Firefox can get them. I had a user get hit with this about a month ago. Luckily I had gone over fake anti-virus with them during in-service so they knew what they were looking at. The called me because even if the quit Firefox the next time they ran it the fake av came up again. Clearing the cache and re-setting the home page was the fix.

So yes, it can still happen unfortunately.

Not looking to cause a flame war but the answer is a Mac. The security on it makes sense and most of this malware just won't run (because its for Windows), and the stuff that could can't run by itself. You actually would have to install it and enter your password for it to work.

As someone who has switched their parents to a mac I can tell you that its much easier to support as well. And they can call apple support and get helped through lots of issues.

For the trolls:
*Please note, I have indicated that macs are good for this purpose, I didn't say that it was the be all end all better then anything else solution. Above all l am not suggesting that you stop using whatever you are using.

That extracts the tar, we want to bottle it up.

tar -cvf gulf.tar gulf coastline ;)

I disagree. And if you knew how to use ZENworks correctly you would find that its a great product. And for a school it comes at a great price (very much discounted) if you use the SLA. Also eDir is much friendlier to work with then AD and it far more compatible with other software that requires LDAP to function. AD's version of LDAP access required specially tweaked Kerberos configs since MS doesn't follow standards. I will agree thought that Netware is a bit long in the tooth but SLES 10 and OES 2 are good products and make for a good replacement. Now Novell just needs to get the last of their products moved over so that I no longer need a solitary Netware server for NSM (supposedly v. 3 will run on SLES), and a few others.

To go though customs and immigration perhaps? He was in a foreign country heading for another country. He had to go through customs and immigration so they knew he was leaving and could process that in their visitors database. To do that he needed to be in the public terminal I am sure, so there is a reason for the security. It might be different if he was merely flying to another airport within the same country.

Verizon has one too. They claim the GPS is for the 911 service routing.

According to the the US Consulate in Japan, the US does allow dual citizenship. Not sure if there are restrictions on country or not though. Japan by the way doesn't allow dual citizenship (of adults).

I work in a school and even though ALL of our staff insist they have to use Word none of them use any of its more advanced features. Honestly, wordpad or even notepad would accomplish everything they do on a daily basis. They come with windows anyway and you can open their files with pretty much any word processing software (especially true for notepad's plain text files).

This goes doubly for any business education teacher I have known, save one. :(

Is that you MPAA/RIAA? ;P

They are pricey but what you want are a couple of Polycom VSX 5000 or similar units. Maybe you can find some on ebay or something. They are nice because you don't need to be technical to run them and they come with an easy to use remote control. You can even control the other units camera direction and zoom. The quality of both the audio and video are very good but, and this goes for all of your solutions, depends on the reliability and quality of your internet connection. You just need a TV or Monitor and an Ethernet connection for the unit. If you can find a couple older models on ebay it will be your best solution.

http://www.polycom.com/products/telepresence_video/video_conference_systems/room_systems/vsx5000.html

I love the tissues, wish they did that here. Super handy. :)

I would love to know why we can't have vending machines that server both hot and cold beverages and will take a 10,000 yen (~$100) bill and give you back dollars instead of just coins.

But this is off topic so I'll stop. ;)

The only problem with the Apple EFI (or maybe its a hardware vendor issue?) is that you have no ability to set hardware settings without booting into an OS first. This is an issue when working with RAID cards, NIC settings and PXE, other controller cards (SCSI, SATA, etc). Perhaps this will be addressed in UEFI though.

You can also use something like DenyHosts. It seems to work pretty well for blocking ssh hacking attempts. :)

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

If this was in the US and was a public K-12 and you didn't at least filter Porn and Child Porn then you were in violation of CIPA. There would have been consequences including but not limited to loosing E-RATE funding, possibly federal and state funding, lawsuits, possibly having the state take over the school, etc. If this was a private school you would have lost some of your funding. Not sure if a proxy qualifies as a filter as, even though your logged which isn't a requirement, does not block those two mandatory categories.

The reasons for blocking other things are ad-ware/malware/spyware/viruses(virii?), cyber bullying, porn being posted on non-porn sites (forums, blogs, other social media), child predators, law suits because of over protective parents (or parents looking to make a quick buck off of the school), the list goes on and on.

They will hire Carmen Sandiego to steal it! :D