The true anonymous coward here is not apk. The true anonymous coward refuses to reply because apk disproved all of his malarky point by point. The ac that modded apk down is clearly either this Thor Schrock character, or the arstechnica people (jeremy reimer) and as kings jowker said, apk told some truths about this material that has certain parties living in fear of it. Especially hosts files blocking the ad banners they make a living off of others with and that infects people with viruses by using malicious script in the ad banner content that was reported here at slashdot. apk illustrated evidences from others who are in the security realm in this science like Mr. Oliver Day of securityfocus.com even notes he surfs faster through the use of a custom hosts file and that it is useful for security purposes as well. As kingsjowker said, keep up the good work apk, despite the trolls from arstechnica and the obviously technically incompetent such as Thor Schmuck/Shrock also who try to give you a tough time here in trolling you but only fail because the sock puppet account mod up will only show others like myself what the truth is here, and especially after reading this where apk took every false misleading point the true anonymous coward (not apk) stated and put up documented and verifiable evidences to the contrary. Especially the words of Oliver Day and those of Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica showing his own words admitting the arstechnica people have impersonated you online. What a pack of losers.

See my subject because in accusing others of it, you merely give away your own modus operandi and what you yourself do. What I think is funny here is that in your sock puppet mod up of your post you have made your post front page material. Now that apk tore apart your points, point by point, with documented evidences from reputable sources, you only attracted people like myself who read it and thought "it is obvious he modded himself up and only to his own dismay because apk took apart all the lies and misleading crap quite easily". Especially ac apk's points on hosts files, backed by Mr. Oliver Day of Securityfocus.com and also how Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica admitted to impersonating apk and how Thor Schmuck\Shrock has attempted libelling apk and is completely off base in addition to others like Mark Russinovich of microsoft and Nir Sofer of nirsoft also having their wares falsely shown as malware by many antivirus program plus apk showing from a respected trade magazine how Delphi is twice as fast as msvb and msvc++ which made you look totally technically incompetent as well. Most of all apk was successful in shutting you up because you refuse to reply to his rebuttals to your outrageous misleading garbage.

He refuses to reply because you disproved all of his malarky point by point. The ac that modded you down apk is clearly either this Thor Schrock character, or the arstechnica people (jeremy reimer) and as kings jowker said, you are telling a truth about this material that has certain parties living in fear of it. Especially hosts files blocking the ad banners they make a living off of others with and that infects people with viruses by using malicious script in the ad banner content that was reported here at slashdot. You did show evidence that others who are in the security realm in this science like Mr. Oliver Day of securityfocus.com even notes he surfs faster through the use of a custom hosts file and that it is useful for security purposes as well. As kingsjowker said, keep up the good work apk, despite the trolls from arstechnica and the obviously technically incompetent such as Thor Schmuck/Shrock also who try to give you a tough time here in trolling you but only fail because the sock puppet account mod up will only show others like myself after reading this that you took every false misleading point they stated and put up documented and verifiable evidences to the contrary. Especially the words of Oliver Day and those of Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica showing his own words admitting the arstechnica people have impersonated you online. What a pack of losers.

You said to use chroot, not chown, and it was shown that chroot jail breaks exist. I will trust the people at apple who recommend this versus the single known exploit in Mac OS X since both they and secunia.com recommend it for that, but also for the fact that Apple recommends it in their security guides for users to secure Mac OS X. No matter how you try to discredit your betters like apk, secunia, and of all people, Apple themselves? The more poorly you appear along with your name calling of others such as apk, myself, and others here. You are now forced to recommend what both Apple, Secunia, as well as apk recommend and that was changing ownership of various files. You have lost and are making yourself lose by making mistakes, calling others names after mistakes you make, and the fact that you have to do what apk, Apple, and secunia recommended to do the job right (instead of 1/2 assed as you have been doing so far and suggesting to others). You went and spent $3000 on a Mac when all you had to do was spend an hour or two on your Windows system to secure it better than it is by default by a long ways, and you're telling others not only to spend monies they do not have to, but you also suggest faulty or impartial measures for them on their Mac OS X machines. You lose badly on all accounts noted.

I read about exactly what you stated regarding Nir Sofer of Nirsoft going through the very thing you mentioned and he is apparently the many time victim of these antivirus or antispyware false positives per his blog noting it here Sunday, May 17, 2009 Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers http://www.nirsoft.net/blog/2009/05/antivirus-companies-cause-big-headache.html and I don't blame you for not 'taking this challenge' because it sounds like more of a setup to me too. Considering this type of thing caused you some pain before when you meant well writing an app for somebody that later was turned in as a malware/greyware? I especially moreso do not blame you for it. I saw this happen to Dr. Russinovich's psexec iirc too. Of course, you know this idiot RyuuzakiTetsuya you are being too nice too imho will give you guff about it, but he is a nobody who is reduced to name calling at this point of this debate anyways and he's made so many mistakes it is not even amusing anymore. Considering me called me names like a hole and such also he is nothing more than a spoiled little child you outfoxed and out thought at every turn by this point. I will try to ignore him but it is too hard to resist to not do so after he has been so rude to myself, yourself, and others also.

