you cannot *read shouldn't really* remove the rundll calls to IE, which means no matter how you slice it you've gotta leave a component of IE to use the Explorer shell...
Similar examples would be Gnome and Nautilus. Sure you can remove it, but it's not quite so simple to just install a new shell for 98% of users.
I wasn't about to point the greater majority towards alternative Win32 shells.
If you want to truly remove IE from Explorer You're looking at a task and a half there. I'm personally pretty Ok with using the exploder for file thumbnailing etc.
Removing IE from the exploder shell would be arduous, but it's pretty easy to eliminate Explorer from windows startup and replace it with something open. Still, that little script eliminates the easiest way to instantiate a stealth IE bot eliminating many popup bots ability to annoy, or even run. I couldn't say how many iexplore.exe stealth shells there are out there, but I'm sure google can.
Ok, I'll bite. Iran hasn't sufficient infrastructure, yet. North Korea is bankrupt, has a cache of weapons, and the means to make more. Now, who are we supposed to be afraid of? Iran? right...
The setups were hypothetical, however. Both were in the most basic configuration, an approach that some in the audience suggested may tilt the results in favor of Windows, which comes with more features.
Ford said the idea was to represent what an average system administrator may do, as opposed to a "wizard" who could take extra steps to provide plenty of security on a Linux setup, for instance.
Come on, who runs a Windows box on the web without heavy firewalling, software firewalling (blackice with autoblocking for instance) and regular audits?
The same goes for Linux. Security is not something to be taken lightly. People should NOT be putting machines out in the open. The best practice used to be Firewall critical servers. The best practice has become Firewall, IDS, and monitor the crap out of anything touching the internet.
These tests are always like comparing a Factory Model to a Nascar Stock Car.
Alcohol 120 does a really nice job in Windows of determining the material of your burnable media. I popped a stock CD-R (office depot) disk into my drive and (the silver backing office depot logo ones) they showed up as phthalocyanine.
Good cheap 48x CDR's, and they often have rebate specials on em.
What about those of us who believe in data-conservation? If I write something easy enough to be duplicated by a first year CS student, but useful enough to gather attention, dump it on the web and it gets improved on until it's made a part of the busybox it'll end up on one crapload of systems.
I can't think of a better way to make sure that no one else has to duplicate something inane. If we don't use our technology to continue to learn from past generations (hell even past professionals) we might as well go back to eating insects off each other's backs.
Writing software (open source or not) gives you many things. I don't know about other sysadmins but if I write a piece of software it's typically out of necessity anyways. Something I need often enough to automate I can bet someone else probably needs as well. The more I automate and contribute to the general community the easier it gets for others to do what I do.
I feel like the closer I get to scripting myself out of a job the better. It's a goal I have learned to strive for. If only because every chunk of code I manage to shove together makes my job that much easier. And every time I go through the coding process it gets easier to code exactly what I want.
Of course those three reasons have nothing to do with the obvious benefit of writing a popular piece of code (OSS or otherwise.) Still I would bet most people who write out of hobby do it out of need to begin with, and they keep doing it because it has become a benefit to others.
Still who the hell wouldn't want the benefits of having your name in something like vi/apache/X/firefox etc.
Mickey Mutant Yeah, we knew it was coming. Even though I think it is morally reprehensible to fuck with life it's bound to happen, and has been happening for a while.
All we can really hope is that this stage of research is made obsolete quickly.
Yes, and I have researched it enough to know the purpose was two-fold. First it was to inflict massive casualties. Second it was to exert our superiority over the Russians.
Yes it was a terrorist act. No I don't approve of it.
I beg to differ. The target of the 3rd plane was a military establishment. However, many civilians work in the Pentagon, many civilians were onboard the plane when it was destroyed. The sole purpose, or "military" goal if you will, was to strike fear in the hearts of Americans that makes it a terrorist act.
The fight, the onslaught, the wonderful 5 seconds till worm-ridden place we still call the internet. Firewall that boxen, IDS that network, check those logs, ban those IPs, and automate, automate, automate.
