Posts by JCitizen 947 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2012
I've never used it but was surprised when geeks on malware forums said they used it to good effect. The user reviews on CNET aren't encouraging, and they don't look like shill reports. However you can block a good chunk of most of the junk that gets on the PC by running as a restricted user account, and running a good file cleaner like CCleaner. This will take care of a lot of the miscreants you might catch out there; but if you don't keep your applications, and operating system up to date and to a tee, a zero day vulnerability could wipe out that advantage.
Many of my clients like utilities like SpwareBlaster, Spybot Search & Destroy, Windows Defender(the anit-malware one). and Winpatol, for freebees that can keep a lot off your computer in the 1st place, and for free. Everyone I know, in the PC maintenance field seem to agree that the only anti-malware worth buying is MBAM. I like to keep Super Anti-Spyware on board as a fast scanner, to double check the other blended defenses. I don't recommend buying it, because I'm not really convinced it does any more than the restricted account to help keep crud off the account before it can be established. It is okay as far as the administrator account. This is only an opinion on free anti-malware comparisons. This is also only the tip of the iceberg on a good blended defense.
All of these same techniques are used by ordinary criminals; but some of them have been used to target individuals who were my clients. Once you become such a target, no operating system or hardware will save you. Your only recourse to avoid surveillance is to stop using modern technology completely. Some of my clients have gone back to using old DOS era machines, or Apple laptops with PowerPC CPUs to temporarily avoid the glare; but even those are used sparingly or they will be reacquired by the surveyor.
The NSA hasn't got squat on a good industrial espionage team. These cats really know how to get down in your shorts!
Remember how the Clinton administration whined that they couldn't crack the encryption on the new cell phones back when? The news made me believe they forced a piggyback chip to snoop on folks way back in the day. I don't know how far the US government got with that; but I decided I'd never trust anything not open source every again. Snowden's charges are just not surprising to me at all.
One that only cares about exploitation without the guilt you silly asses are so afraid of! Maybe it will be a truly free nation that doesn't give a shit about international treaties, and allows the protection of one's personal safety and right to property - again UN-like you silly asses! I think I should like to live there despite the harsh environment - but I also realize that diamonds are only really worth $1.80 USD per carat. So no! I will not go there yet!
"Several aircraft could carry a bigger bombload than the B17 - a bomber laden down with guns and armour whose purpose in the Combined Bomber Offensive was to draw the German fighter aircraft into a war of attrition they could not win but could not avoid either."
True! But we were bombing in broad daylight with German fighters and successfully trained anti-aircraft fire on our squadrons! The US will not put up with losses any more that your Parliament! However, my Dad never got over the damage he saw when he toured Germany after the onslaught we unleashed on the German populace. He threw his guts up when he saw the damage on the people of Germany! He traveled later on and asked his cousins for forgiveness; and they said they were totally okay with the situation as we were all in back then! This history is very complicated to say the least!
Actually the Germans had a comparable interceptor built of advanced composite wood, that some engineers feel was the beginning of the new age of air-frame technology; but the only chemical formula plans for the glue that held it together burned in a fire set by Allied bombing! HA! I wouldn't doubt is was a Mosquito Squadron that got the plant!
No one has repeated this chemistry to this day! Good for us, but bad for technical sciences! We would have had lighter and stronger air-frames sooner for the jet age that would have saved trillions in fuel costs and air-frame failures and crashes!
I agree! But El Reg is not the only one with these ridiculous ads! I FINALLY installed AdBlock + to get rid of them! When are advertisers going to realize they need to keep us from puking to put up with their inane ads? I will set ABP to disable as soon as they realize this! I also want to keep a free internet, but I got my limits! >:(
I haven't read everything at bleepingcomputer.com , but I would not doubt they have instructions on how to use gpedit to block the cryptolocker virus/trojan. If you don't have administrative tools like that, they may show what folders to change file and sharing security on, to block it that way.
I read on Krebs on Security, that Hitman Pro prevents cryptolocker in much the same way as cryptoprevent, but you have to pay for it, where a free version of FoolishIT's solution is at bleepingcomputer.com as a download.
The information page at that site is here:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/cryptolocker-ransomware-information
jasson7 said - "I bought the premium version of this over a week ago from FoolishIT. Still waiting for the key whatever. Not heard a peep.
Seems he's gone off the radar."
If you would have gone the bleepingcomputer.com, you could have downloaded the free one for home users. It simply changes the permissions of the target system folders to require administrative privileges for certain operations. The only disadvantage to that is if you have poorly written and misbehaving 'legitimate' software applications on your computer, that set this off - at that time, you would have to allow the operation each time. I assume it is worth it, as many have reported so on other forums.
Amonymous Coward said,"DuckDuckGo.com for cookie free search and no tracking. Why the somnambulistic American public puts up with a tenth of this BS, I will never know."
Haven't you noticed the grid lock in the American congress? It isn't all because of the budget - many of us, especially conservatives, never did like what they put in the Homeland security legislation - This despite what our twisted media seems to believe!
