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[Lobster]

[Aitch]

This has a few too many adverts, and focuses a lot on the impact on Micro$oft, but Steve Gibson gives the details on many security problems, particularly web/browser exploits

http://twit.tv/sn

Aitch

[nooby]

Aitch thanks for that link. Steve I have known about since
him started almost

What is this he talks about? I can not listen to spoken English
my brain too slow. I need to read things. Has he written about this?

[Lobster]

For those of you who have survived Windows, the Internet and your own viral imagination
DPUP5520 has a security/encrypt Pup that may allay some of your fears:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=569506#569506

Probably works better than my technique of eating pickled garlic and breathing out into the computer case occasionally

and certainly cheaper than the Batman option
http://www.silentbat.com/

Here is a catalogue of what is out to get info on you etc
http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/#/

[Lobster]

Don't think you quivering paranoids have been neglected . . .

Just now I found a directory full of a mysterious collection of files with numbers and a hashtag at the front. Some of the files I know and moved to appropriate directories.
The rest I could not move and was denied the ability to change permissions (in order to delete)
Wot? My computer is rebelling against me? New hackers from dimension x or crackers from Puppy hacking school?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppySchoolProgramming

or more likely it is residue from testing early slacko or racy when we had some problem with the filing system that was documented but was too geeky to go investigate . . .
I suppose I should try changing permission from the command line?
What would you do?

I recently had a WSOD (white screen of death) only had black so far in Puppy. About the same time, my computer slowed down (internet slowed) AND this happened with a Window connected laptop.
This was happened in Slacko but I have a feeling it was flash or javascript in the browser. How do I replicate and provide a similar experience for the confirmed paranoid?

Sadly I have updated to Beta Slacko 5.3.3, which has cured it . . .
Ah well - conspiracy theories welcome to the usual encoded address . . .

[nooby]

[Lobster]

Oh that nooby he sure does like to find problems . . .
he was on the case in seconds . . .
the files appeared in my home directory under lost and found

Enclosed pic

[Lobster]

I was watching the excellent Click (you may need to pretend you are in the UK to watch)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c12nz/Click_04_02_2012/
and they mentioned the brilliant (in a twisted, evil, sith like way) malwarian Zeus (trojan horse)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_%28trojan_horse%29
Sadly for the terminally paranoid it only work on Windows:

[postfs1]

[amigo]

lost+found is a special directory used by fdisk when correcting errors on your hard disk, so need to worry about those files -Lobster should know this by now?

[Lobster]

yep I should have known
or remembered . . . it was indeed fdisk

Info over paranoia - wins every time . . .

[Lobster]

Look Who’s Following You on the Internet
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/02/look-whos-following-you-on-the-internet/#more-35478

[Aitch]

Firefox add-on Collusion cited in above post by Lobster

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

Installed...interesting

ebay is a bit scary, but to be expected, doubleclick dominates other adclick sites as a hub - both puppy forums clean

sounds can be turned on to warn of trackers...

Aitch

[DPUP5520]

I'll have to remember to add that whenever I get my lazy ass to update Puppy Crypt.

[Barkin]