Windows Is By Far The Best OS

[bwise]

well i always see some posts saying yeah you have look up things etc..

for some people surfing the internet for hours to find a solution for their os problem is not an option as they don't have time! why should the average joe need to know more about computers than he already does ?

and of one the reasons ubuntu is so popular is that they have great support forums . It never took me more than 10 mins to solve an issue on ubuntu.

having said all this backtrack is not meant for the average joe!

so each os is the best according to the user's needs.

[KMDave]

True words there bwise.

And that's also the big problem Ubuntu is causing:

The average joe thinks he can pop in the BT live cd and "pwn" someone else. And if he doesn't know how, he starts to ask the same basic questions the ubuntuser is used to ask. But in here...


... you know how people react kind of allergic to Linux noobs.

[imported_wyze]

PAH! Real Admins don't back up the registry. If something blows up, you blame it on the user installing spyware and then take their machine away for a few days while you re-install everything.

Ouch... just the other day I was working on a client's website, where he runs a big affiliate marketing deal. I logged in to his affiliate program's admin CP the fetch various links and having several tabs open at one time, one of the damn things was JavaScripted a few tiers down to a Russian Nginx-based malware server

Needless to say I immediately ripped the RJ45 from my Windows machine, yanked my power plug from my modem, ran a few regmons and found 2 fresh keys on my system that I had to use regdelnull to eliminate.

It was a pretty nasty browser exploit, ripping Firefox a new (__|0|__) and I was able to decode a .JS file that was part of the culprit (hidden XSS to the Nginx server).

Today I have to meet with my client to discuss the future of our business agreement, where he's more than likely going to lose his deposit.

[imported_spankdidly]

I logged in to his affiliate program's admin CP the fetch various links and having several tabs open at one time, one of the damn things was JavaScripted a few tiers down to a Russian Nginx-based malware server

It was for flash games I swear! We sell Viagra, Diet pills, and Hello Kitty. It's not ALL bad.

[imported_wyze]

It was for flash games I swear! We sell Viagra, Diet pills, and Hello Kitty. It's not ALL bad.

No, it was actually for.....

DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOUR A SADIST---> m a l w a r e - s c a n . c o m

I couldn't track down the first tier gateway that drove it to me (had way too much affiliate crap open at the time)

[imported_spankdidly]

No, it was actually for.....

DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOUR A SADIST---> m a l w a r e - s c a n . c o m

I couldn't track down the first tier gateway that drove it to me (had way too much affiliate crap open at the time)

I trust your judgement. The Inturwebs is a pretty scary place. I had to take down my smoothwall box, I feel very afraid now, So I just turned off all my machines at home lol.

[imported_wyze]

I trust your judgement. The Inturwebs is a pretty scary place. I had to take down my smoothwall box, I feel very afraid now, So I just turned off all my machines at home lol.

Yuck... man you need to go down to REPC and get an old beater computer and get it back online

[imported_spankdidly]

Yuck... man you need to go down to REPC and get an old beater computer and get it back online

Is Smoothwall bad? I like it better than IP-cop. I have the transparent proxy going, but Clamav and Dan's Guardian aren't playing well together so I was going to reimage the bad boy.

[imported_wyze]

Is Smoothwall bad? I like it better than IP-cop. I have the transparent proxy going, but Clamav and Dan's Guardian aren't playing well together so I was going to reimage the bad boy.

I only had an issue once with IPCop / ClamAV, but a Gig of RAM got it up to speed...

[imported_spankdidly]

I only had an issue once with IPCop / ClamAV, but a Gig of RAM got it up to speed...

Ah, This is an Hp P4 with HT and 2gb Ram and 80gb HDD and 2 gigabit nic's. It's overkill for Smoothwall, but the box was laying around and wanted to be used. Plus the lan ran much faster on the "everyday" sites.