Given that svchost is the Windows host process for services it makes me wonder whether it may turn out that this is Windows Update Rootkit BSOD style issue, where the affected machines actually *do* have some malware that is running under the svchost process and McAfee is just being rather over zealous in how it deals with the problem.
That's not enough any more; even reputable websites can often be easily compromised either through SQL injection, XSS, compromised ad server or some other mechanism and apps like Adobe Reader, Office, Flash, Foxit Reader, Firefox, Java, VLC and more have all experienced serious vulnerabilities in recent months, which have often remained unpatched for long periods of time.
I finally gave in and installed my home-licensed copy of Sophos (provided by my work) because there are too many factors outside of my control these days and short of isolating my PC from all external data sources there's no way to be sure and I'd rather have a backup in case I miss something.
Re:Too much hysteria from the peanut gallery.
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Yes, but Andrew Orlowski is an idiot with a massive hard-on for the creative industries and a disklike of anything created by us plebs (like Wikipedia) - just read his back-catalog to see some of his rants again the "freetards".
[...]ACTA is plurilateral, and voluntary[...]
Purely voluntary for the governments who are currently negotiating it and have gone to great lengths to conceal its details from their voting public you mean?
[...]We made the mistake of assuming that everyone who is blocking ads at Ars is doing so with malice. As it turns out, only a few people are, and many (most?) indicated you are happy to help out. That's what led to this hopefully informative post.
Our experiment is over, and we're glad we did it because it led to us learning that we needed to communicate our point of view every once in a while. Sure, some people told us we deserved to die in a fire. But that's the Internet![...]
Do what Arstechnica discovered after they tried blocking adblock users from seeing articles; actually *ask* your users to whitelist your site in adblock (or other ad blockers) with a promise that if the adverts on the site cause issues with users machines that they will work to resolve them and/or remove those adverts from rotation.
So far, every site that I use regularly and trust (for appropriate values of trust) that have asked me to whitelist them have had their request granted. I'm happy to help out the sites with their revenue on the condition that the adverts on said site do not impact my browsing experience; pop-ups, pop-unders, sound, fullscreens, "intellitext" or mid-paragraph ads are an instant nono, as are any that impact page loading due to shoddy design and overloaded ad servers, but I'm willing to put up with most other ads if I'm asked to in order to support the site.
They're clearly talking about the period towards the end of the PS2's life when it gained a huge gay following...
No, it's one of those idioms that confuses Americans in the UK and gets Britons in the US into a lot of trouble; a fag is a cigarette, thus a fag end is a cigarette end, thus they are indeed referring to the tail end of the PS2's life.
I think he meant to say that bare-metal hypervisors designed for workstations, rather than servers, are a fairly new class of product, not that they're new technology.
I had a friend at uni who used to buy packaged foodstuffs and then send them back to the "If you're not completely satisfied" address with a fictional complaint. 9 times out of 10 he'd get a crate of said product by way of compensation; he survived for 3 years, barely paying for anything he ate or drank in this manner and you're amazed that people are swapping music without paying for it?
If any single group of people can find a way to get things without paying for them, it's student. Intelligent, poor, lots of free time = win.
Regulation of a market only works if the regulation is free from the influence of those operating in the market; in this case, as with the Banking sector, regulation doesn't solve anything because any corporations with something to lose will simply lobby to shape the regulation to their liking.
Broadband regulation has, on the whole, worked pretty well in Europe - here in the UK, forcing BT into LLU has led to an extremely competitive broadband market and so far, every time BT have looked to take advantage of the situation, OFCOM have smacked them down. If the government hadn't stepped in, we'd be in pretty much the same situation that the US is in; Cable via Virgin Media (where available) or ADSL via BT.
It's a common "trick" for new shows so that people who start watching 3 or 4 episodes in to the first season don't feel like they've already missed huge chunks of vital plot development and stop watching.
Unfortunately, as with all these things, networks tend to want to apply them to all shows regardless of suitability.
Actually, I think that Dollhouse *was* great (outside of the first 3 episodes), mostly because it was only two seasons long; short, sharp, to the point, wrapped everything up and didn't drag on past its time.
"Should we spec a 2nd server, you know, for HA?" "Nah, it'll be running Linux; it never crashes and generates a magical aura that prevents hardware failures"
The story isn't that they have a paywall, it's that they're demanding formal requests to be made in order for anyone to *link* to their content just in case someone finds a way around their paywall.
It's like me demanding that people submit formal requests to me if they want to tell anyone my address, just in case someone finds a way to break into my house; it's not exactly the world's greatest anti-theft protection.
Because you don't want to have anyone tasked with doing it, you want it to be automatic so that you can simply point all your Firefox installs to a central location (á la WSUS) and approve updates that are automatically installed.
You could even do it with WSUS if Mozilla would do official MSI packages, because I'll be buggered if I'm going to try and publish.exe files through it.
Would you not also agree then that the guy who did the plumbing in your house should be entitled to royalty payments every time you have a bath? After all, it's his work and he may well reject your claim to a right to it.
I'm not convinced that they were ever popular with the public, there were just a lot of government-comissioned polls asking questions like "Do you want terrorists, paedophiles and rapists to be allowed to live in your neighbourhood or do you support ID cards?" that were used to *claim* widespread public support.
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Given that svchost is the Windows host process for services it makes me wonder whether it may turn out that this is Windows Update Rootkit BSOD style issue, where the affected machines actually *do* have some malware that is running under the svchost process and McAfee is just being rather over zealous in how it deals with the problem.
