I am not sure why it would be flagged as a false positive. I am suspicious of any program that says I have to shut down my AV software in order for it to run.
Luckily both Unhackme and Spysweeper removed it, and was able to restore my control panel as well. I noticed that ComboFix was not in the Add/Remove programs and I tried the "Combofix/u" to uninstall it only to be greeted with a file not found error.
I looked in the program files directory and it was not there, but on the root directory of my system under c:\combofix\ hidden as a system file with copies of iexplore.exe and other files. Easy enough to delete, but the uninstall didn't seem to work. Maybe the combofix.exe file was deleted as a virus?
Spysweeper reported it as Mal/Pack-A, Virus/Test, and one other I forgot, and Unhackme said it was the FU Rootkit. Kapersky said it was Trojan.Win32.Inject.ph. I would think Combofix would have been whitelisted by now as a false positive and removed from the detections, but apparently it has not.
Users need to be warned about false positives if that is indeed the case. I did a web search and it turned up web sites suggesting using Combofix, so I suspect it may be indeed a false positive. I can recall the BartPE and Retrago WinPE boot tools had some of their automated programs got detected as hack tools and removed via AV software as well. Maybe those Hack tools are effective at removing stuff the non-Hack tools don't?
Sorry after installing Combofix, my AV program Spysweeper reported three viruses just got installed, and Unhackme reported one rootkit got installed on my system from software from that link. Also it seems to have destroyed the control panel and I cannot Add/Remove programs anymore.
I think that anti-malware software needs to be peer reviewed by reliable sources before we decide to use it or not. This seems to be just as bad as a fake "infected" ad infecting your system.
Lucky for me that I was able to remove the threats by other AV software.
We don't expect that from the New York Times because they are more professional and you'd think their web staff would be computer savvy enough to avoid giving customers and readers the fake antivirus web popup that actually infects the computer with adware than remove actual malware.
But as usual they contracted the web ad service to contracted companies that usually subcontract it out to others, so it is hard to find the company that submitted the pop-up fake AV scan.
The NYT has hit hard times with a low reader rate in subscriptions, and had to move to an ads based model. They should have done what most liberal web sites do and use Google adsense or something that is text based ads that Google tends to filter out the malware ads. This is something you expect from Fox News, not The New York Times. But then Liberals can be just as careless as Neocons when it comes to earning money from advertising. IIRC Fox News' web site is going towards a paid business model and might end the advertising as all subscribers will be paying customers, unless that business plan fails. Will the New York Times web site follow Fox News in going paid only?
Well OO.o and IBM Lotus Symphony both open up MS-Office file formats, but Lotus Symphony also opens up Lotus Smartsuite file formats as well.
IBM feels that if they cannot break people of their DOC habits they should at least have an MS-Office alternative that opens up DOC files but also supports the ODF open document formats.
For example in the business and college worlds, most people want documents in the MS-Word format. Lotus Symphony can do that. Colleges have proof reading services that work in DOC format only, which are also plagiarism checkers.
A member of my learning team at Univ of Phoenix only had MS-Works with her PC, so I gave her a CD-R with OpenOffice.Org on it and told her to save it to Word format. When she did the team paper editing she saved it in OO.o format, which no team member could read. At the college I had OO.o installed on my laptop and I converted it to DOC format and gave copies to the team members and printed it out as well.
Some people may choose IBM Lotus Symphony as a second office suite just to handle the ODF and OO.O file formats as ODF is more selected and will be replacing PDF and DOC on Wiki sites and other open source web sites. Soon FOSS documentation will be in ODF format, and Wiki pages will be printed to ODF format that can be downloaded.
This is a Sun/IBM alliance with the ODF format to challenge the MS-Office formats, but they also use MS-Office formats as well, or there would be no point in using them if they didn't convert back and forth to the MS-Office formats.
The DOC format isn't open, isn't standard, isn't an ISO standard, but it is the most often used document format by a majority of computer users because Microsoft Windows dominates the market, and most Windows PCs had MS-Office preinstalled before MS-Office 2007 got preinstalled as trialware/shareware/demoware. Also Microsoft gave companies a bulk license for MS-Office in cutting them a discount for buying in bulk. But why bother now that IBM Lotus Symphony is free to download and use?
