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March 16th, 2009, 10:57 PM
#11
huntersoft ripped it off from Halfdone many many years ago...
That's as maybe but it is virtually abandonware and I doubt if the two products are similar these days. Huntersoft last released a stable version in May 2003 and a beta in June 2007 which has progressed no further.
I think at one point there was even a half baked attempt at a trojan in an early version
Not really a trojan, just a booby trap for people who tried to reverse engineer it
The last two versions (and they do update at least once a year) are clean.
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March 17th, 2009, 01:09 PM
#12
Secunia is very impressive Nihil, thanks for the heads up.
Was very shocked when scanning my work computer.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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March 18th, 2009, 04:46 AM
#13
I've remembered that Secunia has provided many nice security reports in the past. When I scanned my home computer, there were two problems. The first was flash and the second was reader. Simple fix. uninstall both... again. Scan my work computer (shhhh) and those alerts are not there!
I've had a growing hatred for adobe over the past several years. I'm sick and tired of having to patch their software manually. Seeing as how frequently they have security updates, the ability to run an update server is not asking too much. Especially for admins who have dozens or hundreds of boxes to patch.
Well, I've taken care of them. I've use System Center Configuration Manger 2007 to restrict ANY workstation in my company from using ANY Adobe product. FsCk Adobe. I know I could use SSCM2K7 to patch Adobe, but I figured the first *good* thing I'd do with it was to remove their junk. Same goes to Apple's crapware.
There are plenty of alternatives that are less bloated and OSS for all the junk I've removed. Oh joy!
/rant
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March 18th, 2009, 02:26 PM
#14
ROFL!
Well I had about 6 issues on my work PC, yes all were related to adobe except one for Sun ...
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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March 18th, 2009, 02:54 PM
#15
Hey! I bet the Sun one was for Java
Java has just updated, and Secunia reported that it had uninstalled the previous version.................you used to have to do that manually until now?
I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.
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March 19th, 2009, 01:46 PM
#16
Ya Ya,
Anyone using the network version?
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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