Just out of curiosity I looked on my own system and... wtf!... I have this crap installed too! All the dll's and exe's are there just like in the instructions, even though I have NEVER let Kazaa anywhere near my system.
Are there any other programs that install this trojan behind your back? The only thing I can think of is an old version of Morpheus I once installed, and uninstalled when it stopped working.
And here I thought I was safe, by sticking to relatively trusted software and running AdAware and refupdate regularly...
I think in the end the player will determine which platform will be more succesful, and Microsoft is better placed there.
Not that I love Media Player, but it sure beats that crappy Real Player or that irritating nagware that is Quicktime. Plus it comes bundled with windows...
I know that whenever I'm presented with a choice of streaming media, I usually pick the one for mediaplayer.
Does anyone remember that Simpsons episode where Homer went to work for a guy called Scorpio who had a secret underground base with a death ray or something, and he was trying to take over the world.
For some reason this guy always reminded me of Larry Ellison so I can just picture him flying that MiG over Microsoft's hq in Redmond:)
What I don't get is... why doesn't everyone just add a forwarding SMTP server between the internet and their exchange server and set it up to deny.vbs,.scr;... style attachments.
We use exchange at work too, and I just set up a linux box running postfix in front of it. With a simple oneline regular expression, every dangerous attachment gets blocked. (hint: use the body_checks parameter) We haven't been hit by a single worm or virus since then.
>I was forced out of ICQ since their servers now
>drop packets not coming from v7 clients and LICQ
>is definately not v7; hell I don't even think
>it's being developed anymore.
Hmm... that is strange, I log into ICQ daily with Licq (v1.03) . Only problem I've seen recently, is that it doesn't erase messages that got sent to you while you are offline... so you keep receiving them until you log in with an official client....
Why even go as far as downloading a specific distro for it?
I converted my slackware 8.0 system to ext3 in about 30 minutes. It's as simple as compiling a kernel with ext3 support, run tune2fs -j -Jsize=10/dev/hdax and changing the fs type to ext3 in etc/fstab. Piece of cake...
There is a "wrapper" library called snoopy that can do this. It logs all commands executed to syslog. You can then let syslog log over the network to a dedicated logging host, to which your users don't have access.
You can find snoopy here:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/marius/snoopy/
>... although you can set Google as your auto-search engine in your prefs and then have it search there
Yes, I've done that, but that's not what I want... I don't care what the search engine is, I just want the "pop-up" gone because it's distracting and makes the input box sluggish.
I just wish you could disable that annoying auto-search feature...
Whenever you just want to type in an url in the address bar, that bloody autosearch pops up drawing away your focus.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer just going to google (or any other search engine) myself and search from there. This is just more bloat and I wish I could disable it.
Don't laugh, but there is such a thing as the Linux Toolkit for AIX which contains a port of RPM among other things....
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Well, I do have a link to back up my claims (about system management anyway)
http://www.dhbrown.com/dhbrown/OSrevu.htm#sysman
I think you all remember that study from a couple of months ago, don't you? Now I know that D.H. Brown aren't exactly best friends with Slashdot readers , but at least they had a clue here I think.
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>This may be a slick new RS/6000, but it still >runs AIX. This o/s consistently rates below NT >in sys admin satisfaction surveys.
Hmm... can you back up that claim with a link? I find this comment very strange because IMHO AIX is both rock solid and extremely easy to administer. SMIT and Logican Volume Manager are really useful tools for an admin, much better (read: straight forward, not confusing) than NT's "Control Panel" or Disk Administrator, but of course it doesn't have all those fancy colors =)
About Sun on the high end: I can't really compare, because I don't have much experience with Sun hardware. Just wondering: does it have things like SP2?
AFAIK Sun doesn't have a centralized system management tool though, or am I mistaken?
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Just out of curiosity I looked on my own system and ... wtf! ... I have this crap installed too! All the dll's and exe's are there just like in the instructions, even though I have NEVER let Kazaa anywhere near my system.