That's not enough any more; even reputable websites can often be easily compromised either through SQL injection, XSS, compromised ad server or some other mechanism and apps like Adobe Reader, Office, Flash, Foxit Reader, Firefox, Java, VLC and more have all experienced serious vulnerabilities in recent months, which have often remained unpatched for long periods of time.
I finally gave in and installed my home-licensed copy of Sophos (provided by my work) because there are too many factors outside of my control these days and short of isolating my PC from all external data sources there's no way to be sure and I'd rather have a backup in case I miss something.
Yes, but Andrew Orlowski is an idiot with a massive hard-on for the creative industries and a disklike of anything created by us plebs (like Wikipedia) - just read his back-catalog to see some of his rants again the "freetards".
[...]ACTA is plurilateral, and voluntary[...]
Purely voluntary for the governments who are currently negotiating it and have gone to great lengths to conceal its details from their voting public you mean?
He's back!
[...]They've been redirected into oblivion in my /etc/hosts since then.
Yes, because simply not visiting the site would be silly.
From http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars
[...]We made the mistake of assuming that everyone who is blocking ads at Ars is doing so with malice. As it turns out, only a few people are, and many (most?) indicated you are happy to help out. That's what led to this hopefully informative post.
Our experiment is over, and we're glad we did it because it led to us learning that we needed to communicate our point of view every once in a while. Sure, some people told us we deserved to die in a fire. But that's the Internet![...]
What dicks!
Do what Arstechnica discovered after they tried blocking adblock users from seeing articles; actually *ask* your users to whitelist your site in adblock (or other ad blockers) with a promise that if the adverts on the site cause issues with users machines that they will work to resolve them and/or remove those adverts from rotation.
So far, every site that I use regularly and trust (for appropriate values of trust) that have asked me to whitelist them have had their request granted. I'm happy to help out the sites with their revenue on the condition that the adverts on said site do not impact my browsing experience; pop-ups, pop-unders, sound, fullscreens, "intellitext" or mid-paragraph ads are an instant nono, as are any that impact page loading due to shoddy design and overloaded ad servers, but I'm willing to put up with most other ads if I'm asked to in order to support the site.
They're clearly talking about the period towards the end of the PS2's life when it gained a huge gay following...
No, it's one of those idioms that confuses Americans in the UK and gets Britons in the US into a lot of trouble; a fag is a cigarette, thus a fag end is a cigarette end, thus they are indeed referring to the tail end of the PS2's life.
It's true, studies have shown that listening to Justin Bieber songs will give you cancer.
I think he meant to say that bare-metal hypervisors designed for workstations, rather than servers, are a fairly new class of product, not that they're new technology.
Students trying to get stuff for free? Never!
I had a friend at uni who used to buy packaged foodstuffs and then send them back to the "If you're not completely satisfied" address with a fictional complaint. 9 times out of 10 he'd get a crate of said product by way of compensation; he survived for 3 years, barely paying for anything he ate or drank in this manner and you're amazed that people are swapping music without paying for it?
If any single group of people can find a way to get things without paying for them, it's student. Intelligent, poor, lots of free time = win.
That's evolution, baby.
Regulation of a market only works if the regulation is free from the influence of those operating in the market; in this case, as with the Banking sector, regulation doesn't solve anything because any corporations with something to lose will simply lobby to shape the regulation to their liking.
Broadband regulation has, on the whole, worked pretty well in Europe - here in the UK, forcing BT into LLU has led to an extremely competitive broadband market and so far, every time BT have looked to take advantage of the situation, OFCOM have smacked them down. If the government hadn't stepped in, we'd be in pretty much the same situation that the US is in; Cable via Virgin Media (where available) or ADSL via BT.
It's a common "trick" for new shows so that people who start watching 3 or 4 episodes in to the first season don't feel like they've already missed huge chunks of vital plot development and stop watching.
Unfortunately, as with all these things, networks tend to want to apply them to all shows regardless of suitability.
As opposed to the deadly serious tone it usually takes...
Actually, I think that Dollhouse *was* great (outside of the first 3 episodes), mostly because it was only two seasons long; short, sharp, to the point, wrapped everything up and didn't drag on past its time.
I doubt it, just like I'm not the only one who can't stand BSG.
We nerdy types are not a homogenous mass of identical drones, we just have a common set of interests.
No, but you can gather some poorly sourced data, make some self-serving assumptions and then extrapolate the fuck out of them.
"Should we spec a 2nd server, you know, for HA?"
"Nah, it'll be running Linux; it never crashes and generates a magical aura that prevents hardware failures"
The story isn't that they have a paywall, it's that they're demanding formal requests to be made in order for anyone to *link* to their content just in case someone finds a way around their paywall.
It's like me demanding that people submit formal requests to me if they want to tell anyone my address, just in case someone finds a way to break into my house; it's not exactly the world's greatest anti-theft protection.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/10909
Because you don't want to have anyone tasked with doing it, you want it to be automatic so that you can simply point all your Firefox installs to a central location (á la WSUS) and approve updates that are automatically installed.
You could even do it with WSUS if Mozilla would do official MSI packages, because I'll be buggered if I'm going to try and publish .exe files through it.
Would you not also agree then that the guy who did the plumbing in your house should be entitled to royalty payments every time you have a bath? After all, it's his work and he may well reject your claim to a right to it.
I hope you're being sarcastic; that's how she spells her name
It's quite possibly related to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/askjack/2010/apr/01/tiscali-blocking-guardian-emails
I'm not convinced that they were ever popular with the public, there were just a lot of government-comissioned polls asking questions like "Do you want terrorists, paedophiles and rapists to be allowed to live in your neighbourhood or do you support ID cards?" that were used to *claim* widespread public support.