Antivirus? Sure, but don't expect it to work all by itself. Desktop security is never going to be 100%, far from it. IMO, the best you can do is combine policy with good systems, and edumcate your users.
Lock down your I/O, some sort of end-point security product that'll lock/audit USB and DVD drives.
Filter mail and strip dangerous attachments - park attachments for 24 hours if possible.
Turn on auditing with group policy, and check the damn logs.
Run some sort of IDS, Snort can be tuned to monitor the LAN for malware trying to propagate.
Have good enforceable policies, and educate your users to the reasoning and consequences.
Get management on-board. Having the top dog issue a broadcast email is always more effective than the IT guy doing the same.Follow through when you find someone in breach of policy. It only takes one or two cases before word gets around and users realise you're serious.
Try to get onside with users, but it's not your job to be liked. Your job is to protect the data and systems.
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
A termite walks into a bar and asks "Where's the bartender?"
According to the all-knowing oracle Wikipedia - "The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech"
So you could argue that the military has always used robots.
Mod this guy up to warp 11. I find it hilarious that nit-picking pedants find fault with little details, and ignore the fact that most of the movie is, well a SF movie!
Just because that's how it's done IRL, it doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. Surely it'd be easier to execute a move like "Right, you turn left and I'll fire the phasers at bogy #2 - ready....go!" if the guy steering is in the same room as the guy shooting at things?
"That's what comms is for" I hear you say? What if comms are out?
"The maggot hatches and eats away juicy tender delicious ant brain until the ant is nothing more than a zombie..."
Why did this bit read in prof Farnsworth's voice in my head???
Just be thankful you're not being paid to watch necrophilia-based porn - that's dead boring.
In contrast, the incest related stuff is only relatively boring.
I had a similar experience. I was in the garage, venting by lifting a few old monitors over my head and smashing them down as hard as I could whilst going "Arrrggghhhhfuckinguselesscomputers!!!". The neighbour poked his head in the door to see if I was OK. Once he saw what was going on, he joined in.
I also take old boxen out to a mate's farm where we shotgun them using 00 or solids - very therapeutic, I must say:-)
Fire up Sysinternals Tcpview and look for processes generating unusual traffic. Look for new connections coinciding with the perceived slowdown. Note the pid in tcpview then fire up Sysinternals Process Explorer and look for that pid - you'll be able to drill down and see exactly what file is running. This way instead of only seeing svchost.exe, for example, is doing weird things, you can see what files svchost has called.
Baltar is, mostly, our example of the true self-serving egotist. He's even making a religion out of it. He's not all bad, he sometimes does the right thing, he certainly tries to think the right thoughts. But he is impossibly weak. Yet I think at some level we all identify with him. We hate what he does, but we understand why he does it.
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Antivirus? Sure, but don't expect it to work all by itself. Desktop security is never going to be 100%, far from it. IMO, the best you can do is combine policy with good systems, and edumcate your users. Lock down your I/O, some sort of end-point security product that'll lock/audit USB and DVD drives. Filter mail and strip dangerous attachments - park attachments for 24 hours if possible. Turn on auditing with group policy, and check the damn logs. Run some sort of IDS, Snort can be tuned to monitor the LAN for malware trying to propagate. Have good enforceable policies, and educate your users to the reasoning and consequences. Get management on-board. Having the top dog issue a broadcast email is always more effective than the IT guy doing the same.Follow through when you find someone in breach of policy. It only takes one or two cases before word gets around and users realise you're serious. Try to get onside with users, but it's not your job to be liked. Your job is to protect the data and systems.
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming
You're anthropomorphising. How can we even begin to guess their motivations and behaviour?
Me, I'd create a GUI interface using Visual Basic...see if I can track those IP addresses
You can't email a token to someone. A token is something you have, a password is something you know.
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming. A termite walks into a bar and asks "Where's the bartender?"
According to the all-knowing oracle Wikipedia - "The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech" So you could argue that the military has always used robots.
Mod this guy up to warp 11. I find it hilarious that nit-picking pedants find fault with little details, and ignore the fact that most of the movie is, well a SF movie!
Just because that's how it's done IRL, it doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. Surely it'd be easier to execute a move like "Right, you turn left and I'll fire the phasers at bogy #2 - ready....go!" if the guy steering is in the same room as the guy shooting at things? "That's what comms is for" I hear you say? What if comms are out?
"* quite a few starships were destroyed by Nemo" He sure is one one bad-ass fish.
"The maggot hatches and eats away juicy tender delicious ant brain until the ant is nothing more than a zombie..." Why did this bit read in prof Farnsworth's voice in my head???
My god, man - my eyes! Damn you...
So what you're really saying is, all your base are belong to benford?
Just be thankful you're not being paid to watch necrophilia-based porn - that's dead boring. In contrast, the incest related stuff is only relatively boring.
I had a similar experience. I was in the garage, venting by lifting a few old monitors over my head and smashing them down as hard as I could whilst going "Arrrggghhhhfuckinguselesscomputers!!!". The neighbour poked his head in the door to see if I was OK. Once he saw what was going on, he joined in. I also take old boxen out to a mate's farm where we shotgun them using 00 or solids - very therapeutic, I must say :-)
It's not Ray fucking Kurzweil's cult. Vernor Vinge coined the term Singularity back in '93
Would naming a server Skynet just be asking for trouble?
Forgot to add, then search the registry for those files to see how they are actually getting started.
Fire up Sysinternals Tcpview and look for processes generating unusual traffic. Look for new connections coinciding with the perceived slowdown. Note the pid in tcpview then fire up Sysinternals Process Explorer and look for that pid - you'll be able to drill down and see exactly what file is running. This way instead of only seeing svchost.exe, for example, is doing weird things, you can see what files svchost has called.
Baltar is, mostly, our example of the true self-serving egotist. He's even making a religion out of it. He's not all bad, he sometimes does the right thing, he certainly tries to think the right thoughts. But he is impossibly weak. Yet I think at some level we all identify with him. We hate what he does, but we understand why he does it.
For the hot subservient chicks in togas, right?
Personality tests are nuthin, wait till they start genetic testing...
Shame really - drunken, gun-toting employees are such fun...
I only just got the Blade Runner reference in the Terminator episode where Sarah flips the turtle/tortise over - thanks /. :-)
I don't know if it's just me, but who gives a fuck? It's a phone, people. Get a life. Not trolling, just saying...
Loss of appetite a symptom of smoking way too much pot? I think you're confusing your recreational chemicals there, buddy.