They got assigned IBM PC machines that came pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Up until MS-Office 2007 the license key was included on pre-installed PCs. IBM had a license with Microsoft to pre-load MS-Windows on their brand PCs and Laptops (Lenovo in modern times IIRC).
Sometime around 1999 IBM stopped pre-loading Lotus Smartsuite and was forced by Microsoft to pre-load MS-Office or lose their OEM status. More modern versions of Microsoft Windows break Lotus Smartsuite compatibilities by the way, which is why people like me had to abandon it. I am glad that IBM Lotus Symphony can work with MS-Office and IBM Lotus Smartsuite files as well as OO.o and ODF file formats. If it has a decent spell check and grammar check I may even stop using MS-Office XP (2002) and convert over to IBM Lotus Symphony.
Well Yahoo Answers has a link to A Lotus Smartsuite FTP Site click on KVLOTUS.EXE and it will be a Lotus Smartsuite viewer. You can then load.LWP files and then copy and paste them to any sort of office suite or word processing program and then save as that format.
* Added supports to load SmartSuite customer files.
* Improved support for graphic and layout.
IBM would have to be pretty stupid to abandon Lotus Smartsuite and not make Lotus Symphony work with the old legacy data files.
It is free to download you can download it right here and then start to work on your old Lotus Wordpro files and convert them to ODF format one by one.
The environmentalists claim that human beings are destroying the planet. Everything is a part of nature except for human beings and our technology and what we invent.
Evolution says we are a part of nature and have evolved to become the most dominate form of life on the planet. But environmentalists ignore that part and claim we are not natural and not animals (ignoring that human beings are mammals) and that our works are destroying the planet.
Meanwhile natural wild fires destroy forests showing that nature is just as destructive as human beings, also hurricanes, tsunamis, earth quakes, floods, droughts, all of which are not human made but just as destructive as human beings are claimed to be.
Human beings are a part of nature, we are animals like all of the rest, but more evolved, but our basic instincts still guide us, as well as our ID and Ego, and our quest for more material things. Our destruction of the environment is a part of nature, as we are a part of nature itself. We just haven't evolved to the point that we have learned to preserve nature and change our technology, science, and activities to stop destroying the environment. But nature pushes back, as it has always done against life on the planet, and survival becomes one of adapting to change and learning from one's mistakes. No other animal on the planet besides human beings can adapt to change and learn from their mistakes as well as human beings can, but we destroy ourselves in war, politics, economics, and we poison our bodies with alcohol, illicit drugs, legal drugs, sexual diseases, and chemicals in drinking water, genetically engineered food (lowers our metabolism and makes most of us fat, causes some to develop food allergies) , and lack of exercise as machines do the work for us.
Have we really advanced that much, or have we taken steps backward and almost doomed us all?
it is called Labor Day in the USA. All forms of labor get a day off, even programmers. Time to fire up the BBQ and grill some steaks, hotdogs, bratwurst, chicken, etc.
Why should only programmers get a day off, when everyone else deserves it as well?
People who make web sites are not programmers unless they wrote some kind of script or used a language like ASP.Net or PHP to create the HTML code. Most web sites can be made in HTML using web software that paints it like a picture. In the good old days we did HTML by hand using DOS edit.com, Notepad/Wordpad, or some other text editor.
Yeah but employers won't pay me or hire me for a contract work to program in Mono. Only Visual BASIC 2008 (and later 2010). Mono is different enough that it doesn't use Windows Forms and is a few revisions behind the Microsoft version of VB.Net.
10,000 PCs is a small sample size, try a few million. You might have a sampling error there if they are not randomly picked.
One reason why Windows Vista has not caught on is that older hardware won't run it, like my Father's Pentium 4, 512M, Windows XP Home System, it is not listed as Vista compatible and fails the Vista upgrade check. The memory cannot be upgraded to more than 512M due to motherboard limitations, and the video is not Aero compatible and there is no video slot to upgrade it. I doubt it will run Windows 7 either. Trying to force a Windows Vista install on it will mean that it will run slowly (512M is the minimum I know, but with that size memory Vista runs slow) and some features would be disabled.
