Got Microsoft Office? read this!

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:48 am

First yellow alert I've seen in several months.. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6778

As in browse to a nasty web site and be pwn3d.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:34 am

MS have released a patch for this vulnerability now.

Davidtq · Post by **Davidtq** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:42 pm

Ive just been cleaning up the mess of someone doing a lot of browsing nasty sites.

A computer Im fixing for the boss's sister, basically her husband and her run a pub and this was the pub computer they inherited when they brought the pub and ran their business off. Their pc ground to a halt they took it to pc world

and asked them to take a back up then fix it. PC world couldnt fix it but they formatted the drive and deleted the partition. Without first taking a back up...

They were then told it would cost £700 to send it to a specialist with guarantees of retrieving any data.

Thus far Ive managed to recover 67,000 files for them, of which 230 were infected with a virus, and At least 15,000 possibly 20,000 total were "adult" images.

Still on the positive side theres at least 2000 usefull files Ive managed to recover complete as well...

Some how killed the fiction writing mood I was in when I started the process. Particularly annoying as the intro to next section has to cover backups and file recovery in order to progress.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:02 pm

Hehehe.. yeah.. been there done that.. doing the recovery bit for a friend, I mean.. Buying GetDataBack was the best thing I've ever done in that regard.. I've rescued stuff from several drives with it.. and when it comes to fully automated backups, Carbonite just has to be the best I've seen.. I just wish they'd release a Linux client.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:23 am

How many people here use linux, anyway? It feels like a lot.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:15 am

wackyman465 wrote:
How many people here use linux, anyway? It feels like a lot.

Dual boot Gutsy Gibbon and XPSP3 (my scanner and webcam and VBS2 don't under Linux) but soon to be Jaunty Jackalope and XPSP3 (possible even Windows 7!)

zevans · Post by **zevans** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:45 pm

If you haven't updated yet I would wait for Koala - Jaunty was released halfway through major change in lots of the upstream stuff so it's a bit of a tangle for some things. Koala looks a bit more coherent (no, not -that- kind of Coherent

) especially on multimedia stuff and KDE.

You will deduce I am one of the Linuxen here, oolite is compiled on the headless PC in the cupboard and played on the netbook. I'm trying to persuade the other half that her Turion really needs a Linux partition on it...

Post by **Cmdr James** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:36 pm

wackyman465 wrote:
How many people here use linux, anyway? It feels like a lot.

I use XP at work, Mac at home, and Linux on my netbook.

zevans · Post by **zevans** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:24 pm

I use XP at work, Mac at home, and Linux on my netbook.

Woo! What do you want for Xmas... a BeOS box?

Post by **Cmdr James** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:27 pm

zevans wrote:
I use XP at work, Mac at home, and Linux on my netbook.
Woo! What do you want for Xmas... a BeOS box?

I used to run solaris x86 at home too. My next os is likely to be openBSD