Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004, Michel Py wrote: - In exchange for his life, appoint Saddam Hussein to rid us of spyware writers. As he's on a roll, let's put spammers in the deal, too. The guy has a proven track record, problem is most of us live in a society that oppose his methods, so this does not

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality)

2004-07-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Ok, let.s return to reality (sorry for moving this thread into the OS related flame). First of all, even if OS have not any caveats, it will not protect it from spyware/adware. if I want to install my 'Cool-Search' into million of computers, all I need to do is to write fancy game, and offer it

working sltnet.lk contact

2004-07-15 Thread Tycho Eggen
Hi! I'm looking for a working sltnet.lk contact. Please contact me off-list. Thanks! Tycho -- Tycho Eggen (Unix|Network) Engineer I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson ( Fear Loathing in Las Vegas )

Regional differences in P2P

2004-07-15 Thread Sean Donelan
Apparently CacheLogic based most of their conclusions on data collected from a European tier 1 ISP. However, another study by Sandvine found regional differences in file sharing networks. Europe and the US don't have the same file sharing patterns, or even popular file sharing programs.

Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:27:01PM -0700, Michel Py wrote: That's what I meant, thanks for rephrasing. $10M a year is definitely something that any size company will try to save; I remember posting here not that long ago that a $500k line card is definitely something I do not buy without a

Re: Regional differences in P2P

2004-07-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 15, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: Apparently CacheLogic based most of their conclusions on data collected from a European tier 1 ISP. However, another study by Sandvine found regional differences in file sharing networks. Europe

Re: Regional differences in P2P

2004-07-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Let's hope that their users don't try to do things like videoconferencing from home. (Like I do.) Have you calculated the amount of BW you use with your video conferencing? The usage of savvy p2p-using households can be in the hundreds of

Re: Regional differences in P2P

2004-07-15 Thread Petri Helenius
Sean Donelan wrote: Apparently CacheLogic based most of their conclusions on data collected from a European tier 1 ISP. However, another study by Sandvine found regional differences in file sharing networks. Europe and the US don't have the same file sharing patterns, or even popular file

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:52:07 -0700 May be, idea was that people read 'license', click button (I agree) and follow it - never write a code which violates this license? But it is not true - 99.99% people do not read it and behave as a

Re: working sltnet.lk contact

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Chin
Today at 08:57 (+0200), Tycho Eggen wrote: Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:57:45 +0200 From: Tycho Eggen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: working sltnet.lk contact Hi! I'm looking for a working sltnet.lk contact. Let me guess the weeks and weeks of Netsky messages have

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality)

2004-07-15 Thread Brett
- First of all, even if OS have not any caveats, it will not protect it from spyware/adware. if I want to install my 'Cool-Search' into million of computers, all I need to do is to write fancy game, and offer it 'free of change' in exchange of 'Allow to show you ads once / day'. That's all -

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality)

2004-07-15 Thread Curtis Maurand
The problem is Active-X, not the OS. Anything running from the browser should be in a sandbox as it is with Java applications, the same is true for the email client. Active-X gives scripts running from the browser and the email client access to the entire machine in the name of

ppt file for US-Sprint Optical Internet Design?

2004-07-15 Thread snort bsd
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BGP Dampening question

2004-07-15 Thread D Train
I was needing to know if anyone could assist in helping me find a solution to a problem I am experiencing. Here is the scenario: I have an AS 20, that has 2 circuits one to city A, and one to City B. City A and City B are in another AS, lets say AS 1. In my AS 20, I am learning the default route

Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

2004-07-15 Thread Sean Donelan
Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user cooperation. According to an ATT sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their own name or birthday as a secure password, 17% accessed the company network

Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Dennis
Tell them that every time they click on that thing, it costs $1000 to disinfect the LAN and keep the firewall up to date. Caveat: have yet to actually try this approach, but seems like it would have a chance at least. +- + Dave Dennis + Seattle, WA + [EMAIL PROTECTED] +

Re: BGP Dampening question

2004-07-15 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Jul 15, 2004, at 11:46 PM, D Train wrote: I was needing to know if anyone could assist in helping me find a solution to a problem I am experiencing. Here is the scenario: I have an AS 20, that has 2 circuits one to city A, and one to City B. City A and City B are in another AS, lets say AS

RE: Regional differences in P2P

2004-07-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Michel Py wrote: I agree, but see above: a 40GB/mo cap is not something that I care about. Granted, I'm not a hardcore file swapper but 40GB/mo are more I don't know of any capped service over here, nobody dares take the first step. The largest 10meg provider here

Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Dave Dennis wrote: Tell them that every time they click on that thing, it costs $1000 to disinfect the LAN and keep the firewall up to date. Sean quoted some numbers sometime ago for 'average cost of virus outbreak per enterprise' I don't recall the specifics, but they