I'd like to add the following. It (and all the other anti-spyware tools) is an add-on because OS doesn't know what executable is malware and what is not. OS happily executes programs user decides to run. This goes for every OS out there. And this is why we are reading this particular piece of news.
Hmm. Didn't Sweden try this? IIRC they stopped building new plants and there was some talks about dismissing nuclear power altogether. Now they are running their out-of-date plants on overtime because they don't have anything else to satisfy the energy needs. Wikipedia has something about this.
Or you can use some centralized Event Log monitoring tool. Or even write your own as I did.
And of course if you absolutely want to use CLI you can write PowerShell script and use WMI to read Event Log, run it through some filters and send it by email. Schedule a task to run your script every now and then. But I think that's really hard and time consuming way to do it.
Marketing 101. If you let your customers down there's hell to pay. Satisfied customer tells 3 people you got good service, dissatisfied tells 20 people, and probably even more in the current social network era, that they got lousy service. To win back a dissatisfied customer you need 20 times more effort than keeping old customer happy.
Luckily for Sony, they are the sole provider of PS and PSN which might save their butt.
You are lucky if it's only switching the channel that is slow. In my box, which I've already given away, everything took from hundreds of milliseconds to seconds. Powering on the device which took well over 15 seconds! Scrolling EPG channel list was awful. It was faster just to switch the channel and check if there's anything good going on.
And this box ran Linux so I don't think Visual Studio is the one to blame as the fine summary suggests:)
I don't know why I'm answering to anonymous but care to describe how a real security works. I have decades of programming background, including Windows kernel driver programming, so you can be as precise as you like.
Last time I had to clean up a Windows was because my ex-wife's 13 year old cousin just needed to have smileys on Messenger. I don't know where she downloaded the package. She got smileys and couple of other things which took me 4 hours to remove.
So in my mind trojans aren't just noise about nothing. They may need user interaction to install or run but there's plenty of users who happily install every application they get their hands on.
You are right. The problem is the user. But you are wrong about Windows. Vista and 7 has plenty of protection mechanism like UAC trying to keep the system safe. Some stupid users just disable UAC and run Windows without any password because they are lazy-asses. Then they bitch about Windows when their system is running sluggishly because all the viruses running in the background.
Windows firewall programs aren't really firewalls, for the most part. They're more like ACLs for API calls involving sockets.
Nothing prevents anyone from writing a decent firewall software. NDIS (that's the kernel interface for network drivers) has nice interface to hook up intermediate drivers into the TCPIP stack. I've written one myself over 10 years ago.
But you are wrong. Those programs are real firewalls. They hook up their own driver to kernel to do the actual monitoring and filtering of packets. Usually they also hook up to higher level in network stack and intercept socket API calls before OS sees them to prevent socket binding operations.
The few times I have used a Windows
Oh! I see you are an expert. Sorry. Forget everything I wrote above;)
You are right about NT. It was, and still is, good kernel. Back in days it could run on many architectures and had may other nice features.
But IIRC it was Intel that killed other architectures. At least they killed Alpha by incorporating Alpha technology to Pentium. Also IIRC there was some court battle between DEC and Intel which was decided out of court but didn't turn out so good for DEC/Alpha.
Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. It is full of amazing tools that automate absolutely everything. Just press the right button and follow the beeping lights, and you can churn out flawless 1.6 oz burgers faster than anybody else on the planet.
However, if you need to make a 1.7 oz burger, you simply canâ(TM)t. Thereâ(TM)s no button for it. The patties are pre-formed in the wrong size.
WTF? This dude is on crack.
He just doesn't understand simple economics. Imagine a situation where my boss asks me how long it takes to do X. And we all know time is money. Now I got two options. I can tell him it takes week, at most, with C#/.NET or I can tell him it takes at least a month with C/somelibrary.
Now if my bosses choice would be C/somelibrary, I'd start looking for a new job. (Unless, if we could bill all those hours from unsuspecting client, of course.)
What the heck!? I said it's just something I've heard. Maybe I should've cleared that I don't know if it's true or not.
Here's another thing I've heard (or read to be precise). Raising children is expensive, of course, but if you get free food from charity organizations expenses drops significantly. You can't save food because it rots.
Because not every country has pension system. If you don't get pension there's two choice for you: die miserably or have children who look up after you when you are old.
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people to run for iodine tablets on the west coast of the US.
Well, I could (almost) understand people's worry on west coast of the US but people are hoarding iodine tablets here in Finland too! Pharmacies have already sold their stocks.
I don't think manager has to be technically expert. I wouldn't hurt though.
I'm hired as a expert so it's my job to know technical stuff. Manager's job is to provide me whatever I need to get that job done and focus my aim if I get lost with all the customer needs in various projects. If there's something I don't know it's manager's job to put me in training, hire a consultant, etc.
And as someone else said, it's possible many website owners would just tell anyone using IE w/ ad blocking to either jump off a cliff or switch to, say, Chrome.
Switch to Chrome and install adblock, just as I did?;)
Doesn't matter how experienced you are. Murphys law
You are absolutely right! I once prepared myself mentally and the server physically for a reboot. I checked every startup parameter, checked that no-one is accessing the server at the moment etc. etc. When I was ready and the time came to reboot I clicked Reboot... No I didn't! I clicked Shutdown! Fsck!
Server was in another building, in another city some 150 km away...
