A tool that I use quite often seems to go ignored time and time again.
Trend Micro Damage Cleanup is a free after-the-fact cleanup tool that will fix just about any virus (As long as the pattern file is downloaded...) It scans drives, registry, etc. The only drawback is that it's quite large (The pattern file is ~8.5MB and the Scanner is ~1.6MB).
It blows Norton's one-fix-per-virus tools away, except from a portability standpoint. Also helps make sure you don't leave other viruses behind. (Did I run the Netsky.QZX removal tool, but not the Netsky.ZZB one?)
Yesterday it found 530 copies of Agobot (3 Variants) and Sasser.B on one person's PC.
I earned about $250 worth of certificates from FreeRide.com, most of which were Amazon or CDNow certificates. Pretty much everyone in my office did it, we were that bored. It was how we started each morning.
Of course toward the end it got worse and worse, but they never did fix some security 'problems' that would let you get multiple clicks per ad. The system was setup to only allow you ~10 ad clicks per day in the main section, but depending on how fast a person could click, you could get from 2-50 + clicks registered off the right banners, preferably 10-point ones. You could get a $20 cert in a matter of days.
Of course that's probably why they went under... I still don't get how they really made money in the first place. I doubt they ever turned anything resembling a profit.
/Still wishing I hadn't used my real e-mail address to sign up for FreeRide...
Efficient routers have a similar feature. They have a button on the bottom that when pressed for 5 seconds, it will take the last few digits of the serial number as a console-only password. No settings are lost, but you can get in to change the password. At least this is protected by limiting a person to having physical access.
Also of note on Efficient SDSL routers (and likely others) the decimal equivalent of the last octets of the MAC address is the serial number. Useful if you don't have physical access to the router.
I work at a computer repair shop, and nearly every single computer I work on has some degree of spyware. The best combination of tactics to kill spyware that I've found is as follows (All in Safe Mode, of course):
Trend Micro Damage Cleanup - Free, Effective at catching a multitude of viruses and malware (Detects some spyware as trojans or adware)
Hate to reply to myself, but I did find more out through actually downloading and opening the file from that site. It downloads and runs a VBScript file that writes an EXE to the root dir of C: (C:\2.exe) and then runs it.
I'll leave actually executing the 2.exe file to someone else:)
When I first heard about this bug I put a body_check in Postfix to block messages containing the offending code. In the past 24 hours it's blocked 40 messages that tried to exploit the bug but none were this FDIC scam.
The virus is faked as coming from "security-center@microsoft.com" and it tries to send the user to http://www.microsoft.com%01@d2341647.u35.worldispn etwork.com/update/ which loads a microsoft page in one frame and in another frame attempts to download a file of type application/hta.
I have yet to find information about this on any of the major Virus Scanners' websites. Anybody know more about it?
If stores want to use them for inventory, why not have them in everything -- but -- once the item is purchased, it is disabled like the security tags (for instance, they swipe it over a pad of some kind.)
This would negate the privacy concerns and let them reap the benefits of using RFID inventory.
I compiled it on my own using the patches from the latest mozilla-devel port. Worked like a charm. Seemed to take less time to compile than 1.1 did, even.
Now that I'm running Xfree86 4.3.0, and Mozilla 1.3 everything looks much, much better than it did before. (Thanks largely to Xft)
>>How smart do you have to be, then, to take your brand-new SEALED copy to a different store to exchange it for whatever you want???
>Smart enough to forge the receipt of that store? I don't think they'd exchange it without you showing them the receipt as well.
I don't know what stores you go to, but many (Including Wal-Mart and Best Buy) will take back completely sealed merchandise without a receipt, and happily give you store credit. Doesn't matter where you bought it, if it scans back into their system they don't generally care. I imagine they care less this time of year, when they get tons of returns and not many with receipts.
Columbia House once sent me Good Will Hunting with a sign-up order by accident. I didn't want it, but it was only $0.49. I wasn't about to go through the trouble of shipping it back to Columbia House. I took it to Best Buy, got over $30 for it, and picked up two less expensive DVDs that I had wanted.
Funny, I have to browse Fark using Mozilla (1.2.1), or I have no idea what is in store on the sites it links to.
Of course I use the Preferences Toolbar to tweak the options (No java, no popups, and sometimes no cookies.) Filtering through a proxy helps too. Perhaps one of their ads is crashing Mozilla for some reason.
Tabbed browsing is the only way to go for looking at loads of news stories, especially with shift-middle-click set to load tabs in the background. (Click a bunch and read one while the others load...)