My own laptop a Compaq Presario F700 series came with Windows Vista Home Premium on it, but it caused random lockups that Microsoft blamed on Compaq, and Compaq blamed on Microsoft, and after going in circles trying to get help I downgraded it to an OEM copy of Windows XP Pro that works without any problems at all. But I have a Windows 7 Pro upgrade coming in October to try it out. Hoping that if Windows 7 stinks as much as Vista did, that I can go back to XP Pro. On the other hand Fedora 11 works with the wireless card and it would make a good Linux based laptop when XP retires and there is no more updates for it. I just wish that Visual BASIC 2008/2005 works with WINE, because currently it does not, and I need to keep my VB skills up to date for possible jobs or contract work. Something about needing the BITS service installed to install the software. Otherwise the outdated and ancient Visual BASIC 6 works in WINE, but hardly anyone calls for VB 6.0 skills anymore.
Fascist dictatorship and economy, views and opinions forced on civilians (users of the product).
Enemies are The People's Republic of Mac OSX and FinnLinuxLand, but sometimes The NetherBSDlands.
The currency is the WGA check, without it you are a dirty no good software pirate.
Blue Screen of Deaths are common but unreported and the government denies knowledge of it, but keeps asking citizens to install service packs or buy the new version of the nations operating system (and new hardware if needed) for best results.
The really poor use older versions of the Kingdom's operating system, but get treated as third class citizens as no more security updates or service packs are made for them, nor is any modern software made for them either. They'll have to use the old versions forever.
I know people that still use old video game systems. I got an old Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, and Nintendo 64 system myself. My brother-in-law has a Sega Saturn.
Half.com has a list of Dreamcast video games and they are so cheap that it doesn't make sense to pirate them anymore. I remember the Dreamcast was the first system to get a mod chip to play pirated games.
Basically you can buy a lot of cheap Dreamcast games and a Dreamcast system for cheaper than the cost of a brand new PS3, XBox 360 etc system to emulate Dreamcast games on, not that there is a Dreamcast emulator that works yet for those systems.:)
Sega had a good product but had poor marketing and the PS2 and Gamecube outmarketed the Dreamcast and also had more popular games. Like the Gamecube had the Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, etc games, and the PS2 had Toy Story, Star Wars, and many other popular games. Suddenly the Sonic series didn't seem that interesting anymore to gamers, until later when recreated for the other consoles when Sega went software only and dropped their consoles.
ReactOS is still being developed. Some day (maybe in five years) it will reach the golden 1.0 standard. It should replace Windows XP and then we can forget about those WGA updates.
WGA has too many false positives and can ruin wallpaper settings (turning the screen to black) and do other annoying things. Plus I keep seeing it installed even if updates are turned off. Currently my system is genuine but if a Firewall software blocks Internet access it thinks it is not genuine. Until I allow the firewall and then hit validate, then everything is OK.
I doubt a majority of Windows users will migrate towards Vista or Windows 7 because of legacy software issues and legacy hardware that cannot run Vista or 7. ReactOS will fill that hole quite nicely when it is done with Windows XP compatibility and no WGA gotchas.
That FBI Trojan won't work on a Macintosh, it is designed for Windows. Need Macs to be impossible to wiretap and hack into, and store the gang's data on it and their plans.
Plus Gangstas got to listen to music as well, need iPods for that.
Why would any self respecting gang member pay for a computer when they could steal and entire computer lab full of Macs in 31 seconds?
Apple can make a new commercial based on it called "Gone in 31 seconds" and note that criminals are not even bothering to steal Windows based PCs.
They did a video game called Donald Duck: Quack Attack and when he gets mad he does a Quack Attack on his enemies. It is not quite Hulking out but it is Donald Duck losing his temper.
"IBM PC DOS is a freeware DOS system for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles, manufactured and sold by IBM from the 1980s to the 2000s."