IIRC the whole HTML was designed by Microsoft and Netscape while battling over market share. They added proprietary features which later became standard, or at least de facto standard. Capitalism at its best:)
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I'd like to add the following. It (and all the other anti-spyware tools) is an add-on because OS doesn't know what executable is malware and what is not. OS happily executes programs user decides to run. This goes for every OS out there. And this is why we are reading this particular piece of news.
Hmm. Didn't Sweden try this? IIRC they stopped building new plants and there was some talks about dismissing nuclear power altogether. Now they are running their out-of-date plants on overtime because they don't have anything else to satisfy the energy needs. Wikipedia has something about this.
Oh, sorry. Yes. Alt+d.
You might want to try CTRL+d also. Much easier and faster than F6.
Took about 15 seconds to google about this and came up with this link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc747388(WS.10).aspx
Or you can use some centralized Event Log monitoring tool. Or even write your own as I did.
And of course if you absolutely want to use CLI you can write PowerShell script and use WMI to read Event Log, run it through some filters and send it by email. Schedule a task to run your script every now and then. But I think that's really hard and time consuming way to do it.
I will definetely add this to my sig!
So you are saying MS should've helped their competition by producing a platform (DOS) for them?
It would be a great way to avoid inflation. And you could use it for currency trade, buy in euros, sell in dollars (or something like that).
Why, did they break IE also?
Marketing 101. If you let your customers down there's hell to pay. Satisfied customer tells 3 people you got good service, dissatisfied tells 20 people, and probably even more in the current social network era, that they got lousy service. To win back a dissatisfied customer you need 20 times more effort than keeping old customer happy.
Luckily for Sony, they are the sole provider of PS and PSN which might save their butt.
You are lucky if it's only switching the channel that is slow. In my box, which I've already given away, everything took from hundreds of milliseconds to seconds. Powering on the device which took well over 15 seconds! Scrolling EPG channel list was awful. It was faster just to switch the channel and check if there's anything good going on.
And this box ran Linux so I don't think Visual Studio is the one to blame as the fine summary suggests :)
I don't know why I'm answering to anonymous but care to describe how a real security works. I have decades of programming background, including Windows kernel driver programming, so you can be as precise as you like.
Last time I had to clean up a Windows was because my ex-wife's 13 year old cousin just needed to have smileys on Messenger. I don't know where she downloaded the package. She got smileys and couple of other things which took me 4 hours to remove.
So in my mind trojans aren't just noise about nothing. They may need user interaction to install or run but there's plenty of users who happily install every application they get their hands on.
You are right. The problem is the user. But you are wrong about Windows. Vista and 7 has plenty of protection mechanism like UAC trying to keep the system safe. Some stupid users just disable UAC and run Windows without any password because they are lazy-asses. Then they bitch about Windows when their system is running sluggishly because all the viruses running in the background.
Yes. Company should never give consumers what they want!
Nothing prevents anyone from writing a decent firewall software. NDIS (that's the kernel interface for network drivers) has nice interface to hook up intermediate drivers into the TCPIP stack. I've written one myself over 10 years ago.
But you are wrong. Those programs are real firewalls. They hook up their own driver to kernel to do the actual monitoring and filtering of packets. Usually they also hook up to higher level in network stack and intercept socket API calls before OS sees them to prevent socket binding operations.
Oh! I see you are an expert. Sorry. Forget everything I wrote above ;)
You are right about NT. It was, and still is, good kernel. Back in days it could run on many architectures and had may other nice features.
But IIRC it was Intel that killed other architectures. At least they killed Alpha by incorporating Alpha technology to Pentium. Also IIRC there was some court battle between DEC and Intel which was decided out of court but didn't turn out so good for DEC/Alpha.
He just doesn't understand simple economics. Imagine a situation where my boss asks me how long it takes to do X. And we all know time is money. Now I got two options. I can tell him it takes week, at most, with C#/.NET or I can tell him it takes at least a month with C/somelibrary.
Now if my bosses choice would be C/somelibrary, I'd start looking for a new job. (Unless, if we could bill all those hours from unsuspecting client, of course.)
What the heck!? I said it's just something I've heard. Maybe I should've cleared that I don't know if it's true or not.
Here's another thing I've heard (or read to be precise). Raising children is expensive, of course, but if you get free food from charity organizations expenses drops significantly. You can't save food because it rots.
Especially if you are having a terrible hang over :D
Here is one explanation I've heard.
Because not every country has pension system. If you don't get pension there's two choice for you: die miserably or have children who look up after you when you are old.
Well, I could (almost) understand people's worry on west coast of the US but people are hoarding iodine tablets here in Finland too! Pharmacies have already sold their stocks.
I don't think manager has to be technically expert. I wouldn't hurt though.
I'm hired as a expert so it's my job to know technical stuff. Manager's job is to provide me whatever I need to get that job done and focus my aim if I get lost with all the customer needs in various projects. If there's something I don't know it's manager's job to put me in training, hire a consultant, etc.
To put it shortly: manager manages, I write code.
Switch to Chrome and install adblock, just as I did? ;)
You are absolutely right! I once prepared myself mentally and the server physically for a reboot. I checked every startup parameter, checked that no-one is accessing the server at the moment etc. etc. When I was ready and the time came to reboot I clicked Reboot ... No I didn't! I clicked Shutdown! Fsck!
Server was in another building, in another city some 150 km away...
IIRC the whole HTML was designed by Microsoft and Netscape while battling over market share. They added proprietary features which later became standard, or at least de facto standard. Capitalism at its best :)