From the article it says,"The Security Center does little beyond warning users that the firewall is disabled, that automatic updating is disabled, or that antivirus software has not been installed." There are people who don't even know what a firewall is, let alone what it does. It appears that Microsoft is trying to educate users on security from the non tech-savvy perspective. Once everyone has upgraded to XP SP2, the words,"firewall" and "antivirus" will be as common as words like,"Internet" and "email" to even the least pc literate person.
It's possible that Microsoft will be gradually increasing security measures and awareness as more people get used to the idea of having firewall and anti-virus software.
This could be a problem, though. If Microsoft places too much dependency on firewalls and antivirus software and not enough more secure design, then Windows will continue to be insecure on the inside of the firewall.
The death threat posted on the door might not be so easy to trace if the person that posted it was wearing gloves when they handled the paper, wrote the threat and posted it.
Hmmm. Sorry I didn't see that part. It's possible that it could be true. It's bordering on a conspiracy theory, though. One of the down sides of independent media is that there's no real regulation on what's being reported.
Actually that's not insane. There have been studies done on baby teeth. Strontium-90 was found in the teeth of those living relalitively close to nuclear power plants.
Baby Teeth offer radioactive clues
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The symbol for the Internet is a cloud (WAN link) that says,"Internet." What's really ironic about that is the fact that the Internet can be cloudy and foggy. Truth and fiction sit along side each other and who's telling the truth is anybody's guess. And in the X-Files sense, the truth can be hidden in plain sight on the Internet. (TV tends to be the best place to hide the truth.)
NEVER download an email attachment.
Then how are you supposed to open it? People do send legitimate attachments.
Do NOT visit untrustworthy sites
What exactly is a trustworthy site these days? Javascript and even HTML have been used to download malicious code. Even well known and respected sites have been affected.
Proper network level security keeps the worms out almost guaranteed.
Worms yes, because they infect networks. But viruses and trojan horses infect machines.
-Do beware of emails with single word subjects from people that you do not know. -Do beware of emails with double file extensions on their attachments i.e..doc.pif
-Do beware of malicious code that can spread via filesharing, instant messenging and IRC.
-Turn off unnecessary services
-Run as a restricted user if possible if you are using NT or a variant of NT such as Windows 2000 or XP.
-A virus scanner is still recommended because it's better to be safe than sorry
Why don't they just have their coded auditted and catch potential problems early on? As many programmers as they have, I don't see why it would take until 2011.
Instead of making the code more complicated and potentially more insecure, include a 32-bit emulation subsystem comparable to the existing 16-bit emulation subsystem in NT/2000/XP.
User base is not as significant as people would think. The main reasons for attacks against an OS are reputation and design.
Throughout the years, Microsoft has been very lax and carefree about security. Since the 90's, security experts have warned Microsoft about security issues and Microsoft blatantly ignored them. As a result of this negligence, Microsoft had earned a bad reputation.
Then you get into design and you see unnecessary services running, browser integration, ActiveX/COM with unrestricted access to the system, services listening to anything that speaks including WAN traffic, NetBIOS going over TCP/IP over a WAN by default, file and printer sharing binding to all adapters including those that haven't been selected, Microsoft insisting that personal firewalls are the answer to unnecessary Windows services, etc. The list goes on and on.
Had Microsoft been more serious about security in the 90's, it would have been a whole different story.
Windows has networking that was taken straight from Berkely. i.e. \etc\drivers\hosts being similar to/etc/hosts and Windows using Berkeley socket APIs.
I don't know if the memory they sell was used or not, but I've had alot of problems with bad RAM from them. It didn't seem to matter which brand I bought, either. Needless to say, I won't buy RAM from them anymore.
I did buy a set of Creative Labs speakers from there. But it wasn't a salesman that offered the extended warranty. It was the cashier who encouraged me to get an extended warranty. So I figured, "Eh, what the hay" and got it. She said that if the speakers blew in the next two years, they would be covered.
Since drivers run at Ring 0, the driver could crash the OS kernel. And this could open the door for malicious code that crashes machines with games that have that driver.
Yeah. No shit. It's not like people can do anything about a major attack. All it does is alert that terrorists that the government knows that something is afoot.
Anyone remember Terminator 3 where Skynet had created a virus that scrambled global communication? I would think that a virus could be used to broadcast bogus or misleading signals. And it could spread quickly enough, especially over cable to have a major impact.
If they were smart, they'd link Doppler radar with the siren system. The moment rotation would be detected within a thunderstorm, the system would activate the sirens.
the EAS is designed to allow the President to interrupt television and radio programming and speak directly to the American people in the event of an impending nuclear war, or a similarly extreme national emergency.
I doubt that the President would tell anybody about an impeding nuclear war. That would just create panic and hysteria.
