July 03, 2006
The riddle whose answer is a Gift from the Gods.
The riddle whose answer is a Gift from the Gods.
It does not fit a single scientific category, it fits three.
The Spanish prohibited its possession; to be caught with it meant torture and even a sentence of death. They virtually wiped it off the face of the earth.
It is associated with Immortality and some claim it supernatural
It was reserved for Kings in India
It was designed specially for mans biochemical machine by extraterrestrial engineers.
It’s perfection can make you happy.
It perfection can make you healthy.
It is so powerful it can eliminate malnutrition and poverty.
You can now posses it with out the fear of persecution.
It’s supply is limited, and therefore presents an investment opportunity.
What is it? Click here.
Posted by Richard at 01:01 PM
October 22, 2004
The Mysterious Program, Has It Taken Residence On Your Computer?
The Mysterious Program, Has It Taken Residence On Your Computer?
Undetected program attempts to load Trojans turns out to be three separate programs working in concert to protect them from removal.
It was not detected by virus scanners or spyware detection programs. Was it a malicious program placed by our government or a foreign government? A high school kid that is so talented that he should already be employed doing something worth while? Organized crime taking the advanced technology approach? Was some group ready to shut down the nation’s access to the internet in the event of a national crisis allowin a small group of individuals using the powers granted by the patriot act to take control of the nation?
Or is it all of the above? Why were they undetected by Spybot and anti-virus programs? Are they involved?
I have since encountered five people with the same problems; some cannot send email, slow erratic behavior, or not enough disk space. Some of them have found the programs. Can you relate?
The Battle ....
I knew something was up with my daughter's PC, it was doing odd things bogging down, and she was having problems with her AOL instant messenger. I had disabled some programs previously and knew I had to clean them up. So I ran the virus scan which had the latest virus files, and found nothing. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy it found a bunch of adware etc.. Got that all removed. The programs said it was all clean. But something was still up. I delved a little deeper I looked at the list of processes running I saw one that did not look familiar. One must be careful because you don't want to kill a vital process.
So I looked for the folders containing the program then I knew it did not belong it was in an odd place in the file structure and the files in these folders had names that no legitimate programmer or company would use. So I went in and killed the process. Then I went to delete the folder. It wouldn't let me. So I went in and deleted each individual file in the folder during this time the virus scanner popped up this program was going out to a web site and trying to load a Trojan.
The virus program quarantined it. It was like it was trying to save itself. After I deleted the individual files I was able to delete the folder. But soon as I deleted the folder something recreated it much to my surprise. I went back to the list of processes and something had started up the process again, now I was getting frustrated. The only thing that could do that would be another program. So I found the other one. To make a long story short there were three programs working in concert protecting each other. Attempting to load Trojans. Finally I killed all three processes in quick succession, deleted the files and folders for each program and it was gone. None of the other PCs in the house had them at least I think. I should have written down the names of the programs.
I turned spybot's Search and Destroys full immunization on, everything has been good so far. But I wonder who built these three stealth programs that downloaded Trojans but didn't show up on in the virus scanner or spybot. How did they elude them? How many home PC's are there out there that have been compromised bogged down and slow? Some of these programs can grab your Quicken and other account data and send it out. Could someone use these programs to shut the Internet down or stop the free flow of information?
Is there a silent war going on that we don't know about? Was it a foreign government? Our own? Or just some talented High School kids that somebody should be employing and giving them something worthy to do?
Posted by Richard at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)
See the obvious – Stop the Free Flow of Information
“The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned after one year with the Department of Homeland Security, confiding to industry colleagues his frustration over what he considers a lack of attention paid to computer security issues within the agency.”
“Many officials in industry and government have expressed concern that Bush administration officials positioned Yoran too far down in the DHS structure to accomplish the goals of improving security in the public and private sectors. But Yoran said the job belongs at DHS, not at any other government agency.”
What does this tell us? What it tells us is shocking.
We know that if Amit Yoran were to succeed he would:
1. Enable the unobstructed flow of information among the people of this nation.
2. People would have more time to communicate with each other rather than being bogged down with spam while having their communications hindered by viruses and worms.
3. Expose and remove Intelligence gathering bots and programs installed by domestic and foreign intelligence agencies.
4. The truth would not get bogged down and buried in junk information.
Well it is pretty clear that if you create a position to achieve these things yet do not empower it to do so.
Then the intention is to prevent the achievement of these goals. Who I ask would benefit from such a thing?
That this is not apparent to the nation’s citizens and the National media,, congress and the academics demonstrates a widespread failure to apply discernment skills. I suspect this should not surprise us being that it is not obvious to most that they pay $1.25 for 3 cents worth of carbonated sugar water that is not good for you on a regular basis.
Posted by Richard at 11:16 PM | Comments (0)
October 07, 2004
Insight on Microsoft Linux and Open Source
Microsoft is faster, easier and more expensive. Linux and Open source is cheaper, harder and slower to implement.
Two natures of the same thing neither is better, it depends what you’re doing.
Both have bugs because that is the nature of dynamic software, complex systems and human fallibility. Because as our needs and intelligence change so must the software.
It helps though if you invest the time and energy to read the manual. The pay off is big for all parties. To those writing the manual it better be good and tested.
Posted by Richard at 01:31 PM | Comments (0)