It's complicated, but it runs on Windows XP. It pushes out the programs to the client PCs (if they're Windows XP, Home is a no-go due to the Guest account force), as well as updates. Downloads updates from the KAV servers, caches them, pushes them out. Has all kinds of reports on detected infections, machines that haven't been updated lately or are off the network, etc.
Comes with the business version of the AV product, server or workstation, no extra charge. Just download it.
I've used it on two clients now. There are some gotchas you have to look out for when machines change machine names or IP addresses if they're out of control of the kit (basically you have to delete and re-add them so it assigns new security certificates that control secure commo between client and Admin Kit), but basically it's not that hard for somebody with a clue to work with. You have to install either MSDE 2000 (preferred) or Microsoft SQL Server Express (free shrunk down SQL Server from Microsoft) to use the Admin Kit, but you don't have to administer the database, the Kit does that. Kit alows you to back up the database on a scheduled basis as well so you can recover if something gets screwed up.
Compared to Symantec and others, it's a good deal. The KAV AV itself for small business is not that expensive, either.
KAV as an AV has its annoyances, though nothing compared to Norton. It tends to pick up every exe in a zip file as a "Trojan something or other", especially anything packed with UPX. So if you have a lot of third party Windows utilities laying around, you'll get false positives and sometimes KAV will delete them unless you specify them as safe - which you can do by applying "policy" from the Admin Kit to all your machines.
On one of my clients, they got hit with a particularly nasty virus which KAV detected, but not before it infected a critical Windows system file, which KAV then "disinfected", destroying Windows which had to be re-installed by the IT guy on site. But this sort of thing happens with any AV - none of them are fool-proof.
Agreed. I have small business clients that are too cheap to buy a decent AV, and ClamWin's detection capabilities are way below most of the standard AV products, not to mention the lack on of on-access capability. Comodo AV would be an option but it's detection capabilities are not great either. That leaves Microsoft's new free product. While OneCare's detection abilities suck, maybe they suck "better" than ClamWin and Comodo. Something is better than nothing.
Yeah, and the government of Afghanistan is in the habit of concealing Taliban casualties by blaming them on "wedding parties".
You, sir, are a fucking moron.
The US military regularly blows up civilians because it is run by cowardly morons who do their fighting from the air and called-in artillery and air strikes rather than engaging the enemy in a manner conducive to avoiding civilian casualties as required by the Geneva Conventions.
And then the fucking Pentagon LIES ABOUT IT until enough evidence is amassed by independent parties such as journalists and the affected governments. Then they start bullshitting about the relative numbers and further bullshit about how they go out of their way to "avoid civilian casualties" and how they're all real sorry about it - until next week and the next batch of civilians butchered by morons.
Fuck the Pentagon and fuck the US military. The lot should be tried and convicted of war crimes from the lowliest infantry right up to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense, and the fucking President.
On top of which, they spend FIVE TIMES as much as all the other governments put together and they can't stop an insurgent movement consisting of maybe ten thousand peasants with AK-47's and RPG-7's from 1955.
Ball-less fucking morons, the lot.
As a veteran of Vietnam, they can all kiss my ass.
"And as for NNTP binary groups, Bittorrent and Redtube have them covered."
Not hardly, dude. Getting a Bittorrent file down takes hours - assuming the last little bit isn't missing or you can find an active torrent for whatever specific thing you want. GigaNews is direct file download right now, no waiting. Not even close. Only problem is finding what you want. I don't bother with that. I just take what is interesting and available on my usual weeknight for downloading Usenet stuff.
Scott Moulton of MyHardDiskDied.com and the YouTube videos on hard disk data recovery says the exact opposite. Don't use SpinRite because it can kill a dying disk. Use ddrescue or something to get the files off into a copy, THEN screw around with SpinRite if you have to. SpinRite alters a disk and on a dying hard disk that can kill it. The goal is to get the data off, not make the hard disk last longer.
And every one of those fucking idiots uses the word fuck on a fucking hourly basis and the hypocritical fucks can't stand to see the word fuck in a fucking RSS feed?
I believe you also need to check the firmware version on the drive circuit board to be sure of this maneuver. I've heard if you have the wrong firmware it might not work. Don't know if that's true or how common that problem would be, however. If the data is critical, I'd check or forget it and give it to a recovery outfit.
And in four to six hours of work with another tool that costs nothing?
