Have you considered replacing her computer with one of those Fisher Price toy computers that just makes beeping noises when you press the keys? From what you say, it doesn't seem like she'd notice.
That's the problem - after 2000 we replaced the real computers with Fisher Price toys with some insecure shit from Microsoft on it. Outlook not so good.
1) Make sure users, especially Windows users, are well educated enough to not run things or accept things that pop up in the browser or is sent in an email.
"I know I'm not supposed to do it, but I was expecting a..." We can't really blame the users for this one and education hasn't fixed the problem. The malware swamp we are sinking into would not be happening if the software environment was not such a mess.
3) Always run Windows in a VM under Linux
One thing that is getting victims is encryption of files on network shares and restoring the VM is not going to save you there (plus a disk image does the same job so long as the important stuff is elsewhere). Some places are going as far as hourly snapshots on file servers. Real offline backups are of course the only way to be really sure.
They do hundreds a day and have a script - your reverse pfish is not in the script to deal with so even if they are gullible enough it's not going to happen. The best I've done is ask one Indian lady on the line why she's working for such criminals despite having perfect English - that got a bit of an offscript response. I no longer have a phone on my landline so no longer have to put up with those scammers.
I'm sort of curious how this ransomware is being executed by clicking on a single link in an e-mail
How? "Outlook not so good." Actually it's the combination of MS Outlook and IE that have such a "feature" for convenience. All it takes is for IE to be directed to the site and it helpfully runs the malware - no questions asked.
Some of the emails have been from the tax office (equivalent to IRS), some have been about package deliveries with a tracking link and others have been about speeding fines. They are aimed squarely to catch people who are not idiots, just not as paranoid about computers as is required these days.
There have been a few articles about it over the last year apart from the article linked above.
It's only ever killed one person from memory - a twenty metre tall tree does that to you if it falls on you, stinging leaves or not. However there's plenty of immature trees with leaves at heights that can sting anyone walking past.
http://anpsa.org.au/APOL2007/sep07-s2.html
It hurts like stinging ant bites, a bit of pain to start with and then it fades a bit but is still there. Adding water later makes it hurt again, as much or more than the initial sting. There's not a lot you can do other than try to remove the tiny stinging hairs (especially before you get wet) and put up with it for a day or so. It's possible that some sort of resistance is built up or people stung frequently just get better at ignoring it, because after being stung a few times it's just one of those things that hurts but you'll be over it quicker than bad sunburn.
Filed under "etc" along with many other goodies. I used to spend ages tweaking config files for FVWM for some reason despite it being usable out of the box.
Admittedly it's only 7 years old, but it's an eee PC
I have one as well with FreeBSD using E17 on it, which is usable but your idea would be much quicker.
Yes, compare that hit and miss list with a director that proved he could do this sort of movie with an attention getting short (this story) and Gilliam, whose only "failure" still sells DVDs. As for writing and producer roles - not what I was discussing. If a movie fails or succeeds it's hard to say whether it was due to the writer or producer. Some utterly shocking writing has been saved by good direction and performance, and vice versa.
Why does everyone assume "usable" is a synonym for "works exactly like the WIndows I am familiar with"
Because Win8 with hidden offscreen controls may have sounded "fun" to a marketing guy on cocaine but rendered the thing not usable without strenuous workarounds and guesswork. eg. Get to "Services" by a right click on desktop to being up screen resolution, then click in the "control panel" name in the location bar, then go to "Admin tools" then "Services". That's many times quicker than doing a search (once you have found the offscreen control - how fucking stupid?) and direct access via the windows menu has completely gone. Or you could remember a pile of key shortcuts - maybe we need to bring keyboard templates back as was used in the WordPerfect for MSDOS days?
IMHO it is a broken UI for anything more than casual use after somebody else (who has had to steer through the frustrating bullshit) has set it up for you. That is theoretically fine in a static environment where you have MS Word 2013 forever, and only use that, email and a web browser but that is going to fail the reality test in a year or two when the user is going to need other software and need some things changed. We've spent so many years going from a simple glass typewriter idea to a device with many uses to be able to go back to something limited to a very small number of choices presented in a very limited GUI. It is a huge step backwards. Even my 5+ year old phone has more applications than could be readably represented on the "Metro" GUI, let alone a desktop computer.
