Enough to buy a house from Dad (not ma)

Funny, the tax assessor said she sold it to you in 2010 for $1. So I guess you were actually just living at mom's house until 2010, when she gave it to you.

UNIX & VMS here.

Just cause you said it doesn't make it true. Your internet history shows otherwise - a windows luser.

APK In a Nutshell (A Life of Failure)
1. Got a mediocre degree in IT. No computer science degree.
2. Fired from Sunbelt in 2000. Never found full-time employment again, much less as a software engineer.
3. Mom gave him a house. He lied about it, and claimed to be independently wealthy.
4. 2000 - Banned from Arstechnica. Rejoined under another name (lied) to argue for himself. Everyone there hated him.
5. 2003 - Tried to argue with Russinovich in forums of Russinovich's blog. Other forum posters schooled him. Nevertheless, claims he beat Russinovich in argument that Russinovich did not realized happened.
6. 2007 - Banned from Antionline. Everyone there hated him. Pasted his "security guide," which everyone agreed was not good.
7. 2008 - Actually got paid $100 for his security guide, and 7 years later claims he's a "security professional."
8. 2008 - Admitted he doesn't understand UNIX: "I am more of a Win32 guy the past few years though, so I must ask [what iptables is]."
9. 2008 - Made legal threats against Thor Schrock, but turned out to be lying. Embarrassed publicly by Schrock.
10. 2010 - Wrote a crappy file manager in Pascal that performs terribly. Nobody would pay for it.
11. Managed to get malwarebytes to host his file manager because it's free. Lied and denied it's just a file manager, but Malwarebytes calls it what it is: a file manager.
12. 2011 - BarbaraHudson caught him in a lie - that he had plenty of +5 modded posts on slashdot. They were all at -1.
13. 2011 - Attempted to re-add garbage to Wikipedia 20 times on the hosts file. Had it removed each time.
14. 2012 - Embarrassed on slashdot for his text file manager's extremely poor performance. Pastes Python but fails to indent, showing he does not understand the basics of Python.
15. 2014 - Zontar schooled him, doxed him, caught him in several other lies.
16. 2014-2015 - Bouldin repeatedly explained why hosts files are not suitable security against botnets, but he didn't understand the technical aspects. Seems very confused about basic networking and how malware works. Refers to malware with millions of infections as "edge cases." Doesn't understand basic Python, and believes the hosts file cannot be bypassed even after proof otherwise.
17. Still has not done anything since his long-since-deleted security guide from 2007 or his file manager from 2010.

Hey, what do you know? Even malwarebytes thinks your program is just a file manager:

APK Hosts File Engine - Small program for managing the HOSTS file

So your one claim to fame IS a file manager written in Pascal. For which nobody pays you.

Everyone believes you said this quoted:

"Because nobody uses hosts files for security" - by bouldin (828821) on Thursday May 21, 2015 @05:53PM (#49746865)

Haha, yeah, nobody in enterprise does use hosts files for security. That's some consumer-grade shareware shit.

Spybot doesn't even seem to think it's a good feature, because you haven't been able to link anywhere other than that forum where they even admit having the feature.

Anyone can use it + see they do & MANY use that program stupid!

You can keep your consumer-grade shareware/freeware. Enterprise uses solutions like Damballa.

YOU ALSO TRIED TO DENY it & it's there in PLAIN Black & White with his NAME on it!

Didn't see it - it was buried under your verbal diarrhea. As many others have noted, your English is terrible.

WHOSE INITIALS ARE ON THIS - WINNER IN 2008 (added proof of paid for good layered security article):

Congrats, you got $100 seven years ago. You're a real pro!

Via the layered security/defense in depth methods my security guide extolls? I've COMPLETELY shut down your "desperation" RARE edge cases you tried too!

You didn't even understand the cases I presented. And they aren't edge cases, they are malware with millions of infections. But that was lost on you, because you don't understand anything.

Ha, you can keep reposting that list, but none of those are failures on my part, and half of it doesn't even involve me in any way.

You, on the other hand are a total failure and liar. You claimed you quit Sunbelt, but actually you were fired. You claim to be independently wealthy, but you have a $100,000 house that your mom gave you.

You've been banned from dozens of sites (in other words, dozens of failures), and each time try ridiculous arguments that everyone on the site shuts down (so let's just call that several hundred failures).

And now, you are a complete failure because you write super shitty software that is slow. You don't understand computing or security.

Go back to school. Go to a real school this time.

Now you see why I've referred to you as a parade of delusion. You're a total fuckup imagining ways that someone you know nothing about has failed.

Your amateurish security guide sucked, you don't know anything about security, and you're a windows luser. You write shitty freeware in Pascal, and you have no job. You've been caught in lie after lie, and frankly, everybody you have ever known hates you.

So, then, you are admitting the hosts file is not effective at blocking botnet c&c channels. Take that out of your list of extravagant claims of the benefits of hosts files.

How many times is a dumbshit like YOU going to *try* pull that on me, menial? Are there hostnames here that are still online?? Yes, ZEUS botnet (as a SINGLE example) https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/m...

