Vernon on 4/10/2011 at 09:01
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<strike>Microsoft Home Essentials</strike>
Man it let a pretty severe virus slip through the net on one of my machines, though this was maybe eighteen months ago. Maybe it has been improved since then. The other thing to be wary of with MSE is that by default, it will upload an index of your drive contents to Microsoft. D:
lost_soul on 4/10/2011 at 16:35
"The other thing to be wary of with MSE is that by default, it will upload an index of your drive contents to Microsoft. D: "
What the hell? You have got to be joking! I thought it was bad when I installed NT 4.0 as a project in school and I discovered that the entire C drive was shared by default over the network...
Wow... just wow
@Vernon, I played Doom 3 on that machine with a gig of RAM and it ran great. Given that it could run such a demanding game, browsing the web and checking e-mail is not an unreasonable request.
EDIT: I searched around about the index stuff and I didn't find any references to it on Google.
june gloom on 4/10/2011 at 17:55
so when do you graduate from high school lost_soul
or is it grade school? i can't tell
lost_soul on 4/10/2011 at 18:02
How many schools where you live are still teaching NT 4?
june gloom on 4/10/2011 at 18:08
damn
i guess you got me there
ffox on 4/10/2011 at 19:50
Quote Posted by Vernon
The other thing to be wary of with MSE is that by default, it will upload an index of your drive contents to Microsoft. D:
I'm doubtful - link please.
negativeliberty on 4/10/2011 at 20:04
Quote Posted by Vernon
That's a good definition of the distinction between public and private trackers. Having said that, often the executables on private trackers can be problematic - even after discounting false positives. It is a two-way street though, since some AV software even flags scene intro executables based on filename lol
Yeah although good AV keeps false positives to an absolute minimum. Most crap AV actually flag *everything* which isn't signed code, but then that's usually to make up for poor heuristics and detection engines, and in the end just renders the entire product useless.
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Al_B on 4/10/2011 at 20:58
Quote Posted by negativeliberty
... it lulls users like you into a false sense of security on sites which can be dangerous (this includes for example "entirely legitimate" sites which happen to serve infected third-party ads which happens more often than you think).
Not just through adverts. It seems that (
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240609/mysqlcom_hacked_to_serve_malware.html) mysql.com was hacked a week ago to install visitor's computers with malware through a variety of techniques. It's certainly not a website I would normally be wary of visiting and it's a good example of why it's equally important to keep all components up to date if you use them (flash / java / acrobat reader plugin etc.).
Matthew on 4/10/2011 at 21:32
Those G-Data figures look pretty awesome.
