I know I'm going to be showing off my ignorance here, but I'll ask anyway. Did you try adding the intranet site to the trusted site list or the non IE equivalent on the image of your company's computers (or even doing it manually for each computer if it's less trouble than reconfiguring the systems?)
People are forgetting one thing: in this game, the game creators are basically gods. Even if they promise to not change anything on the perfectly located beachfront property with gold mines and AI bikini girls, there's nothing that can stop them from making a hundred more islands with identical property when they feel the need to squeeze a bit more cash out of the game.
Or what if they release an expansion with new content that makes assets in the old game worth almost nothing in comparison?
People who have played Everquest for a moderate amount of time will know what I'm talking about. When the game was first released, a rare sword from the bottom of a high level dungeon was something everyone wanted to get. A few expansions later, it became completely worthless, not because anything about that item or the difficultly in getting it changed, but because equivalent and better weapons were easily gotten in the new areas from the expansions.
Having not played Second Life, I can't say that example directly applies to the game, but it does illustrate the omnipotent amount of power that the game designers have over your property and its worth.
You haven't seen just how bad spyware infections can get. Trust me, an hour can easily be spent removing the most persistent infections.
I do think that this guy should educate his daughter and take some preventive measures though. A hosts file that blocks known bad sites and an immunization feature from an antispyware program should help immensely.
The amount of deception and misinformation in those license agreements is astounding. Some of them have 54 screens of legalese in a tiny box. Others bring up the activeX install box saying "hit yes to install critical media player 9 update". Others are on sites for children, who are too young to legally enter a contract: http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/installations/ez one-claria/details.html#1c
Quite frankly, if someone were making contracts like these for real life goods and services, lawyers would be brought in in nanoseconds.
Plus there's the fact that quite a lot of them *don't* ask for consent, and install via one of the many IE exploits.
I don't think it really works as an advertisement; I think it's safe to say that most of slashdot is already familiar with this "star wars" that they mention.
I've seen spyware infections so bad that I had to go through the windows and system32 directories, deleting suspicious exe's after looking up each one to make sure it's not a windows component. And this was after running adaware, spybot, MS antispyware, spysweeper, cool web shredder, hijackthis, and symantec corporate, as well as uninstalling and removing all the crap from system startup and cleaning out all the temp directories. Plus the spyware often screws up the operating system files.
Keep in mind that upgrading all that software takes time, and they have other things that need to get done. So you'd need to either pay them for more hours, hire more, or face delays.
How quickly can you click with a headmouse, and is right clicking as easy as left clicking? Diablo 1 or Diablo 2 may be possibilities, assuming that fairly rapid clicking is not a problem. Diablo 1 has a bit of a slower pace, and with both games you can access just about everything, including the main menu and inventory, using only the mouse.
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I know I'm going to be showing off my ignorance here, but I'll ask anyway. Did you try adding the intranet site to the trusted site list or the non IE equivalent on the image of your company's computers (or even doing it manually for each computer if it's less trouble than reconfiguring the systems?)
People are forgetting one thing: in this game, the game creators are basically gods. Even if they promise to not change anything on the perfectly located beachfront property with gold mines and AI bikini girls, there's nothing that can stop them from making a hundred more islands with identical property when they feel the need to squeeze a bit more cash out of the game. Or what if they release an expansion with new content that makes assets in the old game worth almost nothing in comparison? People who have played Everquest for a moderate amount of time will know what I'm talking about. When the game was first released, a rare sword from the bottom of a high level dungeon was something everyone wanted to get. A few expansions later, it became completely worthless, not because anything about that item or the difficultly in getting it changed, but because equivalent and better weapons were easily gotten in the new areas from the expansions. Having not played Second Life, I can't say that example directly applies to the game, but it does illustrate the omnipotent amount of power that the game designers have over your property and its worth.
When I saw "Holy men in tights", I thought it was about another Catholic sex abuse scandal.
You haven't seen just how bad spyware infections can get. Trust me, an hour can easily be spent removing the most persistent infections.
I do think that this guy should educate his daughter and take some preventive measures though. A hosts file that blocks known bad sites and an immunization feature from an antispyware program should help immensely.
Aluminum siding. 'Nuff said.
They can just show 12 cheesy scifi movies from the 50's, and do the whole thing at Vasquez Rocks in California.
The amount of deception and misinformation in those license agreements is astounding. Some of them have 54 screens of legalese in a tiny box. Others bring up the activeX install box saying "hit yes to install critical media player 9 update". Others are on sites for children, who are too young to legally enter a contract: http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/installations/ez one-claria/details.html#1c
Quite frankly, if someone were making contracts like these for real life goods and services, lawyers would be brought in in nanoseconds.
Plus there's the fact that quite a lot of them *don't* ask for consent, and install via one of the many IE exploits.
His mother washed an obvious electronic device? Is she Amish or something?
I sincerely hope that it's just a generic case they used for the demo, and that they're still working on its real case for when it's released.
I don't think it really works as an advertisement; I think it's safe to say that most of slashdot is already familiar with this "star wars" that they mention.
That Churchill really gets around.
I've used bartPE to delete stuff like this. Just make an image, burn it, and boot from the cd. Nice for that junk that runs even in safe mode.
I've seen spyware infections so bad that I had to go through the windows and system32 directories, deleting suspicious exe's after looking up each one to make sure it's not a windows component. And this was after running adaware, spybot, MS antispyware, spysweeper, cool web shredder, hijackthis, and symantec corporate, as well as uninstalling and removing all the crap from system startup and cleaning out all the temp directories. Plus the spyware often screws up the operating system files.
Keep in mind that upgrading all that software takes time, and they have other things that need to get done. So you'd need to either pay them for more hours, hire more, or face delays.
that this professor is just one dyslexic capitalist away from being dubbed "Von Hippie".
Not motivated by money? What is the motive for turning millions of computers into spyware infested spam spewing bots then?
How quickly can you click with a headmouse, and is right clicking as easy as left clicking? Diablo 1 or Diablo 2 may be possibilities, assuming that fairly rapid clicking is not a problem. Diablo 1 has a bit of a slower pace, and with both games you can access just about everything, including the main menu and inventory, using only the mouse.