Sarocet
Are you joking? Who do you tjink will be changing accounts only to surf the net?
No I am not. I deal alot with home business machines this is normal.
Customer records are verry important.
Dads and kids accounts can be done too but it still take 48 hours of tinkering to get the stuff controled. You don't need filesharing Msn and other internet related programs having complete access to the user accounts or the system dlls. You don't need any other program updating the virus scanner/firewall other than the programs that are ment to. Hmm delete the signatures file and replace it with a blank one change the download site so the virus scanner does not update nice what virus I know of no such virus. This is nasty and one of the common methords of disabling a antivirus program.
You have been lucky or your machine has been well protected. There is 4 common ways to take out a virus scanner.
One kill the process infect the anti-virus program restart anti-virus Yep is now a virus spreader not a anti-virus Hmm have I infected that file yet.
Two remove information the virus scanner need to work ie signatures
Three disable is means of updating the update programs are not running all the time.
Four trick the user into removing it.
The scanner might be running but is only as good as it last update. When I say take out I don't mean delete I mean criple.
Many users doesn't know even that the 'Documents and Settings' folder exists.
Recent virus comes to mind know the one that hunts down word documents and encrypts them. It does not need to know Documents and Settings folder it will search any folder it can access yep ever user on a fat32. Its not nice now if you antivirus was cripled or not updated it would have free rain on a fat32 every user has lost their documents.
Experienced user know that encryption only protects from humans not virus some viruses will just delete files So encryption is no help if another user can just delete the file.
StopTCPA2
But I know some XP-NTFS users having to desinfect their machine
regulary and finding always viruses at this occasion. Remember SASSER ?
Infected the "most secure" XP & NTFS, leaved "obsolete" W98 & ME with
FAT32 intact.
XP and FAT32 installs are attacked just as bad by SASSER.
Note if reactos had the same security flaw it would run SASSER its a NT clone it attacked all NT class os's with the flaw.
No matter how good security there will be the old virus that slips threw the net. The question is will the run of the mill ones slip threw. Just becaue W98 & ME where lucky not to be targeted does not mean they could not been.
Most common virues are the mass mailing or filesharing transfer viruses or messaging at the moment. Some of these can be beaten by good security lot can be contained by good security. Question what does MSN need to access. Current infection I wonder if containment of MSN would stop the infection from getting to the core of the system. Most viruses ask to access DLL or parts of the system that the infected program never would normally access so if the filesystem blocks access to the dlls the firewall block access to the other parts of the system the virus gets in and kinda cannot do much bar attack its current account.
Basicly secuirty is built from five parts.
Filesystem is used to protect the software doing the defence from damage and stoping programs from accessing parts they don't normally require.
Scanners(anti-virus programs, spyware searchs...)
Firewall stop incorrect access to networks or ports on the system.
updates repair faults in os.
and backups when all of the fail.
No security system is perfect. But fat32 has no where to store the required information to let the filesystem defend the OS.
While windows lacks the means for users to protect it from the filesystem level Windows will always be virus prone. Because the filesystem will alway provide a weekness that a virus programmer can attack.
YES. Just encrypt & HASH-protect your files.
I just love encryption(kidding)
I really hate it do you know how many times I am asked to crack it open because a person lost the key.
Filesystem secuirty can always be overriden by a boot disk. Encrytion has to be cracked. High the encryption the longer the time. Sometimes to long to take on . zip files are about 8 hours if you have a clue what in side.
Serous question do any of you repair other people computers in any large numbers.
elektrik
The funny part is they are use to doing thing particaly ways. So are linux personal.
Common aliases on a linux system from a new windows user.
alias move=mv
alias copy=cp
alias del=rm
alias chdir=cd
alias deltree=rm -r
alias type=cat
Just got to love the alias command. Search user account for any of above and spot the linux user who has not made the transfer to short commands.
In future yes reactos will have to create its own resuce disks but reiser does not provide a problem. NTFS does since not all linux boot disks can access it.
I think you miss understood me here. In future yes reactos will have to create its own resuce disks. Early linux use rescue disks from dos to other unixs to fix itself untill the code stablized. So go threw the linux line we use knoppix for now because its stable but when reactos comes of age its own boot cdrom will take over. This exists the boot cdrom to try out reactos is the future rescue disk basicly a Windows XP Portable Execution enviroment just got to love corp editions makes repairing systems alot simpler and the reason why pebuilder exists why suffer with a non graphical. Latter on cut back floppy versions can be considerd. Reason for considering Linux boot disks as a stable repair platform is not all users have windows and the tools for windows don't exist yet for reiser that are usefull. Even for NTFS linux boot disks are more help. This is important you might want to get and see what reactos stuffup to destroy the filesystem before windows screws with it.
We are talking a OS under development placing hard and fast rules on what can and cannot be used to rescue the system based on compad with one line of OS's will only reduce options and cause unrequired overhead on developers. As long as when the game is complete reactos is self standing with its own install system its own rescue system and its own security while still able to run windows applications and drivers the rest is really not important. If reactos works and works well. Who will care if it runs on reiser or what it runs on as long as it works. Only think I say is not fat because I cannot see how to store the information to provide security without killing the operating system speed. I would welcome anyone to prove me wrong with a working prototype.
My question about knoppix was not irrelevant. If you could use knoppix to get around and not have any problems with it you really don't have a problem. This is just more than suitable for the development verson repair disk of reiser. Most windows users can use knoppix without problems just click on the big k in a gear after its loaded. Thats the start menu.
I am thinking my target group. We have a group working on a stable boot cdrom we have a group working on a stable install cdrom. So we have everything brewing away. So develop the filesystem drive does not need to place any more load on boot cdrom group. When a off the shelf fixs the problem for now.
