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General Discussion / No love for the penguin?
« on: March 30, 2009, 10:09:19 am »
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That was quite an interesting rant. Pretty sure Talyn should be spelled Talon, but then it was a tv-series so who cares. It's not just the black-hat hackers who believe that information should be free, as is the concept that Linux is built upon and partially why businesses avoid Linux. I played the part of a black-hat for a few years before getting bored of it, and assuming your definition of metasploit is the same as mine, the only way you can ever be safe from it is by keeping your computer disconnected from the internet, and not letting anyone else touch your computer. In a world where Windows runs on the majority of home PC's and even quite a few business servers, and the fact that Microsoft refuse to officially acknowledge or fix the majority of exploits that hackers have reported to them (Most of them in Internet Explorer, which is actually built into the system kernel giving any IE exploit complete control of the machine at the lowest level), the average computer is just way too easy to break. Linux isn't unhackable, and I know of quite a few exploits in programs I'm running just now, but the average hacker is a script-kiddie and there aren't many hacking tools to break into Linux machines and usually the same hackers that wrote those tools have secured Linux against the same attacks. Does that mean I would fully trust an AI to have admin rights on my computer? Probably not, but then common practice under Linux is to never use admin rights unless your modifying the kernel or fixing a problem with the system.
Assuming your running Windows XP based on your mention of SP3, if your having problems with viruses and trojans then it means you need to:
1: Never use Internet Explorer except when you have to for windows updates.
2: Stay away from exploit sites (Most of them you would have no reason to visit anyways)
3: Don't use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail and don't open attachments unless it's from someone you trust and your expecting it.
4: Use a decent anti-virus. I use AVG Free Edition and the last 4 years I've used it have never been infected with a virus that wasn't my own choosing and that AVG couldn't clean up immediately.
5: Have a good firewall between you and your internet connection. There was a time when I had a hardware firewall connected to each router on my network(very expensive though)
That was quite an interesting rant. Pretty sure Talyn should be spelled Talon, but then it was a tv-series so who cares. It's not just the black-hat hackers who believe that information should be free, as is the concept that Linux is built upon and partially why businesses avoid Linux. I played the part of a black-hat for a few years before getting bored of it, and assuming your definition of metasploit is the same as mine, the only way you can ever be safe from it is by keeping your computer disconnected from the internet, and not letting anyone else touch your computer. In a world where Windows runs on the majority of home PC's and even quite a few business servers, and the fact that Microsoft refuse to officially acknowledge or fix the majority of exploits that hackers have reported to them (Most of them in Internet Explorer, which is actually built into the system kernel giving any IE exploit complete control of the machine at the lowest level), the average computer is just way too easy to break. Linux isn't unhackable, and I know of quite a few exploits in programs I'm running just now, but the average hacker is a script-kiddie and there aren't many hacking tools to break into Linux machines and usually the same hackers that wrote those tools have secured Linux against the same attacks. Does that mean I would fully trust an AI to have admin rights on my computer? Probably not, but then common practice under Linux is to never use admin rights unless your modifying the kernel or fixing a problem with the system.
Assuming your running Windows XP based on your mention of SP3, if your having problems with viruses and trojans then it means you need to:
1: Never use Internet Explorer except when you have to for windows updates.
2: Stay away from exploit sites (Most of them you would have no reason to visit anyways)
3: Don't use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail and don't open attachments unless it's from someone you trust and your expecting it.
4: Use a decent anti-virus. I use AVG Free Edition and the last 4 years I've used it have never been infected with a virus that wasn't my own choosing and that AVG couldn't clean up immediately.
5: Have a good firewall between you and your internet connection. There was a time when I had a hardware firewall connected to each router on my network(very expensive though)
] You can just blame the fact that we don't on Big Business making developing such technology for home PC's far too expensive for anyone with the expertise to do so. All the technology is out there and quickly becoming quite cheap to create for us all to be living like The Jetson's (if you really wanted to) but unfortunately due to patents and politics you won't see anything more advanced then an overpowered calculator in the common man's home for a long long time.