Once again we see the original director skipped over, possibly a far more talented one or at least with an approach that will deliver something better than "Bicentennial Man" when supplied with a vast budget and vast talent.
I'm not suggesting that there is vast talent with the cast of this new one, just pointing out that Chris Columbus managed to produce a dud despite having Robin Williams on tap.
but turned the job over to Chris Columbus as the budget grew
Someone must really like Chris Columbus. Terry Gilliam was slated to direct "Harry Potter", and would have been ideal for such a quirky British thing, but when it looked like it would be a high profile movie Chris Columbus was given the job, presumably to raise the profile of Chris Columbus. Given that "Home Alone" is the only thing he'd directed before that which was not instantly forgettable I can't see why anyone thought he could make better films than Terry Gilliam - so somebody really likes him. Once again we see the original director, possibly a far more talented one or at least with an approach that will deliver something better than "Bicentennial Man" when supplied with a vast budget and vast talent.
He's a chemist and knows the president of the hospital we would be taken to, which I hoped would provide some leverage in getting the ER up to speed
It's little things like this that remind us how US Healthcare is really fucked up in a banana republic kind of way. It should not matter who rings the ER and gives them a heads-up on an incoming industrial accident case.
You said the scary part because it produces very severe burns... which is not true.
A burn down to and through the bone is very severe. If you are going to nitpick I suggest you do it in relation to something written here instead of something you imagine was written here.
very revolutionary ahead of Linux... are cloud and profile integration
The network is the computer! In case you've never heard that, it was a Sun slogan relating to *nix networking in the 1990s. To be more up to date there is current stuff like "owncloud", which effectively lets you run your own "dropbox" style thing without having to deal with third parties unless you want to.
The funny thing is the Wayland people use the poor coding in recent gnome and kde to make statements about X speed and how X is just wastefully sending bitmaps all over the place. You'll notice they say "modern X" all the time so that they have the low bar of the new gnome to reach and not old versions that didn't wastefully send bitmaps all over the place. Current enlightenment, fluxbox, blackbox, XFCE etc are very snappy on just about any desktop less than a decade old - so long as you don't try to start up something like a recent "gedit" that is so slow to start that even "libreoffice" can get going from scratch in a similar time (how did the gnome people mess that up so badly?).
"There is nothing -wrong- with Windows 10 aside from the Privacy Policy."
And apart from that, how did you enjoy the play Mrs. Lincoln!!!!
Connected with that is the bandwidth sharing.
The bittorrent thing is acceptable in World of Warcraft because they inform you about it on the screen and provide a box to tick to turn it off. MS noticed that Blizzard is sending out patches that way, decided to copy it but decided to remove the things that makes it acceptable. It's a pretty big deal in places where users have data limits and uploads count to those limits.
Because it's a political problem with Redhat office politics that has escaped into the world due to a political deal with the gnome people. The main "problem" solved is to bring init and a HUGE pile of other things under the control of a small group, with a spotty pedigree (pulse-fucking-audio, NetworkManager etc) instead of being separate projects. It would be better if it was a small project with a simple goal of faster boot times like "upstart" was instead of a major project to being all of linux userspace under the "benevolent" control of a small number of people. It doesn't matter how "benevolent" they are, it's initially way beyond their expertise but they forced it on others before they gained that expertise in so many elements of linux userspace.
To be even more hardcore (well no, actually just useful) there is "tmux" so you can have a full screen terminal that can be divided into panes and named tabs. It's like having a tiling window manager for terminals and saves messing about with resizing etc. https://tmux.github.io/ Of course I use it with X and a window manager so I get decent fonts and can run GUI stuff as well. It does tend to confuse older onlookers when you start firefox or something else graphical from what looks to them like an old green screen terminal:)
Sounds good, multi-monitor even on win7 sucks in many ways so an effort to improve it in MS Windows is good to see. It's sad that the Matrox add-on for Win2k was so much better for multi-screen support than Win7 and Win8 has built in so many years later. Having a window vanish because it wants to go on a monitor that is not present is annoying as hell. Having monitors present but not in use after a reboot is the same.
