I know for a fact that IBM had an anti-virus lab established in 1989 at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. It was run by the now IBM Fellow (I believe) David Chess.
...when did Symantic's work on anti-virus detection begin? I know that IBM had a anti-virus lab at the T.J. Watson Research in 1989, so I would find it difficult to believe that Symantic's work predates this.
Perhaps those who are already doing it won't learn anything new, but those who may have considered it in the past but didn't know where to begin looking will now engage in this activity because of this project.
We had script-kiddies invade the hacker space. Will we now have card-kiddies?
I'll be ducking when they implement offline d-Mail. Imagine logging on to the network one morning only to be assaulted by a phalanx of darts coming from the server room...
...you have to admit: you don't become the richest man in America by being an idiot at running a company.
I'd love to read the real story on Bill Gates. I still despise the way Microsoft conducts a lot of its business but wealth is a measure of success, especially when the owner of that wealth got booted out of school.
But this can be taken to extremes. One Dilbert strip comes to mind where the manager promises the marketing person everything under the world including a total rewrite of the underlying operating system (to dominate the industry, of course), holostic agents, virtual packaging, etc.
There are several other pertinent Dilbert strips, but you get the idea.
This is why the "Crap Detector" characteristic is so important. It's one thing to be a visionary - it's another thing entirely to be unrealistic. The trick is being able to differentiate between the two.
LinuxWorld announced today that 4 of these postage stamp-sized storage devices have been preordered to hold all of the spewage coming from Dvorak about its demise.
That's why I'm developing Bill Lates. It's a version of Bill that runs on Linux and spews out Linuxisms, kinda like that Donald Trump doll does. I give MS a couple of weeks before I'm offered a lot of money.
Perhaps, but you could make the case that this is the only reasonable way for them to determine if you're using WINE or not, in which case they've done "due diligence."
Your response is: "couldn't they check for the DLLs?"
My answer is: "yes, but you could theoretically spoof those too."
Your response is: "your mother is still ugly. I win."
The mantra in Redmond when Windows 3.1x was being developed was: "Windows ain't done til Lotus won't run."
The Microsoft team who worked with IBM on OS/2 specifically designed certain key features of OS/2 so that they would - in the resulting form - not run under an SMP system. IBM had to invest significant time to correct these design "flaws" (or WAD [W.orking A.s D.esigned], depending on which company you ask) to get OS/2 to run on a 2 and 4 processor system.
There are a few other incidents that come to mind were Microsoft used its power in a manner that was dubious at best, monopolistic at best, yet they continue to skirt the line on the side of legality. Oy vey.
If Microsoft adopted it then you wouldn't be able to say...
the GroupDAV effort is backed by real code that works today....at least not until the third version came out.
Maybe they're going to release Vampire: Troika and become an undead character in their own game.
When this happens, the entire gaming industry is going to collapse due to a stack overflow from the recursion.
All this talk of light and dark is making me think that the universe is one big experiment in racism. Why can't we have fuschia-years or mauve-matter?
ObTopic: no one wants to lend credence to the "below our threshold for detection" statement that someone else posted earlier? It may be possible that the stars are simply too dim...no?
Running as Administrator isn't bad. Running as Administrator with no password is criminal though. Unfortunately, the vast majority of "casual user" installations are running as admin with no password.
A password and a little bit of caution will keep your system clean, or at least it has kept my system clean.
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When is Symantic claiming that their work began?
I know for a fact that IBM had an anti-virus lab established in 1989 at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. It was run by the now IBM Fellow (I believe) David Chess.
Symantic would be hard pressed to predate that.
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...when did Symantic's work on anti-virus detection begin? I know that IBM had a anti-virus lab at the T.J. Watson Research in 1989, so I would find it difficult to believe that Symantic's work predates this.
Let me see if I understand you correctly:
We read lots about it.
New proposals are brought forth.
We never see anything about it again.
In other words, it succeeded? :D
Heard on TV: "Better than liposuction! Better than gastric bypass! It's the InvisiButt! [tm]
Perhaps those who are already doing it won't learn anything new, but those who may have considered it in the past but didn't know where to begin looking will now engage in this activity because of this project.
We had script-kiddies invade the hacker space. Will we now have card-kiddies?
I'll be ducking when they implement offline d-Mail. Imagine logging on to the network one morning only to be assaulted by a phalanx of darts coming from the server room...
...you have to admit: you don't become the richest man in America by being an idiot at running a company.
I'd love to read the real story on Bill Gates. I still despise the way Microsoft conducts a lot of its business but wealth is a measure of success, especially when the owner of that wealth got booted out of school.
But this can be taken to extremes. One Dilbert strip comes to mind where the manager promises the marketing person everything under the world including a total rewrite of the underlying operating system (to dominate the industry, of course), holostic agents, virtual packaging, etc.
There are several other pertinent Dilbert strips, but you get the idea.
This is why the "Crap Detector" characteristic is so important. It's one thing to be a visionary - it's another thing entirely to be unrealistic. The trick is being able to differentiate between the two.
LinuxWorld announced today that 4 of these postage stamp-sized storage devices have been preordered to hold all of the spewage coming from Dvorak about its demise.
Or...Dress Stewart Alsop in a mini skirt and hope that the two elope. Two birds dead with one stone!
That's why I'm developing Bill Lates. It's a version of Bill that runs on Linux and spews out Linuxisms, kinda like that Donald Trump doll does. I give MS a couple of weeks before I'm offered a lot of money.
Perhaps, but you could make the case that this is the only reasonable way for them to determine if you're using WINE or not, in which case they've done "due diligence."
:D
Your response is: "couldn't they check for the DLLs?"
My answer is: "yes, but you could theoretically spoof those too."
Your response is: "your mother is still ugly. I win."
My work here is done.
Perhaps. I remember Dvorak saying Windows in one of his columns years ago (circa 1996).
:D :D :D
The OS/2 story is one I know from personal experience since I was on the OS/2 team at IBM.
Um..Maybe that's not something I should admit to.
...a few old stories:
The mantra in Redmond when Windows 3.1x was being developed was: "Windows ain't done til Lotus won't run."
The Microsoft team who worked with IBM on OS/2 specifically designed certain key features of OS/2 so that they would - in the resulting form - not run under an SMP system. IBM had to invest significant time to correct these design "flaws" (or WAD [W.orking A.s D.esigned], depending on which company you ask) to get OS/2 to run on a 2 and 4 processor system.
There are a few other incidents that come to mind were Microsoft used its power in a manner that was dubious at best, monopolistic at best, yet they continue to skirt the line on the side of legality. Oy vey.
It's when everyone dresses alike, sorta like Garanimals.
Not, uh, that I would know what Garanimals is.
If Microsoft adopted it then you wouldn't be able to say... the GroupDAV effort is backed by real code that works today. ...at least not until the third version came out.
Maybe they're going to release Vampire: Troika and become an undead character in their own game. When this happens, the entire gaming industry is going to collapse due to a stack overflow from the recursion.
Nothing against Linux, but them and 90% of the rest of the gaming companies?
All this talk of light and dark is making me think that the universe is one big experiment in racism. Why can't we have fuschia-years or mauve-matter?
ObTopic: no one wants to lend credence to the "below our threshold for detection" statement that someone else posted earlier? It may be possible that the stars are simply too dim...no?
Running as Administrator isn't bad. Running as Administrator with no password is criminal though. Unfortunately, the vast majority of "casual user" installations are running as admin with no password.
A password and a little bit of caution will keep your system clean, or at least it has kept my system clean.