Wrong!
These cretins need to be taken out behind the courthouse -- after being tried and convicted by a jury, of course -- and SHOT!!!
Nahhhhh. Forget the part about the jury. Just shoot the sumbitches.
I have an HP with a divided hard drive (forgot the term). Anyway, I was recently suffering some kind of worm which my antivir program couldn't even solve. Eventually the system locked down and was not functunal. They are now disabling the protection.
Anyway I was able to restore the complete system by selecting "restore" on booting with the program that came with the system. It takes a while but was well worth it. I was amazed and congradulate HP.
The only small problem is that it rewrites windows and critical files. Games and stuff will not have the ini file in windows. No big deal really, compared to trying to get rid of the malware.
Partitioned was the term I was looking for....it always comes to you....sometimes the next day!
The geeks and hackers are the only reason we have anything remotely like functional security. The holes, hacks and exploits they discover and sometimes drive us crazy with are already there in the software. They did not create them they only discovered them. Black Hats, White Hats and even the Script Kiddies have done more to improve security, the programs, operating systems and hardware you own than anyone will ever acknowledge.
They are a pain but they have in most cases brought about improvements, reform and change where none would have occurred.
It was a White Hat that discovered the Sony Root kit Spy ware Hack that automatically installed when people simply played Sony music disks on their computer. At the time he was hunting for Black Hat Exploits. It was the Black hats who wrote a script to exploit that Corporate Hack and give them control of your computer. Had the Black Hats not written the exploit and there would have been no basis for damages in the class action suit against Sony installing Spy ware on peoples computers. Instead Sony was forced to remove the Root Kit or disable it ( in many cases it cannot be removed without wreaking the operating system of your computer and requiring a completer reinstall of the operating system). Sony also was required to pay fines and compensate everyone who purchased one of Music CDs that had the Spy ware Root kit Installed. Sony now must now cope with a public sees them as an unethical bunch of slugs. Further other companies will think long and hard about installing commercial hacks on the people’s computers. Need more evidence? Microsoft is already backpedaling over it's operating system "Genuine Advantage" anti piracy program checking in and registering your hard drive serial number, CPU and a number of other metrics every time you log on.
Like Yin and Yang Black Hats and White Hats keep each other and Corporations most egregious wrongs in check.
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