to get over my current environment? Our clients are a mixture of junk we got from a recycler, cdboot from a hacked slax distro or flashboot mini-itx boxes. Total maintenance time per month is measured in mere minutes. And no I am not running LTSP, to complex and I can just buy neoware boxes already configured as a redhat x terminal.
Now how on earth can they do that SCO owns Solaris, Darl is not going to be happy.
Not to mention that most of the client software is
too nasty to use in a work situation. For work we don't need kitchen sink software just simple messaging. The whole jabber protocol is cool but if tools for managing it in a sane way do not exist it just becomes a nightmare.
We currently running about 150 linux desktops here at work. I can safely say that nearly 80% of these users had never ever used a computer when we installed these desktops. These are all manufacturing employees with little to absolutely no computer training. We spend less than two minutes training them how to log in and click a icon on the desktop to launch their program. The enivronment is a entirely controlled thin client environment.
Hell a monkey can use linux in a properly managed environment.
TCO don't even get me started our desktops are up five nines and we spend at most a few minutes a week adding new accounts, or adding icons to somebodies desktop.
I wrote software on a windows platform for years. The problem with MS is that it is first and foremost a marketing driven company. They don't release any software unless it somehow ties you to the operating system.
I don't want to be chasing their tails I like technically driven solutions. If you want to make me a linux developer happy give me this. Take mozilla and make it a real development platform. Put a nice clean api on it and let me use mozilla to write all of my software so it will run fast on anything. This is what I want, doing so would neutralize the platform, the only thing I care about.
The best part about the blackberry is the damn keyboard, what a bunch of tards. I use mine to ssh the boxes at work all the time. I am sure this adaptive bullshit is going to really work with vi commands.
Actually I think you are blowing smoke up our asses. I have done 4 novell to samba migrations in the last year and all of them where rather easy. The first little bit of advise I can give you is to migrate into samba gradually, dont try to bang it in over night. Load a server and just start migrating, it just is not that hard. If it is too hard then just pay microsoft all the bucks and leave this stuff to the experts.
Years ago when they first started putting these things in the trucks I was driving I came up with
a very effective solution to the problem. It us just amazing just how useless that black box is when you ground the spedo input. I used a wire, gator clip and a very fine needle to penetrate the spedo signal input wire. The guys at the shop always got damn mad at me because they knew I was screwing with the computer because it always came back blank but they could never prove it.
We buy neoware capio one machines now that run redhat with remote x capabilities. The price is outstanding and it can hook to anything plus a kitchen sink.
No and that is not the intent, nx is x protocol compression that increases the efficiency and responsiveness of applications over slow high latency connections.
Have you actually tried a connection using NX? I have and I can tell you that is damn responsive remote x even over a slow link. I run 400 remote x terminals on a lan and it is not much use for me but if I needed to support road warriors I would not hesitate to use it.
Considering I am running 400 remote x thin client terminals on the shop floor I guess the answer is yes, thin client is cool. Now of course we run bluecurve desktops and don't care much about the network efficency but I have actually tried NX and it is damn responsive over slow links.
I own a honda motorcycle that gets 60 mpg, save energy ride a motorcycle.
We always thought it sucked for web developement also until we found echo and echopoint, now we build
everything with it.
A couple of days hacking and the recently released connector from ximian and bingo a connector will be born.