New worm out; takes down CNN's computers as I watch the fucking news
No hoax; I've seen this one in action. For simple people, it hammers Plug and Play.
Standard op for your computers:
- For God's sake, don't open any attachments.
- Don't run any P2P programs (Limewire, BitTorrent, Kazzaa)
- Running Outlook? Shut it down for awhile.
- Don't be on your computer on an account with admin rights; Power User rights should do it. If you're running admin rights, that means that if someone remotely attacks your computer, they have full rights.
No hoax; I've seen this one in action. For simple people, it hammers Plug and Play.
Standard op for your computers:
- For God's sake, don't open any attachments.
- Don't run any P2P programs (Limewire, BitTorrent, Kazzaa)
- Running Outlook? Shut it down for awhile.
- Don't be on your computer on an account with admin rights; Power User rights should do it. If you're running admin rights, that means that if someone remotely attacks your computer, they have full rights.
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:[ Of course, if you want more information, it's best that you either research it or ask Chris since he can tell you more than I can.
As for advice I highly recommend Spybot S&D. Unlike Ad-aware it's actually helped my computer. ^__^
"Ha, ha! Your computer is so vulnerable!" 9_9
Firefox was the Geek Browser of choice, for the technilogically sound, as well as the wannabes that get everything they know off of Slashdot. People realised this, so they started writing around Firefox. Next thing you knew, Firefox was getting hammered. At this point, it's a matter of choice.
I know a lot of people that say "Well, Windows is always releasing patches!". Um... that's a bad thing? I'd rather have an active read on problems than this open source garbage, which is basically like playing roulette.
Personally, I'd rather be running Linux, but Windows isn't as bad as people say it is. Really.
I didn't, though, since he was the president of our local Houston chapter of SIGGRAPH. Same reason I didn't tell him how thrilled I was that he marched with the "Backbone of America" at the Democratic National Convention last year. He wouldn't have liked my thoughts on that subject. :/
I think we'll be listening to news on OS X vulnerabilities in a while.