Smartest Virus Ever

[fortyseven]

Apologies that this is detracting slightly from the main topic.

Originally Posted by jagcmos

I can't tell you how many hours I have spent tweaking XP to shut down all the unecessary background jobs, reducing graphics capability, etc.. and the fucking thing still likes to dropout randomly.

The cool thing about linux is that you can automate a lot of things through scripting.

Originally Posted by jagcmos

How is 64studio on the cpu, is it efficient ?

Linux is more efficient on a bad day than Windows is on a good day.

[jagcmos]

That's why I'm interested in moving to Linux.
I have been a unix user (at work) since the early 80's and a linux user since the earliest releases.

How is the firewire audio support on linux these days ? I haven't been keeping up with the audio side of things.

[Audio~Geek]

I had one of those last year, I noticed a weird service running, I couldn't search for it, the browser would redirect somewhere else.

The anti-virus stuff I had couldn't find anything.

I downloaded Hijack This and managed to stop the problem and remove it.

It all started by downloading a driver or something from a site that wasn't legit, but appeared to be.

I don't use anti-virus software usually. I scan every couple months and usually find nothing.

I'll do one today.

All the realtime anti-virus software I've tried interfered too much with Pro Tools.

[fortyseven]

Originally Posted by jagcmos

How is the firewire audio support on linux these days ? I haven't been keeping up with the audio side of things.

I cant comment on FW since I dont use it at all; all my stuff is USB.

[Audio~Geek]

Used ClamWin to scan my 4 drives, took about 3 hours, found nothing, not that I expected it to.

I think my last scan was in April, one before that was November.

This is my main recording computer that is online 24/7, only thing that may make it different than yours is that I'm using a router.

[magno]

Hey Brandon, do you know how the virus was installed?

[edub357]

With all these complex viruses it almost makes you want to stay off of the internet. why do people always have to ruin the fun for everyone?The internet was created by the goverment and they use it to watch our every move now little kids that drop out of school are hacking everything? like it was said earlier why not use your talent for the greater good?

[fortyseven]

Originally Posted by edub357

With all these complex viruses it almost makes you want to stay off of the internet. why do people always have to ruin the fun for everyone?The internet was created by the goverment and they use it to watch our every move now little kids that drop out of school are hacking everything? like it was said earlier why not use your talent for the greater good?

I teach IT. Every year these young kids, fresh outta high school, come in to learn software engineering. Like clockwork, as soon as they begin to grasp the basics of coding, the 'viruses' start doing the rounds. It becomes a contest to see who can write the best one. I dont condone this in any way but there is a part of human nature that has many virus-like qualities; an unspoken desire to destroy.
Honestly, viruses will always be around as long as there are humans roaming this earth.

[edub357]

Originally Posted by fortyseven

I teach IT. Every year these young kids, fresh outta high school, come in to learn software engineering. Like clockwork, as soon as they begin to grasp the basics of coding, the 'viruses' start doing the rounds. It becomes a contest to see who can write the best one. I dont condone this in any way but there is a part of human nature that has many virus-like qualities; an unspoken desire to destroy.
Honestly, viruses will always be around as long as there are humans roaming this earth.

This is why we will never better as human beings because we all have this desire to be different to be the best to be heard etc etc. We are the virus, its up to ourselves to control it.

[357mag]

This is why I highly recommend cloning your machine. When it gets infected or bogged down with spyware just restore it from your backup image. Works great. I don't use anti-this and anti-that. That software is ineffective.