Yup; NO obtains for the Voice Sense also.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Celeste Williams" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [GWN] Viruses
And I assume that means no for the voice sense too?
Thanks. Yes I definitely prefer simple!
Celeste and Dealer
Have an awesome blessed day!
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From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:29 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GWN] Viruses
...And to keep the answer simple, No you cannot on the Braille Sense. I
think that most users on the list prefer a more direct answer rather
than the technical one which can leave more questions than the original
one. *smile*.
On 8/31/2010 3:13 AM, Joseph Lee wrote:
Hi,
Yes – you’ve sent it twice. This allows me to explain the following:
As followup to my message, it is not just cookies which we (the
programmers) use to “open up” a sysstem as our “playground” – the
biggest hole is programs themselves and how CPU treats data and
instructions. A CPU does not know what it is doing unless a program or
an operating system tells it what to do. Here’s a textual diagram of how
a malware could take control of your Braille Sense:
You download a media player that claims to play Real Media formats. You
install it and run it. While the program plays Real Video files, the
program loads a second module from itself, namely the malware program.
This module searches Flash Disk of your Braille Sense and finds files to
open and modify it with its code (called infecting). Then it closes the
file and finds other files to infect. If Windows CE’s file manager
(filesys.exe) was smart enough to detect changes in modification
date/time of your files and if an anti-virus program is installed, the
operating system will warn you that there might be a virus running
around your braille Sense. These days, programmers are smart enough to
“fool” the operating system to believing that they are “normal” programs
– either by keeping the original modified date/time intact on infected
files, or frequently changing its code to a different variant (called
polymorphic code, which is hard to detect). Some advanced viruses
changes its code completely but still offers almost same algorithms
(this is called metamorphic code). As I said earlier, unless the malware
destroyed important blocks of ROM, you can “cure” your Braille Sense via
Hard Reset, if the above hypothetical scenario did happen.
Now you know why experts in computer science are called “hackers”…
Cheers,
Joseph
*From:* Celeste Williams [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:01 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [GWN] Viruses
I hope I'm not sending this twice. I was having trouble sending email.
I asked this question a while back. I asked if the GW notetakers could
get a virus and got the answer that not since they don’t' support
cookies. Now that they do, could viruses be a problem? If so, what can
a person do to prevent the notetakers from getting a virus?
Thanks.
Celeste and Dealer
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