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originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: pavil
And what does the sensible side of you say?
originally posted by: ANNED
NO anti-virus software has ever worked 100% with me.
Things always get through like malware and highjackers.
For me anti-virus software is just a stopgap that leaves me less malware to deal with.
For security i always use linux for shopping on line.
originally posted by: xuenchen
The FBI and the Trump Administration are cracking down on the Russian company Kaspersky.
Apparently the Government has been cutting Kaspersky from vendor lists for a while now.
originally posted by: Namdru
originally posted by: xuenchen
The FBI and the Trump Administration are cracking down on the Russian company Kaspersky.
Apparently the Government has been cutting Kaspersky from vendor lists for a while now.
D'OH! Oooops. Our government has been trusting "security" software written by Russian Hackers. Maybe we shouldn't be trusting Russian Hackers?
Just because you don't see anything suspicious on a new computer motherboard, or in the behavior of an anti-virus program, doesn't mean the motherboard or anti-virus software hasn't been designed from the ground up to exploit you and your personal data.
Most commercial software is designed to be usable for just that purpose. Why don't folks understand and appreciate just how easy that is?
Answer: technologically illiterate morons running the country and our educational system. Oh well. Things could be worse.
originally posted by: dawnstar
my son put it on my computer, it was what his college recommended they use..
so now, it's bad?? that's kind of funny because since he put it on, I've been having alot less problems with those nasty bugs.
oh well, I will consult with my two computer geek sons and decide if I want to go back to the pieces of crap I was using.
What happens here is that you modify the C compiler code so that when it compiles itelf, it inserts the back-door code. So now when the C compiler compiles login, it will insert the back door code; and when it compilesthe C compiler, it will insert the code thatinserts the code into both login and the C compiler.Now, you compile the C compiler with itself – getting a C compiler that includes the back-door generation code explicitly. Then you delete the back-door code from the C compiler source. But it’s in the binary. So when you use that binary to produce a new version of the compiler from the source, it will insert the back-door code intothe new version.So you’ve now got a C compiler that inserts back-door code when it compiles itself – and that code appears nowhere in the source code of the compiler. It did exist in the code at one point – but then it got deleted. But because the C compiler is written in C, and always compiled with itself, that means thats each successive new version of the C compiler will pass along the back-door – and it will continue to appear in both login and in the C compiler, without any trace in the source code of either.
Davis is a former atheist who believes that he can "talk with God" and that God told him the operating system he built was God's third temple. According to Davis, TempleOS is of 'Divine' intellect due to the inspired nature of the code. According to Davis, God said to create the operating system with 640x480, 16 colors display and a single audio voice. The operating system was written in aprogramming language developed by Davis in C and C++, called "HolyC".[2]