Here in Indiana we have a state-wide do not call list, and anyone in the state can register their number on the list by visiting this web site or calling 1-888-834-9969. The list is updated quarterly and once you are on it, you're there for good.
The site also has a lot of other information on the list and how they are enforcing it and who to report violations to. As stated on the website in their FAQ, there are only four types of telemarketing the list does not block, they are:
Charitable organizations (who use volunteers or employees to make the calls), newspapers (who use employees to make the calls), insurance agents and realtors are excluded.
I can say from experience that since I signed up, I have not had any telemarketing calls in violation of the law. I registered my home and cell phone number, but now it states that the numbers should be residential (I'm not sure if/how they even check.) However, both my numbers still are on the list.
I would definitely encourage anyone in Indiana to sign up, and report any offenders. I doubt a normal person would see the money, but here's what they do to companies in violation:
We will investigate and determine whether the company qualifies as one of the exemptions and that your number was indeed on the list. If the company is in violation, we can have a court order issued to prevent them from doing it again and can seek a fine of up to $10,000 for the first violation, $25,000 for a second violation. One phone call can be a violation. We can also recover any profits they made violating the law and collect any attorney fees and other costs associated with enforcing the law.
Even if I didn't see any of the money it'd be nice to see telemarketers taken for a ride;)
I'm not sure if other states have similar practices, but it's worth checking into.
No, it is a constitutional democratic republic, wherein what the majority can do (via their elected representatives) to the minority is strictly limited. One thing the majority can't do is push a religious point of view on the minority via the mechanisms of the state. Doesn't (in theory, anyway) matter if it's a minority of one.
True enough, the constitution is there to protect the minority. However, officials are elected by the majority (where the electoral college isn't involved!) and they tend to elect people who are religious. And as proved by the fact that "under god" and "in god we trust" were inserted inserted, they will try to push it.
What irks me is that (a) it was allowed at all and (b) it took this long to come under fire. It either speaks to the fact that people who opposed it were not vocal, were afraid to speak up, or just plain didn't care. To me, the phrases had become so ubiquitous I didn't even consider them a testament to religion.
Pleding alliegence to a piece of cloth is a dumb thing to do, but the state is permitted to encourage it. Pushing statements about metaphysics, however, is clearly out of its bailiwick.
I agree... Here's an interesting piece outlining separation of church and state issues. (It specifically mentions the pledge and currency)
It doesn't stop parents, of course. 13 years (k-12) of catholic school were torture.:)
Not really, I realize it's all fine and dandy the way it is but the dollar in and of itself only has percieved value. But then, that's true of everything.
There was also a hint of sarcasm in my original post.
And as a clarification, I am an atheist. I really don't like "God" being mentioned all over in places like the pledge or money. However, this is a "majority rules" country that recently has taken a sour turn toward "minority rules" where one person can complain and shut down or change something many people enjoy. Until atheism is the dominant "religion" I don't expect the word "God" to stop appearing anywhere... </rant>
2) Even if this was possibile in that regard. Having a unique CD key pressed onto each CD would result in creating n templates (where n=number of cds pressed) which is too expensive to be useful. This is sorta the same reason as to why we see CD Keys on cd cases, but never printed onto the front label side of the cd.
Or, as is the case here at a university, n=number of unique keys for a site licensed product=1. We get CDs that have the keys printed on the label from a parent university that has deals with various software companies (including Microsoft).
However, having the key on the label does one little good when it is asked for during installation, because you have to eject the CD to read it or copy it down beforehand, both of which are more work than looking at a label on a CD sleeve or case.
It's a well known fact, Sunny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentaveret, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet triannually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
And don't forget Colonel Sanders, because he puts a secret ingredient in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly!
Or in some cases, Macrovision takes no effort to defeat at all. I'd have to check on the actual model number of my VCR (It's a Philips/Magnavox) but my DVD player is a Pioneer DVD-434 (IIRC) and through some stroke of luck, I can copy any movie I want off DVD to VHS, copy protected or not.
I know the Macrovision signal is there; I also had the signal split coming out of the VCR and going to my ATI All-In-Wonder in my PC, and I could actually see the Macrovision lines sometimes.
I was looking into getting something to remove Macrovision from the signal so I could watch movies on my computer screen but I found a way around that, too. I switched from RCA cables to S-video from my DVD player to the PC and now I get no Macrovision lines (and higher quality) when watching on the PC. This is presumably since I'm not using the signal coming from the VCR, but I could be wrong.
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A tool that I use quite often seems to go ignored time and time again.