It was not freeware, I remember having to pay for it. It also is still for sale here called PC-DOS and definitely not Freeware.
Also:
"This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2009)"
The Wikipedia article does not cite any sources.
Only the Chinese version of PC-DOS 2000 seems available for download from IBM, no doubt for a deal struck with the Chinese government. Otherwise it is commercial software.
Blowing up an AM Radio Tower is terrorism even if nobody is killed.
For example if I take a sledge hammer and swing it so it smashes and breaks your TV set so it does not work, would you call that non-violence then? Nope didn't think so, it is violence.
Above human beings. They are nature worshipers but more environmentalists are anyway. They'd rather see the human race go extinct than harm the Earth or animals or plants. But they are not a religion, but a brain washing cult and terrorist movement.
Of course not, it would be bad for business if they did that.
George Orwell books like "1984" and "Animal Farm" deserve to be deleted because they cannot have customers drawing parallels from the books to their business model or even the way modern governments are run. But it was just a coincidence that those two books happened to be pulled and deleted.
Amazon.com got caught and had to backpeddle and do some Public Relations and offer to restore the books or at least offer a discount.
Anything to get people to forget that it is a DRM device with a backdoor in it to delete any book or file purchased from their store if the owners of the book or media decide to pull it from the market.
After all Kindle owners weren't really using those rights and freedoms anyway, and now they have learned to love Amazon.com and the Kindle device that watches them as they read books and deletes any book for whatever reason.
Me, I don't use Kindle devices for that reason, but I'm a crazy guy who cares about my rights and freedoms and expects that if I bought something not only do I legally own it, but the owner of the IP and company that sold it to me shouldn't be able to take it away from me. Silly me, and my paranoid rantings that consumers actually own what they buy and it shouldn't have a kill-switch on it to remove it.
Why would someone use a possibly infected computer with their real info?
Why not set up a Honeypot system and create a fictional name via free web mail and then sign up for some web sites. When a scam email comes in click on the attached file or link, which will install malware on the system that Symantec can track back to the system that is accessing it. When the scammer/hacker/cracker has the fake info, you'll know that they stole it and the infected system can have a history of IP connection that leads back to them. Don't forget to download from P2P networks and install stuff as well. You'll soon have enough malware infections to start hunting down the perps.
Asking users to do that with their real info is too risky. It is better to volunteer a spare system and use fictional info so your real info won't be stolen. You can recruit people who want to be police officers and they can gain training this way to hunt down the bad guys.
Ok so you use your real info and the scammers steal it but Symantec hunts them down and has them arrested. How much would it cost to clean up your credit record and good name? It seems better if volunteers use fictional info instead of real info, you can work with banks and etc to create fictional accounts for law enforcement use. Then when you see an activity on the account, you know someone stole it, as nobody is supposed to be using it.
throw a house party for Windows 7 and invite all of your friends.
Then when they do use Windows 7 and it doesn't live up to the hype and won't run their old games and old software and is annoying with security features and crashes and blue screens of death.
Why don't people throw Linux parties instead? Pass out free CDRs and DVDRs of popular Linux distros. At least that way you get a free operating system and don't have to pay anything for it.
Being Super Annoying, even the Amazing Randi has to admit I am so annoying that it is not natural and actually a super power.
Inadvertently trolling people, as some comments I made here that tried to be funny got rated as flamebait or troll. I figure this is a good distraction power be annoying and troll Magento that keeps him annoyed and so upset that he cannot concentrate and then Wolverine can attack him when he isn't looking and knock him the f- out.
Super debugging skills, I can debug a program not matter how buggy it is or how impossible it seems.
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Yes I downloaded Combofix from bleepingcomputer.
I am not sure why it would be flagged as a false positive. I am suspicious of any program that says I have to shut down my AV software in order for it to run.
Luckily both Unhackme and Spysweeper removed it, and was able to restore my control panel as well. I noticed that ComboFix was not in the Add/Remove programs and I tried the "Combofix /u" to uninstall it only to be greeted with a file not found error.
