[Cravin]

Originally Posted by BoomBox

Porn sites huh? Ha! Last time I was at a porn site was about 6 months ago.....Mail order is the way to go man......LMAO.

No, in all seriousness, I have no clue how it got itself on, I'm sure if it's a vulnerability (which I'm sure it is) Macroshaft will have an update patch for it soon.

Although I use Firefox heavily, and not IE......Bah well, someone's bound to fix it....

Microsoft vulnerability #1012xr4t528 from their database.
*My daughter* "Can I use your computer now daddy?

[BoomBox]

Originally Posted by Tomas

I've always liked this pic of someone's idea of Windows Security from a few years ago.



Tomas

It is VERY true. It's why you wonder why Microsoft has to purchase companies like Giant to do get their operating systems to be free of horrible problems.

Macroshaft can definitely build a GREAT operating syst......Oh wait, this isn't 1990.......

Believe me, I know. I just can't go out and spend a chunk of change on a piece of fruit.....BTW, my current PC cost under 400, and that includes speakers, mouse, monitor....etc....etc....Building computers is the way to go in my opinion

[TattedXB]

/\/\/\ Yes it is, but still for $400.00 you've got a basic set up that will let you browse the net and do some basic gaming, not bad at ALL for the money!

my current rig cost about $1300 and I built it myself a year ago, of course now i could build the same thing for probably $800.00, lol

This summer, I plan on building a 2 TB media center pc for my living room, and a $1500-1700 vista dx10 gaming machine in order to play crysis on :-)

For those of you who game and DONT know about crysis, youtube it, you will THANK me :-)

[Iron_Lion_Scion]

I've had a bad malware/spyware hit a few months ago and tried everything, spybot,ad-aware,symantec,avg,Hijackthis. Then I came across this program called process.exe.(Only use this program if you have knowledge of computer processes) It actually goes beyond the taskmanager in actually showing everything running with every single process on your PC. It doesn't pinpoint the problem, but if you know what to look for then you can spot the problems. I found out that my problem was my explorer.exe file was corrupted so when I would fix it,it would just come back on a reboot.

[ogerdgonz]

My wife and I have spent close to two days trying to get rid of malware.

I took off Macafee and ran avus to remove 4000 worms
Now every time we reboot the rootkitj (rootkit) virus comes back. Run the antivirus in safe mode it can remove it, run it in normal mode it only quarantines it.

The reports tell me where to find the files but I can not find them.


I may have to try these programs before I reformat. Ideally would like to make it a little longer before reformating (getting an external drive to back up)


On a side note is it possible to create a new partition on my hard drive with out damaging data in my c or d drive?

[BoomBox]

Go to www.majorgeeks.com go to their forums and sign up, post your problem, and wait. They will get to you, and they will help you fix everything. I promise. I've been trouble free since.

[scionxb_org]

Even though a Mac does not infect 'itself' of certain malware, it does indeed spread all of it throughout the internet and to any Windows user that is not protected.

There would be a lot less malware in general if Apple played along a little better in this area. For them to promote a no-use policy of security measures and admit to the fact that their O.S. does pass the infection on to Windows users is...pretty lame to say the least. There has been some mention in the security sites of Apple products (iTunes, QuickTime, etc.) infecting Windows users but not their O.S. users. What up with that? Are they part of general technology community that is cleaning up the malware mess or do they have their own agenda?

I think Apple makes some incredible products, but they need to learn to play ball a little better before I will embrace them!

Windows is as secure as any other operating system...when set up properly. Poor security is the biggest misconception about Windows. Windows has tons of security built right into it. Windows just ships "TOO OPEN" by default, and most users run it as is. By adjusting a "few hundred" (yes, that many) settings, Windows is fast, secure and trouble free! It really is easier than it sounds.

[Tomas]

Yes, if a Mac user unknowingly forwards infected mail that did not affect the Mac on to a MS Windows user, the MS Windows user can be infected. Other than the virus detection vendors making Mac products that search out MS Windows viruses and Mac users buying them at ridiculous prices to protect MS Windows users, that is just an inequity one has to put up with.

The Apple products that can allow viruses into a machine merely offer a vector into weakpoints in the OS. Those weakpoints will be different for Apple and MS operating systems. To just take on one, Quicktime, it will be noted that there have been about as many security patches for Mac versions as MS Windows versions, and that in both cases that the app was used as a vector to the OS (a way into the OS) rather than being the target itself.

