Yeah.
Might be useful to note that you just described the OLD encryption method used back in PKZIP 2.04g. The method that's already fully described in the publically available PKZIP Application Note.
The encryption used now is quite a bit different, supporting RC2/RC4-64/128, 3DES-112/168, and AES-128/192/256. Oh, and there's also the business about using a passphrase and/or a list of recipients (dig certs) to encrypt the files. THAT is the strong encryption they're talking about.
if a hacker had administrator rights, wouldn't it already be game over? On the other hand, a 20 gb hack isn't extremely portable
Not quite - admin rights would only give access to whatever was on that particular machine (and stuff on the network), while the passwords of everyone who used that system would be considerably more valuable.
1. Diablo II Expansion, sorceress named "of_Something".
2. In old AD&D stuff, the name of whatever class they were ("FIGHTER", "CLERIC", etc.)
3. In Quake 1, "a hairy old man" was fun when using the Thunderbolt (I'll let you do the math).
As for Final Fantasy 3/6, I've heard of at least one person who named everyone "Kupo". Not quite as good as calling everyone "Kefka", though.
Let's follow the pattern set by other game names:
UO == Ultima Online
PSO == Phantasy Star Online
So, AO == America Online!
Hmm, that might explain a few things...
(1) Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,
(iii) To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call
Zip encryption has always been a joke, and I doubt that too many are going to replace what ever trusted methods they have come up with for PKWare or WinZip's new method.
That's funny, I seem to recall that PKZIP had support for strong encryption (3DES, RC2, RC4, etc. using digital certificates and/or a passphrase) quite a while ago (since version 5.0).
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In many cases, it can help to use 0.0.0.0. If you use 127.0.0.1, it tries to connect to your local system and fails about 1 second later*; if you use 0.0.0.0, your TCP/IP stack will generally reject it immediately, so pages will load faster.
* - assuming you aren't running a local webserver - if you are, it'll just give you an instant 404 which is almost as good as using 0.0.0.0 but uses ever so slightly more resources (i.e. your httpd).
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What browser are you using?
If you're using (gasp) MSIE (version 5.5 or greater, I think), it already has password saving and form filling. Other browsers (like Mozilla and Opera) should also have that capability, though I'm not 100% certain.
There would also need to be some way to tell the legitimate client not to render the "invisibot"s. Any properly written cheat program would be able to just as easily remove them from the target list or, to make things worse, aim around them so they *never* hit them.
From my experience, booting Windows 2000/XP in "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" mode simply boots the system in Safe Mode (32-bit) then opens a Command Prompt window (CMD.EXE) after you login instead of displaying the desktop and taskbar.
Windows NT is 32-bit underneath and provides a 16-bit compatibility layer - NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) and WOWEXEC (Windows Win16 Application Launcher), while Windows 9x is 16-bit underneath and runs everything in a 32-bit layer (to my understanding).
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Actually, AOLiza is based on Eliza (the one that acts like a psychiatrist), not A.L.I.C.E.
However, I doubt the results would be much different with an A.[o.]L.I.C.E.:)
Given a bit more searching (and better search terms), I could probably come up with a bunch, including the one that hit Internic a while ago (resulting in a massive 4 hour net-wide outage).
(I hardly ever switch to another window before it's loaded enough to spawn the windows)
I do; when viewing forums on various sites, I'll shift+click on a bunch of threads to open them in new windows (so I don't have to wait for them to load; said sites are generally rather slow).
As for the flashing, it's just letting you know that the window may need you attention. There's an Windows API function -- BOOL FlashWindow(hwnd, TRUE) -- that will do it.
Ah, but that function only flashes the taskbar icon on/off about twice per second. Those pop-unders generally flash it at about 20-30 times per second, making it considerably more annoying.
And pop-unders at least don't steal the window focus
No, they do something worse. The window that spawned them steals the window focus. And some pop-under ads are very poorly designed, such that when using IE (yes, I'm a poor sap that uses IE), the taskbar buttons [for the main window and the pop-under] flicker repeatedly for about 2 seconds after the window opens (trying to steal focus from each other?).
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how would encrypting the address book help? It's not like the virus is accessing raw binary data from the address book; more than likely it's using some sort of API call to get the data.
I'm not counting XHTML 1.0 because it isn't (in a strict sense) HTML; besides, the bug in Netscape 4 deals with HTML (where the close tags should be optional), not XHTML (where they are required).
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Yeah.
