Originally posted by gambit3Add another one to your list: Trojan Hunter. It can find trojans none of the others find because they concentrate on mainly trojans where AV's strangely enough concentrate on viruses. I find Norton and Mcafee both very intrusive, taking up a lot of cpu time constantly on the prowl in the background which could be alright if it actually found stuff but I never got a message while I was in the middle of net stuff I was being attacked and so forth. Another thing that bothers me about the basic idea of these progs is the forever increasing length of the fingerprint files, you remember when Spybot had only 5000 fingerprints? Now they are over 60,000 and counting. Problem with that is it's all well and good to be searching for the bad guys but it's a brute force search basically, 60,000 fingerprints being checked on 200,000 or more files which in that case works out to 120 BILLION checks to be done. The more the fingerprints build up the larger the search becomes. It's already taking over an hour for a run by a given prog, how long will it be before it takes 2 hours? 4? It seems the growth in computing power we have seen in the last ten years HAS to keep going to allow these searches to take place in a reasonable time.
Ad Aware SE. Spybot, SpywareBlaster, and Avast home edition with Zone Alarm firewall. P.S. Those computer virius makers and adware spy people are very troublesome and intrusive. Downloading that site resulted in a check and a popup ad for me.
Like with dual CPU's, quads, 8 cpu's, etc. There must be something that can be done about this brute force search tree thing.
Originally posted by gambit3Zone alarm is the balz. I didn't bother following the links, I've seen the biggest earth movers on Modern Marvels and other shows.
Ad Aware SE. Spybot, SpywareBlaster, and Avast home edition with Zone Alarm firewall. P.S. Those computer virius makers and adware spy people are very troublesome and intrusive. Downloading that site resulted in a check and a popup ad for me.
One very cool one (perhaps not the biggest, just another one I've seen) is those harbor dredgers. This one had satellite that showed the operator where to grab the next dig, and plotted it as a visual map showing the bites the thing took.
Another cool thing is the school they have to learn how to operate these machines. They have a large room with a scaled down mover they practice and get graded on. Next, they get paid HUGE cash to sit and play a game all day... moving earth.
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Originally posted by PhlabibitWhat is a balz?
Zone alarm is the balz. I didn't bother following the links, I've seen the biggest earth movers on Modern Marvels and other shows.
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Originally posted by sonhouseit'd be nice if the ISPs did it instead. why bother serving an infested page to 100-1000 people if the ISP could tell it was infested on the first serve and block it (with a warning message to the requestor) thereafter?
Add another one to your list: Trojan Hunter. It can find trojans none of the others find because they concentrate on mainly trojans where AV's strangely enough concentrate on viruses. I find Norton and Mcafee both very intrusive, taking up a lot of cpu time constantly on the prowl in the background which could be alright if it actually found stuff but I nev ...[text shortened]... s, etc. There must be something that can be done about this brute force search tree thing.
Originally posted by PhlabibitChrist! There's no need for you ladies to get your panties in a twist.
What are you running for virus and adware checking? You might want to run them considering what Shorcircuit said.
[b]Edit~! After that second thing he said... I'd run it twice!
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Your precious little, free-software-protected PC's are broadcasting far more information then just 'what browser you're using' ALL the time you're online. It's incredibly easy for to script code that picks the info and spout it back at you. The main reason browser checks exist is to resolve cross-browser compatibility issues. Every browser is coded differently so not ever web-based function works the same way; to get round this sites check what browser you're using and display it accordingly. No need to get freaked out because some smarmy little punk has written an advert with the code to display the info back to you. That crap is just done to get your attention.
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Originally posted by zeeblebotIt's nothing to do with the ISP's; not that they'd care if it was anyway. They're perfectly happy to you so surf to any site just as long as you pay your line/service fees on time.
it'd be nice if the ISPs did it instead. why bother serving an infested page to 100-1000 people if the ISP could tell it was infested on the first serve and block it (with a warning message to the requestor) thereafter?
The culprits are the webhosting companies and they've got as much compassion as the ISP's. Quite frankly, they couldn't give a toss about how infected or dangerous a site was. It's content is meaningless to them; if the site is up and running it means someone is paying a them for the domain and site hosting privileges (or they get money through advertising on the site). If they take a site down, they lose money.