What is Digg?199 Comments
- Remmy, on 04/07/2008, -2/+61Insert Unix variant and lack thereof of virii/malware followed by other Operating System rebuttal comment leading to the inevitable link to YouTube containing video of singer Rick Astley secretly disguised as a tinyurl link, followed by comment of said rolling being tired which in turn is buried to oblivion to hide the fact that the prior was indeed a video of singer Rick Astley. Thread finished with random comment and reference to digg being broken written in all caps.
- wiretapped, on 04/07/2008, -2/+35Says a company who relies on viruses to survive.
Geez.... - allaboutdatiki, on 04/07/2008, -3/+25where's my damn abacus? slow, yes ... but resistant to all ... =)
- TomK88, on 04/07/2008, -3/+20Spybot S&D takes long enough to run as it is. With every new piece of malware it just gets worse and worse.
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -4/+18*windows users only
- threemagic, on 04/07/2008, -2/+14I surf it and don't get Malware or viruses. If I tell you why, you will only cry and call me a fanboy! LOL
- MacParrot, on 04/07/2008, -4/+16I must say that OS X and Ubuntu don't have to worry about viruses and here's the PROOF! http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
If you disagree you're wrong and obviously DIGG IS BROKEN! - chris9902, on 04/07/2008, -1/+11In this day and age if you get a virus it's your own fault.
- YodaJones, on 04/07/2008, -3/+12The virus playground which is called windows. It's a happy place.
- wukillabee, on 04/07/2008, -3/+111 million viruses and i have yet to "catch" one.. where exactly are these viruses?
in email attachments and porn sites with malicious scripts.. other than that? - colto, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7Could not complete the ***** request. Reload the ***** page.
DIGG IS BROKEN! - LordofChaosIori, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7They have viruses, but you'd have to confirm you want to install it more than once and then enter your admin password... so if you have a stupid teenager in your house who installs every single thing they see, just don't give them your password and you should be fine.
- erwlas, on 04/07/2008, -0/+5except woodworm
- serif69, on 04/07/2008, -0/+5The internet IS our home
- Tenoq, on 04/08/2008, -0/+5Spybot S&D can and typically IS installed without any memory resident functions. How does that slowdown your computer? Adaware, on the otherhand, DOES have a memory resident service. You fail. Perhaps you installed Spybot, the spyware application, not Spybot S&D? :P
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -0/+5actually the teenager would be less likely to install the virus than the grandpa who still hasn't figured out this "web thing"
- Quenlin, on 04/07/2008, -0/+5At this rate, antivirus software will take up more space than everything else due to all the rules and conditions used to detect virii. What we really need to do is trace it back, and jail the bastard for life.
- YodaJones, on 04/07/2008, -5/+9Ooooooo... I'm soooooo scared. END OF FUD ....Get Ubuntu ... Be Happy!
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4In related news, the petroleum industry announced there was a crude oil shortage, and gas prices would be going up.
- ericisroot, on 04/07/2008, -2/+6Always use protection!
- NOFXY, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5good question. I was trying to find some sort of list of viruses for Macs and Linux (since apparently they don't have as many as windows) it seems like there must be some sort of comprehensive list. But alas, Google and my googling "skillz" failed me. if anyone has a link to share please post.
- HydrogenOxide, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5Mac has ONE invasive virus that doesn't have to be used, called OSX/Leap-A, but its been long since patched. Even then, it wasn't that bad.
OSX/Leap-A is an instant-messaging worm for the Mac OS X platform.
The worm attempts to spread via the iChat instant messaging system, sending itself to available contacts on the infected users' buddy list in a file called latestpics.tgz. This file is an archive consisting of:
latestpics: the worm executable
._latestpics: a hidden resource file designed to disguise the executable as a JPEG image
OSX/Leap-A installs itself as an application hook by deleting the "apphook" subdirectory of either the /Library/InputManagers/ directory (if run with root permissions) or the ~/Library/InputManagers/ directory (if run as a non-root user) and replacing it with the following three files:
apphook/Info
apphook/apphook.bundle/Contents/Info.plist
apphook/apphook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/apphook
OSX/Leap-A attempts to infect recently used applications by overwriting the original application with a copy of the worm, storing the original application in the file's resource fork. Infected application files have the following extended attribute:
name: oompa
value: loompa
OSX/Leap-A also creates the following temporary files:
/tmp/pic.gz
/tmp/pic
/tmp/latestpics
/tmp/lastespics.tar
/tmp/lastespics.tar.gz
/tmp/lastespics.tgz
and several files under
/tmp/apphook
RSS|Atom - inactive, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5norton is for n00bs
- KMartSheriff, on 04/07/2008, -3/+6***** Ubuntu.
- vertexoflife, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3Okay guys, the internet is done. Let's go home.
- Stirk, on 04/07/2008, -1/+4The anti-virus companies. It's a conspiracy.
- vertexoflife, on 04/07/2008, -2/+5Linux.
- forgiste, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Yeah, except when thousands more teenagers get curious and start doing it all over again every night.
- RadcliffeV, on 04/07/2008, -3/+5Anyone ever wonder how many of these might be made by the larger anti-virus companies? Just throwing out ideas.
- Acglaphotis, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Nostradamus, is that you?
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Using Linux I almost forgot that viruses actually exist :)
- hasslinthehoff, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2I consider that a challenge to get all one million viruses and malware installed on your computer. Okay, go!
- srg13, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3This is completely false. People give this reason for Linux too, forgetting that it powers most web servers (which would make it a massive target). Still, the viruses aren't made because Unix (which Mac OS is based on, and Linux is a copy of) was designed with security in mind, whereas Windows was not.
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2For not understanding that not everything is safe to run. For not understanding the difference between .exe and .jpg. For not understanding websites offering FREE things (ringtones, games, whatever) are sometimes free because they want to infect you with garbage. For not understanding that you need to be aware of what your computer is doing.
- yodaj007, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Not amusing.
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Many websites trick users into believing they have to download and run a program before they can watch a video, play a game, do whatever. Once you've gotten a user to download and run an executable file you can pretty much take the cake. You wouldn't try putting a square peg in a round hole, that's why viruses are made to run on a windows platform.
- Krlll, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3Fair play to you Tenoq I was just gonna call him an idiot.
- scrag10, on 04/07/2008, -2/+4Then all macs would be targeted with virus' and you have the same problem
- motang, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Good thing I am running on a really good locked down system running Windows 95!
- FezMan88, on 04/07/2008, -1/+3and for a moment I thought this was going to be about a real, human virus.
- Hangly, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2In my case it's typically my wife's fault.
- mixomatosys, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2isn't the plural for virus, virii?
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2At least 25%. Right now, Mac usage isn't even in the double digits.
- drmangrum, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2If only the people who write that crap could turn their powers to good instead of evil...
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Using cpu cycles to run anti virus, anti spyware, seems like a waste of resources to scan for each individual virii/malware. What happens when the list becomes 2 million? or more?
- Hangly, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2That, and never let a woman use your computer.
- securitymonkey, on 04/07/2008, -1/+3"Sophos security experts"
Hold on.
$ sed 's/experts/fudmongers'
"Sophos security fudmongers"
Much better. - noonions, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2i agree. most teenagers are far more tech savvy than even their moms.
- elektriknoizz, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2This is Digg.
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