The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s by a consortium that included Apollo Computer (later part of Hewlett-Packard), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others. The DCE supplies a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications. The framework includes a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism, a naming (directory) service, an authentication service, and a distributed file system (DFS). DCE RPC was derived from an earlier RPC system called the Network Computing System (NCS) created at Apollo Computer. The naming service was derived from work done at DEC. DCE DFS was based on the Andrew file system (AFS), originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, and later extended by Transarc Corporation (which was later merged into IBM)
Am I thinking too hard or isn't it common sense to disable external web access to a firewall... that'd be like putting your switching gear on the outside world... wtfmate
The natives call the enterprise to drill into the planet's surface with the ships phasers to release the planet's tectonic pressure but as a result a cloud of volcanic ash covers the planet.
All the while some cooky guy in circa 1960's hemp clothing, who says he's from the future, keeps stealing tricorders.
Episode 804 Butters: Woah what a Huge package! Butters: Ko-ni-chi-wa Butters: To Butters Stotch! Oh boy it's for me-it's for me! Butters: Who is it from? Sent from japan. WOW! A Package for me FROM JAPAN! Butters: What could it be? My birthday's not till September Eleventh! Butters: Oh boy, I've never had a package this big! Butters: I've always wanted to have a huge package! *SLAM* *Robot Noises+Blinky Lights* Cartman: Greetings. I am the awesomo 4000. --Highpoints: Carman: LAME! -- Carman: Weak. -- Carman: LAME!
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I realize it's not going to totally remove it but it'll break some bots and some apps.
You can remove IE from windows, but M$ has really made it not worth it.
you cannot *read shouldn't really* remove the rundll calls to IE, which means no matter how you slice it you've gotta leave a component of IE to use the Explorer shell...
Similar examples would be Gnome and Nautilus. Sure you can remove it, but it's not quite so simple to just install a new shell for 98% of users.
I wasn't about to point the greater majority towards alternative Win32 shells.
If you want to truly remove IE from Explorer You're looking at a task and a half there. I'm personally pretty Ok with using the exploder for file thumbnailing etc.
Removing IE from the exploder shell would be arduous, but it's pretty easy to eliminate Explorer from windows startup and replace it with something open. Still, that little script eliminates the easiest way to instantiate a stealth IE bot eliminating many popup bots ability to annoy, or even run. I couldn't say how many iexplore.exe stealth shells there are out there, but I'm sure google can.
thishouseisclear.batMoments later the fixit wizard will more than likely pop up, hit cancel, and yes. Viola.
Be careful, rootkits have a nasty tendency to leave hooks. Shutting down your PC might result in your bios being flashed to 0000000000000000000000.
But then again, that's not the goal of spyware companies, not that they'll be the ones you *really* have to worry about.
Good enough. At this point speculation on Iran is fruitless. Let the monitors do their job.
We've got problems enough with our allies and our longstanding adversaries.
Ok, I'll bite. Iran hasn't sufficient infrastructure, yet. North Korea is bankrupt, has a cache of weapons, and the means to make more. Now, who are we supposed to be afraid of? Iran? right...
Come on, who runs a Windows box on the web without heavy firewalling, software firewalling (blackice with autoblocking for instance) and regular audits?
The same goes for Linux. Security is not something to be taken lightly. People should NOT be putting machines out in the open. The best practice used to be Firewall critical servers. The best practice has become Firewall, IDS, and monitor the crap out of anything touching the internet.
These tests are always like comparing a Factory Model to a Nascar Stock Car.
ssh trustixbox.localnet -lnonroot
su
swup --upgrade --silent;swup --install swupcron
ssh debianbox.localnet -lnonroot
su
echo apt-get upgrade>>/etc/cron.daily/aptupdate
yeah so it's not ideal, but it's automatic.
It'd be really annoying every time someone opens a VPN, tunnels an X session, connects via SSL to anything or opens an SSH session to anything.
Alcohol 120 does a really nice job in Windows of determining the material of your burnable media. I popped a stock CD-R (office depot) disk into my drive and (the silver backing office depot logo ones) they showed up as phthalocyanine.
Good cheap 48x CDR's, and they often have rebate specials on em.
What about those of us who believe in data-conservation? If I write something easy enough to be duplicated by a first year CS student, but useful enough to gather attention, dump it on the web and it gets improved on until it's made a part of the busybox it'll end up on one crapload of systems.