Use NTFS file compression on them to save space in case you need them at a later time. Chances are, if SP2 didn't delete them, then it didn't contain those fixes or you chose to archive your older files in case you wanted to uninstall SP2.
There's a key in the Windows registry on NT-based systems that will allow you increase pages. It's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Curren tControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Manager\IoPageLockLimit
Hex value 6000 is 24k pages. Hex value 8000 is 32k pages.
Also, in that key, you'll find DisablePagingExecutive. Set that to 0 to speed up your system. It prevents the kernel from being paged. And setting LargeSystemCache to 1 will help improve caching. Make sure you have at least 256 MB of RAM before enabling LargeSystemCache.
The BSOD occurs in an NT or NT-based environment if one or more of the following is true:
-Faulty driver
-Faulty hardware
-Incorrect configuration
-Virus or other malware
Complications of the above that may cause a BSOD include:
-Damaged or corrupt registry
-File system corruption
-OS boot failure
John Connor and Katherine Brewster managed to get a old laptop and internet connection up despite Skynet's sentience and viral Internet infection. They made a post on slashdot saying,"Wanted: Resistance Soldiers and science geeks."
Boies wasn't all that up to par on computers, either. That made the trial rather lopsided considering the legal help Microsoft had on top of being a software company.
As far as Boies representing SCO, I'm wondering if it had to do with President Bush opposing the anti-trust trial. I think it would be interesting to see what the President's view on open source is (assuming he has one). It's possible that Boies changed sides when the Presidency changed parties.
BeOS was an awesome OS, but Microsoft wasn't so eager to welcome it. BeOS is the victim of what other OS's suffer from and that's OEM licensing. Microsoft classifies it as a "trade secret". But in reality, it says that if you want Windows pre-installed, you can't provide the option to boot to a non-Microsoft partition. Scott Hacker wrote an article that details this licensing and it's impact on BeOS. He who controls the boot loader
The problem with immitating Microsoft is it can result in a Microsoft-oriented world without Microsoft. Look at Mozilla's XPI installer. It's not much safer than ActiveX because the amount of power it has. And no one wants to sign XPI packages. Even if they did, signatures could be spoofed. The more you try to immitate Microsoft, the more likely you are to make the same mistakes they've made.
Slashdot Mirror
Webopedia sorry about that.
Webopedia is a real IT dictionary. I always wondered if it was related to wikipedia.com.
From the article it says,"The Security Center does little beyond warning users that the firewall is disabled, that automatic updating is disabled, or that antivirus software has not been installed."
There are people who don't even know what a firewall is, let alone what it does. It appears that Microsoft is trying to educate users on security from the non tech-savvy perspective. Once everyone has upgraded to XP SP2, the words,"firewall" and "antivirus" will be as common as words like,"Internet" and "email" to even the least pc literate person.
It's possible that Microsoft will be gradually increasing security measures and awareness as more people get used to the idea of having firewall and anti-virus software.
This could be a problem, though. If Microsoft places too much dependency on firewalls and antivirus software and not enough more secure design, then Windows will continue to be insecure on the inside of the firewall.
The death threat posted on the door might not be so easy to trace if the person that posted it was wearing gloves when they handled the paper, wrote the threat and posted it.
The TV show JAG had an episode where there was a launch to repair a satellite in orbit. The launch was at Vandenberg AFB. Harm and Meg investigate the death of an astronaut and uncover a plot to sabotage a shuttle mission
Hmmm. Sorry I didn't see that part. It's possible that it could be true. It's bordering on a conspiracy theory, though. One of the down sides of independent media is that there's no real regulation on what's being reported.
Actually that's not insane. There have been studies done on baby teeth. Strontium-90 was found in the teeth of those living relalitively close to nuclear power plants. Baby Teeth offer radioactive clues
The symbol for the Internet is a cloud (WAN link) that says,"Internet." What's really ironic about that is the fact that the Internet can be cloudy and foggy. Truth and fiction sit along side each other and who's telling the truth is anybody's guess. And in the X-Files sense, the truth can be hidden in plain sight on the Internet. (TV tends to be the best place to hide the truth.)
NEVER download an email attachment.
.doc.pif
Then how are you supposed to open it? People do send legitimate attachments.
Do NOT visit untrustworthy sites
What exactly is a trustworthy site these days? Javascript and even HTML have been used to download malicious code. Even well known and respected sites have been affected.
Proper network level security keeps the worms out almost guaranteed.
Worms yes, because they infect networks. But viruses and trojan horses infect machines.
-Do beware of emails with single word subjects from people that you do not know.
-Do beware of emails with double file extensions on their attachments i.e.
-Do beware of malicious code that can spread via filesharing, instant messenging and IRC.
