Sure, though I would like to think that whoever is running the DNS for the Federal Gov or AOL, would be reputable and won't spoof things and try to infect visitors. Therefore, one would usually only pick up fluff from sites of ill repute.
Shhhhh, damnit...:-)
Actually, whenever I work at a client's, I SSH into one of my own boxes and do everything and anything over an encrypted link. I even listen to my own music over SSH from my own streaming server. I don't leave any traces of my doings, comings and goings on client systems.
No, you just have to visit a porn site with Internet Exploder to get automatically infected by this worm. It doesn't require any user action, apart from clicking links in normal browsing.
If you are using Firefox, then what you say is true, since FF requires the user to confirm that he really wants to run the malicious program, so the user actually has to click a confirmation button. The infection is not automatic on FF.
It is a carefully crafted buffer overflow in the stack causing a return address to be overwritten. A subroutine return instruction then jumps to the exploit code, instead of the parent routine. This an old trick to implement dynamic jump tables, exploited for malicious purposes.
No you cannot get infected with FF.
On Exploder, it is a true worm that installs automatically without user intervention.
On FireFox, you have to click a button to allow the site to install the crapware. Granted, 99.999% of Windoze Doodz will probably click it, but at that point the browser has washed its hands of the problem and you cannot blame Firefox for user schtoopidity.
Yeah, if every player is unique, then sharing becomes impossible and their DRM problem is solved and everyone can order their unique, personalized DVDs online upon submission of their SIN and UID and receive their unique personal DVD gift wrapped in brown paper, 4 weeks later...
Depends...
Catholics believe life begins at conception.
Protestants believe life begins at birth.
Jews believe life begins when the children leave home and the dog dies.
Asking a mythical super being to do something for you that you are to friggen lazy to do yourself isn't going to work very well, but it is amazing how many millions of people do just that.
"100 million" To put it in context, In North America, billions of trees are planted every year to replace the billions that are cut down. Forestry is a sustainable industry.
Well, that is exactly what a State of Emergency does: It suspends the constitution. In this case, it is not a full state of emergency, but the intent is still there. Pres bush is in the clear.
Wow, now that is a serious new conspiracy theory: The terrs had inside help, from as high as the White House itself.
Hmmm, I am a little bit more of a realist than that - don't think so - infinitely improbable - but a nice conspiracy theory, worthy of the super market tabloids...
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Sure, though I would like to think that whoever is running the DNS for the Federal Gov or AOL, would be reputable and won't spoof things and try to infect visitors. Therefore, one would usually only pick up fluff from sites of ill repute.
Guess they are using Festival as text to speech converter - it used to be rather crashy. Here is something to play with: http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/text-to-speech-ho wto.html
Shhhhh, damnit... :-)
Actually, whenever I work at a client's, I SSH into one of my own boxes and do everything and anything over an encrypted link. I even listen to my own music over SSH from my own streaming server. I don't leave any traces of my doings, comings and goings on client systems.
Here is a new head-ache for you: http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/ http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
How did you remove the critter? A similar piece of work called Smitfraud-C can be removed with the smitrem tool: http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/
As jy langer wil ry, moet jy the bree" een kry.
No, you just have to visit a porn site with Internet Exploder to get automatically infected by this worm. It doesn't require any user action, apart from clicking links in normal browsing.
If you are using Firefox, then what you say is true, since FF requires the user to confirm that he really wants to run the malicious program, so the user actually has to click a confirmation button. The infection is not automatic on FF.
It is a carefully crafted buffer overflow in the stack causing a return address to be overwritten. A subroutine return instruction then jumps to the exploit code, instead of the parent routine. This an old trick to implement dynamic jump tables, exploited for malicious purposes.
No you cannot get infected with FF. On Exploder, it is a true worm that installs automatically without user intervention. On FireFox, you have to click a button to allow the site to install the crapware. Granted, 99.999% of Windoze Doodz will probably click it, but at that point the browser has washed its hands of the problem and you cannot blame Firefox for user schtoopidity.
Isn't this just another incarnation of the Smitfraud extortion by the nice New Zealand company SpyAxe?
The tool to remove that crapware is called smitrem, available here: http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/
Of course it is a useless waste of time, but if Sony pays me M$5 to develop some useless part of it, I'll gladly do it...
Yeah, if every player is unique, then sharing becomes impossible and their DRM problem is solved and everyone can order their unique, personalized DVDs online upon submission of their SIN and UID and receive their unique personal DVD gift wrapped in brown paper, 4 weeks later...
Uhmm... The diff between marbles and babies? You can't load marbles onto a truck with a pitch fork...
Depends... Catholics believe life begins at conception. Protestants believe life begins at birth. Jews believe life begins when the children leave home and the dog dies.
must be prayer.
Asking a mythical super being to do something for you that you are to friggen lazy to do yourself isn't going to work very well, but it is amazing how many millions of people do just that.
So, obviously there would be no tax due on Free software. This move may be a good thing...
"100 million" To put it in context, In North America, billions of trees are planted every year to replace the billions that are cut down. Forestry is a sustainable industry.
Go and read the Patriot Act. You can get it at the Library of Congress.
You mean, save America for American robots.
Well, that is exactly what a State of Emergency does: It suspends the constitution. In this case, it is not a full state of emergency, but the intent is still there. Pres bush is in the clear.
You haven't been attacked by a tiger before you carried it either - pity... ;-)
Wow, now that is a serious new conspiracy theory: The terrs had inside help, from as high as the White House itself.
Hmmm, I am a little bit more of a realist than that - don't think so - infinitely improbable - but a nice conspiracy theory, worthy of the super market tabloids...
It is not that you haven't been watched before, they just got sloppy and got caught. Only the paranoid will survive... ;-)
In Soviet USSA, you have the freedom to be watched...
The US is in a limited state of emergency - the Patriot Act is in effect. What Pres Bush authorised is legal.