Technically, it isn't anti-spyware, but it does monitor your system and alert you if anything is trying to add itself to the registry, startup folder or any.ini files to autorun on bootup. (And let's you deny them access.)
I use it as a failsafe to catch anything that might slip through.
Yeah, I'll admit to jumping the gun and calling it spyware in the original post, but it was a mixture of adware and totally unwanted programs that I didn't want or select to be installed. (at least, not intentionally.) Oh, and the four critical objects were all AOL related. But after having had to fix three computers that AOL screwed up, (My nephew's once. his girlfriend's twice.) I go ballistic when anything AOL related gets sneaked onto a system.
Ok, I un-installed the driver, and re-installed it so I could document by screenshots what happened. Pictures and text are at available for download at http://www.savefile.com/files/6634857 The filename is MP3 blues.zip (Sorry, just straight text and jpgs. It's late and I wanna go to bed.)
Yeah, I had spyware hit recently myself. I bought an MP3 player (I'l be nice and not name the brand) and loaded the cd to load its driver to my system.
NOTE: I only selected that the driver, and nothing else, be loaded. (And not to the default directory, I might add.)
Imagine the stream of invective that resulted when, after installing the driver to the directory I chose, it promptly created the default directory, uploaded several megs more, the started installing things to apparently random directories!
Forunately I have Startup Guard http://www.acelogic.com/ installed, and was able to deny the crap access to the registry. After that, I deleted the default directory, and got rid of the rest with Adaware and Search and destroy.
Moral: Take all the care you want, the crap WILL find some way into your system!
Actually, that's a good answer to that question, based on observation. We ARE the only intelligent life we've found, we ARE alone. But! The big question is, "why are we alone?" Is it because there is no other intelligent life out there, or because we (the other intelligent life and us) simply haven't found each other yet, or because the other intelligent life out there is aware of us and avoiding us for some reason?
(I tend toward the second reason most of the time, and the third on my more cynical days.) };-)
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sittingonmy.tel And the obvious comeback: moveyer.tel Of course most of you probably think these ideas are a: paininthe.tel so I'll stop now.
All you need to do is:
quote: "If you have already installed a system using a 3.1r0 CD/DVD image, you do not need to reinstall. Instead, simply edit/etc/apt/sources.list, look for any lines mentioning security.debian.org, change "testing" to "stable", and remove "# " from the start of the line." end quote.
(Kind of an embarassing thing for them to let slip through, eh?) };-)
"But you're probably right that Batman was the FIRST (or nearly so) of the strictly human ones (if you don't count myths and legends, but only comics.)"
Do pulp magazines count? Comic book superheroes actually came about because of the popularity of "pulp" magazine superheroes.
The first was The Shadow (later appearing in radio and movies) but the first "non-super" super hero had to be Doc Savage, man of bronze : http://thepulp.net/docsavage.html
(Try to imagine Bruce Wayne with no secret identity, fighting crime with a posse of scientists.) };-)
Has anyone ever considered that if Earth were destroyed in the next few years, and all life extinguished, The only sign left that we ever existed will be a few bits of technology scattered around the solar system? (It seems our machines are better situated to survive than we are.)
"It Just Works" That phrase is starting to make me nervous. Why? It's ambiguous. The word "just" can have two implied meanings here, First; It can be synonymous with "simply", ie:"It Simply Works" Second: "Just" is also synonymous with "barely" ie: "It Barely Works" (Reminds me of the time everbody thought George the Pater said "No new taxes", when the results showed he said "Know new taxes")
As an SF fan I just make up some race. ex: Kanarian Then add a few touches to "alien it up a bit" ex: !K@N@rI@n! Then when I need to change the password, I just make up a member to the race, and do the same changes to it. ex: !B@ThooS@n! Fairly easy to remember, and doesn't matter if the names are stupid, nobody's supposed to see them anyway.
I wouldn't consider it spyware, but OTOH, Why in the hell would I want to help someone gather info that'll be used to pigeonhole me to a marketing demographic? The last thing I need is more advertising online, offline, any-freakin'-where because "The numbers say *YOU* *WANT* *THIS!!*" so it's worth our investment to advertise the crap out of it to YOU!
Sorry, wouldn't work. There's no such thing as a perfectly rigid object. In a short rod, the effect isn't noticable, but in a an extremely long rod, the action of one end tanslates to a compression wave that travels down the length of the rod. It probably would end up moving at about the speed of sound through the rod, but nothing close to light speed, let alone faster.