I have one HIPS(Emisoft) that has already flipped the bird at the Germans for not allowing spies on board, but it doesn't block cookies. So maybe now SaferNetworking in Germany will wake up and start issuing cookie blocks for NSA's crap! I'm sure Chancellor Markel will be more than happy to back them up, as miffed as she's been with the US lately! CCleaner should be able to remove them, even if they are Zombie cookies, and they don't use white lists that I've ever heard of - and we in the security community would have known if Piriform was doing that. They've been very transparent about this business, and have a reputation for that to uphold.
As you can see in the world news - Our businesses woke up too late and are backpedaling furiously to negate anything NSA or any other nincompoop bureaucracy is up to! Even Microsoft seems to be scrambling to join the fray, if you believe those turds, anyway.
What about the old THE ARTEMIS PROJECT of doing fusion on the moon? The lunar surface hold more He3 that any source on earth; and is in fact abundant there. Their is less gravity so holding a magnetic field to confine the plasma is easier too. Since the moon always faces the earth, never moving a smidge out of sync - using laser/microwave transmitters would be a no-brainer. Solving the fusion problem is a brainer though. Excess neutron radiation? Who cares? Its the moon! It would be a robotic power plant - no one would care if it blew up! Except maybe Homer Simpson.
Or autoupdaters if you will. Several of them come to mind, but FireFox has been doing it automatically even on restricted Windows accounts. However, if they don't File Hippo's update checker works well on the Administrator account - Secunia PSI updates flash and some others in the back ground, unless it can't - then it pops up and notifies you of this. Avast anti-virus has a simple auto-updater(if you turn it on), that can update PDF readers, java, or flash, and other popular apps. I don't know how well it works, because I like doing it manually. If any one of them fails the other always makes up the difference. I hear good things about Ninite, but haven't tried it yet.
Yep, and i bet I and a lot of people own a lot of laser technology:
Laser ROM readers
Laser sights
Laser LED for HDTV light source
Laser levelers for doing carpentry work
Laser garage door limiter sensors
Laser range finders
If I thought a second longer than some posters on here I'd literally have a full page of stuff here on just what one person uses!!
You make it sound like lasers don't do anything in the modern world. How 'bout laser speed guns the policed use ? - or laser pointers? - or laser TVs? w/DLP chips that make color wheels and bulb light sources obsolete? - Laser designation - not only for the Armed Forces anymore - 3D metal printers use high heat lasers to melt the metal sintering process? - laser leveling and surveying equipment - thank God we don't have to use metal tape with a temperature probe on it anymore! - Laser lasik? so people can see again! - laser range finders - laser printers - geeze! I might get dizzy thinking of all the improvements to modern day living!
NERVA is so yesterday - more modern propulsion designs promise an even greater specific impulse than old fashioned nuclear. The main problem is also launch weight, when anything nuclear is God awful! Not because so much of the fuel requirements, but because of the cooling. There is a reason Nixon dropped it - despite people's opinion of him.
Specific impulse related to over all weight of the design is important as to whether it will reach Mars. In manned missions - forget nuclear power as the shielding requirements are astronomical (literally); bad enough that they get so much radiation from space and the Martian surface, let alone the fuel reaction source!!
The tax and spend Americans will be going down the same road as the failing European Union model of spending more that is taken in by revenue, and if any revenue is found, spend even more. Soon the health crisis will reach world wide proportions, tax money to buy votes will dry up, and the entire world economy will crash, and almost did already. There are just a few "nuts" who see this insanity, and can only put their finger in the dike - Just as in Rome, it will all fail, and a great dark age will become evident before us. God help us all!
It is a different world now. The average dude or dudette, using Android on their mobile device will not suspect such at attack. It is true they will not run into a CryptoLocker type threat(yet), but for Linux newbies; they will fall for any social engineering trick in the book. So no matter what OS you use, if you don't have a clue, you will get pwned. At least the enlighten few here on the REG will never fall for such a scam; but we must be sympathetic for the bozos who do.
I was lucky, they only got to me for under 20 bucks! I've been steadily looking for ways to block criminals in every instance - every since then! Now I help everyone I know to fight IT crime in any way I can. Most of the people I know, that have been duped were not rich by any means of the definition - I thorougly enjoy helping my indigent clients for FREE!! FUCK the criminals! I will fight them every inch of the way!
@Don Jefe - If you are actually innocent, you are a dumb ass for pleading a deal, because in US courts they always find something wrong with the system. I can attest to that myself, although only on regular common law grounds, and not IT security issues. My security clearance is still valid, because even though I lost in a lower court, someone else with an honest lawyer won a State Supreme court case against regulations that bullied the jurors in that state. You will NEVER lose in the end in the US if you stick to your guns and plead NOT GUILTY, especially when you are NOT! For the poor bastards that spent 20 years in prison for unjust imprisonment - well they get a BIG check in subsequent suits for unjust prosecution. I doubt many of us get that kind of recompense just being an honest working stiff. SO NO!! Do not plead guilty, when innocent - EVER in US courts!!
