Hey, Betamax isn't dead; It lives in my apartment. Seriously though, the Internet truly is the graveyard of technology. Where else could you find someone who offers Betamax cleaning instructions and repair service? Hang in there Superbeta HiFi!
If you pay me $5.00 I'll post for you after you pass. $15.00 if you want the KarmaCare service. Act now and I'll even anonymously answer cowboyneal in polls on your behalf!
Use a script like denyhosts, and I'm sure there are a ton of others out there that are just as good if not better. Unless your password is weak enough to be guessed in five attempts and the attacker isn't already in the denyhosts list, you shouldn't have to worry about too much. And, most importantly, just peruse your auth logs every now and then, it's not really that big of a chore.
I know, I wrote that all out, and then I was like "wait, shit, I can just grep it right from the links2 output." So I wrote it on one line... but then I realized I wasn't using cat anymore and it ruined the joke. Please don't judge me!
P.S. thanks for introducing me to the phrase "UUOC," now I have something funny to read!
That's like saying credit cards are useless and stupid because they were originally developed only for food stamps. The Internet is for idiots because it was a government comm network that was bastardized into something that now drives business and culture on a global scale. Herbie Hancock's use of a vocoder in the album Sunlight was dumb because vocoders were originally developed for telephonic encryption. My point is that your point is really dumb.
BackupPC is in Perl. Nagios plugins are a snap in Perl. There's a library for everything in Perl. Perl is easy. It's installed in every *nix OS that apparently doesn't reside in your basement. There are O'Reilly books on RT, dude, and you're going to dismiss it because it's written in a language that you can't even logically qualify your distaste for? Thanks, but no thanks.
I just spent all morning removing this from a user's PC and tracking it back to finally arrive at globmail.org, and here I am on/. and you've already gone 5 steps past where I got done. Nice work!
A little first hand info with the actual culprit:
It did not install the way any of the online sources I checked said it would, no Add/Remove entry (duh), and no folder in program Files.
I found it in "All Users\Application Data\AV1\"
Cleaned the user's temp files and searched the PC to find several more instances of 'AV1' and 'QWProtect'
Found a good deal of references to 'AV1' and 'QWProtect' in the registry; QWProtect is a BHO that looks like it comes with AV1.
Found http://www.malware-news.com/anti-virus-1-new-fake-antivirus.html, saw that TrendMicro has sigs for it, so I used Sysclean, which I think is an awesome tool (plus it's free!). Sysclean found one more instance of it and deleted it.
Blocked 217.20.175.74 in the corporate FW and it looks like I'm all set.
Note that the user had to have admin privileges because of some poorly written software, but this wouldn't have happened if she was able to run as a local admin.
Yes... that's the way it's been a long time here in America. I couldn't be more fucking psyched for some idealistic lab experience if I were the governor of Eureka.
Well we must be talking about different floaters, because my doctors tell me that they're just little bubbles in the fluid on the surface of my eye and that everyone has them. Or maybe I should get a second opinion...
Russian-based ElcomSoft has just released ElcomSoft Wireless Security Auditor 1.0...
"Just" released? Like, a month ago? Or was that just the announcement?
I think the key point with all this, though, is just don't use dictionary words in your passwords... for anything... ever. The same company makes software for all kinds of password systems, so just don't do it.
without dictionary words being involved, cracking is still quite intensive: perhaps three months to crack a lowercase-only random eight-character password using a PC with two Nvidia GTX 280 video cards.
Dude, you can't spell out your cool obscure reference to an awesome book just because someone modded you troll, that ruins it. You just have to trust in the idea that there are cool people on/. who will get your hip shit and mod you up just to stick it to the less nerdy mods. You'll just have to live with the mod-kipple, for some day all moderations will be filled with kipple, and we'll be consumed by it.
"floaters" in your eyeballs (you'll get 'em when you're older)
Maybe you do notice them more when you're older, or maybe I'm just overly sensitive (which I've been told by many optometrists that I am), but I've noticed those ever since I was a toddler.
If they stay on for hours at a time, they don't really have a serious ADHD problem
I'm sorry, but you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. One of the symptoms of ADHD is very mild savantism in one or two particular subjects, commonly focusing on the sciences, as well as an uncanny ability to concentrate on things that are engrossing to the subject, like books or video games. There has been tons and tons of research on this, I was even in one of the studies when I was a kid for three months at NIMH. It really sucks that there is so little public knowledge about ADHD, but so much information in the academic world available. This concept of using a video game with neural feedback was in use ten years ago, it was published in CHADD ten years ago, and those of us who actually keep up with ADHD knew about it ten years ago. Newsweek is not an appropriate source of information on ADHD, and that might explain why your thoughts on it are so misguided. Get your kid a copy of "Putting on the Brakes," or get a subscription to CHADD, but damn man, you're on slashdot, you can't quote a non-academic publication as a source here because we all know they're the reason for such gross misunderstanding of science by the general public. Now back to why the LCH is going to cause black holes and we're all gonna die...
Slashdot Mirror
I use penguins to keep my servers cool. Seriously. It works.
Hey, Betamax isn't dead; It lives in my apartment. Seriously though, the Internet truly is the graveyard of technology. Where else could you find someone who offers Betamax cleaning instructions and repair service? Hang in there Superbeta HiFi!
If you pay me $5.00 I'll post for you after you pass. $15.00 if you want the KarmaCare service. Act now and I'll even anonymously answer cowboyneal in polls on your behalf!