Are there any other programs that install this trojan behind your back? The only thing I can think of is an old version of Morpheus I once installed, and uninstalled when it stopped working.
And here I thought I was safe, by sticking to relatively trusted software and running AdAware and refupdate regularly...
ipchains/iptables/ ... are your friend!
Every server should have it's own firewall script anyway that only allows incoming traffic on a limited set of ports.
I think in the end the player will determine which platform will be more succesful, and Microsoft is better placed there.
Not that I love Media Player, but it sure beats that crappy Real Player or that irritating nagware that is Quicktime. Plus it comes bundled with windows...
I know that whenever I'm presented with a choice of streaming media, I usually pick the one for mediaplayer.
Wow! Flying prism tanks! Can't wait to get those in Red Alert 3 ;)
Does anyone remember that Simpsons episode where Homer went to work for a guy called Scorpio who had a secret underground base with a death ray or something, and he was trying to take over the world.
:)
For some reason this guy always reminded me of Larry Ellison so I can just picture him flying that MiG over Microsoft's hq in Redmond
What I don't get is ... why doesn't everyone just add a forwarding SMTP server between the internet and their exchange server and set it up to deny .vbs,.scr ;... style attachments.
We use exchange at work too, and I just set up a linux box running postfix in front of it. With a simple oneline regular expression, every dangerous attachment gets blocked. (hint: use the body_checks parameter) We haven't been hit by a single worm or virus since then.
>I was forced out of ICQ since their servers now
... that is strange, I log into ICQ daily with Licq (v1.03) . Only problem I've seen recently, is that it doesn't erase messages that got sent to you while you are offline ... so you keep receiving them until you log in with an official client ....
>drop packets not coming from v7 clients and LICQ
>is definately not v7; hell I don't even think
>it's being developed anymore.
Hmm
Why even go as far as downloading a specific distro for it?
/dev/hdax and changing the fs type to ext3 in etc/fstab. Piece of cake...
I converted my slackware 8.0 system to ext3 in about 30 minutes. It's as simple as compiling a kernel with ext3 support, run tune2fs -j -Jsize=10
There is a "wrapper" library called snoopy that can do this. It logs all commands executed to syslog. You can then let syslog log over the network to a dedicated logging host, to which your users don't have access.
You can find snoopy here:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/marius/snoopy/
What??? So every local user can take snapshots of my desktop???
You're opening up a pretty big security hole there.
What's wrong with `hostname -s` ?
> ... although you can set Google as your auto-search engine in your prefs and then have it search there
... I don't care what the search engine is, I just want the "pop-up" gone because it's distracting and makes the input box sluggish.
Yes, I've done that, but that's not what I want
I just wish you could disable that annoying auto-search feature...
Whenever you just want to type in an url in the address bar, that bloody autosearch pops up drawing away your focus.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer just going to google (or any other search engine) myself and search from there. This is just more bloat and I wish I could disable it.
Don't laugh, but there is such a thing as the Linux Toolkit for AIX which contains a port of RPM among other things ....
Well, I do have a link to back up my claims (about system management anyway)
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http://www.dhbrown.com/dhbrown/OSrevu.htm#sysma
I think you all remember that study from a couple of months ago, don't you? Now I know that D.H. Brown aren't exactly best friends with Slashdot readers , but at least they had a clue here I think.
>This may be a slick new RS/6000, but it still >runs AIX. This o/s consistently rates below NT >in sys admin satisfaction surveys.
... can you back up that claim with a link? I find this comment very strange because IMHO AIX is both rock solid and extremely easy to administer. SMIT and Logican Volume Manager are really useful tools for an admin, much better (read: straight forward, not confusing) than NT's "Control Panel" or Disk Administrator, but of course it doesn't have all those fancy colors =)
Hmm
About Sun on the high end: I can't really compare, because I don't have much experience with Sun hardware. Just wondering: does it have things like SP2?
AFAIK Sun doesn't have a centralized system management tool though, or am I mistaken?