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Comment Re:Dead as a profit source for Symantec, well, ... (Score 1) 331

But they are ! Antivirus programs run most of their program as a service (services.msc). A quick look reveals Mcafee uses 4 services
Framework, Shield, Task Manager, Validation Trust protection.

The avg user program and tray icon's are just front-ends to control some aspects of these services or to start custom scans.

Comment Re:Dead as a profit source for Symantec, well, ... (Score 2) 331

p.s. it is perfectly viable for a literate individual to not use an antivirus. It is also possible to not use AV on a PC in a corporate environment, but it has its implications. T

I think using the OS supplied security controls the Windows Vista/7/8 family provides: Applocker/SRS, Group Policy, App-V
is preferable to running antivirus in an OR scenario. It's also a lot more complicated.

Comment Re:Physical destruction (Score 1) 116

And takes a very long time /dev/{u}random does not have a lot of bandwith. In my opinion a single dd if=/dev/zero suffices for drives going out of the company.
But for a reinstallation of a system in the company I just format and reinstall again because a zero pass takes a long time as well.

Comment Re: Hamas are Terrorists (Score 3, Insightful) 402

You can't expect them to collaborate with their 'enemy'
The only thing they can do is guerilla warfare or agree to the occupation.
If they didn't have the support from the palestinian public eg: if Israel was actually civil
with these people instead of raiding them en masse and 'interrogating' their children then Hamas
wouldn't exist as it is now anyway. Punishing everybody for the crimes of a few is wrong policy.

Threat the people like people, work your informants
and send special ops to the actual terrorists, that's how you get them.

Comment Re: NFS + SSH is a security hole (Score 1) 98

No, he was putting public keys (not private) into a home directory. Specifically, the user was root which was only possible because a) /root was exported (via exporting /), b) root squash wasn't enabled. Yes, nfs3 is fundamentally insecure. Any vaguely competent sysadmin knows this and knows to take appropriate precautions.

And what's the appropriate action besides root_squash and proper host access control (/etc/exports,tcp wrappers, firewall, etc ...) ?
It still doesn't do any real authentication.

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