"I can't wait until the tattoos on Amy's butt hear about this!"
I like your non-GUI Citrix server.
Use a script like denyhosts, and I'm sure there are a ton of others out there that are just as good if not better. Unless your password is weak enough to be guessed in five attempts and the attacker isn't already in the denyhosts list, you shouldn't have to worry about too much. And, most importantly, just peruse your auth logs every now and then, it's not really that big of a chore.
I know, I wrote that all out, and then I was like "wait, shit, I can just grep it right from the links2 output." So I wrote it on one line... but then I realized I wasn't using cat anymore and it ruined the joke. Please don't judge me!
P.S. thanks for introducing me to the phrase "UUOC," now I have something funny to read!
~# date
Wed Apr 1 13:31:50 EDT 2009
~# links2 -dump http://slashdot.org/ >> humortest.txt
~# cat humortest.txt | grep $somethingfunny
~#
What a letdown after mastering cat.
That's like saying credit cards are useless and stupid because they were originally developed only for food stamps. The Internet is for idiots because it was a government comm network that was bastardized into something that now drives business and culture on a global scale. Herbie Hancock's use of a vocoder in the album Sunlight was dumb because vocoders were originally developed for telephonic encryption. My point is that your point is really dumb.
BackupPC is in Perl. Nagios plugins are a snap in Perl. There's a library for everything in Perl. Perl is easy. It's installed in every *nix OS that apparently doesn't reside in your basement. There are O'Reilly books on RT, dude, and you're going to dismiss it because it's written in a language that you can't even logically qualify your distaste for? Thanks, but no thanks.
Finally! Now I can run a Beowulf cluster on a single cell phone, we've been waiting so long!
Uh, duh, to get on the front page of /.
I just spent all morning removing this from a user's PC and tracking it back to finally arrive at globmail.org, and here I am on /. and you've already gone 5 steps past where I got done. Nice work!
A little first hand info with the actual culprit:
It did not install the way any of the online sources I checked said it would, no Add/Remove entry (duh), and no folder in program Files.
I found it in "All Users\Application Data\AV1\"
Cleaned the user's temp files and searched the PC to find several more instances of 'AV1' and 'QWProtect'
Found a good deal of references to 'AV1' and 'QWProtect' in the registry; QWProtect is a BHO that looks like it comes with AV1.
Found http://www.malware-news.com/anti-virus-1-new-fake-antivirus.html, saw that TrendMicro has sigs for it, so I used Sysclean, which I think is an awesome tool (plus it's free!). Sysclean found one more instance of it and deleted it.
Blocked 217.20.175.74 in the corporate FW and it looks like I'm all set.
Note that the user had to have admin privileges because of some poorly written software, but this wouldn't have happened if she was able to run as a local admin.
Can't go to Europa, the monolith said so.
Sorry Mr. Taco, I have to go with the CowboyNeal option here.
Yes... that's the way it's been a long time here in America. I couldn't be more fucking psyched for some idealistic lab experience if I were the governor of Eureka.
Well we must be talking about different floaters, because my doctors tell me that they're just little bubbles in the fluid on the surface of my eye and that everyone has them. Or maybe I should get a second opinion...
Russian-based ElcomSoft has just released ElcomSoft Wireless Security Auditor 1.0...
"Just" released? Like, a month ago? Or was that just the announcement?
I think the key point with all this, though, is just don't use dictionary words in your passwords... for anything... ever. The same company makes software for all kinds of password systems, so just don't do it.
without dictionary words being involved, cracking is still quite intensive: perhaps three months to crack a lowercase-only random eight-character password using a PC with two Nvidia GTX 280 video cards.
Dude, you can't spell out your cool obscure reference to an awesome book just because someone modded you troll, that ruins it. You just have to trust in the idea that there are cool people on /. who will get your hip shit and mod you up just to stick it to the less nerdy mods. You'll just have to live with the mod-kipple, for some day all moderations will be filled with kipple, and we'll be consumed by it.
"floaters" in your eyeballs (you'll get 'em when you're older)
Maybe you do notice them more when you're older, or maybe I'm just overly sensitive (which I've been told by many optometrists that I am), but I've noticed those ever since I was a toddler.
"What's for dinner tonight, Dave?"
"Oh, I don't know, Frank, how about... MORE FU(#1NG WORMS!?"
"Just calm down and pass the worm jam."
My name is also Julius, so I support this decision.
If they stay on for hours at a time, they don't really have a serious ADHD problem
I'm sorry, but you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. One of the symptoms of ADHD is very mild savantism in one or two particular subjects, commonly focusing on the sciences, as well as an uncanny ability to concentrate on things that are engrossing to the subject, like books or video games. There has been tons and tons of research on this, I was even in one of the studies when I was a kid for three months at NIMH. It really sucks that there is so little public knowledge about ADHD, but so much information in the academic world available. This concept of using a video game with neural feedback was in use ten years ago, it was published in CHADD ten years ago, and those of us who actually keep up with ADHD knew about it ten years ago. Newsweek is not an appropriate source of information on ADHD, and that might explain why your thoughts on it are so misguided. Get your kid a copy of "Putting on the Brakes," or get a subscription to CHADD, but damn man, you're on slashdot, you can't quote a non-academic publication as a source here because we all know they're the reason for such gross misunderstanding of science by the general public. Now back to why the LCH is going to cause black holes and we're all gonna die...
John C. Dvorak is the Ellsworth Toohey of the technology world.
I read about this in CHADD almost ten years ago.