Then they deserve all the spam they get. I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for people that are unwilling to learn how to use anti-spam tools. Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird both have excellent junk mail controls that are simple to use, there is no excuse not to use them.
It depends on the situation. Where I work the users call us, and it's pretty hard to troubleshoot their email or whatever without the right user name and password.
Besides, I forget the password 10 seconds after they hang up.
This virus is a MS Outlook virus, not an email virus. If you made your users use an actually secure email program, you wouldn't have these problems. Something like Novell Groupwise or Lotus Domino would work.
Emulation is not illegal, nor is reverse engineering a game engine. Freecraft required you to use the graphics from the Warcraft 2 cd, or the free graphics set. There was nothing illegal about it.
Writing an emulator for any system is not illegal, no matter what the game companies want to make you think. Look at sites like Zophar's Domain for a list of emulation projects out there.
Your host should be able to disable the catch-all account for your domain, which will result in any message not sent to a specific account being bounced.
You should also be able to set up filters in your accounts control panel. If your host does not support this, you need a new host.
I work for a hosting company, there's not much you can do. By the time you detect the mail server queue going crazy, they may have sent out thousands of spams already. It's kind of hard to unsend a message. We can terminate their account after we find out, but the damage is already done.
Multiply this by thousands of customers on hundreds of servers and it becomes pretty hard to track.
Maybe you should learn how to deploy patches and updates the right way then. Set up an SMS Server, and deploy the patches to every workstation in the domain overnight.
We did it with a few thousand workstations at my old company and didn't have that much difficulty with it.
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Then they deserve all the spam they get. I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for people that are unwilling to learn how to use anti-spam tools. Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird both have excellent junk mail controls that are simple to use, there is no excuse not to use them.
We run some pretty busy mail servers, and we don't use Sendmail. It's a pain to configure and is insecure. Exim fits our needs perfectly.
So is the Xbox, Game Cube, and every other game console in existance.
Anything that computes numbers is a computer. Even a freaking abacus is a computer, not an electronic one though.
I think people are confusing the definition of computer, and Personal Computer. They're two entirely different things.
Microsoft never said that open source was the end of freedom. They said that about the GPL, but not BSD.
Amen.
I wish I had mod points right now.
Or maybe SCO used the OpenBSD code which was then licensed to MS.
The BSD license allows anybody to do this.
Because we can.
It's a geek thing, you wouldn't understand.
If my ISP even tries to put a montly limit on me, I'm cancelling the cable. I paid for "unlimited" access, so that means UNLIMITED.
I don't think that's legal. The landlord can't just let people in your apartment without your permission.
Read slashdot, answer help desk tickets, answer phones, read slashdot.
That's about it.
This is one of the reasons I love my current job, we get to pretty much set our own hours.
Normally I work 9-5, but if I'm up late doing something, nobody cares if I come in at 10 or 11. As long as we put in our 40 a week nobody cares.
And morale at the company is very high since the boss doesn't try to micromanage every thing we do.
It depends on the situation. Where I work the users call us, and it's pretty hard to troubleshoot their email or whatever without the right user name and password.
Besides, I forget the password 10 seconds after they hang up.
As the sys admin you have a right to ask the user for a password if you need it.
The point is you shouldn't have to buy a special cable at all. I should be able to pick up any pair of headphones and plug them in. No muss, no fuss.
This virus is a MS Outlook virus, not an email virus. If you made your users use an actually secure email program, you wouldn't have these problems. Something like Novell Groupwise or Lotus Domino would work.
When you say American, everybody knows what is meant by that. American has become the common word for somebody from the United States.
Of course, we all may end up speaking Spanish any way, if things continue like they have been.
Emulation is not illegal, nor is reverse engineering a game engine. Freecraft required you to use the graphics from the Warcraft 2 cd, or the free graphics set. There was nothing illegal about it.
Writing an emulator for any system is not illegal, no matter what the game companies want to make you think. Look at sites like Zophar's Domain for a list of emulation projects out there.
Your host should be able to disable the catch-all account for your domain, which will result in any message not sent to a specific account being bounced.
You should also be able to set up filters in your accounts control panel. If your host does not support this, you need a new host.
I work for a hosting company, there's not much you can do. By the time you detect the mail server queue going crazy, they may have sent out thousands of spams already. It's kind of hard to unsend a message. We can terminate their account after we find out, but the damage is already done.
Multiply this by thousands of customers on hundreds of servers and it becomes pretty hard to track.
Maybe you should learn how to deploy patches and updates the right way then. Set up an SMS Server, and deploy the patches to every workstation in the domain overnight.
We did it with a few thousand workstations at my old company and didn't have that much difficulty with it.
Meanwhile, our couple hundred Linux servers keep chugging along unaffected.
People are lazy. Using windows update requires effort, which most users don't care enough about it to take the time.
XP has it right, updates should download and install by themselves. Those who are paranoid can always turn it off.
No it doesn't. What happens if you put in a cd and are working on something, and somebody else comes along and just ejects the disc?
I hope somebody makes it a point to kick your ass.