>> ^bareboards2:

I just tried this on my profile page and it just doesn't work. I think this might be a VideoSift problem? That, or you are pulling my leg...
@00Scud00 doesn't work, @lucky760. Any reason for that that you know?
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In reply to this comment by bareboards2:
http://videosift.com/video/You-re-Not-Stupid-You-Use-Your-Silver-Tongue


Tried like the dickens to get this video linked to you -- what magic have you done with your handle? Even copy/paste doesn't work.
Magic!

Sorry for not noticing sooner bb, my ability to not check e-mail or other notification systems is nigh legendary. It should just be 00Scud00 (zerozeroScudzerozero), if I possessed any magic I would have used it to smite the SOB who whacked me with that malware two weeks ago.



Fixed!

I just tried this on my profile page and it just doesn't work. I think this might be a VideoSift problem? That, or you are pulling my leg...

@00Scud00 doesn't work, @lucky760. Any reason for that that you know?

In reply to this comment by 00Scud00:
In reply to this comment by bareboards2:
http://videosift.com/video/You-re-Not-Stupid-You-Use-Your-Silver-Tongue



Tried like the dickens to get this video linked to you -- what magic have you done with your handle? Even copy/paste doesn't work.

Magic!

Sorry for not noticing sooner bb, my ability to not check e-mail or other notification systems is nigh legendary. It should just be 00Scud00 (zerozeroScudzerozero), if I possessed any magic I would have used it to smite the SOB who whacked me with that malware two weeks ago.

I don't bother backing up OS or program installs, because that's usually where the viruses and malware hide out. Of course I'm just one guy and not an actual I.T. person having to consider doing everything 200 times.

>> ^thegrimsleeper:

dead


Fixed and thanks!

@mintbbb the main thing I said was "I'm having that problem too, and not just with Videosift."

It's pretty bad with VS though. Through some googling I found this which at least sounds like the issue.

The official Firefox page describing the issue is here, and at least on two of my PC's I've confirmed it's not the malware thing.

Also, if it's a bug in Firefox, it's also not fixed in 6.0. Other browsers (Opera, Chrome, IE) work fine.

As Mac desktop market share increases, the payoff for developing Mac specific malware (or porting Windows malware) increases.

Nobody has put a big investment in yet, or if they have they have kept it so low profile that they haven't been rumbled. That said though, if you download pirated Mac software you're just as likely as windows users to be sending your cc details to the Russian Mafia soon after, joining your computer to their cloud computing effort, or perhaps just getting a lot more advertising pop-ups.

This week there's still much more money in Windows malware. It all comes down to accounting and financial forecasts.
>> ^deathcow:

I don't really keep track, how are Mac viruses panning out?

>> ^eric3579:

So i'm computer stupid. Could you fill me in about scripts?
>> ^Crosswords:
I use Firefox with no-script, that occasionally causes problems with playing videos. In use IE on rare occasions, mostly when I have a problem viewing a page with Firefox. If I cant get a page to load properly with IE or FireFox they're doing something wrong.
Biggest problem I run into with no-script is it seems some sites are starting to tie everything into the content you want to actually see, so you end up having to enable just about everything to see a video.



No-script is an addon that basically blocks java and flash programs which are potential sources of viruses and malware.

>> ^bamdrew:
oh good, now I can say I watched it


I didn't really wanna click. In the end I decided that I wanted the "update" from the global consciousness, even if its malware. Thankfully it was self cleaning, and hilarious.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'LizaMoon' to 'LizaMoon, sql injection, malware' - edited by xxovercastxx

I used to be With IT. But then they changed what IT was. Now what I'm with isn't IT, and what's IT seems scary and wierd. It'll happen to YOU.>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.


It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.
"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.
...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.



It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.

"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.

...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.

Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.

The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.

>> ^shuac:

>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^shuac:
Agreed about Norton products sucking. In my 25 years as a PC enthusiast, I've tried all the AV products at one point or another and the New Orleans levy system had fewer breaches than Norton.

That's why it's the #1 selling Av product, because it sucks so much.