While I'm aware this tool is supposed to be good, the cost in comparison to some other tools is ridiculous. That's the point. It's never about how long it will take to pay for it.
"Either way, there appear to be a number of ways determined citizens of Syria, Iran, and Cuba can get around the ban."
If the US government would get its head out of its ass and stop drumming up new "enemies" to justify its military-industrial complex every time some country doesn't BOHICA for the US, we wouldn't care about any of this.
Cuba? Does ANYBODY care about Cuba any more?
Syria and Iran are not the enemies of the US - IF the US wasn't bound and determined to be THEIR enemy courtesy of the fucking racist, imperialist, fascist, illegal, rogue, terrorist state of Israel which has two hundred fucking nuclear weapons while the US is bitching about some uranium enrichment for energy purposes in Iran. The hypocrisy is mind fucking.
Oh, man, THANK YOU! For sending me to the "Website is down" YouTube video - I haven't laughed like that in months! That thing deserves a/. post of its own! I've sent the link to some of my clients, penis picture regardless!
I am sick to death of hearing developers bitch about "native look and feel". Grow up! Get a fucking life! I couldn't care less how the goddamn app looks COMPARED TO OTHER APPS as long as the look enables the FUNCTIONALITY to be performed correctly.
What matters is that the program does it's job - not that the widgets look the same as some other app on the system.
Christ, what a fucking waste of millions of man hours farting around with bullshit cosmetic issues! Fucking programmers think they're goddamn "artistes" when they can't even get their shit to RUN PROPERLY, NOT CRASH, BE FUCKING USABLE, and BE SECURE!
Shut the fuck up about look and feel and concentrate on making the thing fucking usable, reliable, and secure.
It's too bad they introduced Kate Brewster in T-3. If they hadn't, they could have put a female Terminator in T-4 like TSCC did and things could have gotten VERY interesting. Still, we have two more movies coming up - they could kill off Kate and replace her with a Terminator modeled after her - and while they're at it, switch actresses and put Summer Glau in as Kate. I mean, originally McG was willing to have John Connor killed and replaced by Marcus Wright in the end (because they want to pay Worthington less than Bale's astronomical salary in the subsequent movies, presumably), so why not replace Brewster?
Yeah, I know, I want to ruin Summer's acting career by having her play Cameron or other robots for the rest of her life. Well, not really, just once in a while.
Here's my take on it - the same take I've had all season two.
First, some background. I can't remember when I first heard that they were doing a Terminator TV series, but like everybody else, I questioned the likelihood of it being any good. Then I heard they cast Summer Glau as John Connor's protective Terminator, and my IMMEDIATE thought - like everyone else's - was: "The kid's gonna get it on with a Terminator!" Naturally, I had to see that.
So when the original pilot - not the one that aired - was leaked to the Net, I downloaded it. I thought it was OK, if a bit derivative of T-2. But I realized it had to be in order to connect the series to T-2, because the series was set post-T-2 and pre-T-3.
So when the series aired, I started downloading and watching. From episode 2, I could see this show had enormous potential. Fact One: The protective Terminator didn't obey orders from either John or Sarah Connor! That immediately started me wondering whether in fact Cameron had been sent back by future John at all - or whether she had come back on her initiative for her own reasons. As the season progressed, I became more and more convinced this might be the case - especially due to hints dropped in several season one episodes. Not to mention what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to seduce Connor in the episode "Vic's Chip", as well as the hiding of the referenced chip. The excuse Cameron gave for retaining that chip was obviously bogus, so what was the real reason?
Then in the final episode of season one John explicitly committed to finding the missing AI platform, "The Turk", and stopping Skynet, the primary focus of the entire first season. Then Cameron blew up.
And then it all went to hell.
Season two started with a decent bang. John kills a man, and Cameron goes loopy and tries to kill him. During a frantic effort to remove her chip, she tells John she "loves him". He doesn't buy it and rips her chip out. Later, he makes the strategic decision to put it back in and re-activate her, despite the possibility that she is still damaged. This scene reflects the deleted scene in T-2 where Linda Hamilton's Sarah wanted to destroy Arnold's chip, but the young John persuades her not to. This is the first sign we see of the future John Connor, who is supposed to be the savior of mankind.
