A) Deleting an executable without knowing what it is is stupid.
My predecessor set up ClamWin and configured it to automatically quarantine bad files. I'm inclined to agree with you but that doesn't leave ClamWin without blame.
B) Given that said executable is missing, it should be exceedingly simply to copy it from another machine, or the windows rescue disk.
When userinit.exe is missing, Windows does not even display an error message. It begins the login process and just kicks you out, even in safe mode. Do you realize how hard it is to diagnose the root problem when you are running google searches that read "can't login to windows"?
The second time I came across it, I launched a repair session and extracted userinit.exe into the correct place. Easy. The first time? Holy crap.
I've had two different office machines get hosed because ClamWin false positived on Windows' userinit.exe. If userinit.exe is missing, Windows doesn't even display an error message, it simply can't login to the system. Even in SAFE MODE.
We're a small office and I've taken over IT from the person that installed ClamWin all over the place, we're going with Avast Pro because it's robust and I'm so grateful they offer a free Home version that I can recommend to my family for their personal equipment. Avast Home has always required registration so I'm not sure what sort of crack the OP is smoking.
If you read "The Cuckoo's Egg", you will be both charmed and horrified about how quaintly computer security was regarded by the United States government in the early years of the Internet. The insane thing is that despite all the time that has passed since then, we still have lone basement hackers discovering tears in the fabric of the Internet like when Dan Kaminsky found his DNS flaw.
I believe the Chinese attack on Google has finally woken up a lot of very important people. I was stunned that Hillary Clinton added her voice to those asking the Chinese for answers.
I was also impressed by the Chinese attack -- state sponsored hacking is now explicit reality. "Cyber-warfare" is now reality. Countries have started accumulating and safeguarding their intelligence regarding electronic espionage.
It's not fun and games anymore. Kaminsky found a flaw in DNS from his apartment. We will never know if or which governments knew about it before Kaminsky went public.
The author acknowledges that this test is barely scientific, but I'm left wondering why he didn't disclose which phone he actually uses day-to-day. The muscle memory he's built up using his primary smartphone should give a huge bias to the results.
we need fighters who will fight for their home, not freeloading whiners
As a Canadian, we don't want your countrymen that continually threaten to migrate. We want the ones that actually do it. Actions will always speak louder than words.
We're one of the universities that is trying out the Google Apps system for students, faculty, and staff, even though we have a growing population of centralized Exchange users (email, calendaring, IM, VOIP, etc). We're working on interoperability now, but it would likely be easier if we went one way or the other.
Once your organization gets on the Exchange bandwagon, you are utterly screwed. You will be forced to upgrade every time Microsoft decides they want to print more money. Good luck trying to migrate away.
A tape library would be impractical at the present time.
Why?
I've worked in Visual Effects production and every time a new project came along we'd have to clear the servers of terabytes and terabytes of data. We used tapes. How are they impractical exactly? Inexperience?
Shall I assume the fetal position now or should my strategy be to hope that one of the first blows is directly to my skull resulting in my immediate unconsciousness?
*sigh* Another one seeking death in the BSD vs Linux affair, is it?
My son, the great Stallman taught us to be wary of those seeking martyrdom. Do you truly believe your actions worthy of those men that gave their lives in glory for Emacs vs Vi, or even more recently, Gnome vs KDE?
No. To your feet, knave. Your sentence is a short duration of trolling marked by significant.. intensity.
And for Stallman's sake, next time at least pick a side before seeking the sweet mercy of the blade.
Remember "hackers" got a hold of signed Microsoft.com certs that would be INCREDIBLY useful for a MITM attack? Which registrar let that happen, again? Clearly they didn't do it deliberately..
As a Canadian locked out of Hulu and Comedy Central's web clips, I wish geolocation based on IP would burn in hell already.
That being said:
There was a Syrian developer commenting on the story about the original announcement, he was justifiably pissed off that Sourceforge had decided to deny him access to his own work. Does this change allow him to work on his project in peace?