If your approach only blocks 5-10% of domain names, then it is NOT effective for security. This might fly in your shareware consumer world, but that is not enterprise-grade.

Any OTHER kind, such as the edge case RARE types you noted (out of 'desperation') MY SECURITY GUIDE catches via Layered Security/Defense in Depth practices -> http://forums.pcpitstop.com/in...

You DO NOT HAVE A SECURITY GUIDE. I actually looked for it, and the closest I could find was where you posted it, but everybody thought you were an idiot and banned you. Not what I would call "success."

"Sounds like you've washed out of every job you've had."

Wouldn't matter, since if YOU are 'state of the art' in "security engineers" (allegedly)? You suck...

Yeah, you have totally washed out of every job you had, and now you've been an author of (shitty) shareware. Found this gem:

IpTables, iirc, = the LINUX modern evolution of the older IPChains system, right?? I am more of a Win32 guy the past few years though, so I must ask.

So you don't even understand UNIX. You are quite the security professional.

When I FRY weasels like YOU on a forums as I have here? Sure, they get pissed & have to 'kick me'...

You have been banned from almost every forum you've ever joined. Like when you were banned in 2000 from arstechnica, and rejoined as a different name to defend yourself. Or when you were banned after trying to spam your shitty security guide in 2007.

The best thing I could find anyone say about you, from a friend, was:

Vortac said:

The only thing I don't like about him (although I've gotten over it), is he thinks everyone is an idiot. He just hasn't had any real experience, deadlines to meet, or being a team player within an organization.

And the worst thing is, you're a really shitty programmer!

For my Hosts Engine, I chose Object Pascal since it's beaten even MSVC++ in strings work which my app does HEAVILY - dumb thing for you to say:

Funny, because you got called out for very poorly performing code (that just sorted some strings and took 11 minutes) here. And here are the kinds of things people said about your code a few years ago:

Man with no head wrote:

Of course spamming forums with publicity ads is kind of lame; don't take it personally, but you brought it upon yourself.

Now as regarding the actual package, I find the UI kind of weird and you don't seem to be following Windows UI guidelines (That's a no-no in Tog speak).

The feature set is kind of questionable; I fail to see the real value of your product really.

And to finish my rant, I got these errors on startup on my Win2k SRV SP1 system.

BTW I'm not infected with the SubSeven trojan, but why does your app bark like that?>p>

DrPizza wrote:

His advice about stopping services was garbage, and potentially dangerous.

His advice about stopping WINS was complete bunk.

His advice about RAM disks was crap, full of holes, and much of it would damage the performance of your machine.

His software was buggy, and did nothing interesting (it didn't do anything undocumented, I don't believe).

God wrote:

Nice of you to suggest he spruce this & that up, but his project was a lost cause anyway - who needs it? It's like let's build another game of solitaire.

So, you write shitty code, you don't understand security, you don't have a security-related degree, you piss everybody off and get banned from every forum.

The only reason you haven't been banned on Slashdot is that the forums aren't moderated. But you have made so many enemies, you got doxed last year.

I'm unemployable "damballa boy"? That illogical ad hominem attack's not helping now, is it??

No, you are totally unemployable - you're a total fuckup. Another choice quote:

NervousEnergy wrote:

Reading these threads is like watching a plane crash on the evening news. I shouldn't be, but there is this sick fascination about it that I can't help. Seeing someone totally and completely debase himself in public is just mesmerizing.

That's about you. There are dozens more posts like that.

You still have not responded to this:

You can run your update as often as you like, but malware reverse engineers are not providing you an up-to-the-minute list of all DGA domains. Even if they did, you wouldn't get the domains until the malware had already connected up for its C&C of the hour. Hosts files are a bad strategy for modern botnets because techniques like DGA were designed to defeat static blocklists.

No, I have repeatedly: My layered security guide addresses it which you can easily read since you ADMIT seeing various sources to it here http://it.slashdot.org/comment... since WHEN YOU BLOCK AVENUES MALWARES USE TO GET INTO YOU, THEY CAN'T INFECT YOU: Pure truth.

So, then, you are admitting the hosts file is not effective at blocking botnet c&c channels. Take that out of your list of extravagant claims of the benefits of hosts files.

Uhm, I never wrote a FileManager 1st of all, lol, & secondly? Again:

Yeah, you wrote a file manager in Pascal.

By the way: As a professional software engineer since 1994 here, DB security IS part of the job. To be that job title, you also HAVE to be a network admin with FULL rights to do it. Security IS a HUGE part of it, dumbass (talking out your ass again as usual). I've also taken jobs as a techie before that killing viruses by the MANY 1,000's for clients (using ProcessExplorer & a Windows Install CD recovery console alone even, not needing anything more, even rootkits), & as a network admin/engineer too before graduating to MIS/IS/IT level coding.

Sounds like you've washed out of every job you've had. It's funny, because if I google your name, all I find is you pissing off people in Internet forums over the past 9 years. Repeatedly.

