"entice the user to click the link/executable. Of course the latter is the easiest, and is the most effective when used in conjunction with a celebrity's name. "
Proving once again that the number one security problem is not Windows, or flaws in Windows -- it is user stupidity.
If they need money, then they should sell copies of NetBSD, rather than begging for handouts. If NetBSD has any value, then people will be willing to purchase it.
If you read the reference link [microsoft.com] that I added, you'll see that it applies to all SP2 machines.
Well, this is certainly news to me. I've been running Photoshop CS2 on Windows XP with SP2 for a couple of months now and I have not noticed any problems.
What kind of moron compares one country against a group of several countries? What kind of comparison is that? Look at the individual numbers:
U.S. - 20% Germany - 6% France - 5% U.K. - 3%
Only by lumping everyone together as "Europe" are they able to claim that the majority of zombies are not located in the U.S. Even though I live in the U.S., I find this article totally stupid.
"The Siebel board fired Lawrie and installed George Shaheen as CEO. Shaheen was formerly the president of Accenture, and he has never run a business that depended on selling licenses."
After leaving Accenture, Shaheen was CEO of Webvan, a short-lived dot.bomb that burned through a couple hundred million dollars before going out of business.
You write a program and make it freely available, including source code. Someone takes that program, makes a few changes and releases it as their own. You take legal action against them for "GPL violation"
Although *technically* you are justified for taking action, in reality, all you're really doing is being a prick.
O'Gara is a kook and totally unprofessional, and I can't understand why a magazine called "Linux World" would pay someone who is so clearly and vehemently anti-Linux. But, critisism of her coming from some dirty hippy doesn't exactly carry a lot of weight.
The generic term "spyware" is no longer appropriate since many programs are designed for a purpoase other that "spying". A more appropriate term would be "scumware".
How long will it be before Symantec gets sued by one of the scumware creators for identifying their program as "spyware".
Vint Cerf may have "invented the Internet" but his association with ICANN, one of the major scumbag organizations of the Internet, destroys all of his credibility.
On the other hand you've got people looking through the source for bugs to exploit. However once these exploits become known its usually a small amount of time before someones submitted a patch to the problem.
Closed source doesn't tend to have either of these (as not many ppl have the source) and as such shouldn't have so many exploits discovered for it.
Closed source doesn't have those problems? What planet are you from? New exploitable flaws are found in Windows and IE on almost a daily basis. Seriously. Connect a computer to a broadband connection, with an old unpatched version of Windows, and it will be taken over within minutes.
And this was accomplished with no access to the Windows/IE source code.
I find nothing "strange" about Linus' position. In fact, if you read his reply in that thread, it's perfectly logical and reasonable. Linus sums it up perfectly:
Unlike some people, I don't judge people for whether they
are commercial or "free software" people, which means that
to me it wasn't a case of knowing which side was "evil"
(and thus wrong by default - isn't that how it works;)
to start with.
In my book, what matters is what you do - whether you want
to sell things is your personal choice, but even more
importantly it is not a moral negative or positive. I'm a
big believer in open source as creating good stuff, but
I don't think it's a moral issue. It's engineering.
So I think open source tends to become technically better
over time (but it does take time), but I don't think it's
a moral imperative. I do open source because it's fun, and
because I think it makes sense in the long run.
For some reason that is hard for a lot of free software
people to accept. Too many people see things as a war
of "free software" against "proprietary evil".
Microsoft's "LUA" is a good idea, but it's 10 years too late. As others have already pointed out, there are *LOTS* of programs that won't run properly -- or won't run at all -- without administrator priviledges. This is blatant stupidity on the part of the programmers who wrote these programs, and has been allowed to go on for so long that it's probably too late to change.
Think about it -- a person buys Longhorn, which automatically logs them on as a low priviledge user, and *BAM* most of their existing programs don't work. So their choices are:
Buy all new software
Log on as administrator
Which do you think people will do? How much grief will Microsoft get from users who discover that Longhorn breaks most of their software?
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"entice the user to click the link/executable. Of course the latter is the easiest, and is the most effective when used in conjunction with a celebrity's name. "
Proving once again that the number one security problem is not Windows, or flaws in Windows -- it is user stupidity.
"but never to Thunderbird - it doesn't do half of what Outlook does."
Right. Thunderbird only does the half that doesn't involve spreading viruses.
If they need money, then they should sell copies of NetBSD, rather than begging for handouts. If NetBSD has any value, then people will be willing to purchase it.
Whyy is this modded at "-1"?
This is a legitimate question. How can it be in the "Top Five" if it is in 6th place?
What kind of moron compares one country against a group of several countries? What kind of comparison is that? Look at the individual numbers:
U.S. - 20%
Germany - 6%
France - 5%
U.K. - 3%
Only by lumping everyone together as "Europe" are they able to claim that the majority of zombies are not located in the U.S. Even though I live in the U.S., I find this article totally stupid.
incompetent management. From the article:
"The Siebel board fired Lawrie and installed George Shaheen as CEO. Shaheen was formerly the president of Accenture, and he has never run a business that depended on selling licenses."
After leaving Accenture, Shaheen was CEO of Webvan, a short-lived dot.bomb that burned through a couple hundred million dollars before going out of business.
Yep, that's just the guy I would as my new CEO.
The only true fr1st ps0t! All others are fake.
You write a program and make it freely available, including source code.
Someone takes that program, makes a few changes and releases it as their own.
You take legal action against them for "GPL violation"
Although *technically* you are justified for taking action, in reality, all you're really doing is being a prick.
Both sites contain nothing but marketing double-speak and absolutely no useful ionformation about what they produce.
VC money meet toilet.
I got it ... and not from BitTorrent or P2P.
Micro$oft is teh sux0r!!
But when it's Apple, it's no big deal.
I smell hypocrisy.
>>"instead, this vulnerability would exist if people got a MP4 (AAC) song off a P2P fileshare where someone exploited the pre-4.8 iTunes."
Anybody stupid enough to download songs in MP4/AAC format deserves whatever ill may befall them.
Why did a magazine called LinuxWorld continue to print garbage by someone who is so obviously anti-Linux?
O'Gara is a kook and totally unprofessional, and I can't understand why a magazine called "Linux World" would pay someone who is so clearly and vehemently anti-Linux. But, critisism of her coming from some dirty hippy doesn't exactly carry a lot of weight.
This can't possibly be true.
Everyone knows that Linux and OS X are perfect and only Windows has security exploits.
Let's get it right people! You're slipping!
The generic term "spyware" is no longer appropriate since many programs are designed for a purpoase other that "spying". A more appropriate term would be "scumware".
How long will it be before Symantec gets sued by one of the scumware creators for identifying their program as "spyware".
It is absolutely illegal to do anything not approved by the RIAA-MPAA.
right/fair =! legal
You should ask the MPAA. I'm sure they would like to help you with this.
+5 Flamebait.
+6 Flambay.
Vint Cerf may have "invented the Internet" but his association with ICANN, one of the major scumbag organizations of the Internet, destroys all of his credibility.
And this was accomplished with no access to the Windows
Microsoft's "LUA" is a good idea, but it's 10 years too late. As others have already pointed out, there are *LOTS* of programs that won't run properly -- or won't run at all -- without administrator priviledges. This is blatant stupidity on the part of the programmers who wrote these programs, and has been allowed to go on for so long that it's probably too late to change.
Think about it -- a person buys Longhorn, which automatically logs them on as a low priviledge user, and *BAM* most of their existing programs don't work. So their choices are:
Buy all new software
Log on as administrator
Which do you think people will do? How much grief will Microsoft get from users who discover that Longhorn breaks most of their software?