Once the user clicks on the link, malicious code is installed and runs on the computer.
What is the link (an example)? What kind of file its? Is it exploiting any holes in any specific software? Which operating system does this work in? What are the symptoms, if any at all? And what the hell does it do other than spread itself around? What backdoors does it open on the host?
ZDNET needs to do research (also called "journalism") before reporting sensational news...
The increasing collaborative efforts between the browser vendors in the last few weeks is an honest attempt to create a standard Web interface for everyone, no matter what browser is used.
worryingly naive... need correction as follows:
honest (sic) attempt (sic) to create (sic) a standard (sic) Web (sic) interface for everyone (sic) no matter (sic) what browser (sic) is used.
so the lab's servers will run with Microsoft IIS on a Linux box and none of the services / software / innovations will be made available for the Linux community.
Beware: may install rootkit and ugly invisible mustache to your then-DRM'd digital pictures. May attempt formatting CF and/or HDD if rootkit is removed.
What percentage of the respondents were using Windows? I suppose antispyware and updated antivirus software wouldn't really apply to Linux, UNIX, BSD, and OS X users.
It seems any profitable application that gets developed on the Windows platform gets noticed by Microsoft and they immediately start buying up companies, releasing a free version, or making their own. They are trying to take out Adobe (Photoshop, PDF), Antivirus (McAffee, Norton, etc), they already killed Netscape, Office Suites, E-mail clients, and they are working on killing SQL servers.
Slashdot Mirror
getting ready for Vista...
does it run linux?!
ZDNET needs to do research (also called "journalism") before reporting sensational news...
driver support is what counts in desktop linux...
so the lab's servers will run with Microsoft IIS on a Linux box and none of the services / software / innovations will be made available for the Linux community.
Beware: may install rootkit and ugly invisible mustache to your then-DRM'd digital pictures. May attempt formatting CF and/or HDD if rootkit is removed.
and was it worth to be in /.?
What percentage of the respondents were using Windows? I suppose antispyware and updated antivirus software wouldn't really apply to Linux, UNIX, BSD, and OS X users.
embrace extend extinguish
which OS?
meant to read as: spam
meant to say: governor won't read that
meant to convey: would you read a letter that starts with:
?
so, first adopt it, then try to sell it w/ letter to governor. Interesting stuff...
anyone knows any software firewall gui (for easy configuration of iptables and stuff) for linux?
may be in vain but, I don't think the article provided any proof that the software recorded mouse and keyboard input... it calls home but to do what? may be I'm getting used to Mark Russinovich'ish (http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-roo tkits-and-digital-rights.html) scrutiny style?
www.google.com/linux
linux is now doomed!
wtf -> OS X 10.4 and Ubuntu are office software??? (http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,1207 63,pg,3,00.asp)
so, firefox is better than google; ubuntu 5.04 is much better than ubuntu 5.10 (not in list); wikipedia is worse than windows media player 10 [etc]
It seems any profitable application that gets developed on the Windows platform gets noticed by Microsoft and they immediately start buying up companies, releasing a free version, or making their own. They are trying to take out Adobe (Photoshop, PDF), Antivirus (McAffee, Norton, etc), they already killed Netscape, Office Suites, E-mail clients, and they are working on killing SQL servers.
here's a thing i learned in /. :
embrace
extend
extinguish