I can't think of a better way to make sure that no one else has to duplicate something inane. If we don't use our technology to continue to learn from past generations (hell even past professionals) we might as well go back to eating insects off each other's backs.
Writing software (open source or not) gives you many things. I don't know about other sysadmins but if I write a piece of software it's typically out of necessity anyways. Something I need often enough to automate I can bet someone else probably needs as well. The more I automate and contribute to the general community the easier it gets for others to do what I do.
I feel like the closer I get to scripting myself out of a job the better. It's a goal I have learned to strive for. If only because every chunk of code I manage to shove together makes my job that much easier. And every time I go through the coding process it gets easier to code exactly what I want.
Of course those three reasons have nothing to do with the obvious benefit of writing a popular piece of code (OSS or otherwise.) Still I would bet most people who write out of hobby do it out of need to begin with, and they keep doing it because it has become a benefit to others.
Still who the hell wouldn't want the benefits of having your name in something like vi/apache/X/firefox etc.
Mickey Mutant
Yeah, we knew it was coming. Even though I think it is morally reprehensible to fuck with life it's bound to happen, and has been happening for a while.
All we can really hope is that this stage of research is made obsolete quickly.
I'm glad things are always black or white. Don't go walking in front of any zebras.
And just because it is a military establishment doesn't make it any less a civilian target.
Civilians *as* targets=terrorism. Just because striking Saddam was a state action doesn't mean killing civilians deliberately isn't a terrorist act.
Yes, and I have researched it enough to know the purpose was two-fold. First it was to inflict massive casualties. Second it was to exert our superiority over the Russians.
Yes it was a terrorist act. No I don't approve of it.
I beg to differ. The target of the 3rd plane was a military establishment. However, many civilians work in the Pentagon, many civilians were onboard the plane when it was destroyed. The sole purpose, or "military" goal if you will, was to strike fear in the hearts of Americans that makes it a terrorist act.
The fight, the onslaught, the wonderful 5 seconds till worm-ridden place we still call the internet. Firewall that boxen, IDS that network, check those logs, ban those IPs, and automate, automate, automate.
/ and play again.
You lost? Game over man, rm -rf
It would drive spacetravel and colonization. Who wants to live forever on earth with all their inlaws? Necessity.
Cities in flight By James Blish, circa 1955. Good pulp. Looks like de Grey just finished the first book.
The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s by a consortium that included Apollo Computer (later part of Hewlett-Packard), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others. The DCE supplies a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications. The framework includes a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism, a naming (directory) service, an authentication service, and a distributed file system (DFS). DCE RPC was derived from an earlier RPC system called the Network Computing System (NCS) created at Apollo Computer. The naming service was derived from work done at DEC. DCE DFS was based on the Andrew file system (AFS), originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, and later extended by Transarc Corporation (which was later merged into IBM)
Link here
intitle:"Smoothwall Express" inurl:cgi-bin "up * days"
Am I thinking too hard or isn't it common sense to disable external web access to a firewall... that'd be like putting your switching gear on the outside world... wtfmate
The natives call the enterprise to drill into the planet's surface with the ships phasers to release the planet's tectonic pressure but as a result a cloud of volcanic ash covers the planet.
All the while some cooky guy in circa 1960's hemp clothing, who says he's from the future, keeps stealing tricorders.
Episode 804
Butters: Woah what a Huge package!
Butters: Ko-ni-chi-wa
Butters: To Butters Stotch! Oh boy it's for me-it's for me!
Butters: Who is it from? Sent from japan. WOW! A Package for me FROM JAPAN!
Butters: What could it be? My birthday's not till September Eleventh!
Butters: Oh boy, I've never had a package this big!
Butters: I've always wanted to have a huge package!
*SLAM*
*Robot Noises+Blinky Lights*
Cartman: Greetings. I am the awesomo 4000.
--Highpoints:
Carman: LAME!
--
Carman: Weak.
--
Carman: LAME!
Karma to burn, mod me lame
I just got my nextel, the beauty of the thing is It's got unlimited incoming calls. I can bet the first thing to go will be that service.