Remember how in the finale of season one they committed to finding "The Turk" and stopping Skynet? Well, for the next 18 or more episodes, they forget about "The Turk" completely! They spend the entire season running around on ancillary missions - preventing a nuclear meltdown, saving future Resistance members, beating up criminal fences, etc. - and dodging the bad Terminator. Meanwhile, a T-1000 Terminator has obtained "The Turk", and hooked it up to a server farm to develop what we all thought was going to be the nascent Skynet. The Connors were oblivious to this, despite having had at three ways of tracking back from the situations they were involved in to the Zeira Corporation where "The Turk" was located. Instead, they did not follow-up whatsoever on the situations they were involved in.
In the meantime, John Connor, in reaction to his killing a man - his first kill - in episode one, turned back into a whiny, rebellious twat besotted with some big-boobed blond he ran into at school. The character of Riley was the most universally despised character by the fans for quite a few episodes. In the process, the Terminator who was chasing Connor, Cromartie, got himself blown away - rather too easily - in Mexico after one of John's really stupid besotted kid tricks. As a result, the T-1000 manages to acquire his body using the services of the man who has to be THE DUMBEST FBI AGENT in human history, James Ellison. Of course, Sarah Connor did nothing to recruit this FBI agent despite the obvious value of having someone like that in a position to help your team. The T-1000 hooks him up to the AI platform and renames the combo "John Henry." At lightning speed, this AI program gets developed to the poin
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It's complicated, but it runs on Windows XP. It pushes out the programs to the client PCs (if they're Windows XP, Home is a no-go due to the Guest account force), as well as updates. Downloads updates from the KAV servers, caches them, pushes them out. Has all kinds of reports on detected infections, machines that haven't been updated lately or are off the network, etc.
Comes with the business version of the AV product, server or workstation, no extra charge. Just download it.
I've used it on two clients now. There are some gotchas you have to look out for when machines change machine names or IP addresses if they're out of control of the kit (basically you have to delete and re-add them so it assigns new security certificates that control secure commo between client and Admin Kit), but basically it's not that hard for somebody with a clue to work with. You have to install either MSDE 2000 (preferred) or Microsoft SQL Server Express (free shrunk down SQL Server from Microsoft) to use the Admin Kit, but you don't have to administer the database, the Kit does that. Kit alows you to back up the database on a scheduled basis as well so you can recover if something gets screwed up.
Compared to Symantec and others, it's a good deal. The KAV AV itself for small business is not that expensive, either.
KAV as an AV has its annoyances, though nothing compared to Norton. It tends to pick up every exe in a zip file as a "Trojan something or other", especially anything packed with UPX. So if you have a lot of third party Windows utilities laying around, you'll get false positives and sometimes KAV will delete them unless you specify them as safe - which you can do by applying "policy" from the Admin Kit to all your machines.
On one of my clients, they got hit with a particularly nasty virus which KAV detected, but not before it infected a critical Windows system file, which KAV then "disinfected", destroying Windows which had to be re-installed by the IT guy on site. But this sort of thing happens with any AV - none of them are fool-proof.
Agreed. I have small business clients that are too cheap to buy a decent AV, and ClamWin's detection capabilities are way below most of the standard AV products, not to mention the lack on of on-access capability. Comodo AV would be an option but it's detection capabilities are not great either. That leaves Microsoft's new free product. While OneCare's detection abilities suck, maybe they suck "better" than ClamWin and Comodo. Something is better than nothing.
Yeah, and the government of Afghanistan is in the habit of concealing Taliban casualties by blaming them on "wedding parties".
You, sir, are a fucking moron.
The US military regularly blows up civilians because it is run by cowardly morons who do their fighting from the air and called-in artillery and air strikes rather than engaging the enemy in a manner conducive to avoiding civilian casualties as required by the Geneva Conventions.
And then the fucking Pentagon LIES ABOUT IT until enough evidence is amassed by independent parties such as journalists and the affected governments. Then they start bullshitting about the relative numbers and further bullshit about how they go out of their way to "avoid civilian casualties" and how they're all real sorry about it - until next week and the next batch of civilians butchered by morons.
Fuck the Pentagon and fuck the US military. The lot should be tried and convicted of war crimes from the lowliest infantry right up to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense, and the fucking President.
On top of which, they spend FIVE TIMES as much as all the other governments put together and they can't stop an insurgent movement consisting of maybe ten thousand peasants with AK-47's and RPG-7's from 1955.
