This is Darn Funny!!! Illegitimate Software? Hello, what don't you understand that all the software is Freeware that is in the program? How is this illegitimate software? Please let me know.
well if the toolbox was compiled by a warez team, and it also includes some shady software i would steer clear...pretty simple
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As far as "Black Hat/Ex-Hacker.... Let me ask you... In your business would like someone that actually KNOWS how to secure a system and make it Hack proof, or would you be better off hiring someone that has taken a 6 month Computer Course in how to be "Certified" and who has passed the tests because of Open Book testing that occurs throughout the computer industry, or someone that has been through the school of Hard knocks and who actually knows for example that WPA2 Security is actually very easy to crack, and using that knowledge can actually secure your network against such.....?
well websites and internet aren't my "business", engineering is, and our it team is actually one of the best in the industry.
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I hate to say it, but you are very gullible if you think the guy with 6 months of schooling knows enough about Security to get you through the worst of times........
i dont think i said anything of the sort, just that i wouldn't exactly trust a self proclaimed ex-hacker.
the only people i have ever hired to do anything related to computer work or web work are highly regard coders that actually are part of the team that originally developed vbulletin...there is no one on the net that has more applicable knowledge about the task then them.
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YOU must be very blind!!! Every credible individual that I have worked with or know that is into Computer Engineering has at least once in their life been introduced to the Dark Side... Just because they don't have a Criminal Record of it doesn't mean that they haven't indulged........ Its the only way to know what you are up against. ....
that is fine and well, and you are right, but they never signed up on my site and introduced themselves by posting non sense about linux and links to shady software tools.
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That is all for right now..... As a PAID Subscriber to MSDN I receive all of my Microsoft products legitimately... How about you?
awww, but that wasn't all was it? i see more down there VV
when should i stop bowing to your awesome MSDN access, i know college students with valid MSDN licenses.
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Originally Posted by Tungsten
Chase,
As far as you trusting your software to someone, I know from working with some individuals that work for Staples, HHGregg, Circuit City, Office Express, etc that those individuals do look at E-mails, pictures, etc while they are "fixing" your computer. I have seen computers that I know have particular type of problems (Loose Memory, PCI Board, etc) be diagnosed as to have other expensive problems when all the totals are added up. You are really in trouble for relying on these folks!! Yes they are "Legitimate", but I have seen trained fish that know better and have a lot more knowledge than them!!!
no doubt you are right, this is why i dont take my problems there, i fix my stuff myself, fix my friends and families stuff too.
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Originally Posted by Tungsten
Chase and to let you know;
Some of my clients include law enforcement agencies, Local and State Governments, and others that want trusted security. I have had to sign many NDA (Non Disclosure Agreements), as well as obtain Security clearances in order to work with my clients...... Am I well known? Nope, because being known is something that you don't want when implementing security........
*pats Tungsten on the back*
good job buddy, i have the same deal actually, in fact one of the clients im working for is running a background check, drug test, and i have to sign a new nda this week....nothing special really (and i am being dead serious about that too, this very week i need to get clearance to go to a new plant site)
tungsten, im done here, you can post if you want but it will be falling on deaf ears. if you would have maybe introduced yourself, made a few posts, let us know who you were, etc, things may have been different. my very first response to you really was not meant to be mean....seriously....i just didnt trust the links and we actually had to ban a self proclaimed "hacker" last week, so we are on high alert for new members, especially dealing with posting links and computer stuff.
MAC is Hackable as well, don't think for a minute you are safe....... Best O/S IMHO is LINUX or BSD............ Both are committed to security in even their basic of usages....... Why do you think that 94% of Hosting companies use LAMP???
All computers are hackable. No one is completely safe. Guess one should ask themselves what a hacker would gain by hacking their computer. Then start protecting that information. I do all my shopping online with one credit card. If someone gets the numbers it's pretty easy to shut it down and get rid of the fraudulent charges. I chose a bank that insures my money against online hacking or fraudulent use. Other than that there is really nothing that anyone will learn about me from hacking my computer. I personally don't hold any stock in antivirus software anymore, I trust nothing and suspect everything. I've had viruses cleaned by proclaimed top rated antivirus programs and still found them lingering in my registry. That's why once a week I go through my computer, from the bios to the registry to the cache to hidden files. And every week I find something that shouldn't be there, not necessarily a virus.
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MAC is Hackable as well, don't think for a minute you are safe....... Best O/S IMHO is LINUX or BSD............ Both are committed to security in even their basic of usages....... Why do you think that 94% of Hosting companies use LAMP???
Pssst ... Tungsten ... Mac AND LINUX user here! (One of my kids is an IT-Geek who got so sick of fixing my problems with Dell/Microsoft/TheAntiChristBillGates that he told me he was not going to be an "enabler" any more, and I needed to get a Mac. He threw me into the deep end of the pool where I have been blissfully swimming ever since!)
I sleep like a baby at night and (knock wood, thank God and shut my mouth) have been elatedly trouble free for almost 5 years -- 5 stress-free, joyously computing, lovely, creative, peaceful, calm, Zen years.
