You ever root through the Windows registry? Literally millions of keys and subkeys are there, and it's a pain in the ass to root through them all to find and kill one.
Admittedly, there are certain hotspots (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ru n being the big one), but you don't want to regedit over there every time, do you?
No. You use tools to kill that.
You can't manage BHOs without BHODemon or XP SP2, so you use HijackThis to kill the bastards.
Services are a pain to check, but very few spyware bits (outside of a few very, _VERY_ rare CWS infections) install services anyways.
I'm in the rare position too, but it doesn't hurt that I've been cleaning machines of this crap for years and I know how to stop it from running (SpywareBlaster, Firefox, _LINUX_, et cetera).
It's arguable that they're the biggest antispyware site out there, and if nothing else, they can get the CoolWebSearch strains that even Ad-Aware and Spybot can't get (real-yellow-pages, linklist, et cetera).
It's really rather sad when somebody (we all know who they're working for, but don't let this be tried in the court of public opinion; get evidence first) takes papers that go after the industry and attempt to hide them.
But for the love of Jack Valenti, do it right - burn them or shred them, don't dump them behind a trash can!
Is it possible that that person wanted the documents found at the last minute to draw up controversy over this?
Wouldn't this also ban Adblock from Firefox? From the sound of it, it would, and if ads are forcibly viewed, it sounds like they'll forcibly allow adware and spyware soon too.
Sound-out from all the appliances goes into the PC's line-in port using a $4 RCA-to-miniplug adapter from Radio Shack. The PC spits it out through two sets of Klipsch Promedia 2.1s (the microphone port is rerouted to act as a speaker port thanks to the motherboard software).
Video from the PC/DVD player isn't a problem; the S-Video out jack from the GeForce 5200 card routes that to the TV while sound goes through the Klipsches. This creates some interesting situations; I can mute a DVD and play music over it or watch video footage while I work on it.
Other devices are routed through an S-video/A-V switch into the PC or TV as needed
And how will this connect to a standard LAN? I'm presuming it'll be using a USB network adapter with various adapters for the cord as needed.
Lastly, will there be room for upgrades? Yes, 64MB of SDRAM is nice for a PDA, but more never really hurt, especially if you want to use XMMS on it (you can; it comes with headphones).
Really, you'd think that a collection like this could be dissected, then placed into one giant cabinet for people to play with.
However, it's interesting that he's selling all these at once. What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks? Play Zelda on 78 different TVs?
If you're running as Administrator, it doesn't matter, since by definition, that's complete and total access to the machine - and it's _authorized_, since all code is trusted.
The lack of robust testing during and after such a project likely contributed to the Sept. 14 radio system outage over the skies of parts of California, Nevada and Arizona.
As I recall, it also came from a tech who didn't do his job right in rebooting the machine that handled the software.
You can't always blame software; you have to blame the end-users too.
I bought mine since it reads on the machines I administer - and believe me, OS 8/9, Win 9x/2K/XP, and Knoppix can all read the little one I have, and the tools I keep on it keep my LAN running smoothly.
It's a matter of convenience, that's all, and it helps when I don't want to hook up to the LAN.
I took a look at this thing, and from the look of it, it appears to be a standard IRC bot. You know, the ones that run as whatever the logged-in user is?
Root, FTP access, HTTP access, an open proxy, the usual. Seems that the little bastard is being rather the norm these days.
It drops w32.exe in Prefetch and System32.
Removing its startup entries in Safe Mode with HijackThis and deleting the EXEs will fix it.
It's like an inverted KVM switch or a thinclient for one user while the other one - the one actually seated at the machine - has real control.
This might be useful for governmental machines, like CIA or such, but I can't see it being used in schools or offices, especially if someone infects a machine with something - though it would make it a hell of a lot easier to clean half the machines.
1.26 kilograms (2.772 pounds) 1.6GHz Transmeta processor Wireless B/G using an Atheros device CD/DVD drive Some kind of hyper-brightness ability for the screen Windows XP SP2 (NX flag support) ATI Mobility 7500 (probably at least 64MB RAM, since it says the laptop can play FFXI, and that's kinda video-intensive) A switch to convert from normal-power mode to mobile-power mode (thus changing processor efficiency and other things) Some kind of remote control a la the iPod Remote
I can't read kanji and hiragana, so I'm quite out of it.
I assume that Linux support will be forthcoming from the community for this, as Sharp states that they recommend XP Professional SP2 for this device at the top of the page.
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You ever root through the Windows registry? Literally millions of keys and subkeys are there, and it's a pain in the ass to root through them all to find and kill one.
u n being the big one), but you don't want to regedit over there every time, do you?
Admittedly, there are certain hotspots (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\R
No. You use tools to kill that.
You can't manage BHOs without BHODemon or XP SP2, so you use HijackThis to kill the bastards.
Services are a pain to check, but very few spyware bits (outside of a few very, _VERY_ rare CWS infections) install services anyways.
I'm in the rare position too, but it doesn't hurt that I've been cleaning machines of this crap for years and I know how to stop it from running (SpywareBlaster, Firefox, _LINUX_, et cetera).
That's what SpywareInfo's for.
http://www.spywareinfo.com
It's arguable that they're the biggest antispyware site out there, and if nothing else, they can get the CoolWebSearch strains that even Ad-Aware and Spybot can't get (real-yellow-pages, linklist, et cetera).
(Disclaimer: I'm a Trusted Advisor there.)
It's really rather sad when somebody (we all know who they're working for, but don't let this be tried in the court of public opinion; get evidence first) takes papers that go after the industry and attempt to hide them.
But for the love of Jack Valenti, do it right - burn them or shred them, don't dump them behind a trash can!