Of course, given the length to width ratio of such an interplanetary length rod, trying to nudge something at one end by pushing on the other would literally be like trying to push something with a piece of string, it'd just be too flexible.
On the other hand, there is a phenomenom known as quantum tunnel transmission that has allegedly been shown to transmit information at 4.7 times the speed of light over short distances: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=quantum+tunne ling+transmission&btnG=Google+Search/ (click on link: Literature on Faster-than-light tunneling experiments, for some reason, it can't be linked directly?!?)
Well, if enough did it, for long enough, it could dilute the pool of usuable addresses harvested. Hopefully, it would make harvesting addresses to sell to spammers unprofitable. (What the hell, it's worth a shot, check my sig for more info.)
The article says, in the field of satellite reconnaissance imagery. It'd be like using a mouse, except you can move more than one screen object at once with the fluidity of every day hand motions. Far more efficient.
So why not just design an interface that lets you use two mice(mouses?) at the same time? Seems like it'd be easier on the arms.
(If you want revenue, a programmer can set up automated ad "showers" and "clickers" for you. To the "web technology" it will look like any other ad view, so you should be happy. Yes? Ad blockers use technology to filter them out, you can use technology to pretend they don't. Remember not to "show" or "click" too often or the advertisers might become suspicious. And use different IP addresses.)
Hmm, you just got me wondering how many "zombied" PCs out there are being used for just that purpose...
I Agree. and so does this: http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0415.html (Ser iously, is there ANYONE outside of Redmond that doesn't think "Microsoft Security" is just the punchline for a setup?)
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The subject line says: "STOP SPAM NOW-Here's how"
(No comments on the irony of my tagline, please.) };-)
I like this one better: http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/archive/chi ckweed-20050717.html/
Hey! This is the Internet, where's the "Bump & Grind"?
well Startup guard http://www.acelogix.com/freeware.html isn't OSS but it is freeware.
.ini files to autorun on bootup. (And let's you deny them access.)
Technically, it isn't anti-spyware, but it does monitor your system and alert you if anything is trying to add itself to the registry, startup folder or any
I use it as a failsafe to catch anything that might slip through.
Yeah, I'll admit to jumping the gun and calling it spyware in the original post, but it was a mixture of adware and totally unwanted programs that I didn't want or select to be installed. (at least, not intentionally.)
Oh, and the four critical objects were all AOL related. But after having had to fix three computers that AOL screwed up, (My nephew's once. his girlfriend's twice.) I go ballistic when anything AOL related gets sneaked onto a system.
Ok, I un-installed the driver, and re-installed it so I could document by screenshots what happened.
Pictures and text are at available for download at http://www.savefile.com/files/6634857
The filename is MP3 blues.zip
(Sorry, just straight text and jpgs. It's late and I wanna go to bed.)
Yeah, I had spyware hit recently myself.
I bought an MP3 player (I'l be nice and not name the brand) and loaded the cd to load its driver to my system.
NOTE: I only selected that the driver, and nothing else, be loaded. (And not to the default directory, I might add.)
Imagine the stream of invective that resulted when, after installing the driver to the directory I chose, it promptly created the default directory, uploaded several megs more, the started installing things to apparently random directories!
Forunately I have Startup Guard http://www.acelogic.com/ installed, and was able to deny the crap access to the registry.
After that, I deleted the default directory, and got rid of the rest with Adaware and Search and destroy.
Moral: Take all the care you want, the crap WILL find some way into your system!
Actually, that's a good answer to that question, based on observation. We ARE the only intelligent life we've found, we ARE alone.
But!
The big question is, "why are we alone?"
Is it because there is no other intelligent life out there, or because we (the other intelligent life and us) simply haven't found each other yet, or because the other intelligent life out there is aware of us and avoiding us for some reason?
(I tend toward the second reason most of the time, and the third on my more cynical days.) };-)
U.S.A, State of Pun-sylvania, of course.
sittingonmy.tel
And the obvious comeback:
moveyer.tel
Of course most of you probably think these ideas are a:
paininthe.tel
so I'll stop now.
" No, I'm not superstitious or nothing like that.... honest."
Thank goodness for that. Everyone knows it's bad luck to be superstitious!
Ok, I'm a slow typist, so you'll probably have this info by the time I post it, but anyway...