-Turn off unnecessary services
-Run as a restricted user if possible if you are using NT or a variant of NT such as Windows 2000 or XP.
-A virus scanner is still recommended because it's better to be safe than sorry
Why don't they just have their coded auditted and catch potential problems early on? As many programmers as they have, I don't see why it would take until 2011.
Instead of making the code more complicated and potentially more insecure, include a 32-bit emulation subsystem comparable to the existing 16-bit emulation subsystem in NT/2000/XP.
Several of the vulnerabilities that have been found in 2000 and XP were common to NT 4.0. And the security in NT was more local than anything.
User base is not as significant as people would think. The main reasons for attacks against an OS are reputation and design.
Throughout the years, Microsoft has been very lax and carefree about security. Since the 90's, security experts have warned Microsoft about security issues and Microsoft blatantly ignored them. As a result of this negligence, Microsoft had earned a bad reputation.
Then you get into design and you see unnecessary services running, browser integration, ActiveX/COM with unrestricted access to the system, services listening to anything that speaks including WAN traffic, NetBIOS going over TCP/IP over a WAN by default, file and printer sharing binding to all adapters including those that haven't been selected, Microsoft insisting that personal firewalls are the answer to unnecessary Windows services, etc. The list goes on and on.
Had Microsoft been more serious about security in the 90's, it would have been a whole different story.
Windows has networking that was taken straight from Berkely. i.e. \etc\drivers\hosts being similar to /etc/hosts and Windows using Berkeley socket APIs.
I don't know if the memory they sell was used or not, but I've had alot of problems with bad RAM from them. It didn't seem to matter which brand I bought, either. Needless to say, I won't buy RAM from them anymore.
I did buy a set of Creative Labs speakers from there. But it wasn't a salesman that offered the extended warranty. It was the cashier who encouraged me to get an extended warranty. So I figured, "Eh, what the hay" and got it. She said that if the speakers blew in the next two years, they would be covered.
Since drivers run at Ring 0, the driver could crash the OS kernel. And this could open the door for malicious code that crashes machines with games that have that driver.
Yeah. No shit. It's not like people can do anything about a major attack. All it does is alert that terrorists that the government knows that something is afoot.
Anyone remember Terminator 3 where Skynet had created a virus that scrambled global communication? I would think that a virus could be used to broadcast bogus or misleading signals. And it could spread quickly enough, especially over cable to have a major impact.
If they were smart, they'd link Doppler radar with the siren system. The moment rotation would be detected within a thunderstorm, the system would activate the sirens.
Use NTFS file compression on them to save space in case you need them at a later time. Chances are, if SP2 didn't delete them, then it didn't contain those fixes or you chose to archive your older files in case you wanted to uninstall SP2.
There's a key in the Windows registry on NT-based systems that will allow you increase pages. It's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Curren tControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Manager\IoPageLockLimit
Hex value 6000 is 24k pages. Hex value 8000 is 32k pages.
Also, in that key, you'll find DisablePagingExecutive. Set that to 0 to speed up your system. It prevents the kernel from being paged. And setting LargeSystemCache to 1 will help improve caching. Make sure you have at least 256 MB of RAM before enabling LargeSystemCache.
The BSOD occurs in an NT or NT-based environment if one or more of the following is true: -Faulty driver -Faulty hardware -Incorrect configuration -Virus or other malware Complications of the above that may cause a BSOD include: -Damaged or corrupt registry -File system corruption -OS boot failure
John Connor and Katherine Brewster managed to get a old laptop and internet connection up despite Skynet's sentience and viral Internet infection. They made a post on slashdot saying,"Wanted: Resistance Soldiers and science geeks."
Boies wasn't all that up to par on computers, either. That made the trial rather lopsided considering the legal help Microsoft had on top of being a software company.
As far as Boies representing SCO, I'm wondering if it had to do with President Bush opposing the anti-trust trial. I think it would be interesting to see what the President's view on open source is (assuming he has one). It's possible that Boies changed sides when the Presidency changed parties.
BeOS was an awesome OS, but Microsoft wasn't so eager to welcome it. BeOS is the victim of what other OS's suffer from and that's OEM licensing. Microsoft classifies it as a "trade secret". But in reality, it says that if you want Windows pre-installed, you can't provide the option to boot to a non-Microsoft partition. Scott Hacker wrote an article that details this licensing and it's impact on BeOS. He who controls the boot loader
The problem with immitating Microsoft is it can result in a Microsoft-oriented world without Microsoft. Look at Mozilla's XPI installer. It's not much safer than ActiveX because the amount of power it has. And no one wants to sign XPI packages. Even if they did, signatures could be spoofed. The more you try to immitate Microsoft, the more likely you are to make the same mistakes they've made.