it possible for a binary file to open ports and send itself as an email attachment on a Mac? On a linux box?
There's two major problems with writing virii for OS X, or Linux.
1. You're not covering a substantial part of the "market." You're not going to get your point across if 400 Mac users get infected with a virus. Same with Linux. Also, the average Linux user is not going to download and run an executable that someone sends them.
2. It's harder for it to do anything substantial. Yes, it would be able to replicate itself via email. But most likely, it would be running with the priveleges of the user running them. Most Win2k/XP users run as administrator. Even if they don't, it's a lot easier to get administrator on a Windows box than on a Linux/OS X box.
I especially like getting emails telling me I'm infected with a Win32 worm when I'm running BSD on PowerPC hardware... they're just for shits and giggles then.
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Is VA Tech running Windows servers?
That would bring great sadness to me, that the school who built the Big Mac cluster has Windows servers.
Interrigator: Checks out sir, you're ok sir, you're free to go.
Moe: Good, cause I got a hot date tonight.
(Lie detector buzz)
Moe: Odd date
(Lie detector buzz)
Moe: Dinner with friend
(Lie detector buzz)
Moe: Dinner alone
(Lie detector buzz)
Moe: Watching TV alone
(Lie detector buzz)
Moe: All right! I'm gonna sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria Secret catalog!
(Lie detector buzz)
Moe: Sears catalog
(Lie detector ding)
Moe: Would you unhook this already, please?! I don't deserve this kind of sappy treatment!
(Lie detector buzz)
...to spoof SMTP with. Or it takes addresses from infected users' address books and spoofs with those. There's no other explanation why someone I've never heard of got this email from what appeared to be my address. A Win32 worm is incapable of running on my hardware. PowerPC chips don't take to kindly to Intel machine code.
There's reasons why viruses will not spread as rampantly with Linux and OS X. The fact that only people who know what they're doing run as root is the biggest one. I have to explain to my girlfriend the difference between her hard drive and her gigabytes, but her XP laptop runs under Administrator. This is not to mention protected memory, kernel space, and the fact that there are no Linux mail clients that automatically run attachments, that I know of.
In all my math classes in high school, you were allowed to use any TI handheld calculator you wanted (read:no 92/+) (except for no-calculator exams, which are beside the point). They didn't trust HPs or Casios, and they certainly didn't trust a PDA.
And with good reason. TI still doesn't offer wireless links. RF links are not very difficult to make, but they're bulky and obvious. It's much harder to cheat on tests with a TI than with a calculator that has an IR link, however crappy it is.
And need I remind you... 3x the Flash means 2.7 megs... uClinux... seems like an obvious decision...
Plus, only calculator dorks care, but USB is huge. That makes a big difference in connectivity. The fact that includes a PC link is amazing. Previously TI Graph-Links cost about $20, and they only recently made a USB one.
As for the TI-84, I don't give a damn about Z80 calcs anymore.
was expelled last year for putting BO2K on a machine. Granted, this is completely different.
We used to play around with net send, but usually just between people... I do recall one instance of the guy next to me using it to hit on a girl... `net send A26314 you are hot`... but they logged all of that traffic. Also, it was exceedingly difficult to drop into a command prompt... I ended up having to make a file called nothing.bat which contained 4 bytes: cmd. I was accused of hacking once when playing a MUD in a computer lab, however once I explained that it was a game, and not a virus destroying their system (virii don't cast spells at mobs to destroy files) they simply kicked me out of the lab for playing games.
This is true. Hackers are people like Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, Larry Wall, Bruce Perens.
Although, apparently ESR said that the last round of DDoS against SCO was from someone in the hacker community, and ESR doesn't misuse the term. He also said he told them it had to stop.
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giFT is good for a few reasons:
1. OpenFT is kind of in shambles now, but 90% of the time, if you find a file on OpenFT, you'll be able to download it at 100kB/sec.
2. giFT supports plugins for different networks, like gift-gnutella, gift-fasttrack, and the soon coming gift-opennap and gift-soulseek.
3. One of the lead devs on the gift-fasttrack plugin, Julian Ashton, has just cracked the Fasttrack 0xA9 encryption, so gift-fasttrack can connect to new (Kazaa 2.5) supernodes. It currently takes about 30 seconds to connect to Fasttrack with giFT.
4. It's open source (GPL I believe).
5. No malware of any sort (it's open source, after all).
6. gift-fasttrack supports malicious host blocking with a long list of hosts that aren't friendly for p2p sharing.
Perhaps CS, DOD, and TF were omitted...
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because they have been commercially packaged as programs that don't need Half-Life to run, such as the CS boxed version.
I once dropped a (at the time broken) Sony Discman out my second floor window, it first hit a ledge, and then the ground, landed face up, with the top open. I wasn't too worried about it since it was broken. It then proceeded to get rained on for a week. When I finally got it back inside, the PCB was coated in mud, and it was essentially a mess. I washed it off with water (after all, i might as well use the parts for something). Turn it on, it works. Apparently rain and mud fixes Sony Discmen.
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Find a bug in Apache that isn't patched within a day. Go ahead. I dare you.
There's two major problems with writing virii for OS X, or Linux.
1. You're not covering a substantial part of the "market." You're not going to get your point across if 400 Mac users get infected with a virus. Same with Linux. Also, the average Linux user is not going to download and run an executable that someone sends them.
