On 03/22/2014 07:44 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Of course you can always just block absolute.com at the router level and > get it added to pr0n filters in general.
Yes you can block the ip addresses it sends to (if you know them all). But you can't really filter it with a porn filter since it's https. Some security researchers showed a few years ago how you could modify and subvert CompuTrace's daemons to send data to arbitrary urls. The big worry here is that since CompuTrace lives in the BIOS and infects all windows drives upon boot, that a truly malicious virus could write itself there. Viruses or trojans writing themselves to the BIOS has always been a concern in the past, but CompuTrace, should it be compromised is a nice vector guaranteed to be on the majority of laptops sold these days. And it has all the rootkit intelligence necessary for a bad guy to take advantage of. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