P.S.=> You are NOT in my league. Nor will you ever be. Answer these questions in my ps here to prove otherwise -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... [slashdot.org]

Hahhaa.. no, I'm not going to give my personal details to some mental patient on the Internet. Let's just say I moved past Pascal when I was in high school.

I made my monies, doing well enough to NOT have to work anymore in fact (it's great, early retirement)

Uh no, you are not independently wealthy. You are unemployable. If you apply for a job, the employer will google you and see you are a total whack job who needs medication.

You still have not responded to this:

You can run your update as often as you like, but malware reverse engineers are not providing you an up-to-the-minute list of all DGA domains. Even if they did, you wouldn't get the domains until the malware had already connected up for its C&C of the hour. Hosts files are a bad strategy for modern botnets because techniques like DGA were designed to defeat static blocklists.

And you keep insisting you have a multi-decade security background, but all you have to show for it is a file manager written in Pascal:

I.E. - I have a 21 yr. long career in security for database work as a pro + a guide for layered security for people that need it: Amateurs mostly need it, not pros.

And you keep citing your guide, which is from the "tips n tricks" section of a newsletter, but the guide is not up anymore. Apparently they didn't think it was worth much.

http://forums.pcpitstop.com/in... [pcpitstop.com]

See that guide, it does that!

Misquoting me AGAIN? LEARN TO READ! What's in my LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE DOES blocks infestation vectors! It shows how to cut off the sources of infestation & firewalls + hosts (which security pros GALORE backed me on vs. your bs, fool) do the rest even stopping infected systems from "talking back" to their C&C controllers (think Iron Man in Avengers 1 killing the central command in the black hole).

I have yet to see a security guide, just a dead link.

Bouldin omits apk's 21 yr career in security != dumb selective quoting. Apk's been there and done that at levels I now suspect you can't touch. Are you even over 21? You'd have to be at least that and more to be a pro with 21 yrs to your credit in security as apk has. Are you really a security pro? Prove it. That's all I want to see now. How old are you? I doubt you've been a security pro at all much less one that has a 21 yr career as apk has on levels in coding and networking.

First off, we know this is you, Kowalrus.

Second, no, you do not have a 21 year career in security. You have a 15 year career of being a total asshole in internet forums.

You really have not proven that you've ever had a job, although it does seem likely you worked at Sunbelt but were fired because everybody hates working with you.

You still have not responded to this:

You can run your update as often as you like, but malware reverse engineers are not providing you an up-to-the-minute list of all DGA domains. Even if they did, you wouldn't get the domains until the malware had already connected up for its C&C of the hour. Hosts files are a bad strategy for modern botnets because techniques like DGA were designed to defeat static blocklists.

Perhaps because you are an amateur, and don't understand malware, security, botnets, or anything beyond Pascal on Windows 2000?

"yes, malware can trivially disable your hosts file or the windows firewall." by bouldin (828821) on Sunday May 24, 2015 @09:15AM (#49763123)

Not if you secure yourself vs. their methods of getting in which my guide does (cuts off all avenues) first.

So.. hosts file means strong security as long as you never get an infection in the first place? Surely you realize how stupid that sounds.

See subject: A proof there I have been

Uh, what? Parse error

Clue: You won't even SAY WHERE YOU WORK yet YOU CLAIM you are a "security engineer"??? LMAO - No, don't think so.

Ha, I don't want you harassing me at work, idiot.

I don't? My ware UPDATES DAILY dimwit (every 12 hours automatically) & more if you do it manually often as you like (every hour if you want, defeating even DGA's stupid) & blocking them, ala:

You can run your update as often as you like, but malware reverse engineers are not providing you an up-to-the-minute list of all DGA domains. Even if they did, you wouldn't get the domains until the malware had already connected up for its C&C of the hour. Hosts files are a bad strategy for modern botnets because techniques like DGA were designed to defeat static blocklists.

That's why real antimalware vendors like Damballa don't rely on a static DNS blocklist, much less a hosts file on the OS.

YOU SAYING THAT WON'T BLOCK A DGA ENDPOINT or C&C? Wrong... hosts block *ANY* host-domain/subdomain name! ANSWER THAT SIMPLE QUESTION!

I already answered this question - NO. You didn't believe me and called it "hypothetical bullshit," so I provided 4 lines of Python that trivially bypass hosts files.

You can't corrupt bypass my hosts file by the way.

Another parse error, but yes, malware can trivially disable your hosts file or the windows firewall.

Again: DID I SAY HOSTS STOP EVERYTHING? Never. Show me WHERE I HAVE ok? I never have once. Nothing by itself does.

You keep claiming hosts files stop botnet communication, which is clearly not true.

I've proven I have TONS OF GUIDES FOR THAT even PAID FOR ONES I WROTE that actually work (with testimonials too)

No, you provided one dead link that may have hosted 1 guide 7 years ago. And that was a site for AMATEURS to submit their text files, and win a $100 prize if their amateurish text files were accepted.