Trend Micro Damage Cleanup is a free after-the-fact cleanup tool that will fix just about any virus (As long as the pattern file is downloaded...) It scans drives, registry, etc. The only drawback is that it's quite large (The pattern file is ~8.5MB and the Scanner is ~1.6MB).
It blows Norton's one-fix-per-virus tools away, except from a portability standpoint. Also helps make sure you don't leave other viruses behind. (Did I run the Netsky.QZX removal tool, but not the Netsky.ZZB one?)
Yesterday it found 530 copies of Agobot (3 Variants) and Sasser.B on one person's PC.
I earned about $250 worth of certificates from FreeRide.com, most of which were Amazon or CDNow certificates. Pretty much everyone in my office did it, we were that bored. It was how we started each morning.
/Still wishing I hadn't used my real e-mail address to sign up for FreeRide...
Of course toward the end it got worse and worse, but they never did fix some security 'problems' that would let you get multiple clicks per ad. The system was setup to only allow you ~10 ad clicks per day in the main section, but depending on how fast a person could click, you could get from 2-50 + clicks registered off the right banners, preferably 10-point ones. You could get a $20 cert in a matter of days.
Of course that's probably why they went under... I still don't get how they really made money in the first place. I doubt they ever turned anything resembling a profit.
Well... you have to give it to them... they still don't have any bugs
Sure they do. They have exactly one bug: Windows programs fail to execute when run under Linux.
Efficient routers have a similar feature. They have a button on the bottom that when pressed for 5 seconds, it will take the last few digits of the serial number as a console-only password. No settings are lost, but you can get in to change the password. At least this is protected by limiting a person to having physical access.
Also of note on Efficient SDSL routers (and likely others) the decimal equivalent of the last octets of the MAC address is the serial number. Useful if you don't have physical access to the router.
There's not a lot to be missed after that. Process Explorer is also good for finding processes running that might not be of obvious origin.
Hate to reply to myself, but I did find more out through actually downloading and opening the file from that site. It downloads and runs a VBScript file that writes an EXE to the root dir of C: (C:\2.exe) and then runs it.
:)
I'll leave actually executing the 2.exe file to someone else
When I first heard about this bug I put a body_check in Postfix to block messages containing the offending code. In the past 24 hours it's blocked 40 messages that tried to exploit the bug but none were this FDIC scam.
n etwork.com/update/ which loads a microsoft page in one frame and in another frame attempts to download a file of type application/hta.
The virus is faked as coming from "security-center@microsoft.com" and it tries to send the user to http://www.microsoft.com%01@d2341647.u35.worldisp
I have yet to find information about this on any of the major Virus Scanners' websites. Anybody know more about it?
If stores want to use them for inventory, why not have them in everything -- but -- once the item is purchased, it is disabled like the security tags (for instance, they swipe it over a pad of some kind.)
This would negate the privacy concerns and let them reap the benefits of using RFID inventory.
I compiled it on my own using the patches from the latest mozilla-devel port. Worked like a charm. Seemed to take less time to compile than 1.1 did, even.
Now that I'm running Xfree86 4.3.0, and Mozilla 1.3 everything looks much, much better than it did before. (Thanks largely to Xft)
I'll probably get modded down too, but Microsoft does provide a free .doc viewer, and viewers for other formats here
Of course that only works if the person is already running windows.
>>How smart do you have to be, then, to take your brand-new SEALED copy to a different store to exchange it for whatever you want???
>Smart enough to forge the receipt of that store? I don't think they'd exchange it without you showing them the receipt as well.
I don't know what stores you go to, but many (Including Wal-Mart and Best Buy) will take back completely sealed merchandise without a receipt, and happily give you store credit. Doesn't matter where you bought it, if it scans back into their system they don't generally care. I imagine they care less this time of year, when they get tons of returns and not many with receipts.
Columbia House once sent me Good Will Hunting with a sign-up order by accident. I didn't want it, but it was only $0.49. I wasn't about to go through the trouble of shipping it back to Columbia House. I took it to Best Buy, got over $30 for it, and picked up two less expensive DVDs that I had wanted.
Funny, I have to browse Fark using Mozilla (1.2.1), or I have no idea what is in store on the sites it links to.
Of course I use the Preferences Toolbar to tweak the options (No java, no popups, and sometimes no cookies.) Filtering through a proxy helps too. Perhaps one of their ads is crashing Mozilla for some reason.
Tabbed browsing is the only way to go for looking at loads of news stories, especially with shift-middle-click set to load tabs in the background. (Click a bunch and read one while the others load...)
There really wouldn't be any advantage over an optical telescope in earth orbit (except maybe having stable ground).
