Posted on 03/16/2006 7:43:24 PM PST by yhwhsman
In May 2005, a trojan called PGPcoder was discovered in the wild by Websense Security Labs. The trojan's purpose was to encrypt a user's files, then demand a ransom for their decryption. Although this scheme seemed novel, it is actually predated by over 15 years, by a similar scam in 1989. LURHQ's Threat Intelligence Group has now discovered a third such scheme involving ransomware which we are calling Cryzip.
Unlike PGPcoder, which used a custom encryption scheme (which was subsequently reverse-engineered by LURHQ), Cryzip uses a commercial zip library in order to store files inside a password-protected zip. Although the zip encryption is stronger, a brute-force attack is still possible on the files, especially if one has a copy of the original file inside the zip.
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All you have to do is image your system partitions on a different partition with 40% compression AND image those same partitions on spanned CDs. I use Symantec Ghost 7.5, Corp. Ed.
In 5 minutes you are bright-eyed and bush-tailed again.
No kicking the cat, yelling at your old lady, or going on a drunken shooting rampage down the street!
More like a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off (FMS > CTSS > MULTICS > UNIX > MINIX > Linux). However, Linux is only a very loose "rip-off" of MINIX, since it doesn't have the microkernel architecture.
Yes. Ready-made VMWare images are available at the site. Or you can download MINIX 3 and try it from a live CD. USB-bootable images are also available.
Tanenbaum has definitely gone the "small is good" approach he teaches. From a technical standpoint, it's genius, completely modular, true microkernel (less than 4,000 lines of code). It's probably the most robust and secure UNIX in the world. Even the worst-written video driver shouldn't be able to take down MINIX -- the crashed driver will automatically be restarted. Buffer overflows? MINIX only executes in read-only areas allocated for code.
All of that comes with some performance trade-offs, but you make your choices...
Wouldn't be bad experience-wise either.
Dukie, stop howling about "rip-offs." The PC BIOS is a rip-off of the IBM PC. MacOS is a rip-off of Unix and the Xerox Alto. Windows is a ripoff of MacOS, VMS, CP/M, etc. Everything's a rip-off of some computationally pure platonic ideal. We get it. Find something else to rant about.
I'm not howling. I said Windows was a rip off of a rip off too. Just that it sucks less then LUNIX. Unless, of course, you don't actually need to use the machine, like it's a server or something. It's just the anti-social people who promote LUNIX suck at making things that are easy and fun to use. Probably, they suffer from some form of autism and LUNIX is what autism might look like if autism could be given form.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I'd prefer an operating system to an thing that needs to be endlessly tweaked.^^^^^^^^^^
You'd love linux then. You install it once, set up your printer, your personal settings and whatever else you think you'll need then you're done. It's very similar to a mac in this regard.
Windows needs constant work and tweaking. This week, tweak your ad-aware settings, next week install the new patches, the week after, make sure you have the antivirus defs up to date. Careful you don't open up that email.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Something that runs software and is generally useful.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Linux runs alot of software. There's very little that you can't do with it these days.
That's about all your Windoze toys are good for - playing games and waiting for something to happen.
"If all of your tools have to look and feel the same way because you can't handle change.... you might be a Windows user."
And there's a treatment for that. It's called WINE - the WINdows Emulator.
.. they can't find any D&D players in the neighborhood..
Well, apparently playing games is the focal point of your life. When you get ready to do some real work, I suppose you can buy something for your X-Box.
Now, I use windows as much as the next guy. It is fairly useful, and the only place to go if you want to play most modern games.
That said, I've never heard it characterized as "fun." :P
No one writes very many large programs from scratch, regardless of what it does.
...you have to buy a decent usenet client.You do?
You mean to tell me that someone is giving away a NNTP client that runs on Windows?
Oh man, GE is not gonna like this. It takes money out of the US IT economy and exposes all kinds of trade secrets to our enemies. Who knows what the Chicoms can do with a free usenet client? They can use it to suck all of our technical newsgroups dry and not pay a cent for the information! Horrors!
Actually, I've tried Xnews and I really like it. I have it on the Windows side of my "travelling" 600E that I use on the road. After browsing through the NNTP servers on my sister's Verizon DSL account, I can now say that my RoadRunner servers truly suck.
What's a "ranson"?
Something you pay to a "kidmaper"?
Dan
Yea, something like that. :)
Sorry, I usually catch things like that. I'm losing the feeling in my right hand, is making typing a rather interesting experience.
After browsing through the NNTP servers on my sister's Verizon DSL account, I can now say that my RoadRunner servers truly suck.
Surprisingly, news is one thing Vz does pretty well. I switched from Verizon DSL to Earthlink/Covad about a year ago, mostly because Verizon refused to increase my line speed to the level that I was being offered elsewhere. EL's servers aren't truly horrendous, but it's definitely a step down from Vz. But, I get more speed, so it's more or less worth it...
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