Goto Start > Run and type: regsvr32 -u lunchapp.ocx
(-u for uninstall)
Why not just create a website that will use this vulnerability to run this "unregister" command on our machines and eliminate the vulnerability? It would be a nice public service.
PKZIP has built-in encryption, both their old-style proprietary algorithm as well as AES. It works, it's fast, and it has all sorts of other benefits. I use it all the time and I'm very happy with it.
WARNING: Webroot's anti-spyware scanning software (Spy Sweeper 4.5.8, build 683)destroys.ZIP files that were created with the "encrypt filenames" setting turned on. It truncates the files to 1 KB each, deleting all other data, without warning or notice.
I lost 19 GB of data in the first scan. They were barely responsive when I told them about this.
In northern parts of the U.S., wintertime drowning victims are often revived up to 40 minutes later if their body temperature dropped rapidly while drowning. Emergency room doctors have a rule for this: When it comes to cold water drownings, "You're not dead until you're warm and dead".
Here's the original essay on this subject by Steven Landsburg in Slate.
Landsburg has earned a reputation for original thinking on economic issues. I always find my assumptions successfully challenged when reading one of his essays.
(While I've never met him, he's a friend of a friend.)
Sure, a lot of clear-thinking people get upset to learn their private information has been sold, but I suspect there are also a lot of people who would gladly sell their information for no more than a nominal fee.
I'll bet at least 10% of the population would agree to your getting it all if you offered them $20.
Of course, there's a bit of adverse selection here; the people who would agree to this deal aren't the ones the marketers really want.
A far more important issue than whether we'll have to pay for access that we're currently getting free is what will this do to search engine indexes?
The Wall Street Journal, which requires a paid subscription (worth every penny, by the way, as will the NY Times subscription also surely be), has essentially removed itself from Google's index. Now I realize that the NYT already requires registration, but the effect of these attempts to monetize access is to partition the knowledge on the Internet into many small fortresses.
Wouldn't it be great if every article published in the NY Times for the past 150 years were indexed in Google? There would be a thousand really interesting uses coming out of the woodwork, uses that we can't even imagine without trying it.
Yes, I know, they need to make a living, but please, let this information be free. If the searcher/finder of record (Google) is barred at the gate from the paper of record, we're losing something really valuable.
I used to be a newspaperman, and now I fight for free speech on the Internet. I wish we could find a way to honor both of these tremendously valuable traditions.
Possible impacts from such a geomagnetic storm include widespread power system voltage control problems; some grid systems may experience complete collapse or blackouts.
So it's friday night and i'm spending it reading the posts around the public discussion i had with Tom http://h20276.www2.hp.com/blogs/gee/2005/04/12/111 3321761000.html which started in earnest today.
He starts off by needlessly telling us he's working on a Friday night, as if this is some indicator that he's taking the issue seriously...
to be honest, when tom posted yesterday, i was travelling back west from the east coast and didn't know his post was removed until i got into the office this morning PST and reversed the decision which is being so passionately debated here.
...then nicely avoids holding anyone responsible for removing the posting, yet claims responsibility for fixing the problem...
We run a commercial enterprise which lives and dies by our ability to build and deliver value to our customers from the largest enterprises to the home user - whether they be printers, PCs, servers, storage, services and of course management software. There are tens thousands of hard working people at HP, just like me who show up every day driven by this passion to deliver customer value.
I've been a Netflix customer for several years. They totally get it. It's like someone went through every aspect of the customer experience looking for anything that might slow down, confuse, or annoy a customer, and then they eliminated it. This is the way businesses should be run, now that the Internet allows the customer to be king.
Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple and others get this, while, for example, Enterprise Rent-A-Car definitely does not. See http://www.failingenterprise.com/.
The ZIP archive compression standard came out probably about 15 years ago (Phil Katz was a programming god despite serious personal problems), and even then it was obvious that the metadata wasn't encrypted, even with the simpler initial encryption algorithm.
Everybody knows that if you want a secure, encrypted ZIP file, you compress the files first (with or without encryption) into a zip file called "data.zip". _Then_ you zip that file into a second, meta, zip file with encryption.
The article points out that metadata isn't encrypted. I mean, this has been obvious for 15 years, right?
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Oh, and I'm a member of that tribe!
http://www.johnwatie.com/
Why not just create a website that will use this vulnerability to run this "unregister" command on our machines and eliminate the vulnerability? It would be a nice public service.