5 /06/msg00003.html
/etc/apt/sources.list,
According to the site's notice: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/200
All you need to do is:
quote: "If you have already installed a system using a 3.1r0 CD/DVD image, you
do not need to reinstall. Instead, simply edit
look for any lines mentioning security.debian.org, change "testing" to
"stable", and remove "# " from the start of the line." end quote.
(Kind of an embarassing thing for them to let slip through, eh?) };-)
"But you're probably right that Batman was the FIRST (or nearly so) of the strictly human ones (if you don't count myths and legends, but only comics.)"
Do pulp magazines count?
Comic book superheroes actually came about because of the popularity of "pulp" magazine superheroes.
The first was The Shadow (later appearing in radio and movies) but the first "non-super" super hero had to be Doc Savage, man of bronze : http://thepulp.net/docsavage.html
(Try to imagine Bruce Wayne with no secret identity, fighting crime with a posse of scientists.) };-)
Looks a lot like skylab http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/skylab/skylab4 _orbit.gif
As I recall, Skylab was built from mostly spare parts NASA had. Maybe MOL made it to space (As a peaceful mission) after all?
Actually, all it would take is a simple 555 based pulse generator to replace the switch. Should take less than US$5.00 and ten minutes time.
Has anyone ever considered that if Earth were destroyed in the next few years, and all life extinguished, The only sign left that we ever existed will be a few bits of technology scattered around the solar system?
(It seems our machines are better situated to survive than we are.)
"It Just Works" That phrase is starting to make me nervous. Why? It's ambiguous.
The word "just" can have two implied meanings here,
First; It can be synonymous with "simply", ie:"It Simply Works"
Second: "Just" is also synonymous with "barely" ie: "It Barely Works"
(Reminds me of the time everbody thought George the Pater said "No new taxes", when the results showed he said "Know new taxes")
For the humor impaired, I'm rarely serious. };-)
As an SF fan I just make up some race.
ex: Kanarian
Then add a few touches to "alien it up a bit"
ex: !K@N@rI@n!
Then when I need to change the password, I just make up a member to the race, and do the same changes to it.
ex: !B@ThooS@n!
Fairly easy to remember, and doesn't matter if the names are stupid, nobody's supposed to see them anyway.
I wouldn't consider it spyware, but OTOH, Why in the hell would I want to help someone gather info that'll be used to pigeonhole me to a marketing demographic?
The last thing I need is more advertising online, offline, any-freakin'-where because "The numbers say *YOU* *WANT* *THIS!!*" so it's worth our investment to advertise the crap out of it to YOU!
Well, I had absolutely nothing to do with the whole state of affairs, so why does my name keep getting dragged into it?
Sorry, wouldn't work. There's no such thing as a perfectly rigid object. In a short rod, the effect isn't noticable, but in a an extremely long rod, the action of one end tanslates to a compression wave that travels down the length of the rod. It probably would end up moving at about the speed of sound through the rod, but nothing close to light speed, let alone faster.
e ling+transmission&btnG=Google+Search/
Of course, given the length to width ratio of such an interplanetary length rod, trying to nudge something at one end by pushing on the other would literally be like trying to push something with a piece of string, it'd just be too flexible.
On the other hand, there is a phenomenom known as quantum tunnel transmission that has allegedly been shown to transmit information at 4.7 times the speed of light over short distances:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=quantum+tunn
(click on link: Literature on Faster-than-light tunneling experiments, for some reason, it can't be linked directly?!?)
Well, if enough did it, for long enough, it could dilute the pool of usuable addresses harvested.
Hopefully, it would make harvesting addresses to sell to spammers unprofitable.
(What the hell, it's worth a shot, check my sig for more info.)
The article says, in the field of satellite reconnaissance imagery. It'd be like using a mouse, except you can move more than one screen object at once with the fluidity of every day hand motions. Far more efficient.
So why not just design an interface that lets you use two mice(mouses?) at the same time?
Seems like it'd be easier on the arms.
(If you want revenue, a programmer can set up automated ad "showers" and "clickers" for you. To the "web technology" it will look like any other ad view, so you should be happy. Yes? Ad blockers use technology to filter them out, you can use technology to pretend they don't. Remember not to "show" or "click" too often or the advertisers might become suspicious. And use different IP addresses.)
Hmm, you just got me wondering how many "zombied" PCs out there are being used for just that purpose...
I Agree. and so does this: http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0415.htmlr iously, is there ANYONE outside of Redmond that doesn't think "Microsoft Security" is just the punchline for a setup?)
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