As usual ac apk makes another solid point in favor of HOSTS files usage online, and this time, versus the tyrannical oppression going on over in germany lately regarding DNS and port 53 monitoring and how custom hosts files with hardcoded ip addresses can get users around such things as logging requests for udp port 53 here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1270901&cid=28364263 so once more my original reply calling whoever modded apk down an ignorant trolls stands and even moreso on top of security experts like securityfocus.com's Oliver Day also noting hosts files may be the thing to return to nowadays versus dns exploits and far more as apk states in his original post here which was modded down by some troll.

As usual ac apk makes another solid point in favor of HOSTS files usage online, and this time, versus the tyrannical oppression going on over in germany lately regarding DNS and port 53 monitoring and how custom hosts files with hardcoded ip addresses can get users around such things as logging requests for udp port 53 here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1270901&cid=28364263 so once more my original reply calling whoever modded apk down an ignorant trolls stands and even moreso on top of security experts like securityfocus.com's Oliver Day also noting hosts files may be the thing to return to nowadays versus dns exploits and far more as apk states.

You're just stupid and I have had it being civil with you after you called me an a hole. Your so stupid because you could have spent an hour or two securing Windows properly, indicating you are no computer genius because you admitted you could not and instead jumped to Macs instead, giving up, like incompetent quitters do and often find they made mistakes when the going got tough and they got going to worse things still. So instead of spending $3,000 or more on a Mac as you did that isn't as secure as you seemed to say it was in suggesting it to others, since more errors in it (971) are present in its current model or were, versus Windows Server 2003 (234) from secunia.com data, that you now look the fool. Yes, you are a fool, and you're now being forced to admit Mac OS X is not totally secure and impenetrable as you would like others to think it is so you can feel good about being a stupid sheep that bought into the bull that nix people spout here and elsewhere online, but nobody buys into your garbage literally. You stated nobody buys into apk's words and he produced around 100 mod ups here as an ac to prove you wrong. You asked who he was and he showed 10 examples of he being not only internationally published and in some very reputable publications in this science, but that he also has commercial code to his credit and some decent noting in the shareware or freeware world also. Now that apk has not only demonstrated your suggestions for truly securing a Mac OS X based system are incomplete per guides from Apple Computer themselves no less which seem a great deal like apk's were (actually not as complete on the comparable levels involved such as hosts file usage for example) but that when he points out in order to secure Mac OS X against its single unpatched known security flaw that you would have to exercise suggestions that he uses and I now do as well and am going on a year of uninfected uptime on a Windows system. He pointed out that browser flaws exist and could affect Mac OS X web browsers also and especially in their default configuration. You then laughingly changed the rules to using chroot, and when apk pointed out that 'chroot jail breaks' exist, you did your usual pitching a fit and frothing profanity strewn replies. You are also what you accused he of, being non-sequitur, and you are the one changing stances here constantly (just as you did when you said running antivirus and antispyware in your first reply here was good things to do and later said they were only 'gold plating', switching horses in midstream like you did from Windows and stupidly spent monies on an Operating System that has less software for it for less purposes such as gaming one of the largest software markets in existence than Windows does. This makes you a fool and is probably the reason you are swearing here so much, you are a fool and you know it). You lose RyuuzakiTetsuya. You are a loser who basically lost $3,000 stupidly also when all you had to do was follow guides for securing windows. No wonder you are a nobody in this science. Nobody buys into your garbage is more like it, or your Mac OS X (or isn't the nix lack of market and mindshare out there today in the pc world not an indication of that?) Why don't you take your own advice and 'gtfo', loser?

No small wonder why. Have you considered decaf? After all your swearing you ought to.

You failed the cool calm collected sanity test as far as I am concerned. You are hereforth banned from the coffee pot, haha. You said ridicule was Thomas Jefferson? Guess what, I am ridiculing you, for you calling me names. You were shown as stupid here by stating that netbios lanmanager holes are a big problem in Windows and the ac APK only showed you how to shut those off with a click or two by a user and you went off on a tirade of swearing the likes I have rarely seen online. Like any spoiled brat, you got a spanking from the ac apk who kept his cool and when you are asked how you would secure the single known security problem in your operating system of choice in Mac OS X, you refuse to answer it, and I know why. It will show your security guide suggestions are not enough and that you would have to do as the ac APK recommends in his guides, of which his initial suggestion of stopping the server service is a single part. His guide layers on others, which is the recommended trend in the pc and server security industry. It's called layered security. Look it up, because if you think other holes in Mac OS X will not come up, you are sorely mistaken. Do lay off the caffeine as well. It's that, or see a psychoanalyst. You need it. Good day, last I have to say to a trash mouth like yourself.

