I know you're going to be a jerk and insist on proof of seven years. Here's a nice link from seven years ago. Oh, my. There was Google seven years ago, and the Internet Archive too. You're hosed. Your entire argument is based on the premise that people forget. People do forget, but Google doesn't.
Will Bing forget? I think so. That's why when I want to know someting I google it.
Mac and Linux users don't have this problem because it is not economically viable to target them with malware
So, what you're saying is that I could choose to not have this problem until it's "economically viable" to hit Linux and OS/X clients until they became the market leader (in the theoretical sense). Since you would also assure me that Linux or OS-X as the market leader could never possibly happen, I and my users could be more secure for essentially forever - but regardless of what happens we could be secure for now.
It's been seven years since I first saw this "Mac and Linux have no malware because they're unpopular" meme. It's run its course. If you had ignored it then, that's seven exploit-free years, and that's a lot. You would have skipped Vista too, and that's a bonus not to be missed.
Hi, I used to work Microsoft tech support and we've seen this issue before. You'll need to reinstall Windows, just like you would have to do if you had any of the other 50000 problems in my script. In fact, that's why I don't work there any more. They replaced us all with a voicemail greeting that says "Reinstall Windows" in a totally sultry sexy female voice. It's so AI, it waits for you to stop talking before it plays the message. That's an amazing innovation, and technology that only Microsoft and Dell have (I guess they cross-license it).
The ads pay for the sites. If you block the ads, you're stealing content. Didn't you get the memo? Have you no respect for intellectual property? This may even be a DMCA violation - are you giving legal advice?
No offense to you or your lady, but you should teach her safer browsing habits.
Blame the user. That's nice. Maybe you guys could just deliver this "Trusted Computing" platform Bill discovered in 2002.
FYI, if you don't use Windows you can click on the Internet with reckless abandon. We call it "browsing". It doesn't require reading every URL before you click it, worrying about whether your computer will become useless with each click. You should try it - it's fun. Since you're a Windows user, let me recommend to you the quite capable Knoppix.
This "safe browsing" you recommend is neither safe nor browsing. Hand-translating each URL beforehand, researching the domain name and ASN of the host IP, avoiding links to video, PDF documents or unusual image or audio formats before clicking the link isn't the process that was being described when Tim Berners-Lee invented the web client "WorldWideWeb" on NeXT. Even taking all that trouble isn't safe. Even a perfectly normal and accepted top-100 site can carry flash banner ads sold to the advertising syndicate by affiliates who sold those ads of unknown provenance to anonymous strangers. Since flash itself is a top-3 vector, and the link could go to literally anything, it's entirely possible to hose a windows box with a plain flash ad. And then there are the popovers, unders, and whatnot. To a Windows user who's read Microsoft guidance, browsing the Internet must seem like hugging a porcupine.
Mac users and Linux users don't have that problem, mostly because they don't take their Infosec guidance from a company so obviously ignorant of the topic.
If you're going to try XP mode, get a copy of Windows XP and install it in a VM. VMWare Player is free, probably more secure, easier to deal with, and doesn't require the VT enabled processor technology that XP Mode requires. While you're at it wipe the machine first, install Linux as your primary OS and install Windows 7 as a virtual machine too. Almost everybody has a few legacy XP licenses lying around. If you're going to use virtualization to sandbox Windows you might as well be thorough and sandbox W7 as well. As a bonus, look into LTSP, and you'll find you can do quite capable VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) quite capably with Linux with a little tweaking.
Most Linuxes come with virtualization tech standard, but VMWare player works on Linux too, and there are a number of different brands you can use.
This Spring this is going to ruin your gaming experience if you're into that. Over the next year VM technologies will adopt PCI passthrough, and that problem will hit the dustbin of history.
Linux people are so spoiled. I have to have a private cloud server architecture in my house (DRBL) with redundant networks both wired and wireless and virtualized everything because my family demands a five nines SLA and my teens think it's perfectly normal to play their games via RDP on their iPod touches.
I'm going to get a few replies here. Does anybody know of an RDP client for the Nintendo DSi?
Do we really know for sure that Europa has always been in orbit around Jupiter? It's similar in bulk composition to terrestrial planets. That's not very much like Jupiter.
During the carboniferous era the region around Roosevelt Island was an alluvial plain. The runoff was nutrient rich, resulting in abundant sea life. That, and other conditions, means there's probably oil and natural gas there. So yeah, let's go there also.
An 11K program is stored on 22 512 byte blocks. Reducing the block count by 1/22nd reduces the amount of I/O required to load and execute the program by 95%. By reducing the overhead of this example even further to the absolute minimum, you can increase considerably the remaining space which can be used for important code in one block I/O. Byte counts in Ethernet frames are equally important. To give an idea of how significant this is, the Slammer Worm was 376 bytes. For an application that nearly shut down the Internet that's a pretty good example of the possible leverage of code density.