2. It's harder for it to do anything substantial. Yes, it would be able to replicate itself via email. But most likely, it would be running with the priveleges of the user running them. Most Win2k/XP users run as administrator. Even if they don't, it's a lot easier to get administrator on a Windows box than on a Linux/OS X box.
Reuters' visual description of MyDoom has some things wrong...
type code instead of clicking the pretty buttons in Visual Studio .NET to write programs.
I especially like getting emails telling me I'm infected with a Win32 worm when I'm running BSD on PowerPC hardware... they're just for shits and giggles then.
That would bring great sadness to me, that the school who built the Big Mac cluster has Windows servers.
I'll pay one shiny penny, too.
so unless you're a fan, don't copy/paste it.
to use giFT.
Interrigator: Checks out sir, you're ok sir, you're free to go. Moe: Good, cause I got a hot date tonight. (Lie detector buzz) Moe: Odd date (Lie detector buzz) Moe: Dinner with friend (Lie detector buzz) Moe: Dinner alone (Lie detector buzz) Moe: Watching TV alone (Lie detector buzz) Moe: All right! I'm gonna sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria Secret catalog! (Lie detector buzz) Moe: Sears catalog (Lie detector ding) Moe: Would you unhook this already, please?! I don't deserve this kind of sappy treatment! (Lie detector buzz)
...to spoof SMTP with. Or it takes addresses from infected users' address books and spoofs with those. There's no other explanation why someone I've never heard of got this email from what appeared to be my address. A Win32 worm is incapable of running on my hardware. PowerPC chips don't take to kindly to Intel machine code.
There's reasons why viruses will not spread as rampantly with Linux and OS X. The fact that only people who know what they're doing run as root is the biggest one. I have to explain to my girlfriend the difference between her hard drive and her gigabytes, but her XP laptop runs under Administrator. This is not to mention protected memory, kernel space, and the fact that there are no Linux mail clients that automatically run attachments, that I know of.
Notice how a bunch of 12 year olds break bones because they think they can skateboard? I mean, they totally beat Tony Hawk in like, 2 days.
Actually, I meant to do cmd, but forgot to do extrans. My fault for not using preview. No reason there'd have to be a CRLF for a batch file though.
http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html
...I assume there's no support for us lowly 5gb scum.
In all my math classes in high school, you were allowed to use any TI handheld calculator you wanted (read:no 92/+) (except for no-calculator exams, which are beside the point). They didn't trust HPs or Casios, and they certainly didn't trust a PDA.
And with good reason. TI still doesn't offer wireless links. RF links are not very difficult to make, but they're bulky and obvious. It's much harder to cheat on tests with a TI than with a calculator that has an IR link, however crappy it is.
And need I remind you... 3x the Flash means 2.7 megs... uClinux... seems like an obvious decision...
Plus, only calculator dorks care, but USB is huge. That makes a big difference in connectivity. The fact that includes a PC link is amazing. Previously TI Graph-Links cost about $20, and they only recently made a USB one.
As for the TI-84, I don't give a damn about Z80 calcs anymore.
We used to play around with net send, but usually just between people... I do recall one instance of the guy next to me using it to hit on a girl... `net send A26314 you are hot`... but they logged all of that traffic. Also, it was exceedingly difficult to drop into a command prompt... I ended up having to make a file called nothing.bat which contained 4 bytes: cmd. I was accused of hacking once when playing a MUD in a computer lab, however once I explained that it was a game, and not a virus destroying their system (virii don't cast spells at mobs to destroy files) they simply kicked me out of the lab for playing games.
Interesting that Charles Babbage is mentioned, but not Ada Byron.
This is true. Hackers are people like Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, Larry Wall, Bruce Perens. Although, apparently ESR said that the last round of DDoS against SCO was from someone in the hacker community, and ESR doesn't misuse the term. He also said he told them it had to stop.
giFT is good for a few reasons: 1. OpenFT is kind of in shambles now, but 90% of the time, if you find a file on OpenFT, you'll be able to download it at 100kB/sec. 2. giFT supports plugins for different networks, like gift-gnutella, gift-fasttrack, and the soon coming gift-opennap and gift-soulseek. 3. One of the lead devs on the gift-fasttrack plugin, Julian Ashton, has just cracked the Fasttrack 0xA9 encryption, so gift-fasttrack can connect to new (Kazaa 2.5) supernodes. It currently takes about 30 seconds to connect to Fasttrack with giFT. 4. It's open source (GPL I believe). 5. No malware of any sort (it's open source, after all). 6. gift-fasttrack supports malicious host blocking with a long list of hosts that aren't friendly for p2p sharing.
because they have been commercially packaged as programs that don't need Half-Life to run, such as the CS boxed version.
Cause, last I checked we didn't exactly have a surplus.
I once dropped a (at the time broken) Sony Discman out my second floor window, it first hit a ledge, and then the ground, landed face up, with the top open. I wasn't too worried about it since it was broken. It then proceeded to get rained on for a week. When I finally got it back inside, the PCB was coated in mud, and it was essentially a mess. I washed it off with water (after all, i might as well use the parts for something). Turn it on, it works. Apparently rain and mud fixes Sony Discmen.
My school has a Sun box called icarus. I found it funny.