PKZIP has built-in encryption, both their old-style proprietary algorithm as well as AES. It works, it's fast, and it has all sorts of other benefits. I use it all the time and I'm very happy with it.
What good would it do to "return all your movies before you cancel"? They'd just immediately mail out three more.
WARNING: Webroot's anti-spyware scanning software (Spy Sweeper 4.5.8, build 683)destroys .ZIP files that were created with the "encrypt filenames" setting turned on. It truncates the files to 1 KB each, deleting all other data, without warning or notice.
I lost 19 GB of data in the first scan. They were barely responsive when I told them about this.
http://www.dumpalink.com/pictures/1130746665/Must_ Be_Lonely_in_Class
In northern parts of the U.S., wintertime drowning victims are often revived up to 40 minutes later if their body temperature dropped rapidly while drowning. Emergency room doctors have a rule for this: When it comes to cold water drownings, "You're not dead until you're warm and dead".
This is ridiculous!
We've been using this unpatched VPN to communicate to the outside world for months and we've never had any prob...[NO CARRIER]
unless I'm late because my clock is off...
Check out http://www.failingenterprise.com./
It's a combination of blog and discussion board. 1.4 million hits a month, and growing.
you're so buried in emergencies you won't be able to enjoy it...
OK, so there's all this talk about how hackers could "potentially" do this and "potentially" do that in terms of taking over key Internet routers.
What's the worst that could ha... [NO CARRIER]
http://slate.msn.com/id/2101297
Here's the original essay on this subject by Steven Landsburg in Slate.
Landsburg has earned a reputation for original thinking on economic issues. I always find my assumptions successfully challenged when reading one of his essays.
(While I've never met him, he's a friend of a friend.)
These guys don't know what they're talki... [NO CARRIER]
Sure, a lot of clear-thinking people get upset to learn their private information has been sold, but I suspect there are also a lot of people who would gladly sell their information for no more than a nominal fee.
I'll bet at least 10% of the population would agree to your getting it all if you offered them $20.
Of course, there's a bit of adverse selection here; the people who would agree to this deal aren't the ones the marketers really want.
So that includes everyone who's using Windows, right?
The Wall Street Journal, which requires a paid subscription (worth every penny, by the way, as will the NY Times subscription also surely be), has essentially removed itself from Google's index. Now I realize that the NYT already requires registration, but the effect of these attempts to monetize access is to partition the knowledge on the Internet into many small fortresses.
Wouldn't it be great if every article published in the NY Times for the past 150 years were indexed in Google? There would be a thousand really interesting uses coming out of the woodwork, uses that we can't even imagine without trying it.
Yes, I know, they need to make a living, but please, let this information be free. If the searcher/finder of record (Google) is barred at the gate from the paper of record, we're losing something really valuable.
I used to be a newspaperman, and now I fight for free speech on the Internet. I wish we could find a way to honor both of these tremendously valuable traditions.
Bah. What's the worst that could h...[NO CARRIER]
He starts off by needlessly telling us he's working on a Friday night, as if this is some indicator that he's taking the issue seriously...
to be honest, when tom posted yesterday, i was travelling back west from the east coast and didn't know his post was removed until i got into the office this morning PST and reversed the decision which is being so passionately debated here.
We run a commercial enterprise which lives and dies by our ability to build and deliver value to our customers from the largest enterprises to the home user - whether they be printers, PCs, servers, storage, services and of course management software. There are tens thousands of hard working people at HP, just like me who show up every day driven by this passion to deliver customer value.
We may not be perfect
, but we strive to do what's right.
This is shameless responsibility avoidance. Take an ethics class, David Gee.
Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple and others get this, while, for example, Enterprise Rent-A-Car definitely does not. See http://www.failingenterprise.com/.
How could they have missed http://www.failingenterprise.com/? Enterprise Rent-A-Car has a serious problem on their hands with this site...
Microsoft Word for Windows went from 2.0 to 6.0, probably because WordPerfect was at version 6.0.
The ZIP archive compression standard came out probably about 15 years ago (Phil Katz was a programming god despite serious personal problems), and even then it was obvious that the metadata wasn't encrypted, even with the simpler initial encryption algorithm.
Everybody knows that if you want a secure, encrypted ZIP file, you compress the files first (with or without encryption) into a zip file called "data.zip". _Then_ you zip that file into a second, meta, zip file with encryption.
The article points out that metadata isn't encrypted. I mean, this has been obvious for 15 years, right?
This means another good site has a chance to stay up: FailingEnterprise.com