Interesting idea, but no problem here. Go about your business, citizen.
Posted on 06/25/2004 11:40:59 AM PDT by demlosers
Microsoft says unpatched IIS systems only, security guys say even unpatched systems. We'll have to wait to see who's right.
Now IE + IIS is an extremely deadly combination. Luckily for the Web, most sites aren't served by IIS 5 (BTW, 6 is much better, very Apache-like in ways). Now we just need to get people off IE to solve the other half of the problem.
At least I know I can surf safe with Firefox (recent convert from Mozilla).
Skynet?
This sucks. I guess its a weekend of downloading updates and patches.
Seems like it's only fair to bump you, given your glee whenever linux hiccups.
lol!
Is Mozilla used in conjunction with an anti-virus program better than Mailwasher to stop spam & viruses? In the past 3-4 weeks, I've been inundated with that garbage. I'm well over 1,000 spam & viruses and counting of the garbage I've been receiving.
Say. That's a really nice bike.
In the last 24 hours my firewall has blocked over 1100 intrusions and blocked 500 attempted accesses.
Sadly, I've got you beat.
I've gotten email from a lib who took offense at my Conservative comments on another site, got my email address and is bombarding me with 2,000-3,000 emails a day, including porn, refinancing, viagara, e-universities, about.com, etc etc etc.
Fortunately, Netscape's v7.1 has a junk filter control which intercepts 95% of it, and Norton AV grabs the dozens of viruses which are seeded in amongst all the email spam.
I'd like to get him alone in a room for 60secs.
I have noticed that Windows zealots tend to cackle hysterically during the relatively rare occasions that a Linux exploit goes public. One thing they fail to mention, though, is that Linux exploits are usually pretty esoteric, usually discovered by an engineer somewhere before they have actually been exploited, and are generally fixed within a day or two.
Important difference. Linux hiccups. Winderz vomits on its user. The Microsoft exploit handling model is thus:
Deny. Deny. Strongly Deny. Release kludge. Continue to deny. Sue whistle-blowers. Deny. Pretend it never happened. Elapsed time: 30 days to six months.
I've noticed today that the ad agency/media providers -- like tribalfusion.com and fastclick.net -- seem to be worst affected. Would be fine with me, except it hangs up access to the referring web pages.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I visualize myself with a bazooka aimed at that spam and/or virus sender and blowing him/her to kingdom come. Think I'm going to solve some of the problem. I'm leaving town for four weeks and my ISP will be disconnecting me to try and solve the problem. That email should be bounced back real quickly with some message that the email can't be sent.
Two words, "Zone Alarm"
Have you tried complaining to this person's ISP? There is not an ISP on the planet that will tolerate that kind of behavior. And if you can't get his/her ISP's attention, your ISP certainly can since that kind of flooding has a real dollar cost associated with it. This person wouldn't find their stunt so amusing after being blackballed by ISPs.
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