No I wouldn't 'f' you, sorry to disappoint you on that note. As you said Mr. Thomas Jefferson said ridicule is the way? Then I am telling you that you are an object of ridicule in avoiding answering a question of what you would do to stop the single known (mind you, known, there will be more and there always is, security vulnerabilities in Operating Systems and there will be for years I think) error in Mac OS X. You would have to do more than what you stated was your security guide, and more like what the ac APK stated he has shown other Windows users how to do, like me. It works, and not only does the user thronka from xtremepccentral say it works, I am also. I have not been infected by anything since I applied it and am heading on a year without problems. In fact, the only way to secure Mac OS X versus its single known issue is to limit access rights to files, folders, and disks per the recommendations from secunia.com that were posted here. You avoid answering this out of what the ac APK stated, your own hubris. All you have left now is name tossing, and since you like ridicule? I am going to give you some: Quit crying baby boy, you have lost and badly due to your mistakes as well as your arrogance (suggesting an OS that has been attacked more than your opponent's version was doesn't sound like good advice to myself, and the rest of your mistakes did the rest). As you said, Good Day Sir (except you don't rate sir, since you toss names around like a trash mouthed scum).

RyuuzakiTetsuya calling a guy an idiot who asked you questions you refuse to answer is not a win by any stretch of the imagination. I read this entire exchange between yourself and apk (I often read his posts and have modded he up before because of the value of their content) and you telling he you have won while you are lowered to name calling and avoiding questions he asked is no win. He only noted that your stating that the netbios shares hassle you initially noted was an easy fix and it is. Stopping the server service does that to all file and disk shares with ease. You began calling he names and had to admit that the Operating System you suggested with the "F" word rather rudely has flaws and yet you suggested it to others. When apk cornered you into admitting this and asking you how you would fix it, I think the reason you will not answer is because it will indeed illustrate that to really secure an OS, even one like MacOSX, you need to do things like apk notes in his statement about his guide for securing windows, such as limiting access rights and file shares. You said you won? I don't think so. Not when you are stooping so low as to avoid questions and avoid answering them, making as many mistakes as you have, and last of all but not least of all, having to call others names. You lost RyuuzakiTetsuya, face it.

See my subject and this Oliver Day's SECURITYFOCUS.COM article titled "Resurrecting the Killfile" by Oliver Day, 2009-02-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491 It seems that security experts tend to agree with you apk. Whoever modded you down is nothing more than some ignorant troll.

See my subject and this Oliver Day SECURITYFOCUS.COM article titled "Resurrecting the Killfile" by Oliver Day, 2009-02-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491 It seems that security experts tend to agree with you apk. Whoever modded you down is nothing more than some ignorant troll.

See my subject and this Oliver Day's SECURITYFOCUS.COM article titled "Resurrecting the Killfile" by Oliver Day, 2009-02-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491 It seems that security experts tend to agree with you apk. Whoever modded you down is nothing more than some ignorant troll.

Don't argue with or troll the ac apk like you had here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1230601&cid=28076381 or you will get the thrashing you received for it, here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1243941&cid=28108607 from him. You really are what he states you are, a talker but one who is nothing but a liar. I say that solely based on your inability to correctly identify what was going on in there being use of the idle time present in applications as the ac apk had and he also provided code for it as an example of how it can be used which to myself appeared to be quite like the scenario in Microsoft Excel being provided in his example using grids like excel has. I also had no idea that you had bothered he before and he got the better of you about the Gigabyte iram solid state drive also. No small wonder you are unwilling to answer my question to you, of prove you are a professional programmer as you stated you were. You clearly are not and are nothing more than a liar ion.simon.c and it boggles my mind how people like yourself can live with themselves after humiliating themselves repeatedly in public as you have here where you tried to mess with your betters in the ac apk and only got yourself spanked for it. I will ask the question again which you asked apk, prove to us all you are a professional programmer, because you stated you are and demanded the ac apk do the same. He did with an large body of proofs to that effect. You had nothing like them, not even a single one and you are unwilling to answer my questions to that effect where I ask you prove you are a professional programmer as you stated you are. I would also like to ask the question the ac apk had, in that I would like to hear why you think the Gigabyte iram ssd is a finicky piece of trash. It runs on Windows, but not on Linux, according to yourself. What the finicky piece of garbage is appears to be Linux, or, your rather pitiful skills in this science actually. Anyone is free to see those url links above to verify my statements and see that ion.simon.c is not one to give advice about arguing with his betters. He clearly runs when confronted and makes unbelievably rookie class errors as well in doing so. Quite hilarious.