Might be useful to note that you just described the OLD encryption method used back in PKZIP 2.04g. The method that's already fully described in the publically available PKZIP Application Note.
The encryption used now is quite a bit different, supporting RC2/RC4-64/128, 3DES-112/168, and AES-128/192/256. Oh, and there's also the business about using a passphrase and/or a list of recipients (dig certs) to encrypt the files. THAT is the strong encryption they're talking about.
If you're using a Microsoft compiler, you can already do that; don't know if any other compilers have implemented that extension, though...
1. Diablo II Expansion, sorceress named "of_Something".
2. In old AD&D stuff, the name of whatever class they were ("FIGHTER", "CLERIC", etc.)
3. In Quake 1, "a hairy old man" was fun when using the Thunderbolt (I'll let you do the math).
As for Final Fantasy 3/6, I've heard of at least one person who named everyone "Kupo". Not quite as good as calling everyone "Kefka", though.
Let's follow the pattern set by other game names:
UO == Ultima Online
PSO == Phantasy Star Online
So, AO == America Online!
Hmm, that might explain a few things...
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Volume 3, Parts 40 to 69
Sec. 64.1200 Delivery restrictions.
(a) No person may:
(1) Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,
(iii) To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call
The FCC laws against junk faxes (TCPA) may prove to be relevant to this...
In many cases, it can help to use 0.0.0.0. If you use 127.0.0.1, it tries to connect to your local system and fails about 1 second later*; if you use 0.0.0.0, your TCP/IP stack will generally reject it immediately, so pages will load faster.
* - assuming you aren't running a local webserver - if you are, it'll just give you an instant 404 which is almost as good as using 0.0.0.0 but uses ever so slightly more resources (i.e. your httpd).
What browser are you using?
If you're using (gasp) MSIE (version 5.5 or greater, I think), it already has password saving and form filling. Other browsers (like Mozilla and Opera) should also have that capability, though I'm not 100% certain.
There would also need to be some way to tell the legitimate client not to render the "invisibot"s. Any properly written cheat program would be able to just as easily remove them from the target list or, to make things worse, aim around them so they *never* hit them.
...who initially read the title as "Amazon's Bozos Wants Web Advertising Patent"?
I always rememberd it as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".
From my experience, booting Windows 2000/XP in "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" mode simply boots the system in Safe Mode (32-bit) then opens a Command Prompt window (CMD.EXE) after you login instead of displaying the desktop and taskbar.
Windows NT is 32-bit underneath and provides a 16-bit compatibility layer - NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) and WOWEXEC (Windows Win16 Application Launcher), while Windows 9x is 16-bit underneath and runs everything in a 32-bit layer (to my understanding).
Actually, AOLiza is based on Eliza (the one that acts like a psychiatrist), not A.L.I.C.E. :)
However, I doubt the results would be much different with an A.[o.]L.I.C.E.
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Given a bit more searching (and better search terms), I could probably come up with a bunch, including the one that hit Internic a while ago (resulting in a massive 4 hour net-wide outage).I send you this file
in order to have advice.
See you later, thanks.
SELECT * FROM table1 t1 LEFT JOIN table2 t2 USING (common_column) WHERE t1.column1=7
If so, yes. You don't even need MySQL 4; 3.23 can do it just fine (though it may be missing a few variations).
Actually, that's one from Windows NT 4.0.
The Windows 2000 stop screen looks a bit more like this (but white text on blue background):
*** STOP: 0x000000CE (0xC0000005,0x804F3606,0x00000000,0x00000000)
MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
*** Address 804F3606 base at 80400000, DateStamp 3ad77869 - ntoskrnl.exe
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your administrator or technical support group for further assistance.
Atleast that's what mine have always looked like under Windows 2000 Professional (in the rare event that the system actually does STOP)...
And some pop-under ads are very poorly designed, such that when using IE (yes, I'm a poor sap that uses IE), the taskbar buttons [for the main window and the pop-under] flicker repeatedly for about 2 seconds after the window opens (trying to steal focus from each other?).
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how would encrypting the address book help?
It's not like the virus is accessing raw binary data from the address book; more than likely it's using some sort of API call to get the data.
I'm not counting XHTML 1.0 because it isn't (in a strict sense) HTML; besides, the bug in Netscape 4 deals with HTML (where the close tags should be optional), not XHTML (where they are required).
Wouldn't that be a bit redundant?
Why sign the checksum of a file when you can just sign the file itself?