lets make a bet... if after a year of longhorn's release, no exploitable errors in their RSS component have been found, I'll give you all my worldy possesions... deal?
you make it sound like he's the one tooting his own horn here. If you look at his blog entry, all he does is state what he did, and link to the crack. Its the news organizations that have taken this relatively simple and mundane development and run with it, not Jon himself.
If you're serious about killing the damn things, I'd reccomend using a local http proxy. I reccomend proximitron personally (its what I use), but I know there are others. It lets you customize what gets let through on webpages, and its relatively easy to set up. www.proximitron.info
Aurora is the most prevalant form of crap out there today. I help at www.geekstogo.com and almost 10% of our google hits (we generally have about 800 users on at any given moment) come from searches on how to get rid of aurora popups.
ALL their uninstaller does is trigger a hidden "/fullremove" switch inside the executable file, and to do that, they insist you lower your browser settings and firewall so that they can phone home with loads of fun information about you and your computer.
These are the same people that brought the infamous Look2Me, which rivals CoolWebSearch in tenacity and obnoxious difficulty of removal.
Its good to know this stuff is coming in through bittorrent, although they offer file samples as direct downloads from their website (making it easy to diagnose and write up cures). At least now we can spread the word on how not to get infected
Thats because Earthlink is Dial-Up. Its kind of hard to use dial-up in a botnet... FEAR the mighty DDOS going... at... 56k... yeeeeah...
plus you generally find a lot less infections on dial-up computers (generally speaking, god knows there are exceptions) because all the crap thats getting downloaded onto the computer generally has a fairly significant file size, and it takes forever to download, just like a legitimate program. By the time they exploit finishes running, they've left the page, and/or the net
The illusion of security... I bet you dont use a firewall either. Part of my job is cleaning malware off of computers, and about 75% of them say "but I'm so careful! I never download anything I dont trust completely, and I use firefox!" Unfortunately, if you dont have an AV, you're playing with fire. Tell me you use a sandboxing setup and have a clear understanding of your registry, and use a top of the line firewall, and I might believe you've got a clean system
The privacy ramifications of this are frightening. RFID is already widely used in product storeage, it makes warehousing far easier and more streamlined. The problem is that the tags arent always deactivated once the product has been purchased. If this turns into a gigantic linked network, consider the possibilities. Any hacker worth his salt could dial in and figure out what you purchased, where its being kept... any number of things. It would make tracking your spending habits simplistic.
more on RFID: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/RFID/Metro_Rhe inberg.php
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lets make a bet... if after a year of longhorn's release, no exploitable errors in their RSS component have been found, I'll give you all my worldy possesions... deal?
you make it sound like he's the one tooting his own horn here. If you look at his blog entry, all he does is state what he did, and link to the crack. Its the news organizations that have taken this relatively simple and mundane development and run with it, not Jon himself.
If you're serious about killing the damn things, I'd reccomend using a local http proxy. I reccomend proximitron personally (its what I use), but I know there are others. It lets you customize what gets let through on webpages, and its relatively easy to set up. www.proximitron.info
Aurora is the most prevalant form of crap out there today. I help at www.geekstogo.com and almost 10% of our google hits (we generally have about 800 users on at any given moment) come from searches on how to get rid of aurora popups. ALL their uninstaller does is trigger a hidden "/fullremove" switch inside the executable file, and to do that, they insist you lower your browser settings and firewall so that they can phone home with loads of fun information about you and your computer. These are the same people that brought the infamous Look2Me, which rivals CoolWebSearch in tenacity and obnoxious difficulty of removal. Its good to know this stuff is coming in through bittorrent, although they offer file samples as direct downloads from their website (making it easy to diagnose and write up cures). At least now we can spread the word on how not to get infected
Thats because Earthlink is Dial-Up. Its kind of hard to use dial-up in a botnet... FEAR the mighty DDOS going... at... 56k... yeeeeah... plus you generally find a lot less infections on dial-up computers (generally speaking, god knows there are exceptions) because all the crap thats getting downloaded onto the computer generally has a fairly significant file size, and it takes forever to download, just like a legitimate program. By the time they exploit finishes running, they've left the page, and/or the net
The illusion of security... I bet you dont use a firewall either. Part of my job is cleaning malware off of computers, and about 75% of them say "but I'm so careful! I never download anything I dont trust completely, and I use firefox!" Unfortunately, if you dont have an AV, you're playing with fire. Tell me you use a sandboxing setup and have a clear understanding of your registry, and use a top of the line firewall, and I might believe you've got a clean system
The privacy ramifications of this are frightening. RFID is already widely used in product storeage, it makes warehousing far easier and more streamlined. The problem is that the tags arent always deactivated once the product has been purchased. If this turns into a gigantic linked network, consider the possibilities. Any hacker worth his salt could dial in and figure out what you purchased, where its being kept... any number of things. It would make tracking your spending habits simplistic. more on RFID: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/RFID/Metro_Rhe inberg.php