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Comment Re:Curse you, System Idle Process! (Score 4, Funny) 382

by owsla on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @02:27PM (#32581514) Attached to: How many processes are running on your desktop box?

Ha! I defeated System Idle Process. I just opened up about four instances of Photoshop, 100+ tabs playing flash movies in Firefox, launched a blu ray DVD, and ran disk defrag - all while running a full virus scan in the background.

Hah! I can do that with just one Firefox tab and a Flash movie.

Cisco Router Hack Inspires New Patching Religion 48

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 26, 2009 @04:09PM from the which-wire-to-cut-first? dept.

ancientribe writes "The dirty little secret about patching routers is that many enterprises don't bother — for fear of the fallout any changes to their Cisco router software could have on the rest of their infrastructure. But the recent discovery of a way to easily hack these devices has put pressure on organizations to change their ways and patch. This article in Dark Reading gives tips on how to patch without taking down the network, including input from Cisco's own director of IT on how Cisco itself handles router patching."

Comment Re:Sandbox? (Score 1) 222

by owsla on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @12:03PM (#23918525) Attached to: How to Save Mac OS X From Malware

Why would a sandbox for Mail, Safari, etc. be necessary if the user isn't running these applications with root privileges?

Because the aforementioned trojan uses a local root exploit to gain root privileges. Thus, sandboxing still makes sense.

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