I looked in the program files directory and it was not there, but on the root directory of my system under c:\combofix\ hidden as a system file with copies of iexplore.exe and other files. Easy enough to delete, but the uninstall didn't seem to work. Maybe the combofix.exe file was deleted as a virus?
Spysweeper reported it as Mal/Pack-A, Virus/Test, and one other I forgot, and Unhackme said it was the FU Rootkit. Kapersky said it was Trojan.Win32.Inject.ph. I would think Combofix would have been whitelisted by now as a false positive and removed from the detections, but apparently it has not.
Users need to be warned about false positives if that is indeed the case. I did a web search and it turned up web sites suggesting using Combofix, so I suspect it may be indeed a false positive. I can recall the BartPE and Retrago WinPE boot tools had some of their automated programs got detected as hack tools and removed via AV software as well. Maybe those Hack tools are effective at removing stuff the non-Hack tools don't?
Sorry after installing Combofix, my AV program Spysweeper reported three viruses just got installed, and Unhackme reported one rootkit got installed on my system from software from that link. Also it seems to have destroyed the control panel and I cannot Add/Remove programs anymore.
I think that anti-malware software needs to be peer reviewed by reliable sources before we decide to use it or not. This seems to be just as bad as a fake "infected" ad infecting your system.
Lucky for me that I was able to remove the threats by other AV software.
We don't expect that from the New York Times because they are more professional and you'd think their web staff would be computer savvy enough to avoid giving customers and readers the fake antivirus web popup that actually infects the computer with adware than remove actual malware.
But as usual they contracted the web ad service to contracted companies that usually subcontract it out to others, so it is hard to find the company that submitted the pop-up fake AV scan.
The NYT has hit hard times with a low reader rate in subscriptions, and had to move to an ads based model. They should have done what most liberal web sites do and use Google adsense or something that is text based ads that Google tends to filter out the malware ads. This is something you expect from Fox News, not The New York Times. But then Liberals can be just as careless as Neocons when it comes to earning money from advertising. IIRC Fox News' web site is going towards a paid business model and might end the advertising as all subscribers will be paying customers, unless that business plan fails. Will the New York Times web site follow Fox News in going paid only?
Well OO.o and IBM Lotus Symphony both open up MS-Office file formats, but Lotus Symphony also opens up Lotus Smartsuite file formats as well.
IBM feels that if they cannot break people of their DOC habits they should at least have an MS-Office alternative that opens up DOC files but also supports the ODF open document formats.
For example in the business and college worlds, most people want documents in the MS-Word format. Lotus Symphony can do that. Colleges have proof reading services that work in DOC format only, which are also plagiarism checkers.
A member of my learning team at Univ of Phoenix only had MS-Works with her PC, so I gave her a CD-R with OpenOffice.Org on it and told her to save it to Word format. When she did the team paper editing she saved it in OO.o format, which no team member could read. At the college I had OO.o installed on my laptop and I converted it to DOC format and gave copies to the team members and printed it out as well.
Some people may choose IBM Lotus Symphony as a second office suite just to handle the ODF and OO.O file formats as ODF is more selected and will be replacing PDF and DOC on Wiki sites and other open source web sites. Soon FOSS documentation will be in ODF format, and Wiki pages will be printed to ODF format that can be downloaded.
This is a Sun/IBM alliance with the ODF format to challenge the MS-Office formats, but they also use MS-Office formats as well, or there would be no point in using them if they didn't convert back and forth to the MS-Office formats.
The DOC format isn't open, isn't standard, isn't an ISO standard, but it is the most often used document format by a majority of computer users because Microsoft Windows dominates the market, and most Windows PCs had MS-Office preinstalled before MS-Office 2007 got preinstalled as trialware/shareware/demoware. Also Microsoft gave companies a bulk license for MS-Office in cutting them a discount for buying in bulk. But why bother now that IBM Lotus Symphony is free to download and use?
They got assigned IBM PC machines that came pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Up until MS-Office 2007 the license key was included on pre-installed PCs. IBM had a license with Microsoft to pre-load MS-Windows on their brand PCs and Laptops (Lenovo in modern times IIRC).