Ball-less fucking morons, the lot.
As a veteran of Vietnam, they can all kiss my ass.
"And as for NNTP binary groups, Bittorrent and Redtube have them covered."
Not hardly, dude. Getting a Bittorrent file down takes hours - assuming the last little bit isn't missing or you can find an active torrent for whatever specific thing you want. GigaNews is direct file download right now, no waiting. Not even close. Only problem is finding what you want. I don't bother with that. I just take what is interesting and available on my usual weeknight for downloading Usenet stuff.
I can see why he never made more than $20.
Site is an eye-fright.
Good point.
As examples:
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/news/images/0801/SummerGlau.jpg
http://ftfradio.com/hottie/summerglau/3.jpg
http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/summerglau/summer_glau_2.jpg
http://www.whedon.info/IMG/jpg/summer-glau-2008-fox-summer-tca-press-tour-hq-01-1500.jpg
but I'm far too lazy to read all the comments on THIS kind of story, so I'll say it myself:
I refer Great Tits in the city instead of the country because I live in the city and thus have easier access to them.
Example:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/ads/1204098642.html
Grep "porn"
Put a big picture of Summer Glau on the page.
What more do you need?
Scott Moulton of MyHardDiskDied.com and the YouTube videos on hard disk data recovery says the exact opposite. Don't use SpinRite because it can kill a dying disk. Use ddrescue or something to get the files off into a copy, THEN screw around with SpinRite if you have to. SpinRite alters a disk and on a dying hard disk that can kill it. The goal is to get the data off, not make the hard disk last longer.
And every one of those fucking idiots uses the word fuck on a fucking hourly basis and the hypocritical fucks can't stand to see the word fuck in a fucking RSS feed?
FUCK 'EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A FUCKING JOKE!
What's a naked pic of an executable look like? Can it be UPX'd?
Or did you mean ex's?
LOL
There was a guy on Craigslist who actually advertised this sort of..."service".
No, it wasn't me.
I believe you also need to check the firmware version on the drive circuit board to be sure of this maneuver. I've heard if you have the wrong firmware it might not work. Don't know if that's true or how common that problem would be, however. If the data is critical, I'd check or forget it and give it to a recovery outfit.
This is why the industry is moving to disk to disk backup for data recovery, and tape only for archival.
Tape is simply unreliable (not to mention slow and expensive). We've had that argument here before. Tape lost.
Tried that. Didn't work because Cthulhu fucked up the client's drive. Client had a copy of the real Necronomicon on it.
And in four to six hours of work with another tool that costs nothing?
While I'm aware this tool is supposed to be good, the cost in comparison to some other tools is ridiculous. That's the point. It's never about how long it will take to pay for it.
Moron.
"Either way, there appear to be a number of ways determined citizens of Syria, Iran, and Cuba can get around the ban."
If the US government would get its head out of its ass and stop drumming up new "enemies" to justify its military-industrial complex every time some country doesn't BOHICA for the US, we wouldn't care about any of this.
Cuba? Does ANYBODY care about Cuba any more?
Syria and Iran are not the enemies of the US - IF the US wasn't bound and determined to be THEIR enemy courtesy of the fucking racist, imperialist, fascist, illegal, rogue, terrorist state of Israel which has two hundred fucking nuclear weapons while the US is bitching about some uranium enrichment for energy purposes in Iran. The hypocrisy is mind fucking.
Oh, man, THANK YOU! For sending me to the "Website is down" YouTube video - I haven't laughed like that in months! That thing deserves a /. post of its own! I've sent the link to some of my clients, penis picture regardless!
whoever gets the first clean cracked version, email me.
Should take about thirty seconds.
Yeah, I'll pay that just as soon as my hack of Bank of America puts another $100 million in my Swiss bank account.
Fucking morons. The only way anyone's going to pay that kind of money is if he's literally hacking Bank of America.
Talk about people with an exaggerated sense of their importance in the world.
I am sick to death of hearing developers bitch about "native look and feel". Grow up! Get a fucking life! I couldn't care less how the goddamn app looks COMPARED TO OTHER APPS as long as the look enables the FUNCTIONALITY to be performed correctly.
What matters is that the program does it's job - not that the widgets look the same as some other app on the system.