The author makes it sound like we in the US are happy with this NSA and "Homeland Security"! We have been bitching about it every since the Homeland Security Act of 2002. We didn't need it, we didn't want it, it wasn't necessary to stop terrorism. Just a simple legal tweak of interdepartmental communication was all that was needed - but even that idea would need an oversight committee.
It is the myopic media over here that makes it look like we are happy with our gubbamint dupes! You could scream all day, but no one would listen until this Snowden thing - I am beginning to think he does deserve not only the Nobel prize but the President's Medal of Freedom, just for shining a search light on the subject! Ironic that Obama would give out that one, as he sees him as a pure traitor! I feel his revaluations are more important than whether it is traitorous or not - Is throwing away our rights worth marching in lock step with government over-reach? NOT IN MY BOOK!
But I don't have to - because all hardware is suspect as well on the world market. All you have to do is ask yourself where are the majority of chips in the world made and you can see a lot of room for abuse in doped hardware on the market. We got a lot more to worry about besides code folks!
They didn't even try to hide. I was able to locate many of them in military installations. Only after much public outcry did they hide them in 'university' relay locations. They are not fooling anyone in the security community, and they don't care, because they know we are obviously doing the same thing but hiding it better - Oops! Along comes Snowden! Oh-Well! the publicity just makes the Pacific Rim crackers more comfortable in their old digs!
Did we know that terrorists were in the US training on airplane simulators - yes - why did we not react? - purposeful disengagement created by abuse in the past during the '60s and '70s war with the "Weathermen" anti-war movement and other so called radical groups like the Black Panthers. - So all we needed was a small tweak in the US to avoid, or at least mitigate past abuse, but still share just enough information to bust the terrorists. Why did we need the 'The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004'? We didn't - we just needed a small tweak! Leave it up to shrill cry babies to get the evil empire started! We don't need no stinking Home Land Security, we already had the upper hand - this NSA thing is a violation of our 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendment rights in the US Constitution. Mark my words - they will rue the day they did this! They already are!
Emisoft has already said in so many words, that it is tough luck if certain EU countries don't like their anti-malware solutions! That goes a LONG way for me! They got the ONLY HIPS(Heuristic Intrusion Prevention System) that has detected every one of those dastardly HPAA spies on my PC!! Not that I can get rid of them if I want content, but I thoroughly enjoyed keeping a choke hold on them while using my rights to legitimate high definition content!
Basically they told a certain member of the EU to go fuck them selves - so they are my only hero in this game, so far!
It would be interesting to know the fuel usage this thing accomplishes - I've read theories that scram-jets could be made to sip fuel, when compared to per mile usage by other technology. It might actually pay to have a transcontinental passenger jet with this development. Imagine getting across the Pacific at Mach 6? About the time you opened you peanuts, here comes the landing! Of course there are equally offset theories that fuel usage could be worse if cooling is difficult. With today's extreme heat resistant alloys, I'd bet the former could be realized.
Addendum: A C&R is a nice thing to have, but your are wrong on all NFA weapons; you still have to be fingerprinted and photo ID'd, and pay the 200 tax if it meets the criteria, and some qualify as an AOW as well, where there is at least a $5 transfer tax as well. The only advantage the C&R license gives you on NFA weapons, is that you don't need an FFL and Class 3 license to take transfer possession of the weapon inside your home state, but interstate transfers can muddy up the process further. The GCA of 1986 clamped down on things even further.
I think many of these manufacturers are selling doped chips in the routers so they can take them over later - and I don't mean for troubleshooting purposes either. I've talked to many who travel the Pacific Rim lab developement sites, and they said they've seen these obviously doped chips themselves on the local microscopes. They tend to get nervous and defensive if you ask why these circuit patterns are being incorporated into the prototypes. Many of them say they were ejected from the facilities after asking too many questions.
I don't trust any chip made any where but at Texas Instruments myself, and even then I might trust but verify!
Here's the stark reality - if you don't make it pay for local people to get jobs and receive benefits from their own wildlife, they will just shoot them and sell their horns. This news item makes sense, because park rangers and animal handlers will be hired from the local towns; and you won't be able to get near these rhinos to poach on them, because the local folks will skewer you! This similar tactic has saved the elephant in many African countries, and given great benefit to the people, who quite frankly own their own destiny and wildlife. Don't let the ivory tower animal worshiper run the show - to them all humans are scum, and nothing they do actually helps either the animals or humans. I say it is a jolly good idea!
Yep! it goes like this:
Earth worshiper: Global warming will doom us all!
Bill Gates: Wait - what is coal and fossil fuels made of?
Earth worshiper: ancient plant matter!
Bill Gates: So - that means all that carbon was in the air at that time, and the Earth was fine right?
Earth worshiper: You should be burned at the steak for your insolence Bill Gates!
Bill Gates: Wouldn't that add more carbon to your atmospheric model?
Earth worthipper: ARRRGGG! HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY BUNG HOLE!!! Want to see my tee pee?
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