Except for allowing us to see the invading Alien forces hiding on the far side of the moon.
Viagra, of course.
It's known for raising the mostly dead.
Well of course the biggest one will be the LLT. The Ludicrously Large Telescope.
At least until it's jammed by Lone Starr.
The site also has a lot of other information on the list and how they are enforcing it and who to report violations to. As stated on the website in their FAQ, there are only four types of telemarketing the list does not block, they are: I can say from experience that since I signed up, I have not had any telemarketing calls in violation of the law. I registered my home and cell phone number, but now it states that the numbers should be residential (I'm not sure if/how they even check.) However, both my numbers still are on the list.
I would definitely encourage anyone in Indiana to sign up, and report any offenders. I doubt a normal person would see the money, but here's what they do to companies in violation: Even if I didn't see any of the money it'd be nice to see telemarketers taken for a ride
I'm not sure if other states have similar practices, but it's worth checking into.
No, it is a constitutional democratic republic, wherein what the majority can do (via their elected representatives) to the minority is strictly limited. One thing the majority can't do is push a religious point of view on the minority via the mechanisms of the state. Doesn't (in theory, anyway) matter if it's a minority of one.
:)
True enough, the constitution is there to protect the minority. However, officials are elected by the majority (where the electoral college isn't involved!) and they tend to elect people who are religious. And as proved by the fact that "under god" and "in god we trust" were inserted inserted, they will try to push it.
What irks me is that (a) it was allowed at all and (b) it took this long to come under fire. It either speaks to the fact that people who opposed it were not vocal, were afraid to speak up, or just plain didn't care. To me, the phrases had become so ubiquitous I didn't even consider them a testament to religion.
Pleding alliegence to a piece of cloth is a dumb thing to do, but the state is permitted to encourage it. Pushing statements about metaphysics, however, is clearly out of its bailiwick.
I agree... Here's an interesting piece outlining separation of church and state issues. (It specifically mentions the pledge and currency)
It doesn't stop parents, of course. 13 years (k-12) of catholic school were torture.
Not really, I realize it's all fine and dandy the way it is but the dollar in and of itself only has percieved value. But then, that's true of everything.
There was also a hint of sarcasm in my original post.
And as a clarification, I am an atheist. I really don't like "God" being mentioned all over in places like the pledge or money. However, this is a "majority rules" country that recently has taken a sour turn toward "minority rules" where one person can complain and shut down or change something many people enjoy. Until atheism is the dominant "religion" I don't expect the word "God" to stop appearing anywhere...
</rant>
So I guess the new colored US money probably shouldn't say "In God We Trust" on it.
But I guess since the currency isn't properly backed, you have to trust someone/thing to vouch for its worth, eh?
Has a rather funny error message when you try to run an older version of Photoshop on a very new Mac (G3 or later).
Check it out.
2) Even if this was possibile in that regard. Having a unique CD key pressed onto each CD would result in creating n templates (where n=number of cds pressed) which is too expensive to be useful. This is sorta the same reason as to why we see CD Keys on cd cases, but never printed onto the front label side of the cd.
Or, as is the case here at a university, n=number of unique keys for a site licensed product=1. We get CDs that have the keys printed on the label from a parent university that has deals with various software companies (including Microsoft).
However, having the key on the label does one little good when it is asked for during installation, because you have to eject the CD to read it or copy it down beforehand, both of which are more work than looking at a label on a CD sleeve or case.
What they did forget was the Pentaveret
It's a well known fact, Sunny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentaveret, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet triannually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
And don't forget Colonel Sanders, because he puts a secret ingredient in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly!
Because with this capacity at that size, you can use them in things like digital cameras, mp3 players, etc without making the devices larger.
They mentioned also doing CD sized discs that hold a lot more data also, the coin-size is just a new market they're looking at entering.
Or in some cases, Macrovision takes no effort to defeat at all. I'd have to check on the actual model number of my VCR (It's a Philips/Magnavox) but my DVD player is a Pioneer DVD-434 (IIRC) and through some stroke of luck, I can copy any movie I want off DVD to VHS, copy protected or not.
I know the Macrovision signal is there; I also had the signal split coming out of the VCR and going to my ATI All-In-Wonder in my PC, and I could actually see the Macrovision lines sometimes.
I was looking into getting something to remove Macrovision from the signal so I could watch movies on my computer screen but I found a way around that, too. I switched from RCA cables to S-video from my DVD player to the PC and now I get no Macrovision lines (and higher quality) when watching on the PC. This is presumably since I'm not using the signal coming from the VCR, but I could be wrong.