Yes, it's got a huge market share but not because it's an effective product. It's simply marketed well (this commercial for instance). And how much was it to produce this commercial? Those funds could have been used to make a better product, no? You see, son, market share is the important thing when you're as big as Norton, not program effectiveness.
I hate stating the obvious because it's such a waste of time & effort...but biggest does not mean best. I mean, duh. And aren't you just a tad biased, being a Norton employee? I have boatloads of PC experience. I've forgotten more about PCs than most people know and in my experience, Norton is a mediocre anti-virus/anti-malware shield.
Yes, I've used them recently. When you guys started using disc imaging tech for your install routines back in 2006-2007 (I may have the year wrong but you know what I mean), I figured I'd give you another try. Damn, it really did install the quickest I'd ever seen, I gotta give you that. But within the year, I found a fucking keylogger happily recording all my keystrokes. Seems to have slipped between the tightly-machined cracks of the #1 selling AV product. Well done. After changing all my passwords and getting a new debit card, I uninstalled that shit and never looked back.
These days, I run a combo of BitDefender and Emisoft Anti-Malware on Win 7 64 and manual-run-only version of Spybot. Emisoft in particular is a frighteningly effective malware shield. But I am completely non-loyal when it comes to AV programs. I buy a one year license and if I get stung during that year, out it goes.


Norton products were #1 in the market when I started here in '99 and we didn't have adverts like this back then, so what's you're explanation for that? Symantec didn't really start pushing the products until the last 5-6 years or so.

Yes I know that bigger isn't better, but Symantec has made strides to improve the product, and has accomplished that goal. Proven by the reviews and benchmark tests. And no I'm not biased. If it was shit, I'd be the first to say it was. I already admitted that I wouldn't touch the consumer products when I first started working here, what more do you want?

So let me get this straight, SON. You are blaming an AV software for your inadequacies? If you have "boatloads of PC experience" and have "forgotten more about PCs than most people know" you wouldn't get keyloggers on your system to begin with. I certainly have never had one on any of my systems. Guess you should stay away from warez, and games you download from torrent sites, eh? Because that's typically where they come from. Again, I have been using computers since '95 and I've had a total of 2 viruses, one from an ISP's installation floppy, and one that a roommate downloaded onto my system 2 years ago when I was at work which ended up to be a fake AV program or what I like to call extortionware. As Tymbrwulf said, you can't rely ONLY on AV, anti-spyware, and anti-malware products to protect your system, if you do you're a fool. It also takes common sense, OS patches, software patches, etc. Viruses/malware/spyware can, and do use vulnerabilities in OSes and installed software to infect a machine even though it has a 100% perfectly working AV software installed on it. But why am I telling you this? You're the computer expert you should already know this right?

"I hate stating the obvious because it's such a waste of time & effort", but there's no AV software that 100% effective. If you find one let me know because I can tell you it doesn't exist. As I said in a previous post, things will always get by AV software because they depend on customer submissions, and definitions in order to stop threats. They are REACTIVE not PROACTIVE. Which means if a new variant of an old threat, or a new threat altogether gets released in the wild. Guess what? You, or somebody else is going to get infected, period. Again, if you were the computer expert you claim to be you'd understand this fact. Also, if you seriously think that you will find an AV software that will protect you 100% from threats, you are in for a rude awakening my friend. I wish you good luck in your endeavors.

>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^shuac:
Agreed about Norton products sucking. In my 25 years as a PC enthusiast, I've tried all the AV products at one point or another and the New Orleans levy system had fewer breaches than Norton.

That's why it's the #1 selling Av product, because it sucks so much.


Yes, it's got a huge market share but not because it's an effective product. It's simply marketed well (this commercial for instance). And how much did it cost to produce this commercial? Those funds could have been used to make a better product, no? You see, son, maintaining/increasing market share is the important thing when you're as big as Norton, not program effectiveness.

I hate stating the obvious because it's such a waste of time & effort...but biggest does not mean best. I mean, duh. And aren't you just a tad biased, being a Norton employee? I have boatloads of PC experience. I've forgotten more about PCs than most people know and in my experience, Norton is a mediocre anti-virus/anti-malware shield.

Yes, I've used them recently. When you guys started using disc imaging tech for your install routines back in 2006-2007 (I may have the year wrong but you know what I mean), I figured I'd give you another try. Damn, it really did install the quickest I'd ever seen, I gotta give you that. But within the year, I found a fucking keylogger happily recording all my keystrokes. Seems to have slipped between the tightly-machined cracks of the #1 selling AV product. Well done. After changing all my passwords and getting a new debit card, I uninstalled that shit and never looked back.

These days, I run a combo of BitDefender and Emisoft Anti-Malware on Win 7 64 and manual-run-only version of Spybot. Emisoft in particular is a frighteningly effective malware shield. But I am completely non-loyal when it comes to AV programs. I buy a one year license and if I get stung during that year, out it goes.

I Dont know why anyone would even go there to sugest this site contains malware not wise from a legal stand point.