Well, that's why you should firewall off all your machines. Hardware at the borders and software on the desktops. If you're blocking outsider's requests it doesn't matter that holes are on the other side of the firewall.
Hopefully the cost of processing returns and negative street rep from the pissed off customers would kinda eat into these kind of short term gains.
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Yea... In case you didn't pay any attention at all, this virus relies on the user to do something stupid. Any mailreader that supports attachments and has a user at one end is vulnerable. Also, these viruses already are illegal. They can't catch them to do anything at all to them.
Well, since marketing directors only occasionally visits with reality, I'm sure he considers the set of MS customers to include every man, woman, child and corporation on earth.
Hey smartass, give it a try. My mailreader can't access port 80 so their trash can't load. Plus Outlook 2003 doesn't download HTML content by default and you can set it so that it will display all e-mail as plain text. Better yet, since you don't recieve any legit HTML e-mail, have your mailserver send anything with DOCTYPE HTML to the void. Or if that's too hard, keep bitching, I bet soon they'll change every mailreader on earth just for you.
Start sending a reply to those USERS who installed the shit. Ask them to stop wasting resources and annoying you, don't ask the rest of the world to remove the capability.
I'm still calibrating my tin-foil hat, so maybe you can give me a hand. What kind of DRM (which of course isn't mentioned anywhere in the announcement) would be integrated into a display device?
We disregard them becuase it was administrative negligance that was the biggest factor in the event. When you're told a couple months in advance that there's a remote compromise that will allow an attacker to install software as admin/root, you patch the damn computers, or put up a firewall, or something other than just leave them out there connected to the network. When you don't, you get laughed at when you get hacked. Works for any OS.
Most of the security problems I've seen come from moron users running questionable applications. If the e-mail blast from ass-munch marketing had a mac version of their software, spyware and trojans would be just as prevalent on the Mac OS as it is in Windows; but when 90%+ of the machines on the other end are all going to be Windows, you don't write another version.
Why should a non-admin run their window box as an admin? That would prevent e-mail born *anything* from installing. If you switch over to admin mode to install on your Mac, it can install spyware right along with it, same for unix. No differences there. Don't like people smearing your OS of choice, stop making stupid ass comments about others.
About as useless as turning WEP on, and WEP will degrade your performance. If you really want to be secure you need to unplug the WAP, the next best is to secure the network behind it. WEP won't stop anybody serious, nor will MAC address filters; both will stop the (l)user next door.
It's the 5GB and it's $369 US and whopping $30 off. http://bookstore.asu.edu/computers/apple_ipod.php It's all apple's price fixing on hardware. But I'm delighted to see that an evil corporate practice by Apple is passed off as beneath comment here at/.
I use RDP to my servers from a wireless laptop at home. It works just fine in full screen mode. I wouldn't watch a movie or anything on it, but for work it is just fine and on some of my more ancient equipment it is faster than working locally.
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That's why you can't stop at the border.
Well, that's why you should firewall off all your machines. Hardware at the borders and software on the desktops. If you're blocking outsider's requests it doesn't matter that holes are on the other side of the firewall.
The grandparent was talking about running your own distribution point for updates. He's 110% right on all his complaints. The product is crap.
Perhaps a more relevant difference, is that the last Crusade was in the 13th century. The last Jihad was last week.
Hopefully the cost of processing returns and negative street rep from the pissed off customers would kinda eat into these kind of short term gains.
Yea... In case you didn't pay any attention at all, this virus relies on the user to do something stupid. Any mailreader that supports attachments and has a user at one end is vulnerable. Also, these viruses already are illegal. They can't catch them to do anything at all to them.
Perhaps it's because they advocate a command economy, just like socialism and communism.
Patch for what? Someone figure out how to keep retarded users from running unknown attachments?
Or an angel unwilling to blindly serve his creator and master. Remember, Angels are God's slaves. They are not gifted with free will.
Well, since marketing directors only occasionally visits with reality, I'm sure he considers the set of MS customers to include every man, woman, child and corporation on earth.
Like $120 for the Academic version. I work for a University. They almost give it to us for free.
Hey smartass, give it a try. My mailreader can't access port 80 so their trash can't load. Plus Outlook 2003 doesn't download HTML content by default and you can set it so that it will display all e-mail as plain text.
Better yet, since you don't recieve any legit HTML e-mail, have your mailserver send anything with DOCTYPE HTML to the void.
Or if that's too hard, keep bitching, I bet soon they'll change every mailreader on earth just for you.
Start sending a reply to those USERS who installed the shit. Ask them to stop wasting resources and annoying you, don't ask the rest of the world to remove the capability.
Name all the video display devices with DRM. None? That's right, there aren't any.
Then you simply refuse to buy. Joe six-pack isn't dropping a grand on a TV he can't hook up his (insert any currently manufactured video device) to.
I'm still calibrating my tin-foil hat, so maybe you can give me a hand. What kind of DRM (which of course isn't mentioned anywhere in the announcement) would be integrated into a display device?
Yea he did, and we all quickly forgot about the foolish comments he made, until now.
We disregard them becuase it was administrative negligance that was the biggest factor in the event. When you're told a couple months in advance that there's a remote compromise that will allow an attacker to install software as admin/root, you patch the damn computers, or put up a firewall, or something other than just leave them out there connected to the network.
When you don't, you get laughed at when you get hacked. Works for any OS.
Most of the security problems I've seen come from moron users running questionable applications.
If the e-mail blast from ass-munch marketing had a mac version of their software, spyware and trojans would be just as prevalent on the Mac OS as it is in Windows; but when 90%+ of the machines on the other end are all going to be Windows, you don't write another version.
But the asshole tone of the reply wasn't, and brings to mind the foolish mac zealot we've all heard about.
Why should a non-admin run their window box as an admin? That would prevent e-mail born *anything* from installing. If you switch over to admin mode to install on your Mac, it can install spyware right along with it, same for unix. No differences there.
Don't like people smearing your OS of choice, stop making stupid ass comments about others.
About as useless as turning WEP on, and WEP will degrade your performance. If you really want to be secure you need to unplug the WAP, the next best is to secure the network behind it. WEP won't stop anybody serious, nor will MAC address filters; both will stop the (l)user next door.
It's the 5GB and it's $369 US and whopping $30 off. http://bookstore.asu.edu/computers/apple_ipod.php /.
It's all apple's price fixing on hardware. But I'm delighted to see that an evil corporate practice by Apple is passed off as beneath comment here at
Typically they are grading the implementation, not the idea.
I use RDP to my servers from a wireless laptop at home. It works just fine in full screen mode. I wouldn't watch a movie or anything on it, but for work it is just fine and on some of my more ancient equipment it is faster than working locally.