Just some anecdotal evidence from the dshield mailing list. The patch appears to either restrict COM access or reset permissions that the admin had put in place. Veritas backup was mentioned, as well as a lot of custom COM apps. I didn't see anythng about COM issues in their tech bullein.
Antivirus does absolutely nothing for 0-day viruses. It takes time for the AV companies to get samples, analyze them, and create signatures. Heuristic scanners aren't much help either. I've never caught a virus that was classified by heuristics, however I had an NT server that had cmd.exe classified by Norton's bloodhound system, thus temporarily hosing our e-mail and file servers.
As a sidenote to this, it is much easier to boot the machine using a proper linux recovery disk with NTFS writes and just delete the virus scanner executables than to reinstall from backup.
Ahh, another old-skooler. I got stoned in the eighties, and I've seen Jerusalem.
In fact, Jerusalem-b was my favourite virus. Sheer genius what a measly few hundred bytes of code can do. Virus writers don't know how good they have it today!
overblown? I think it all started at the Michaelangelo virus, where the media was telling everyone to turn their computer off on Mikey's birthday? It's gotten worse since then.
It'll be an application octet/stream with a signed key that you need to decrypt it. They key will be available in the new Microsoft Web feeds viewer only, or on hacker sites two days before official launch. The actual feed will be the equivalent of `cat/dev/mem > newsfeed.web`, and subscribing to more than one feed will require a separate high speed connection installed on your computer.
Considering the last Xbox branded Ethernet cable that I saw was $35 dollars CDN for a 5 metre cable, they should be able to knock down the price a bit more.
I do not want a hardware appliance. I want a piece of software that I can implement on the platform of my choice. Why should I have to buy their hardware, run their version of linux, just to use their software? Sorry, but that's not for me. I spend a great deal of time making certain that everything works on my network, I standardize my operating systems, audit them constantly, and I'm not going to go through and put another flavour of linux on my machines and have to create a new policy just to use their server software that I don't know, on their hardware that I don't know, rather than my audited software that I have integrated into my network, on hardware that I spec and purchase?
If that makes me a zealot, then I guess that I'm a zealot. But I'm a zealot that can sleep at night because his network works.
This looks really promising, and it'll give me something to play with on my home network.
Too bad that there isn't an open-source document management system that Novell wants to open-source that integrates with the desktop or openoffice.
Oh come on. Every time there's a Mozilla thread, there is some idiot posting That sounds like Opera's feature X. Christ, get over it. Your browser picked a bad name, and nobody wants to use it, for fear of being all hoity-toity.
Use your opera, that's fine, but don't expect me at any of your parades.
Thank you WoW team for making one of my friends realize that she married a useless tub of putrescence who's sole purpose in life is to avoid tanning to the point that his skin is becoming clear and evolving to have cat-like night vision and the ability to comfort-mold to virtually any surface,and as a byproduct, making certain that he gets the absolute most out of his $19.95/mo.
Now if only you could have made it just a little more addicting, he might have died from renal failure, things would have been less messy, but hey, I guess that this is good enough.
And do you know who I can call at Pizza hut to thank for having the delivery guy accept credit cards and delivering directly to his home-office window? I'd like to send them a card.
Thank you for pointing out that the interpreters for the legal system are indeed called "Lawyers". Acceptable answers would have also been Barristers, Attorneys or Solicitors.
And the reason that plain-english laws are not written is because we keep electing ambulance-chasers to government.
So you pay the kid double. He gets a work ethic, and you get something for buying him a laptop. If you're shelling out for it anyways, you're at least getting something for your investment. Give him gift cards or money towards it for his birthday. Make him save. It'll work out better.
There's this thing that you do labour and the people who appreciate the labour give you a universally accepted promisary note, which you can exchange for a computer, assuming that you collect enough of them.
SPEWS has always drunkenly walked a very fine line between doing more harm than good and more good than harm, due to the problem of a short supply of IP addresses. If the changeover to ipV6 occurred tommorrow, and everyone got their own netblock, and the ip heirarchy was dictated coherently, it would be easy for network admins block based on networks, without hurting other valid and valued customers.
If each subscriber got a network, and it was his for as long as he held the account, then if you don't like that person, you block that network. You get much better control, without having to block an entire ISP ip range.
Somebody can't secure their box, block their network. If there's a spam friendly ISP out there, everyone can shut them down that way, or an upstream provider can shut him down quickly, route them to/dev/null, or some other trickery. Proper filtering will prevent these spammers, hackers, etc, from picking networks at random and propogating the routing tables. All it would take is a lot of care in implementing it, and a cluebat for the lusers. Most of the large providers are ready to try anything to stop spam at this point, and would follow implementation guidelines if they were provided, and mandated by the large pipe providers, if not by government.
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Just some anecdotal evidence from the dshield mailing list. The patch appears to either restrict COM access or reset permissions that the admin had put in place. Veritas backup was mentioned, as well as a lot of custom COM apps. I didn't see anythng about COM issues in their tech bullein.
Antivirus does absolutely nothing for 0-day viruses. It takes time for the AV companies to get samples, analyze them, and create signatures. Heuristic scanners aren't much help either. I've never caught a virus that was classified by heuristics, however I had an NT server that had cmd.exe classified by Norton's bloodhound system, thus temporarily hosing our e-mail and file servers.