Sometime around 1999 IBM stopped pre-loading Lotus Smartsuite and was forced by Microsoft to pre-load MS-Office or lose their OEM status. More modern versions of Microsoft Windows break Lotus Smartsuite compatibilities by the way, which is why people like me had to abandon it. I am glad that IBM Lotus Symphony can work with MS-Office and IBM Lotus Smartsuite files as well as OO.o and ODF file formats. If it has a decent spell check and grammar check I may even stop using MS-Office XP (2002) and convert over to IBM Lotus Symphony.
Well Yahoo Answers has a link to A Lotus Smartsuite FTP Site click on KVLOTUS.EXE and it will be a Lotus Smartsuite viewer. You can then load .LWP files and then copy and paste them to any sort of office suite or word processing program and then save as that format.
That is if you decide not to use Lotus Symphony. In this listed features
Interoperability with SmartSuite documents
* Added supports to load SmartSuite customer files.
* Improved support for graphic and layout.
IBM would have to be pretty stupid to abandon Lotus Smartsuite and not make Lotus Symphony work with the old legacy data files.
It is free to download you can download it right here and then start to work on your old Lotus Wordpro files and convert them to ODF format one by one.
The environmentalists claim that human beings are destroying the planet. Everything is a part of nature except for human beings and our technology and what we invent.
Evolution says we are a part of nature and have evolved to become the most dominate form of life on the planet. But environmentalists ignore that part and claim we are not natural and not animals (ignoring that human beings are mammals) and that our works are destroying the planet.
Meanwhile natural wild fires destroy forests showing that nature is just as destructive as human beings, also hurricanes, tsunamis, earth quakes, floods, droughts, all of which are not human made but just as destructive as human beings are claimed to be.
Human beings are a part of nature, we are animals like all of the rest, but more evolved, but our basic instincts still guide us, as well as our ID and Ego, and our quest for more material things. Our destruction of the environment is a part of nature, as we are a part of nature itself. We just haven't evolved to the point that we have learned to preserve nature and change our technology, science, and activities to stop destroying the environment. But nature pushes back, as it has always done against life on the planet, and survival becomes one of adapting to change and learning from one's mistakes. No other animal on the planet besides human beings can adapt to change and learn from their mistakes as well as human beings can, but we destroy ourselves in war, politics, economics, and we poison our bodies with alcohol, illicit drugs, legal drugs, sexual diseases, and chemicals in drinking water, genetically engineered food (lowers our metabolism and makes most of us fat, causes some to develop food allergies) , and lack of exercise as machines do the work for us.
Have we really advanced that much, or have we taken steps backward and almost doomed us all?
it is called Labor Day in the USA. All forms of labor get a day off, even programmers. Time to fire up the BBQ and grill some steaks, hotdogs, bratwurst, chicken, etc.
Why should only programmers get a day off, when everyone else deserves it as well?
People who make web sites are not programmers unless they wrote some kind of script or used a language like ASP.Net or PHP to create the HTML code. Most web sites can be made in HTML using web software that paints it like a picture. In the good old days we did HTML by hand using DOS edit.com, Notepad/Wordpad, or some other text editor.
Yeah but employers won't pay me or hire me for a contract work to program in Mono. Only Visual BASIC 2008 (and later 2010). Mono is different enough that it doesn't use Windows Forms and is a few revisions behind the Microsoft version of VB.Net.
10,000 PCs is a small sample size, try a few million. You might have a sampling error there if they are not randomly picked.
One reason why Windows Vista has not caught on is that older hardware won't run it, like my Father's Pentium 4, 512M, Windows XP Home System, it is not listed as Vista compatible and fails the Vista upgrade check. The memory cannot be upgraded to more than 512M due to motherboard limitations, and the video is not Aero compatible and there is no video slot to upgrade it. I doubt it will run Windows 7 either. Trying to force a Windows Vista install on it will mean that it will run slowly (512M is the minimum I know, but with that size memory Vista runs slow) and some features would be disabled.
