Spyware is teh bane of my working life. (Looking after an XP based Uni network with a very "free and easy" approach to private pcs like laptops etc)
I always install the following on any machine not locked down by the Uni;
Firebird (with pop-ups disabled), Thunderbird (for email with option for santised HTML on), Adaware (for spy-crud "accidents"), any Anti-virus and a simple firewall like Zonealarm (crappy but easy to handle for teh n00b).
Its a sad state of affairs when you have to use so much 3rd party freebies to make a product anywhere near safe..... but hey, it all makes me look busy.
I will never get over how fast peeps will click on "Yes" to any pop up that appears. Unfortunately, the only real answer to this sort of problem is to educate people in teh arcane practices of safe surfing.
One thing I would love to see is a browser that, once a pc has been "infected" with this crap a number of times, would autodowngrade and only allow the user Lynx access to the web. Normal surfing would only be restored after the user had cleaned up and proved to their browser that they had learned their lesson!! Ahhhhh, sweet sweet revenge!
Lol. How the feck did that get post get an "Insightful". "Blind trolling" might be more appropriate.
If the staff at the research station can fill so many roles then one of them can do net admin aswell.
In fact, even better , as you like to conserve fuel why not get someone to REMOTELY admin the system.
Further, if you cant conceive why someone would hack such a system try this..... BECAUSE ITS THERE! Pretty much the same reason people first explored the large lumps of ice at the top and bottom of our planet.
"Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off "
Sorry but this is already a standard feature in MS OS's. The BSOD service runs out of the box.
E3, probably the most well known video game trade show was assaulted by the U.S. Army in a promotion for America's Army. Soldiers rappelled out of a real Blackhawk helicopter with real rifles and rushed the show.
I hope they kept this honest and proceeded to beat, torture, rape and pilage their way through the crowd. I mean..... you wouldnt want to give any false impressions of the job would you?
Wanted. Heavily blinkered simian for creation of near fictional articles about PC gaming and the hardware market. Unbiased experience of PC gaming history is absolutely not required. The ability to dress ill-founded assumptions as fact would be an advantage.
The successful candidate will be expected to select paradigm examples from a list of near release games, research all that has been written about these games by the developers and publishers, and finally disregard anything and everything they may have learned.
(End "Im sick of reading cruddily researched articles" rant)
Ah Duke Nukem Ad Infinitum.
I really hope it does last forever.... cos I'll be dead before the sequel arrives with that dev cycle.
Given Arnies catchphrase of "I'll be back!" I recon Dukes should be "I never arrived!"
Pfffffft to Duke and George.
I hurt myself really badly playing Daikatana.
Everytime i started it seemed to make my breathing come in short loud gasps, my sides would really ache, tears would roll down my face and my mouth muscles tensed up. No other game has managed to do this with any consistency.
Thanks John Romero..... the King of Comedy
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Spyware is teh bane of my working life. (Looking after an XP based Uni network with a very "free and easy" approach to private pcs like laptops etc) I always install the following on any machine not locked down by the Uni; Firebird (with pop-ups disabled), Thunderbird (for email with option for santised HTML on), Adaware (for spy-crud "accidents"), any Anti-virus and a simple firewall like Zonealarm (crappy but easy to handle for teh n00b). Its a sad state of affairs when you have to use so much 3rd party freebies to make a product anywhere near safe..... but hey, it all makes me look busy. I will never get over how fast peeps will click on "Yes" to any pop up that appears. Unfortunately, the only real answer to this sort of problem is to educate people in teh arcane practices of safe surfing. One thing I would love to see is a browser that, once a pc has been "infected" with this crap a number of times, would autodowngrade and only allow the user Lynx access to the web. Normal surfing would only be restored after the user had cleaned up and proved to their browser that they had learned their lesson!! Ahhhhh, sweet sweet revenge!
Lol. How the feck did that get post get an "Insightful". "Blind trolling" might be more appropriate. If the staff at the research station can fill so many roles then one of them can do net admin aswell. In fact, even better , as you like to conserve fuel why not get someone to REMOTELY admin the system. Further, if you cant conceive why someone would hack such a system try this ..... BECAUSE ITS THERE! Pretty much the same reason people first explored the large lumps of ice at the top and bottom of our planet.
"Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off " Sorry but this is already a standard feature in MS OS's. The BSOD service runs out of the box.
E3, probably the most well known video game trade show was assaulted by the U.S. Army in a promotion for America's Army. Soldiers rappelled out of a real Blackhawk helicopter with real rifles and rushed the show. I hope they kept this honest and proceeded to beat, torture, rape and pilage their way through the crowd. I mean..... you wouldnt want to give any false impressions of the job would you?
Wanted. Heavily blinkered simian for creation of near fictional articles about PC gaming and the hardware market. Unbiased experience of PC gaming history is absolutely not required. The ability to dress ill-founded assumptions as fact would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be expected to select paradigm examples from a list of near release games, research all that has been written about these games by the developers and publishers, and finally disregard anything and everything they may have learned. (End "Im sick of reading cruddily researched articles" rant)
Ah Duke Nukem Ad Infinitum. I really hope it does last forever.... cos I'll be dead before the sequel arrives with that dev cycle. Given Arnies catchphrase of "I'll be back!" I recon Dukes should be "I never arrived!" Pfffffft to Duke and George.
I hurt myself really badly playing Daikatana. Everytime i started it seemed to make my breathing come in short loud gasps, my sides would really ache, tears would roll down my face and my mouth muscles tensed up. No other game has managed to do this with any consistency. Thanks John Romero..... the King of Comedy
So how much does that weigh in clouds?