Has Slashdot decided to stop mentioning that Sourceforge is owned by the same parent company? They're sure trying to do some damage control by going straight to Slashdot's front page with their weird opt-in workaround..
I found internal wikis to be a huge boost at my old job. At my current job everyone seems to do similar things using word files passed around over email which are like islands in the sea of information, easy to lose, easy to become outdated, etc.
What's that graph supposed to represent without an y axis?
The Y axis represents "3G Voice Composite Quality Index", duh! Don't you speak marketing robot? High fives all around, everyone, team meeting at the Sizzler!
What if the 'scammer' can feel better about himself after spreading information? I mean shouldn't people who have done bad things be allowed to make remorse and NOT have to feel guilty their whole lives???? I mean Jesus Christ.....
Funnily enough, forgiveness was one of Christ's greatest teachings. The article left a bad taste in my mouth also.
"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on." - Steve Jobs, Interview in Macworld magazine, February 2004
Steve used to preach that you could tell simply by looking at someones posture whether they were consuming or creating. The hacker bent over his keyboard is a boon to society while the couch potato leaning waayy back is a drain.
Meanwhile, he introduces the iPad while leaning back in an easy chair and telling us how easy it is to buy and consume web pages, music, movies, books from the iTunes store. And it's all DRM infested, right down to the software you may or may not be allowed to run on it.
Does this affect the Ubuntu - Firefox deal? Debian's version of Firefox is named Iceweasel because Debian legal felt that the Firefox branding was too encumbered to users wishing to redistribute, but Ubuntu reached some sort of compromise that allowed them to keep the Firefox branding.
Will screwing with Firefox's default search affect Ubuntu's relationship with Firefox? I'm expecting "no" but wondering if anyone is able to explain why.
Reading the article (yeah yeah), he says nothing about the netbook being "dead" or even declining. Just your standard Slashdot editorial slant -- fabricating a headline out of thin air.
Slashdot Mirror
My predecessor set up ClamWin and configured it to automatically quarantine bad files. I'm inclined to agree with you but that doesn't leave ClamWin without blame.
When userinit.exe is missing, Windows does not even display an error message. It begins the login process and just kicks you out, even in safe mode. Do you realize how hard it is to diagnose the root problem when you are running google searches that read "can't login to windows"?
The second time I came across it, I launched a repair session and extracted userinit.exe into the correct place. Easy. The first time? Holy crap.
NO. No to ClamWin.
I've had two different office machines get hosed because ClamWin false positived on Windows' userinit.exe. If userinit.exe is missing, Windows doesn't even display an error message, it simply can't login to the system. Even in SAFE MODE.
We're a small office and I've taken over IT from the person that installed ClamWin all over the place, we're going with Avast Pro because it's robust and I'm so grateful they offer a free Home version that I can recommend to my family for their personal equipment. Avast Home has always required registration so I'm not sure what sort of crack the OP is smoking.
If you read "The Cuckoo's Egg", you will be both charmed and horrified about how quaintly computer security was regarded by the United States government in the early years of the Internet. The insane thing is that despite all the time that has passed since then, we still have lone basement hackers discovering tears in the fabric of the Internet like when Dan Kaminsky found his DNS flaw.
I believe the Chinese attack on Google has finally woken up a lot of very important people. I was stunned that Hillary Clinton added her voice to those asking the Chinese for answers.
I was also impressed by the Chinese attack -- state sponsored hacking is now explicit reality. "Cyber-warfare" is now reality. Countries have started accumulating and safeguarding their intelligence regarding electronic espionage.
It's not fun and games anymore. Kaminsky found a flaw in DNS from his apartment. We will never know if or which governments knew about it before Kaminsky went public.
The author acknowledges that this test is barely scientific, but I'm left wondering why he didn't disclose which phone he actually uses day-to-day. The muscle memory he's built up using his primary smartphone should give a huge bias to the results.
As a Canadian, we don't want your countrymen that continually threaten to migrate. We want the ones that actually do it. Actions will always speak louder than words.