Reducing code size is a critical factor in achieving optimal efficiencies real-world businesses use to compete against each other. It's not the only critical factor, but it is one critical factor. It's important.
Here's the meme I could live without ever seeing again: "If OS-X and Linux were popular they would have malware too." Those idiots make me want to hurl.
How much of a performance hit am I prepared to accept for open standards? 100%. The performance of the open platform will double every 18 months, but the DRM'd content will be forever limited.
It's one thing to know you are helpless to stop evil from happening. It's quite another thing to accept it to the point where you participate in it. Google got in there presumably hoping to in some way help turn the course a little bit. If there's no hope they can do that, there's only money. For Bing that might be enough, but apparently for Google it isn't.
Well, here's an interesting thing: one of their own witnesses brought to court with him yesterday a document he had "found in his garage" and turned over to the SCO legal team six months ago, which was not shared with Novell. It's an early draft of the very contract under contention. Surprise!
Just wait. We're only seven years into this mess. Any day now the company will fail but the lawsuit was used on collateral on a loan for $2M last week - by a small investment group headed by Ralph Yarro. So they'll pull the lawsuit out of the ashes of the company and keep it going. We've probably got four more years before this is all resolved.
You say this like there's a W7 platform that can get all the way through a James Cameron epic film, let alone a 14 hour flight, without its own battery cart.
It's called "bulletproof hosting". You pay in E-gold. Preferably from an account with a fake name.
But yes, they can keep your site up even against determined government-based opposition. They have private command server and random host virtual desktops. You can buy botnets by the host or rent them by the hosthour. DOS hosts are ready for your competitor throttling needs, and bulk discounts scale appropriately. Please be advised that certain challenging chores like DDoS of national infrastructure servers require open finance accounts and sufficient credit must be made available before the attack starts.
Almost without exception, the hosts themselves run Windows.
This is actually informative. Botnets are the very model of enterprise redundant high-availability. The technology is remarkable in its resilience. You could wipe out Europe and Asia with dual asteroids, and the thing would keep going.
If you want to keep your enterprise up no matter what happens then you need to be prepared for a headshot. They are, and it's not enough to bring them down. How prepared are you?
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I know you're going to be a jerk and insist on proof of seven years. Here's a nice link from seven years ago. Oh, my. There was Google seven years ago, and the Internet Archive too. You're hosed. Your entire argument is based on the premise that people forget. People do forget, but Google doesn't.
Will Bing forget? I think so. That's why when I want to know someting I google it.
Mac and Linux users don't have this problem because it is not economically viable to target them with malware
So, what you're saying is that I could choose to not have this problem until it's "economically viable" to hit Linux and OS/X clients until they became the market leader (in the theoretical sense). Since you would also assure me that Linux or OS-X as the market leader could never possibly happen, I and my users could be more secure for essentially forever - but regardless of what happens we could be secure for now.
It's been seven years since I first saw this "Mac and Linux have no malware because they're unpopular" meme. It's run its course. If you had ignored it then, that's seven exploit-free years, and that's a lot. You would have skipped Vista too, and that's a bonus not to be missed.
Hi, I used to work Microsoft tech support and we've seen this issue before. You'll need to reinstall Windows, just like you would have to do if you had any of the other 50000 problems in my script. In fact, that's why I don't work there any more. They replaced us all with a voicemail greeting that says "Reinstall Windows" in a totally sultry sexy female voice. It's so AI, it waits for you to stop talking before it plays the message. That's an amazing innovation, and technology that only Microsoft and Dell have (I guess they cross-license it).
The ads pay for the sites. If you block the ads, you're stealing content. Didn't you get the memo? Have you no respect for intellectual property? This may even be a DMCA violation - are you giving legal advice?
No offense to you or your lady, but you should teach her safer browsing habits.
Blame the user. That's nice. Maybe you guys could just deliver this "Trusted Computing" platform Bill discovered in 2002.
FYI, if you don't use Windows you can click on the Internet with reckless abandon. We call it "browsing". It doesn't require reading every URL before you click it, worrying about whether your computer will become useless with each click. You should try it - it's fun. Since you're a Windows user, let me recommend to you the quite capable Knoppix.
This "safe browsing" you recommend is neither safe nor browsing. Hand-translating each URL beforehand, researching the domain name and ASN of the host IP, avoiding links to video, PDF documents or unusual image or audio formats before clicking the link isn't the process that was being described when Tim Berners-Lee invented the web client "WorldWideWeb" on NeXT. Even taking all that trouble isn't safe. Even a perfectly normal and accepted top-100 site can carry flash banner ads sold to the advertising syndicate by affiliates who sold those ads of unknown provenance to anonymous strangers. Since flash itself is a top-3 vector, and the link could go to literally anything, it's entirely possible to hose a windows box with a plain flash ad. And then there are the popovers, unders, and whatnot. To a Windows user who's read Microsoft guidance, browsing the Internet must seem like hugging a porcupine.
