Close, they'll stop looking when the data they find matches the person they WANT to put away.
FIRST COP: "This one has an 88% match."
SECOND COP: "This one has a 75% match AND he's a sex offender."
FIRST COP: "BINGO!"
Everything I've ever read tells me that I can't do anti-virus work from a single point of defense. That's like building a wall to stop and invasion; you can't possibly build enough of it to stop everything.
First, route EVERYTHING coming in through a single gateway and put a virus scanner on that. Make sure it is updated as often as possible and remember to check it regularly. This is your castle guard.
Second, take away as many rights as you can from your users. Keep stripping rights off until they complain, then ask them what single right ALL of them need back and give it to them. Not a 100% percent solution but you deal with people, not abstract ideas. This is like putting bars on windows and locks on doors.
Third, install an AV solution that you can set to auto-download virus defs from a remote server. This is the guard at the door of every building.
Fourth, and last, use a good stand-alone malware scanner to clean infected computers. We use MalwareBytes Malware Scanner. It is very effective and so simple a user can run it.
You won't stop everything but with all of these in place you'll stop most things. The one problem you will have are the laptops. Anyone with a laptop WILL be infected about once every six months. Its the price you pay.
By the way, my company runs Symantic Corporate. It catches maybe 90% of the stuff that sneaks through the portal.
Ring!
This year my company froze every (salaried, non-management)worker's pay and stopped contributing to our 401Ks. I was also denied reimbursement for in-city travel expenses and given twice as many users to support and another ten systems. And yeah, I'm looking for another job, but I didn't quit.
I like doing what I do, I like helping people and I like knowing enough about the systems that I can be the 'hero' once in a great while. Would I do it if I wasn't paid? Not full time. Neat even part time. But I would contribute something just because I like to help.
What's the difference between taking on extra work without extra pay in a job and taking it on outside of your job?
In order to critique something you must have a baseline of what is correct and what is incorrect. The only thing incorrect in the linux/GNU OSes are coding bugs, not design features, and I think we have enough coders critiquing linux/GNU in that way. If the author wishes a community to criticize Linux, I think he should pick a distro and start there.
I have a home land line, a work land line (mandatory), a work cell, and a home cell. My wife has a cell and my daughter has a cell.
I can, depending on the caller ID (and I'm talking about reliable ones from people I know -- like my boss) have GC ring all of my phones, just my phones, just me work phones, just my home phones, my daughter's phone, or just about any combination I want.
Or no phone at all.
I suggest it for anyone who deals with clients and wants their number to remain the same after they leave a job. Get a GC number and put it on your business cards. Link up your cell and your desk phone. Leave the job, keep the cards, your clients may not even know the difference.
It has always been a good service.
Sort of the flip side of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
The ISPs must Cooperate with the RIAA or face the possibility of being forced to do so by Congress. They will Criticize the RIAA methods and demands until public opinion has turned to the ISP's favor at which point they can ignore the wishes of the RIAA and Crush any further attempts to involve the ISPs in futile service-blocking schemes.
Cooperate, Criticize, Crush.
Try it, you might like it.
Broberg's reply would be that Volvo is working on the world's first accident-proof car.
I think you missed something important in that sentence. There is a world of difference between 'working on' and 'finishing'. For instance, if I say "scientists are 'working on' the ITER fusion reactor and will have all of the problems solved in the next twenty years" that doesn't mean fusion is on its way.
Christmas is the best time to release this piece of news, considering we are now in a season where we are asked to believe that the child of the sky god was born in a stable to a mother who never had sex. The alternative belief seems to be that a fat saint (who isn't even a saint) slides down every chimney in the world in one night delivering present to boys and girls, traveling in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer.
After believing those two things, believing the RIAA won't be a problem.
I know this is all about the PC and we all know that as long as people have PCs somewhere there will always be mice and keyboards of some kind.
But look around. How many people have iPhones/iPods/knockoffs? How 'bout the new touch screen blackberries? Been to Redbox? Worked at a McDonald's? Its all touch screen. Computers in the wild (not home or work) are more likely to have a touch interface than not and hand-held computers (sorry 'phones') are all going that way.
I live three whole blocks from my local library and I am too broke to buy my own books. Those books I do 'buy' I usually get used from the net or a local used book store. Those get sold back within a few months, so its more like renting.
Yes, there is undoubtedly a 'cyberwar' of some kind somewhere. It is most likely being fought by one group of 'intelligence' people against another group of 'intelligence' people.
In other words, there is no war, just a bunch of cyber-spooks playing spy.
Oh, they want more money, too.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