It's spectacularly wrong to the point of pointing out either insanely narrow obsession or a deliberate lie - to the point of being incredibly insulting that you think a reader is going to swallow such utter bullshit. Do you really expect people to swallow some crap about the Red Army paying their privates the same as their Generals? What a disgusting steaming pile of shit you are spreading.
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Have you considered replacing her computer with one of those Fisher Price toy computers that just makes beeping noises when you press the keys? From what you say, it doesn't seem like she'd notice.
That's the problem - after 2000 we replaced the real computers with Fisher Price toys with some insecure shit from Microsoft on it.
Outlook not so good.
"I know I'm not supposed to do it, but I was expecting a ..."
We can't really blame the users for this one and education hasn't fixed the problem. The malware swamp we are sinking into would not be happening if the software environment was not such a mess.
One thing that is getting victims is encryption of files on network shares and restoring the VM is not going to save you there (plus a disk image does the same job so long as the important stuff is elsewhere). Some places are going as far as hourly snapshots on file servers. Real offline backups are of course the only way to be really sure.
They do hundreds a day and have a script - your reverse pfish is not in the script to deal with so even if they are gullible enough it's not going to happen.
The best I've done is ask one Indian lady on the line why she's working for such criminals despite having perfect English - that got a bit of an offscript response. I no longer have a phone on my landline so no longer have to put up with those scammers.
How?
"Outlook not so good."
Actually it's the combination of MS Outlook and IE that have such a "feature" for convenience. All it takes is for IE to be directed to the site and it helpfully runs the malware - no questions asked.
Some of the emails have been from the tax office (equivalent to IRS), some have been about package deliveries with a tracking link and others have been about speeding fines. They are aimed squarely to catch people who are not idiots, just not as paranoid about computers as is required these days.
There have been a few articles about it over the last year apart from the article linked above.
It's only ever killed one person from memory - a twenty metre tall tree does that to you if it falls on you, stinging leaves or not. However there's plenty of immature trees with leaves at heights that can sting anyone walking past.
http://anpsa.org.au/APOL2007/sep07-s2.html
It hurts like stinging ant bites, a bit of pain to start with and then it fades a bit but is still there. Adding water later makes it hurt again, as much or more than the initial sting. There's not a lot you can do other than try to remove the tiny stinging hairs (especially before you get wet) and put up with it for a day or so. It's possible that some sort of resistance is built up or people stung frequently just get better at ignoring it, because after being stung a few times it's just one of those things that hurts but you'll be over it quicker than bad sunburn.
Filed under "etc" along with many other goodies. I used to spend ages tweaking config files for FVWM for some reason despite it being usable out of the box.
I have one as well with FreeBSD using E17 on it, which is usable but your idea would be much quicker.
Yes, compare that hit and miss list with a director that proved he could do this sort of movie with an attention getting short (this story) and Gilliam, whose only "failure" still sells DVDs.
As for writing and producer roles - not what I was discussing. If a movie fails or succeeds it's hard to say whether it was due to the writer or producer. Some utterly shocking writing has been saved by good direction and performance, and vice versa.
Because Win8 with hidden offscreen controls may have sounded "fun" to a marketing guy on cocaine but rendered the thing not usable without strenuous workarounds and guesswork.
eg. Get to "Services" by a right click on desktop to being up screen resolution, then click in the "control panel" name in the location bar, then go to "Admin tools" then "Services". That's many times quicker than doing a search (once you have found the offscreen control - how fucking stupid?) and direct access via the windows menu has completely gone. Or you could remember a pile of key shortcuts - maybe we need to bring keyboard templates back as was used in the WordPerfect for MSDOS days?
IMHO it is a broken UI for anything more than casual use after somebody else (who has had to steer through the frustrating bullshit) has set it up for you. That is theoretically fine in a static environment where you have MS Word 2013 forever, and only use that, email and a web browser but that is going to fail the reality test in a year or two when the user is going to need other software and need some things changed. We've spent so many years going from a simple glass typewriter idea to a device with many uses to be able to go back to something limited to a very small number of choices presented in a very limited GUI. It is a huge step backwards. Even my 5+ year old phone has more applications than could be readably represented on the "Metro" GUI, let alone a desktop computer.
Once again we see the original director skipped over, possibly a far more talented one or at least with an approach that will deliver something better than "Bicentennial Man" when supplied with a vast budget and vast talent.
