Instead of swiping a neighbor's wireless, why not make an above-board deal with the folks next door? If you're within 100 meters, you might be able to run a piece of Cat5e from your house to theirs. Offer to pay half of their cable Internet costs for access...
or, if they don't have broadband, offer them access to yours for twenty bucks a month.
If this guy was oblivious to that trojan on his system, who knows what other spyware he had?
They may not have needed to remotely control his system via coreflood. His banking info may have been ftp'd by some other.exe or.dll loaded in memory... many of which wouldn't have been detected by anti-virus, or any other, software. Disclaimer of no sympathy:
Coreflood was discovered in 2002. He got hit in 2004. Fuck him.
Microsoft, after previous versions of MCE failed to set the world on fire, released Media Center Edition 2005 through the OEM System Builder channel.
This means anyone who can buy MCE 2005 OEM software can manufacture Media Centers. This sets us free to Do This Right.
When I sell one, I use the following:
A sweet Athlon 64 FX on a good MB
1 GB DDR400 SDRAM
Antec Overture case
A 60-80GB UATA 133 drive for the OS
At least one 200GB SATA drive for the video
One or more Hauppage WINTV150MCE capture cards
256MB GeForce video card
I can build one out for about $1600. I sell it (installed and configured) for $2500-$3000.
I was a Desktop Engineer for a consulting firm, and did home & small business computer support on the side.
In 2003, I had to pay taxes as a business on the side work. This forced me to obtain a business license...
When the side work brought in almost as much as my primary job just from work-of-mouth, I "retired" and started advertising.
Now, the consulting firm wants me back, as a consultant, for a lot more money.:^)
See this story http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/07/26/kalashnikov.shtml for Russia's response to the issue of intellectual property piracy. It has some validity.
I'm proud to say that my Kalashnikov -- a Saiga-12 (semi-automatic, magazine-fed 12 gauge AK-47 shotgun) -- is the genuine article, made in Russia by Izhmash. So are the 8-round magazines I brought home from my last trip to Russia.
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Instead of swiping a neighbor's wireless, why not make an above-board deal with the folks next door?
If you're within 100 meters, you might be able to run a piece of Cat5e from your house to theirs. Offer to pay half of their cable Internet costs for access...
or, if they don't have broadband, offer them access to yours for twenty bucks a month.
If this guy was oblivious to that trojan on his system, who knows what other spyware he had? .exe or .dll loaded in memory... many of which wouldn't have been detected by anti-virus, or any other, software.
They may not have needed to remotely control his system via coreflood. His banking info may have been ftp'd by some other
Disclaimer of no sympathy:
Coreflood was discovered in 2002. He got hit in 2004. Fuck him.
Microsoft, after previous versions of MCE failed to set the world on fire, released Media Center Edition 2005 through the OEM System Builder channel.
This means anyone who can buy MCE 2005 OEM software can manufacture Media Centers. This sets us free to Do This Right.
When I sell one, I use the following:
A sweet Athlon 64 FX on a good MB
1 GB DDR400 SDRAM
Antec Overture case
A 60-80GB UATA 133 drive for the OS
At least one 200GB SATA drive for the video
One or more Hauppage WINTV150MCE capture cards
256MB GeForce video card
I can build one out for about $1600. I sell it (installed and configured) for $2500-$3000.
I was a Desktop Engineer for a consulting firm, and did home & small business computer support on the side. In 2003, I had to pay taxes as a business on the side work. This forced me to obtain a business license... When the side work brought in almost as much as my primary job just from work-of-mouth, I "retired" and started advertising. Now, the consulting firm wants me back, as a consultant, for a lot more money. :^)
See this story http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/07/26/kalashnikov .shtml for Russia's response to the issue of intellectual property piracy. It has some validity.
I'm proud to say that my Kalashnikov -- a Saiga-12 (semi-automatic, magazine-fed 12 gauge AK-47 shotgun) -- is the genuine article, made in Russia by Izhmash. So are the 8-round magazines I brought home from my last trip to Russia.