I've seen the executable in the localsettings/application data folder on windows. Likely it's copied & executed from there on startup.

The server is generally more specific than the service. It can have a version, a location, etc. The service would be analogous to a wait staff, while the server would be a specific waiter/waitress.

Happy to be of service.

But to contend that Windows has no such mechanism is either being dishonest or really to not know what you are talking about.

I didn't say Windows didn't have any such mechanisms. Windows does have plenty of features to protect the machine, but no one is using them because they don't know about them.

That's what I said, meaning Windows does have those capabilities.

In short: you lied about the contents of the article. You lied about what I said. You're just messing with me. I don't mind - it was kind of fun.

Cheers! And have a merry Christmas.

Otherwise, point taken.

It has no story. Aliens or robots kill humans is not a story and it's been done to death.

It's a very pretty video of a special effects demo.

I'm impressed by the special effects and not impressed by his story telling ability.

I can't think of any other way to put it.

It's not even new - it's "War of the Worlds" and "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" mixed together.

The guy did a great job with the special effects, but story wise - meh.

Golloywierd will throw in some hot chick in short shorts and lots of cleavage and it'll make a few hundred million.

Yeah, good one. But the User account control isn't adequate - obviously. How many typical Windows users who get their machines that start up right with the Admin account even know about the User Account Control? Windows does have plenty of features to protect the machine, but no one is using them because they don't know about them.

With Linux, you must create a user account and if you try to login as root - which isn't an obvious choice put in front of the user, btw, you get warning boxes stating that you will be taking on quite a bit of risk. Or stated another way, with Linux, admin account access isn't as easy or obvious as it is with Windows. Windows is capable of that but it's not being implemented. With most Windows installs the Admin account is the default logon and most users don't know what risks they're taking because of it.

Now, considering that the typical PC owner uses their computer as an appliance and are not interested or (mistakenly) concerned with user rights, I think at the very least, the OEMs should put a default user account in Windows systems with at least one hoop to jump through for admin access.

Ah! A Koan for my AM meditation.

Speaking as my family's IT support guy, everyone insists running as Admin - just the way their box was set up by the OEM - and they constantly are getting viruses and trojans. My brother-in-law gets Koobface every other month it seems, I set him up with a user account with Firefox and told him to use that account for everything except installing software. Does he listen? Nope. He had this idea that Firefox was all he needed to be safe.

I hope he learned his lesson. He got Koobface again and his father wiped his machine and re-installed Windows - he lost a bunch of photos and stuff he wanted to keep - oh well.

It's either pretty cheap or very easily stolen. I would thing they are using something off the shelf.

Considering our current economic state and budget train wreck, I think the English are thinking "Bloody hell! We sure dodged that one!"

Anyway, why would anyone want to attacks us? We're on a road to self destruction - we're doing it to ourselves.

So, all we'd have to do is turn off the valve from the pond that says "DON'T TURN OFF!" and the missile will ruin itself on launch.

Da?

While you our outside, freezing in the rain smoking your cigarette, I'm nice and warm, in front of my computer, enjoying myself, looking DOWN on you for being sooo weak eating my chessburger - inside!

So there!