-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Paul Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM, RandallM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This seems to be what everyone is missing: >> >> "GETTING TO A HELPLESS PERSON WHO'S COMPUTER IS UNABLE TO REACH ANY >> SITE OR DOWNLOAD ANY PROGRAM TO AID THEM". >> >> Thus, we have thought on "obfuscation" of the links to such sites and or >> tools. Any "www.malware-help.com" DNS common sites are "blocked". >> >> "AV-CLOUDS", "DNSSEC" do not provide for "after" the infection of those >> that have not received "clients" or "resolvers" prior to infections. >> They are real problems NOW! >> >> How does Grandma get help? She takes to "such and such" for $200 dollar >> who for get to say "oh, take your family pics off", wipe her drive and >> reload the pc. She tryed to go to AV and other scan sites but instead >> the browser took her to "wifes lonely and horny". >> >> Understand now? >> > > I appreciate what you are trying to formulate, but for various reasons, I > am not sure it is even entirely possible. > > Good luck. :-) > After I sent that, I realized that a few more comments I wanted to make. First, wouldn't it be more worthwhile to make sure that Grandma doesn't get compromised in the first place? Secondly, I think that original install discs are still the best advice -- reinstall your OS when it is compromised. Third, I'm not sure what you are describing is really a problem that needs a solution. In other words, it sounds to me like you are looking for a solution to a problem which doesn't really need fixing (?)... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJYCclq1pz9mNUZTMRAjJqAKDp2NymjTWNV04p7MJP+u2jX9cx1wCfdZOA H8+raMYHE9CYLl/zdN6WOng= =OPyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