As a sidenote to this, it is much easier to boot the machine using a proper linux recovery disk with NTFS writes and just delete the virus scanner executables than to reinstall from backup.
Ahh, another old-skooler. I got stoned in the eighties, and I've seen Jerusalem.
In fact, Jerusalem-b was my favourite virus. Sheer genius what a measly few hundred bytes of code can do. Virus writers don't know how good they have it today!
Patch caused errors in 3rd party software. Not enough lead time to do proper regression testing. News at 11, if they get their computers fixed.
overblown? I think it all started at the Michaelangelo virus, where the media was telling everyone to turn their computer off on Mikey's birthday? It's gotten worse since then.
It'll be an application octet/stream with a signed key that you need to decrypt it. They key will be available in the new Microsoft Web feeds viewer only, or on hacker sites two days before official launch. The actual feed will be the equivalent of `cat /dev/mem > newsfeed.web`, and subscribing to more than one feed will require a separate high speed connection installed on your computer.
Yeah, the Canadians.
Welcome to the United States of America, pop. 1.3 Million smart people.
You're a closet-furry, aren't you?
Icy-Hot-Geekstas comes to mind. Take a look at the webpage for a good laugh.
Nice logo. Tool.
Dude, that's how I got free cable!
Considering the last Xbox branded Ethernet cable that I saw was $35 dollars CDN for a 5 metre cable, they should be able to knock down the price a bit more.
They should rename kolab to kobble. Could they throw more disparate software together?
I do not want a hardware appliance. I want a piece of software that I can implement on the platform of my choice. Why should I have to buy their hardware, run their version of linux, just to use their software? Sorry, but that's not for me. I spend a great deal of time making certain that everything works on my network, I standardize my operating systems, audit them constantly, and I'm not going to go through and put another flavour of linux on my machines and have to create a new policy just to use their server software that I don't know, on their hardware that I don't know, rather than my audited software that I have integrated into my network, on hardware that I spec and purchase?
If that makes me a zealot, then I guess that I'm a zealot. But I'm a zealot that can sleep at night because his network works.
This looks really promising, and it'll give me something to play with on my home network.
Too bad that there isn't an open-source document management system that Novell wants to open-source that integrates with the desktop or openoffice.
from their tech demo, they want to sell me everything. The software, the hardware, the OS, everything.
Sorry but no thanks.
Oh come on. Every time there's a Mozilla thread, there is some idiot posting That sounds like Opera's feature X. Christ, get over it. Your browser picked a bad name, and nobody wants to use it, for fear of being all hoity-toity.
Use your opera, that's fine, but don't expect me at any of your parades.
Thank you WoW team for making one of my friends realize that she married a useless tub of putrescence who's sole purpose in life is to avoid tanning to the point that his skin is becoming clear and evolving to have cat-like night vision and the ability to comfort-mold to virtually any surface,and as a byproduct, making certain that he gets the absolute most out of his $19.95/mo.
Now if only you could have made it just a little more addicting, he might have died from renal failure, things would have been less messy, but hey, I guess that this is good enough.
And do you know who I can call at Pizza hut to thank for having the delivery guy accept credit cards and delivering directly to his home-office window? I'd like to send them a card.
Thank you for pointing out that the interpreters for the legal system are indeed called "Lawyers". Acceptable answers would have also been Barristers, Attorneys or Solicitors.
And the reason that plain-english laws are not written is because we keep electing ambulance-chasers to government.
I would think that prior art would be defense enough. But I guess not.
Why did we things so convoluted that we need to have interpreters for the rules?
Yep, this is right up there with the Lempel Ziv algorithms, definitely not something that could be done easily with a regex.
So you pay the kid double. He gets a work ethic, and you get something for buying him a laptop. If you're shelling out for it anyways, you're at least getting something for your investment. Give him gift cards or money towards it for his birthday. Make him save. It'll work out better.
There's this thing that you do labour and the people who appreciate the labour give you a universally accepted promisary note, which you can exchange for a computer, assuming that you collect enough of them.
I think that it's called a job
that killing people is so much fun.
One exploit in the default install. That's as good of a track record as NetBSD!
Slashdot should change the 2 minute wait to 2 minutes per thread. This tabbed browsing is killing my slashdot productivity here.
SPEWS has always drunkenly walked a very fine line between doing more harm than good and more good than harm, due to the problem of a short supply of IP addresses. If the changeover to ipV6 occurred tommorrow, and everyone got their own netblock, and the ip heirarchy was dictated coherently, it would be easy for network admins block based on networks, without hurting other valid and valued customers.
/dev/null, or some other trickery. Proper filtering will prevent these spammers, hackers, etc, from picking networks at random and propogating the routing tables. All it would take is a lot of care in implementing it, and a cluebat for the lusers. Most of the large providers are ready to try anything to stop spam at this point, and would follow implementation guidelines if they were provided, and mandated by the large pipe providers, if not by government.
If each subscriber got a network, and it was his for as long as he held the account, then if you don't like that person, you block that network. You get much better control, without having to block an entire ISP ip range.
Somebody can't secure their box, block their network. If there's a spam friendly ISP out there, everyone can shut them down that way, or an upstream provider can shut him down quickly, route them to