Mac users and Linux users don't have that problem, mostly because they don't take their Infosec guidance from a company so obviously ignorant of the topic.
That's great guidance. At least it saves time.
The ad engines that commercial sites use sell ads to whoever pays. Flash is one of the top three malware vectors. Do the math.
If you're going to try XP mode, get a copy of Windows XP and install it in a VM. VMWare Player is free, probably more secure, easier to deal with, and doesn't require the VT enabled processor technology that XP Mode requires. While you're at it wipe the machine first, install Linux as your primary OS and install Windows 7 as a virtual machine too. Almost everybody has a few legacy XP licenses lying around. If you're going to use virtualization to sandbox Windows you might as well be thorough and sandbox W7 as well. As a bonus, look into LTSP, and you'll find you can do quite capable VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) quite capably with Linux with a little tweaking.
Most Linuxes come with virtualization tech standard, but VMWare player works on Linux too, and there are a number of different brands you can use.
This Spring this is going to ruin your gaming experience if you're into that. Over the next year VM technologies will adopt PCI passthrough, and that problem will hit the dustbin of history.
Linux people are so spoiled. I have to have a private cloud server architecture in my house (DRBL) with redundant networks both wired and wireless and virtualized everything because my family demands a five nines SLA and my teens think it's perfectly normal to play their games via RDP on their iPod touches.
I'm going to get a few replies here. Does anybody know of an RDP client for the Nintendo DSi?
So what you're saying is... we don't know. I'm cool with that.
Current meme trends indicate an 87% chance this will become a global warming thread.
Do we really know for sure that Europa has always been in orbit around Jupiter? It's similar in bulk composition to terrestrial planets. That's not very much like Jupiter.
During the carboniferous era the region around Roosevelt Island was an alluvial plain. The runoff was nutrient rich, resulting in abundant sea life. That, and other conditions, means there's probably oil and natural gas there. So yeah, let's go there also.
Well, at the time I wondered what had took them so long. This was a new policy in 2002, and most of us had this figured out fifteen years earlier.
You really do have the wrong sized glass.
An 11K program is stored on 22 512 byte blocks. Reducing the block count by 1/22nd reduces the amount of I/O required to load and execute the program by 95%. By reducing the overhead of this example even further to the absolute minimum, you can increase considerably the remaining space which can be used for important code in one block I/O. Byte counts in Ethernet frames are equally important. To give an idea of how significant this is, the Slammer Worm was 376 bytes. For an application that nearly shut down the Internet that's a pretty good example of the possible leverage of code density.
Reducing code size is a critical factor in achieving optimal efficiencies real-world businesses use to compete against each other. It's not the only critical factor, but it is one critical factor. It's important.
When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.
- Bill Gates, January 16, 2002 .
Hey! I love that quote. I can't see it enough.
Here's the meme I could live without ever seeing again: "If OS-X and Linux were popular they would have malware too." Those idiots make me want to hurl.
How much of a performance hit am I prepared to accept for open standards? 100%. The performance of the open platform will double every 18 months, but the DRM'd content will be forever limited.
And that's good, because it's not so safe to stand in front of them.
/Not mine. Shamelessly stolen. Love my Camry. Don't sue me. Please?
It's one thing to know you are helpless to stop evil from happening. It's quite another thing to accept it to the point where you participate in it. Google got in there presumably hoping to in some way help turn the course a little bit. If there's no hope they can do that, there's only money. For Bing that might be enough, but apparently for Google it isn't.
Well, here's an interesting thing: one of their own witnesses brought to court with him yesterday a document he had "found in his garage" and turned over to the SCO legal team six months ago, which was not shared with Novell. It's an early draft of the very contract under contention. Surprise!
Just wait. We're only seven years into this mess. Any day now the company will fail but the lawsuit was used on collateral on a loan for $2M last week - by a small investment group headed by Ralph Yarro. So they'll pull the lawsuit out of the ashes of the company and keep it going. We've probably got four more years before this is all resolved.
I have an all-day appointment that Tuesday. Can we make it Wednesday instead?
You say this like there's a W7 platform that can get all the way through a James Cameron epic film, let alone a 14 hour flight, without its own battery cart.
It's called "bulletproof hosting". You pay in E-gold. Preferably from an account with a fake name.
But yes, they can keep your site up even against determined government-based opposition. They have private command server and random host virtual desktops. You can buy botnets by the host or rent them by the hosthour. DOS hosts are ready for your competitor throttling needs, and bulk discounts scale appropriately. Please be advised that certain challenging chores like DDoS of national infrastructure servers require open finance accounts and sufficient credit must be made available before the attack starts.
Almost without exception, the hosts themselves run Windows.
This is actually informative. Botnets are the very model of enterprise redundant high-availability. The technology is remarkable in its resilience. You could wipe out Europe and Asia with dual asteroids, and the thing would keep going.
If you want to keep your enterprise up no matter what happens then you need to be prepared for a headshot. They are, and it's not enough to bring them down. How prepared are you?