Once your organization gets on the Exchange bandwagon, you are utterly screwed. You will be forced to upgrade every time Microsoft decides they want to print more money. Good luck trying to migrate away.
Why?
I've worked in Visual Effects production and every time a new project came along we'd have to clear the servers of terabytes and terabytes of data. We used tapes. How are they impractical exactly? Inexperience?
Who let this Canadian into the situation room?
*sigh* Another one seeking death in the BSD vs Linux affair, is it?
My son, the great Stallman taught us to be wary of those seeking martyrdom. Do you truly believe your actions worthy of those men that gave their lives in glory for Emacs vs Vi, or even more recently, Gnome vs KDE?
No. To your feet, knave. Your sentence is a short duration of trolling marked by significant.. intensity.
And for Stallman's sake, next time at least pick a side before seeking the sweet mercy of the blade.
Yours in battle,
Ernest Shackleford
Church of GNU
Remember "hackers" got a hold of signed Microsoft.com certs that would be INCREDIBLY useful for a MITM attack? Which registrar let that happen, again? Clearly they didn't do it deliberately..
Also remember back in the early days of the Internet *cough October 2009 cough cough* when certificates could be forged for any browser using MSIE's SSL library?
If the Chinese registry starts publishing bogus certs we can just blacklist them and it will all be a failed experiment in diplomacy.
BOOBIS?
Hello, kdawson.
No.
Who cares?
Yes.
No.
I might read the article next time.
Crap, the story does have a "shares a corporate overlord" clause.
As a Canadian locked out of Hulu and Comedy Central's web clips, I wish geolocation based on IP would burn in hell already.
That being said:
There was a Syrian developer commenting on the story about the original announcement, he was justifiably pissed off that Sourceforge had decided to deny him access to his own work. Does this change allow him to work on his project in peace?
Has Slashdot decided to stop mentioning that Sourceforge is owned by the same parent company? They're sure trying to do some damage control by going straight to Slashdot's front page with their weird opt-in workaround..
I found internal wikis to be a huge boost at my old job. At my current job everyone seems to do similar things using word files passed around over email which are like islands in the sea of information, easy to lose, easy to become outdated, etc.
i'm terrible with x86 assembly, is that the xor swap algorithm?
The Y axis represents "3G Voice Composite Quality Index", duh! Don't you speak marketing robot? High fives all around, everyone, team meeting at the Sizzler!
Funnily enough, forgiveness was one of Christ's greatest teachings. The article left a bad taste in my mouth also.
"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on." - Steve Jobs, Interview in Macworld magazine, February 2004
Steve used to preach that you could tell simply by looking at someones posture whether they were consuming or creating. The hacker bent over his keyboard is a boon to society while the couch potato leaning waayy back is a drain.
Meanwhile, he introduces the iPad while leaning back in an easy chair and telling us how easy it is to buy and consume web pages, music, movies, books from the iTunes store. And it's all DRM infested, right down to the software you may or may not be allowed to run on it.
Consume, consume, consume.
With javascript disabled, they said my browser was 1 in 140.
With javascript enabled, they said my browser was unique among all browsers seen so far.
NoScript is so great.
Does this affect the Ubuntu - Firefox deal? Debian's version of Firefox is named Iceweasel because Debian legal felt that the Firefox branding was too encumbered to users wishing to redistribute, but Ubuntu reached some sort of compromise that allowed them to keep the Firefox branding.
Will screwing with Firefox's default search affect Ubuntu's relationship with Firefox? I'm expecting "no" but wondering if anyone is able to explain why.
you owe me 11 replacement dolphins
Reading the article (yeah yeah), he says nothing about the netbook being "dead" or even declining. Just your standard Slashdot editorial slant -- fabricating a headline out of thin air.
Is this the same FCC that took a "save the children" stance over some wardrobe malfunction a while back?
I wonder why intelligent people would flee an organization guided by puritanism..
(FCC, free advice, stick to regulating wavelengths and you'll get more support from scientists and engineers)
I am left wondering where they are going to find some bonafide terrorists to calibrate their setup.