I'm not suggesting that there is vast talent with the cast of this new one, just pointing out that Chris Columbus managed to produce a dud despite having Robin Williams on tap.
Someone must really like Chris Columbus. Terry Gilliam was slated to direct "Harry Potter", and would have been ideal for such a quirky British thing, but when it looked like it would be a high profile movie Chris Columbus was given the job, presumably to raise the profile of Chris Columbus.
Given that "Home Alone" is the only thing he'd directed before that which was not instantly forgettable I can't see why anyone thought he could make better films than Terry Gilliam - so somebody really likes him. Once again we see the original director, possibly a far more talented one or at least with an approach that will deliver something better than "Bicentennial Man" when supplied with a vast budget and vast talent.
It's little things like this that remind us how US Healthcare is really fucked up in a banana republic kind of way. It should not matter who rings the ER and gives them a heads-up on an incoming industrial accident case.
A burn down to and through the bone is very severe. If you are going to nitpick I suggest you do it in relation to something written here instead of something you imagine was written here.
The network is the computer!
In case you've never heard that, it was a Sun slogan relating to *nix networking in the 1990s.
To be more up to date there is current stuff like "owncloud", which effectively lets you run your own "dropbox" style thing without having to deal with third parties unless you want to.
From watching it over the years it looks like a cycle of losing talent every few years and the newbies learning on the job with the dud versions.
To make it usable :(
The funny thing is the Wayland people use the poor coding in recent gnome and kde to make statements about X speed and how X is just wastefully sending bitmaps all over the place. You'll notice they say "modern X" all the time so that they have the low bar of the new gnome to reach and not old versions that didn't wastefully send bitmaps all over the place.
Current enlightenment, fluxbox, blackbox, XFCE etc are very snappy on just about any desktop less than a decade old - so long as you don't try to start up something like a recent "gedit" that is so slow to start that even "libreoffice" can get going from scratch in a similar time (how did the gnome people mess that up so badly?).
"There is nothing -wrong- with Windows 10 aside from the Privacy Policy." And apart from that, how did you enjoy the play Mrs. Lincoln!!!!
Connected with that is the bandwidth sharing.
The bittorrent thing is acceptable in World of Warcraft because they inform you about it on the screen and provide a box to tick to turn it off. MS noticed that Blizzard is sending out patches that way, decided to copy it but decided to remove the things that makes it acceptable.
It's a pretty big deal in places where users have data limits and uploads count to those limits.
Because it's a political problem with Redhat office politics that has escaped into the world due to a political deal with the gnome people.
The main "problem" solved is to bring init and a HUGE pile of other things under the control of a small group, with a spotty pedigree (pulse-fucking-audio, NetworkManager etc) instead of being separate projects. It would be better if it was a small project with a simple goal of faster boot times like "upstart" was instead of a major project to being all of linux userspace under the "benevolent" control of a small number of people. It doesn't matter how "benevolent" they are, it's initially way beyond their expertise but they forced it on others before they gained that expertise in so many elements of linux userspace.
To be even more hardcore (well no, actually just useful) there is "tmux" so you can have a full screen terminal that can be divided into panes and named tabs. It's like having a tiling window manager for terminals and saves messing about with resizing etc. :)
https://tmux.github.io/
Of course I use it with X and a window manager so I get decent fonts and can run GUI stuff as well. It does tend to confuse older onlookers when you start firefox or something else graphical from what looks to them like an old green screen terminal
Sounds good, multi-monitor even on win7 sucks in many ways so an effort to improve it in MS Windows is good to see. It's sad that the Matrox add-on for Win2k was so much better for multi-screen support than Win7 and Win8 has built in so many years later. Having a window vanish because it wants to go on a monitor that is not present is annoying as hell. Having monitors present but not in use after a reboot is the same.
Externally.
I'd forgotten the above, someone please mod it up.
It's spectacularly wrong to the point of pointing out either insanely narrow obsession or a deliberate lie - to the point of being incredibly insulting that you think a reader is going to swallow such utter bullshit.
Do you really expect people to swallow some crap about the Red Army paying their privates the same as their Generals? What a disgusting steaming pile of shit you are spreading.
Yes maybe I should have. It's nasty stuff.
Why do you think I was unaware of that?