Posts by Ulf Henninger

Anatomy of a malware scam

@Anonymous Bastard

While I do not want to bash TrendMicro's HouseScan - it is still not possible to have your PC scanned for malware just by visiting a website. You still need to actively install some piece of software, be it ActiveX, a Java applet or whatever.

Just considering what it means to scan your machine for malware (namely reading every single file to do a heuristic comparison against known patterns), I would rather think that's quite a good thing (even if it won't work against dangerous semi-knowledge as exposed by most users...).

If that is not needed anymore nowadays, then Windows(tm) is worse than I thought...

One more thing

Seen this thing on a client's PC lately. Another nice touch is that it actually integrates into the Control Panel (without doing anything there, of course - except leading you to the GiveMeMoney.com website...)

Jeery Jerry loves Vista, y'know

@James Basset

>It's incredibly easy to take a PC or Mac and lock them down so that the damn kids don't kill it with the usual "curiosity".

>Yes, if you have a few weeks to search around and play you can probably do something similar with Linux but....

Ahm... apt-get install kiosktool

Sorry, I _did_ install quite a few public machines for kids (whether they were 13 or 35....) using Windows as well as Linux. The locking-down part is far easier with Linux. The actual problem is games, especially (but not only) with kids...

Police dismantle global child porn network

@Ulm Schulbaum

Sorry mate, but I really think you should get your facts - and your thoughts - right before posting.

Kids dying in the 3rd world are a very serious problem, I agree with you there. But they are a very different problem from the one discussed here - which is child abuse, and which is very serious in its own right. Both Problems are being addressed (more or less effectively - and usually rather more than less, I agree there). But they are necessarily addressed by different means - sorry, but malnutrition, illness and suchlike are not crimes. And as such they are not an issue for police investigation. Child abuse certainly is.

The great Passenger Name Record sell out

@@robert

>"You hate America?-stop buying American products"...

>Like the American Internet

... which is - thankfully - not that american at all.

>Like the American telecom cables that connect the continents

... which connect who with who? Us Europeans with - oh. The Americans. I see.

>Like the American satellites that handle communications

Sorry, as far as I can tell, we have a couple of our own...

>Like the money in your pocket that is underwritten by American securities

Securities? like what?

>Like the American entertainment popular the world over

Is it? That crap? What's the world coming to?