My own laptop a Compaq Presario F700 series came with Windows Vista Home Premium on it, but it caused random lockups that Microsoft blamed on Compaq, and Compaq blamed on Microsoft, and after going in circles trying to get help I downgraded it to an OEM copy of Windows XP Pro that works without any problems at all. But I have a Windows 7 Pro upgrade coming in October to try it out. Hoping that if Windows 7 stinks as much as Vista did, that I can go back to XP Pro. On the other hand Fedora 11 works with the wireless card and it would make a good Linux based laptop when XP retires and there is no more updates for it. I just wish that Visual BASIC 2008/2005 works with WINE, because currently it does not, and I need to keep my VB skills up to date for possible jobs or contract work. Something about needing the BITS service installed to install the software. Otherwise the outdated and ancient Visual BASIC 6 works in WINE, but hardly anyone calls for VB 6.0 skills anymore.
The nation of the United States of Microsoft?
Fascist dictatorship and economy, views and opinions forced on civilians (users of the product).
Enemies are The People's Republic of Mac OSX and FinnLinuxLand, but sometimes The NetherBSDlands.
The currency is the WGA check, without it you are a dirty no good software pirate.
Blue Screen of Deaths are common but unreported and the government denies knowledge of it, but keeps asking citizens to install service packs or buy the new version of the nations operating system (and new hardware if needed) for best results.
The really poor use older versions of the Kingdom's operating system, but get treated as third class citizens as no more security updates or service packs are made for them, nor is any modern software made for them either. They'll have to use the old versions forever.
I know people that still use old video game systems. I got an old Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, and Nintendo 64 system myself. My brother-in-law has a Sega Saturn.
Half.com has a list of Dreamcast video games and they are so cheap that it doesn't make sense to pirate them anymore. I remember the Dreamcast was the first system to get a mod chip to play pirated games.
Anyway Half.com shows the Sega Dreamcast for sale here for those who want to buy a system.
Basically you can buy a lot of cheap Dreamcast games and a Dreamcast system for cheaper than the cost of a brand new PS3, XBox 360 etc system to emulate Dreamcast games on, not that there is a Dreamcast emulator that works yet for those systems. :)
Sega had a good product but had poor marketing and the PS2 and Gamecube outmarketed the Dreamcast and also had more popular games. Like the Gamecube had the Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, etc games, and the PS2 had Toy Story, Star Wars, and many other popular games. Suddenly the Sonic series didn't seem that interesting anymore to gamers, until later when recreated for the other consoles when Sega went software only and dropped their consoles.
ReactOS is still being developed. Some day (maybe in five years) it will reach the golden 1.0 standard. It should replace Windows XP and then we can forget about those WGA updates.
WGA has too many false positives and can ruin wallpaper settings (turning the screen to black) and do other annoying things. Plus I keep seeing it installed even if updates are turned off. Currently my system is genuine but if a Firewall software blocks Internet access it thinks it is not genuine. Until I allow the firewall and then hit validate, then everything is OK.
I doubt a majority of Windows users will migrate towards Vista or Windows 7 because of legacy software issues and legacy hardware that cannot run Vista or 7. ReactOS will fill that hole quite nicely when it is done with Windows XP compatibility and no WGA gotchas.
Maybe they stole if for their gang's use.
That FBI Trojan won't work on a Macintosh, it is designed for Windows. Need Macs to be impossible to wiretap and hack into, and store the gang's data on it and their plans.
Plus Gangstas got to listen to music as well, need iPods for that.
Why would any self respecting gang member pay for a computer when they could steal and entire computer lab full of Macs in 31 seconds?
Apple can make a new commercial based on it called "Gone in 31 seconds" and note that criminals are not even bothering to steal Windows based PCs.
They did a video game called Donald Duck: Quack Attack and when he gets mad he does a Quack Attack on his enemies. It is not quite Hulking out but it is Donald Duck losing his temper.
Uh
"IBM PC DOS is a freeware DOS system for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles, manufactured and sold by IBM from the 1980s to the 2000s."
It was not freeware, I remember having to pay for it. It also is still for sale here called PC-DOS and definitely not Freeware.
Also:
"This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2009)"
The Wikipedia article does not cite any sources.
