First of all, you can't even program (I've repeatedly asked if you have a degree in computers and you evade that question, because you do not.
Logic doesn't work that way I'm afraid. Not answering a personal question you have no right to ask that's ludicrous on the face of it doesn't mean the answer is "No", and further, an absolutely huge portion of this industry is comprised of people who program and who don't have degrees.
What you've implied, repeatedly, is that nobody has the right to comment on your "achievements" unless we've done something similar.
Your achievements are writing crapware, including software classified, for several years, as malware by the malware community, and writing a guide to system protection based upon a ludicrous, stupid, and demonstrably useless "anti-virus" system, namely placing all of the hostnames used to deliver viruses in a HOSTS file. As has been pointed out, the system can easily be bypassed either through the use of dynamically generated hostnames and wildcard DNS, or even more simply, and even more obviously, by using IP addresses, neither of which HOSTS can bypass. Add that to the lead time required to identify a new "evil" site and get it into HOSTS files for all users, and it's fairly obvious that not only is the method flawed, but anyone proposing it as a solution is either a certifiable idiot, or is being deliberately disingenuous.
My guess? You honestly think that people will delay giving their money to real anti-virus companies, who you're pissed at for identifying your tools as crapware and components of malware.
Here's the billion dollar question: will you respond to these points? Will you explain why you think HOSTS is an adequate solution given the above OBVIOUS statements debunking it, or else withdraw your claims about it as a virus-protection system, or will you continue to stonewall, demanding to hear people's educational history, employers, applications (which in my case are stuff you'd never have heard of anyway, unless you work for one of several major automotive concerns, and then only if you work in particular departments, so why would I bother telling you them?) we've written, and other crap that has nothing to do with matters at hand?
People can see through ad-hominem arguments, indeed, that's why there's a name for that kind of argument. They especially see through ad-hominem arguments based upon nothing at all, which is what you have.
But of course you're not going to answer, are you? You're just going to reply to this with a demand for more lists of qualifications or bizarre rants about how great you are. And meanwhile, people will ask themselves about IP addresses and wildcard DNS entries, and see your lack of a response as yet more proof that you're full of it.
"Will you explain why you think HOSTS is an adequate solution given the above OBVIOUS statements debunking it" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 09, @10:35PM (#32151184)
Uhm, illiterate one? APK's security guide espouses a lot more than the use of a HOSTS file only. You're not only stupid, but you have "fixated yourself" on 1 portion of this only. His security guide here:
http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?s=79c7b230a57544836234fc76bec0634f&showtopic=89123
Works based on the concept of "layered security" moron. Learn to READ, because it's ALL UP THERE IN THAT URL (one of many like it).
"My guess? You honestly think that people will delay giving their money to real anti-virus companies" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 09, @10:35PM (#32151184)
Oh, you mean the "real antivirus companies" who have flaws in their wares like this one that showed up today and this week earlier too, so they are ABSOLUTELY CURRENT evidences thereof? See here:
Critical Flaw Found In Virtuall
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Logic doesn't work that way I'm afraid. Not answering a personal question you have no right to ask that's ludicrous on the face of it doesn't mean the answer is "No", and further, an absolutely huge portion of this industry is comprised of people who program and who don't have degrees.
What you've implied, repeatedly, is that nobody has the right to comment on your "achievements" unless we've done something similar.
Your achievements are writing crapware, including software classified, for several years, as malware by the malware community, and writing a guide to system protection based upon a ludicrous, stupid, and demonstrably useless "anti-virus" system, namely placing all of the hostnames used to deliver viruses in a HOSTS file. As has been pointed out, the system can easily be bypassed either through the use of dynamically generated hostnames and wildcard DNS, or even more simply, and even more obviously, by using IP addresses, neither of which HOSTS can bypass. Add that to the lead time required to identify a new "evil" site and get it into HOSTS files for all users, and it's fairly obvious that not only is the method flawed, but anyone proposing it as a solution is either a certifiable idiot, or is being deliberately disingenuous.
My guess? You honestly think that people will delay giving their money to real anti-virus companies, who you're pissed at for identifying your tools as crapware and components of malware.
Here's the billion dollar question: will you respond to these points? Will you explain why you think HOSTS is an adequate solution given the above OBVIOUS statements debunking it, or else withdraw your claims about it as a virus-protection system, or will you continue to stonewall, demanding to hear people's educational history, employers, applications (which in my case are stuff you'd never have heard of anyway, unless you work for one of several major automotive concerns, and then only if you work in particular departments, so why would I bother telling you them?) we've written, and other crap that has nothing to do with matters at hand?
People can see through ad-hominem arguments, indeed, that's why there's a name for that kind of argument. They especially see through ad-hominem arguments based upon nothing at all, which is what you have.
But of course you're not going to answer, are you? You're just going to reply to this with a demand for more lists of qualifications or bizarre rants about how great you are. And meanwhile, people will ask themselves about IP addresses and wildcard DNS entries, and see your lack of a response as yet more proof that you're full of it.
"Will you explain why you think HOSTS is an adequate solution given the above OBVIOUS statements debunking it" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 09, @10:35PM (#32151184)
Uhm, illiterate one? APK's security guide espouses a lot more than the use of a HOSTS file only. You're not only stupid, but you have "fixated yourself" on 1 portion of this only. His security guide here: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?s=79c7b230a57544836234fc76bec0634f&showtopic=89123 Works based on the concept of "layered security" moron. Learn to READ, because it's ALL UP THERE IN THAT URL (one of many like it).
"My guess? You honestly think that people will delay giving their money to real anti-virus companies" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 09, @10:35PM (#32151184)
Oh, you mean the "real antivirus companies" who have flaws in their wares like this one that showed up today and this week earlier too, so they are ABSOLUTELY CURRENT evidences thereof? See here: Critical Flaw Found In Virtuall