Christ, what a fucking waste of millions of man hours farting around with bullshit cosmetic issues! Fucking programmers think they're goddamn "artistes" when they can't even get their shit to RUN PROPERLY, NOT CRASH, BE FUCKING USABLE, and BE SECURE!
Shut the fuck up about look and feel and concentrate on making the thing fucking usable, reliable, and secure.
You want to be Picasso, get a fucking paintbrush!
Either James or Phillips?
It's too bad they introduced Kate Brewster in T-3. If they hadn't, they could have put a female Terminator in T-4 like TSCC did and things could have gotten VERY interesting. Still, we have two more movies coming up - they could kill off Kate and replace her with a Terminator modeled after her - and while they're at it, switch actresses and put Summer Glau in as Kate. I mean, originally McG was willing to have John Connor killed and replaced by Marcus Wright in the end (because they want to pay Worthington less than Bale's astronomical salary in the subsequent movies, presumably), so why not replace Brewster?
Yeah, I know, I want to ruin Summer's acting career by having her play Cameron or other robots for the rest of her life. Well, not really, just once in a while.
Here's my take on it - the same take I've had all season two.
First, some background. I can't remember when I first heard that they were doing a Terminator TV series, but like everybody else, I questioned the likelihood of it being any good. Then I heard they cast Summer Glau as John Connor's protective Terminator, and my IMMEDIATE thought - like everyone else's - was: "The kid's gonna get it on with a Terminator!" Naturally, I had to see that.
So when the original pilot - not the one that aired - was leaked to the Net, I downloaded it. I thought it was OK, if a bit derivative of T-2. But I realized it had to be in order to connect the series to T-2, because the series was set post-T-2 and pre-T-3.
So when the series aired, I started downloading and watching. From episode 2, I could see this show had enormous potential. Fact One: The protective Terminator didn't obey orders from either John or Sarah Connor! That immediately started me wondering whether in fact Cameron had been sent back by future John at all - or whether she had come back on her initiative for her own reasons. As the season progressed, I became more and more convinced this might be the case - especially due to hints dropped in several season one episodes. Not to mention what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to seduce Connor in the episode "Vic's Chip", as well as the hiding of the referenced chip. The excuse Cameron gave for retaining that chip was obviously bogus, so what was the real reason?
Then in the final episode of season one John explicitly committed to finding the missing AI platform, "The Turk", and stopping Skynet, the primary focus of the entire first season. Then Cameron blew up.
And then it all went to hell.
Season two started with a decent bang. John kills a man, and Cameron goes loopy and tries to kill him. During a frantic effort to remove her chip, she tells John she "loves him". He doesn't buy it and rips her chip out. Later, he makes the strategic decision to put it back in and re-activate her, despite the possibility that she is still damaged. This scene reflects the deleted scene in T-2 where Linda Hamilton's Sarah wanted to destroy Arnold's chip, but the young John persuades her not to. This is the first sign we see of the future John Connor, who is supposed to be the savior of mankind.
Remember how in the finale of season one they committed to finding "The Turk" and stopping Skynet? Well, for the next 18 or more episodes, they forget about "The Turk" completely! They spend the entire season running around on ancillary missions - preventing a nuclear meltdown, saving future Resistance members, beating up criminal fences, etc. - and dodging the bad Terminator. Meanwhile, a T-1000 Terminator has obtained "The Turk", and hooked it up to a server farm to develop what we all thought was going to be the nascent Skynet. The Connors were oblivious to this, despite having had at three ways of tracking back from the situations they were involved in to the Zeira Corporation where "The Turk" was located. Instead, they did not follow-up whatsoever on the situations they were involved in.
In the meantime, John Connor, in reaction to his killing a man - his first kill - in episode one, turned back into a whiny, rebellious twat besotted with some big-boobed blond he ran into at school. The character of Riley was the most universally despised character by the fans for quite a few episodes. In the process, the Terminator who was chasing Connor, Cromartie, got himself blown away - rather too easily - in Mexico after one of John's really stupid besotted kid tricks. As a result, the T-1000 manages to acquire his body using the services of the man who has to be THE DUMBEST FBI AGENT in human history, James Ellison. Of course, Sarah Connor did nothing to recruit this FBI agent despite the obvious value of having someone like that in a position to help your team. The T-1000 hooks him up to the AI platform and renames the combo "John Henry." At lightning speed, this AI program gets developed to the poin
She never has a glitch!
http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/s2_promo/2x04_007.jpg