A Revolution is the Solution
I've often wondered this. What can the average joe who can't prgram his way out of a paper bag do to help? (Aside fromswitich all his friends relatives, cats, dogs ect. over to FireFox.)
What's the deal with YapBrowser? I read your last articles in the Archives? Has YapBrowser stopped?
Greg
are you aware you got slashdotted again? its a touch odd though because they publshed it under the date of 31st december, 1969.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.p...6/11/12/
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how many times have you been on /. anyway?
Could Lion-O beat Batman if it came down to fisticuffs?
Do you think that the Adware Situation will get worse or better in the next 5 years will Adware win and run Rampant all over the Web or do you think that people like you can win ...
Should we all switch to the Opera browser with recent rumors/news of a zero-day exploit in Firefox and cross-domain hijacking in IE6&7? Or am I just being paranoid?
How can clueless average home users be reached en masse and educated about basic concepts of PC security? By which I mean simple stuff like patching the system, using a current-generation antivirus, using some kind of firewall, not taking everything at face value (phish, fake security-alert scam sites), and not installing the typical "free" baubles that turn out to have payload.
How can the bad guys be shut down more quickly and effectively? Like these fake security-alert sites that just keep getting away with it, month after month.
Is there a trend by the adware vendors away from the extra-evil stuff that got DirectRevenue driven into the ground?
When will security-related sites begin routinely talking about the benefit of a non-Administrator-level user account as a safeguard against unwanted software, and as a limiting factor against successful exploits? If this topic got 1/10th the coverage that the use of alternative browsers gets...
Do you think a decision-making guy at Microsoft is constantly kicking himself for deciding that WinXP gold and SP1 shipped with the Windows Firewall turned off? ...or do you figure they've fired him by now? 
do all adware companies suck?
Ooops, "anonymous" was me 
And here are more questions:
Shipping with an activated two-way firewall, Windows Defender, a sandboxed browser, and Automagic Updates enabled (including the Malicious Software Pwnage Tool), will Vista be the bad guys' worst nightmare come to life? If so, will the bad guys try harder somehow (social engineering or whatnot), or will they just keep trying to milk the existing base of previous Windows systems for all they're worth?
Which is better, cheetahs or leopards? Discuss. Also, what is the best flavor of ice cream.
Do you foresee ISPs taking a more active role in getting infected botnet clients off the Internet, or thwarting them somehow?
Do you have any sort of Social Life do you go out to clubs or pubs and meet people ? Im not talking about the types at Antimalware conferences they dont count as people :-P
Do you foresee process filtering/HIPS replacing the traditional signature based antivirus model?
Come, now, mechBgone, everyone knows Rocky Road is the only ice cream any should be eating.
Have you seen Borat yet?
tried to do this last week, got the 500 error of death.
One of my employers believes that botnets could take down google. True or false? Or, how many mega-bots would it take?
He also believes that there are botnets set up that jump IRC servers more or less randomly. He isn't that clever with networking, so I expect he doesn't know quite what he is suggesting, but I wonder if there isn't some work out there that you front-liners are finding that attempts to make it more difficult for you to crack the botnets?
I saw Borat, that naked fight went on for too long!
are you for real?
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