Re: OT: "admilli service" ????

From: Jon Elson (jmelson_at_artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:58:56 -0600

Jim Thompson wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:29:43 -0800, Peter Bennett
><peterbb@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
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>
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>>On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:03:39 -0700, Jim Thompson
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>I removed six types of adware. I'm running a full NAV scan right
>now... so far 10 more "threats" :-(
>
>Can a login for a specific user be set such that IE can't run? Or,
>better yet, deny access to the Internet?
>
>
A FAR FAR better scheme is to not ever run a MicroSoft OS exposed
directly to the net, and maybe never even "barefoot", ie. exposed to
physical hardware. I run Linux on my machines directly, used to use
Netscape for a browser, now I'm using Mozilla (the underlying engine
with a few less bells and whistles that only cause trouble anyway).
For the few CAD programs that I still need Windows for, I run Win
2K under VMware, ON the Linux system! It is actually MORE reliable this
way than running Win2K on real hardware. It runs for weeks at a time,
and usually only has to be shut down when I'm tinkering with settings or
something
and need to shut down the windows environment on Linux. The Linux
system, itself,
usually stays up between power failures, ie. 60 - 120 days at a time!

I've been successfully penetrated by hackers twice, and I didn't even
have to reboot
to throw them off and research how they broke in! My kids have a Win2K
system behind a firewall and using IP masquerade, so there is no outside
path
to the machine at all (it has only a private IP address), and I didn't
give them the
administrator password, but they've STILL managed to totally trash it so
it needs
to be rebooted every hour! We used to joke that the Russians copying
our IBM 360's
set their computing effort back 10 years. Now, it is NO JOKE that Microsoft
has set US back by at least that much!

Jon

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