Is it possible that that person wanted the documents found at the last minute to draw up controversy over this?
Wouldn't this also ban Adblock from Firefox? From the sound of it, it would, and if ads are forcibly viewed, it sounds like they'll forcibly allow adware and spyware soon too.
Normally the customers try like hell to get unsubscribed from AOL - apparently, the tables have turned!
I run everything through my PC.
Sound-out from all the appliances goes into the PC's line-in port using a $4 RCA-to-miniplug adapter from Radio Shack. The PC spits it out through two sets of Klipsch Promedia 2.1s (the microphone port is rerouted to act as a speaker port thanks to the motherboard software).
Video from the PC/DVD player isn't a problem; the S-Video out jack from the GeForce 5200 card routes that to the TV while sound goes through the Klipsches. This creates some interesting situations; I can mute a DVD and play music over it or watch video footage while I work on it.
Other devices are routed through an S-video/A-V switch into the PC or TV as needed
On my site, I get an average of about forty percent Firefox and fifty percent IE users.
I think it's because most of the people I deal with are in the antispyware/privacy community, so that could skew it a little.
I guess it's not wrong to write a batch script to automate a download over and over in a Windows machine.
z =
And then schedule it to run every five minutes.
For the next week.
In my case, that'll go to...
D:\installers\wget\wget www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.g
Copy and Paste in Notepad as you see fit. Mine's a meg and a half.
And how will this connect to a standard LAN? I'm presuming it'll be using a USB network adapter with various adapters for the cord as needed.
Lastly, will there be room for upgrades? Yes, 64MB of SDRAM is nice for a PDA, but more never really hurt, especially if you want to use XMMS on it (you can; it comes with headphones).
And now when is this coming out over here in the US?
Can we swap OSes on it to something else (I know, it's Linux, why would you want to, et cetera).
What'll it run, and can educators get discounts on it somehow?
And it's got a PHS in it - can we expect to see some sort of VoIP software for it when it gets ported over here?
Install VNC over the network (or other comparable remote-control software; VNC is free and GPLed) and put HijackThis on a read-only network share.
If the user reports problems, VNC into the machine, run HijackThis as root, and remove what you need to.
Running as User or Power User will help, but it won't stop everything.
Try adding the MVP Hosts list to the firewall's shit-site blocker.
If you can, put SpywareBlaster into your image set for the machines you clone and force a once-a-year reclone with updates.
There's also the simple idea of not letting your users use IE. Force them to use Firefox, Opera - anything but IE.
But if it's a Microsoft Passport, we won't have to worry.
It'll be easily cracked, just like Windows.
As I recall a certain group of laws were passed to create just such a situation back in the mid-1900s. You know, Jim Crow laws?
Not to seem racist or anything, but to draw a parellel, perhaps those who will want to prevent that _will_ be required to leave by law.
Does this mean that I could play polo off one, or play the Texas Roadkill game?
Look, a politician! Twenty points!
Really, you'd think that a collection like this could be dissected, then placed into one giant cabinet for people to play with.
However, it's interesting that he's selling all these at once. What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks? Play Zelda on 78 different TVs?
If you're running as Administrator, it doesn't matter, since by definition, that's complete and total access to the machine - and it's _authorized_, since all code is trusted.
Coolwebsearch and browser hijackers?
The bill doesn't touch them. I really don't think that they care, since CWS's browser-hijacking "affiliates" are mostly Russian-based.
If we could find a way to apply said algorithms to spam at the gateway level.
If that could be implemented somehow (an attached appliance or something), it could drastically cut the amount of spam that goes through.
The lack of robust testing during and after such a project likely contributed to the Sept. 14 radio system outage over the skies of parts of California, Nevada and Arizona.
As I recall, it also came from a tech who didn't do his job right in rebooting the machine that handled the software.
You can't always blame software; you have to blame the end-users too.
How long until someone finds a hole it - and a script kiddie takes advantage of said flaw?
I'm just waiting for CoolWebSearch's "affiliates" to try to crack a hole in the Sun Java Machine.
I bought mine since it reads on the machines I administer - and believe me, OS 8/9, Win 9x/2K/XP, and Knoppix can all read the little one I have, and the tools I keep on it keep my LAN running smoothly.
It's a matter of convenience, that's all, and it helps when I don't want to hook up to the LAN.
I took a look at this thing, and from the look of it, it appears to be a standard IRC bot. You know, the ones that run as whatever the logged-in user is?
Root, FTP access, HTTP access, an open proxy, the usual. Seems that the little bastard is being rather the norm these days.
It drops w32.exe in Prefetch and System32.
Removing its startup entries in Safe Mode with HijackThis and deleting the EXEs will fix it.
It's like an inverted KVM switch or a thinclient for one user while the other one - the one actually seated at the machine - has real control.
This might be useful for governmental machines, like CIA or such, but I can't see it being used in schools or offices, especially if someone infects a machine with something - though it would make it a hell of a lot easier to clean half the machines.
It looks to have the following abilities/specs:
1.26 kilograms (2.772 pounds)
1.6GHz Transmeta processor
Wireless B/G using an Atheros device
CD/DVD drive
Some kind of hyper-brightness ability for the screen
Windows XP SP2 (NX flag support)
ATI Mobility 7500 (probably at least 64MB RAM, since it says the laptop can play FFXI, and that's kinda video-intensive)
A switch to convert from normal-power mode to mobile-power mode (thus changing processor efficiency and other things)
Some kind of remote control a la the iPod Remote
I can't read kanji and hiragana, so I'm quite out of it.
I assume that Linux support will be forthcoming from the community for this, as Sharp states that they recommend XP Professional SP2 for this device at the top of the page.
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