The fact that a Mac requires an Admin password to make any drastic changes, and an MS Windows machine often does not, makes a big difference in the effectiveness of many of those attacks, but again it is the OS that has the security holes that are taken advantage of, and the app is usually just a way to reach them easily.

Yes, MS Windows can be a secure and fairly reliable system, but definitely NOT out of the box. If one makes the hundred or so changes to settings, before going on-line to download the many megs of patches to fix the holes found to date when installing fresh, and if one continues to follow strict security guidelines (as one should), an MS Windows machine can be quite reasonably secure.

However, as evidenced by the millions of MS Windows zombie machines on the net right now, cranking out billions of e-mails, etcetera, having a secure MS Windows machine is not as common as it should be. Last I heard, something like 87% of the current e-mail load on the network is spam and virus loads from infected MS Windows machines.

Even if Apple machines were to totally disappear from the planet, that would not change by much. (Maybe it would move up to 88 or 89 percent because there wouldn't be the 'clean' mails from Macs in the mix anymore.)

One cannot blame Apple or their Macintosh machines for the problems of the Wintel machines. Each have their own problems, each has chosen to handle them (or not) in their own way.

This shouldn't be a face-off between Mac OS X and MS Windows, but an attempt to help those with MS Windows or Vista machines to be as safe as possible.

Apple is a nearly unmeasurable tiny portion of the security problems that MS Windows based machines experience, and if Apple were to vanish, the overall problems would not change. The fix has to come from inside the MS OS.

http://www.tijil.org/blog/?p=10

[scionxb_org]

Your words are well spoken and I do agree...well mostly.

Internet security is the responsibility of all developers and users of the internet. If everyone took a proactive approach to security, much like we do with crimes in our own brick & mortar neighborhoods, we would remove most of the attacks online today!

The issues involving internet security must be dealt with from a community wide platform, not a operating system platform. Apple has the ability to be part of the problem or part of the cure, and so far, they have not been part of the cure. Every company and every internet user must do their part in taking down the bad guys working online.

The only line in the sand should be...

good guys | bad guys

I visited your blog, and I must say that I am quite impressed! You have a vast amount of intelligence in the technology field. Although, I do think you have missed some of the fun by never using Windows

After reading your blog I can see that, in technology, we come from different worlds. I have been a user of Windows based machines since the beginning dos-days and work full time (and then some) with Windows and Windows based networks. I can make a Windows machine do just about anything...but I am lost in the mainframe worlds you speak of in you blog.

I play around with a Mac from time to time for testing purposes, but I have realized it's not for me. Linux is a neat product but not practical to use.

As far as good 'ole UNIX...I will always look to learn more here, since it is the core to everything else in computers. I don't think I could ever reach your level of knowledge or respect for Mac or UNIX, but I will look to your blog for more understanding in this area. I have a long way to go in my studies, but through interactions such as these...one will learn a lot!


Thanks for taking the time to respond and for your well spoken words!

[Yaksha808]

you guys are speaking over my head... i really should sit down with scionxb_org and have him teach me some stuff

[BoomBox]

Yes, you should. Even the most secure setup can get infected - it's as easy as letting someone not as anal as the user use the computer.

I'm so meticulous about my computer. I'm worse about it than my car. I only let ONE other person use my computer daily, and that's Ally. Only because I know I can trust her with it.

Other than that, I have gone through and turned off ALL the services that I will never use. Period. Since my computer is a light net browsing, mostly gaming machine, these things DO happen. It's just a matter when.

[scionxb_org]

That's right!

Yaksha808!

You are to report to computer boot camp...ASAP!

[Exist]

get back at me, Ive been hacking computers since I was 14. Most these guys dont evne know what there talking about no offense.

[Iron_Lion_Scion]

wow, since 14. So how old are you know 15? sorry no offense. lol

[Exist]

18.

no matter what if a hacker wanted to get into your computer nothing is going to stomp him.

theres so many exploits in this world its not even funny

just dont give someone the green light to go ahead and do it.

best removal for anything spyware - spyware doctor
I have hundreds of serials if you want hit me up

if you ever download something and you dont trust the host
scan with this : http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Ive made a couple that were undetectable but other than that, it can catch alot, almost all basics.