Chase, will malwarebytes remove Norton, or will I have to figure that out myself? I had to call them when I installed it cause it messed up my computer pretty bad during installation, afraid when I uninstall it it will mess it up again....actually hasn't been right since I installed Norton. still soooooooo slow.
I remember having to uninstall Norton years ago. That was a world of hurt. You have my sympathies.
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We bought our first computer, a Performa, in March 1996. My kids were 12, 10, 7. That's 7th grade, 5th grade, 2nd grade. By sixth grade, the middle one was the go-to kid at Blue Ball Elementary to fix the teacher's computer problems. He wrote software (I bought them Code Warrior), and took his home-made applications solving math problems to school on floppy discs. After 8th grade, they hired him and he worked in the IT department for Elanco over the summer, for the next 7 or 8 years.
Starting in 1998, we day-tripped to MacWorld New York on the bus sponsored by the Mac User Group in Harrisburg. There are three local MUGs, Keystone Mac in Harrisburg, the Hershey Apple Core, and the Lancaster Apple Corps. We continued taking that bus every July, for 5 years. In 2003, I drove up with my two boys and 3 of their MacHead friends, parked in Weehawken, and took the ferry over to the Javit's Center for MacWorld. We rode the ferry shuttle to Greenwich Village for lunch, and shopped the Apple Store in Soho. In 2004, we vacationed in Boston, to attend MacWorld.
We ate, slept, and drank Macintosh. We were Mac evangelists. The youngest used an eMate all though his 6th grade year to write all his assignments, at Blue Ball Elementary. That Newton based computer was so cool. You could just plug it into a printer (we used a serial port back then) to print. This was in 1999. About that time, we heard David Pogue was gonna speak at a MacBUS meeting in Philadelphia. So off we went to 6th and Arch to see Pogue. I have a book around here somewhere signed by Pogue, that night: Tales from the Tech Line.
Soon we all had our own Macs. Our Christmas card in 2002 featured the 5 of us with our laptops. Prominently displayed in front of us was a bowl full of nuts. We had our first wireless network here at home in November 1999, with the release of the Graphite AirPort. Of course we shared a dialup, back then. Broadband showed up at our house in July 2001.
I have this really cool letter from InfiNet, our dialup provider from back then, advising that we used our unlimited service too much, and we needed to cut back our usage, or else. I remember the difficulty of trying to download a 15MB update to Netscape, back then. We'd start it at midnight, and it'd take hours. And often would time out, and we'd have to try it again, another night.
We had a virus, once, the Seven Dust Virus, on that Performa, back in 1998. As I recall, it lay dormant, then showed up when the operating system was updated. It was easy to get rid of it. I have an external drive with all my files ever, from all my old computers, from 1996 on up. I never lost a thing. My kids have had some drive failures, and lost data, but they have learned their lesson and everyone backs up now. I stiil have an old desktop, a Twentieth Anniversary Mac, that runs Mac OS 9, and can read floppy discs. It's pretty weird to boot that thing up. It's hard to remember how to do stuff on there.
The two boys make their income from their computers, writing software and designing web pages. The oldest is married to a former PC guy, who has now even converted his parents to the Mac.
The Mac has been a wonderful experience, and we learn new stuff all the time. We laugh at the burp and fart that the rest of you put up with. The few times I have used Windows, I had an issue with the software that controls the movement of the cursor. Even the mouse or trackpad control of the cursor is more elegant on a Mac.
Opening strange email, clicking weird links, all no problem. The Mac OS watches out for you, and asks you things to help you not do stupid stuff. To install malware, you'd have to be tricked into entering your admin password. So really, just don't get tricked into entering your password and you are going to be OK. It's time to come over from the dark side. Go look at the reburb discounts at the Apple Store online. Same one year warranty, with the option to extend it two additional years with AppleCare. And you can purchase AppleCare from a discounter up to one year after your purchase. Just don't cut it too close to the deadline.
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I cannot understand why so many people have trouble with a PC.
1. Stay away from greasy porn sites.
2. Do not execute downloaded software without scanning it first.
3. Run virus software with a "link checker" capability Avast, it's free)
4. Use Google Chrome, NOT Internet Explorer.
5. Do NOT use P2P applications like Limewire.
Certainly Windows is far more vulnerable than Mac as far as viruses go, because Windows machines make up 95% of the computers out there. If you were writing viruses and malicious software, who would you want to target?
As an added tip for the day, try out MPCStar 4.4. It's a video player that will play ANYTHING, and it's a single stand alone application with all the codecs built in. You can play DIVX, Quicktime, All Windows based formats, Real Media formats, flash, DVD's, MP4, etc.
As an added tip for the day, try out MPCStar 4.4. It's a video player that will play ANYTHING, and it's a single stand alone application with all the codecs built in. You can play DIVX, Quicktime, All Windows based formats, Real Media formats, flash, DVD's, MP4, etc.
Enjoy!
I've been using MPCStar for awhile. I love it. Not to mention the cometbird browser, much more user friendly and it has better security.
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I've been using MPCStar for awhile. I love it. Not to mention the cometbird browser, much more user friendly and it has better security.
I've never tried cometbird. I was a devout Firefox user, but it seemed to be a resource hog. I switched to Google Chrome and I couldn't be more satisfied. I'll look into cometbird and check it out.
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