Chip Morningstar, call your office.

Schwab

Hmm... You could set her up with the moral equivalent of a "Live CD," i.e. the core OS files are read-only, with maybe a UnionFS-type of writeable store overlaid on top. All her data files would be on normal read-write partitions. Thus, if she infects her machine, all that's required is a reboot. Naturally, installing new software would require administrative intervention, but honestly, other than OS updates, how many times does she need to install something?

You could also put her machine in a DMZ on the company's network so her machine doesn't reach out and contaminate others.

...And I imagine you've probably already thought of most of this...

Schwab

About a year ago, when I was trying to figure out why notices from BofA were crashing my Moto RAZR, I did a little reading up on DKIM, and found it rather interesting. What I found even more interesting is that all the DKIM support I could locate operated at the MTA level (sendmail, postfix, etc.). I couldn't find any client-side tools that would verify DKIM signatures.

Has this situation changed (or did I miss something)? Are there any tools I could plug in to, say, 'mutt' to verify DKIM signatures?

Schwab

...Or it's me, who long ago told WinUpdate to never attempt to "upgrade" IE, for the simple fact that I was never ever going to use IE (except to download FIrefox).

Every time Micros~1 updates IE, they fsck around with the defaults -- incorrectly, of course -- and I have to dive through half a dozen panes of preferences settings to bludgeon the thing back into submission. So, no, Micros~1, leave the damned thing alone.

(I also long ago uninstalled MSIE which, for some inane reason, is distinct from IE.)

Schwab

Public shaming has always been effective.

Shaming? I thought it was a leaderboard...

I have two TIVO boxes, one is high definition, both recording constantly. I have one system with 8TB of storage to sort/organize the incoming TIVO recording...

How are you able to get the hi-def programs off the TiVo and on to external file storage? Our TiVo sniffs derisively at us if we try to do that (depending on the show). Also, that must be achingly slow, since TiVo throttles network transfer rates.

I may need to double check, but I'm 98% certain the author is lying. To my knowledge (and I have a fair amount on this subject), Amiga never had an autorun-style feature.

Amiga had a "disk inserted" event, which would often trigger programs looking for the event, such as Workbench, to look at the just-inserted disk to see what was on it. But except for initially booting the system, Amiga would never load and run code off a disk merely because you inserted it.

Schwab

Autorun was one of the main reasons Amiga was the darling of the virus writers and Windows just carried on the tradition.

It's obvious why you're an AC -- you have no smegging idea what you're talking about.

Amiga had autorun to the same extent DOS did. There was a bootblock that contained a small snippet of binary code to get the machine booted and running. This bootblock was not accessible via the filesystem, and only specialized tools could write there.

In other words, it was exactly analogous to the bootblock/partition table that's on the hard disk you have today.

Yes, virus writers exploited this feature on Amiga, exactly as they exploited it on DOS and Windows.

Schwab