Only the Chinese version of PC-DOS 2000 seems available for download from IBM, no doubt for a deal struck with the Chinese government. Otherwise it is commercial software.
Actually I do have Linux parties.
Like Michael David Crawford I like to hand out free OSS CDs.
Ubuntu and Fedora are the favorites.
Damage to property is violence, remember 9/11?
Blowing up an AM Radio Tower is terrorism even if nobody is killed.
For example if I take a sledge hammer and swing it so it smashes and breaks your TV set so it does not work, would you call that non-violence then? Nope didn't think so, it is violence.
Actually the place:
#1 The Earth
#2 The Animals
#3 The Plants
Above human beings. They are nature worshipers but more environmentalists are anyway. They'd rather see the human race go extinct than harm the Earth or animals or plants. But they are not a religion, but a brain washing cult and terrorist movement.
because AM Radio is "Talk Radio" done mostly by Conservative Talk Radio stations.
Buh-Bye Rush Limbaugh, your AM radio towers are toast man.
No more Sports radio broadcasts either.
Of course not, it would be bad for business if they did that.
George Orwell books like "1984" and "Animal Farm" deserve to be deleted because they cannot have customers drawing parallels from the books to their business model or even the way modern governments are run. But it was just a coincidence that those two books happened to be pulled and deleted.
Amazon.com got caught and had to backpeddle and do some Public Relations and offer to restore the books or at least offer a discount.
Anything to get people to forget that it is a DRM device with a backdoor in it to delete any book or file purchased from their store if the owners of the book or media decide to pull it from the market.
After all Kindle owners weren't really using those rights and freedoms anyway, and now they have learned to love Amazon.com and the Kindle device that watches them as they read books and deletes any book for whatever reason.
Me, I don't use Kindle devices for that reason, but I'm a crazy guy who cares about my rights and freedoms and expects that if I bought something not only do I legally own it, but the owner of the IP and company that sold it to me shouldn't be able to take it away from me. Silly me, and my paranoid rantings that consumers actually own what they buy and it shouldn't have a kill-switch on it to remove it.
Why would someone use a possibly infected computer with their real info?
Why not set up a Honeypot system and create a fictional name via free web mail and then sign up for some web sites. When a scam email comes in click on the attached file or link, which will install malware on the system that Symantec can track back to the system that is accessing it. When the scammer/hacker/cracker has the fake info, you'll know that they stole it and the infected system can have a history of IP connection that leads back to them. Don't forget to download from P2P networks and install stuff as well. You'll soon have enough malware infections to start hunting down the perps.
Asking users to do that with their real info is too risky. It is better to volunteer a spare system and use fictional info so your real info won't be stolen. You can recruit people who want to be police officers and they can gain training this way to hunt down the bad guys.
Ok so you use your real info and the scammers steal it but Symantec hunts them down and has them arrested. How much would it cost to clean up your credit record and good name? It seems better if volunteers use fictional info instead of real info, you can work with banks and etc to create fictional accounts for law enforcement use. Then when you see an activity on the account, you know someone stole it, as nobody is supposed to be using it.
throw a house party for Windows 7 and invite all of your friends.
Then when they do use Windows 7 and it doesn't live up to the hype and won't run their old games and old software and is annoying with security features and crashes and blue screens of death.
Why don't people throw Linux parties instead? Pass out free CDRs and DVDRs of popular Linux distros. At least that way you get a free operating system and don't have to pay anything for it.
Soon someone will port Linux to it, as well as Doom. :)
I heard that Vacuum tubes are rare to find and that Vacuum tube computers can be rewired to use Transistors instead when Vacuum tubes cannot be found.
Being that now I am officially a mutant.
Super powers:
Being Super Annoying, even the Amazing Randi has to admit I am so annoying that it is not natural and actually a super power.
Inadvertently trolling people, as some comments I made here that tried to be funny got rated as flamebait or troll. I figure this is a good distraction power be annoying and troll Magento that keeps him annoyed and so upset that he cannot concentrate and then Wolverine can attack him when he isn't looking and knock him the f- out.
Super debugging skills, I can debug a program not matter how buggy it is or how impossible it seems.