[QUOTE=Xonax;48423845]This is gonna sound dumb but does the BIOS update automatically or is it manually?[/QUOTE]
Manual, you have to go through a rather long and boring process to do it and it's done outside of the OS ([I]or should be[/I]).
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;48423831]Oh no, I knew that was real since I'm subscribed to a guy on youtube who specializes in old viruses, in fact CIH is what spawned those nightmares. At the time I thought that was just an isolated incident especially since it only worked on specific hardware, but now my view has been expanded.
And it is terrifying.[/QUOTE]
Rogueamp?
[QUOTE=AWarGuy;48421973]But I need Java for Runescape....shit.[/QUOTE]
Welp, I guess it's time to quit.
[QUOTE=CoixNiro;48423958]Rogueamp?[/QUOTE]
Danooct1 made a video about it too.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;48423831]Oh no, I knew that was real since I'm subscribed to a guy on youtube who specializes in old viruses, in fact CIH is what spawned those nightmares. At the time I thought that was just an isolated incident especially since it only worked on specific hardware, but now my view has been expanded.
And it is terrifying.[/QUOTE]
what youtube user is this?
[QUOTE=IrishBandit;48423868]Still not as bad as Badbios.[/QUOTE]
wasn't that a hoax?
danooct1
funny article. home users shouldn't be concerned about this at all.
at its best it's a neat exploit to retain persistence after exploiting a hypervisor separately, and could potentially be worrisome for cloud providers and others that would be targeted by nation-state APTs.
[QUOTE=AWarGuy;48421973]But I need Java for Runescape....shit.[/QUOTE]
html 5 mode?
or did they scrap it
[QUOTE=The Baconator;48435180]what youtube user is this?[/QUOTE]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnWFAx5vJg[/media]
[QUOTE=Bicko Blicko;48424102]Welp, I guess it's time to quit.[/QUOTE]
Can't, too addicted.
[QUOTE=initrd;48416524]I run exe files sequentially so i'm 100% safe.
No, seriously, pretty much everything on windows is done by downloading random crap off the internet and installing it because it has no centralized package repositories or source code available for most applications.
And it doesn't really matter if you have UAC or not if it's going to get exploited/bypassed.
Instead of crippling windows to the point of unusability run linux with chromium and pepper flash instead if you're concerned about anything bad happening because of this exploit (cryptolockerV2?).
Or/And buy a new cpu (if vulnerable)/switch to ARM if it ever gets fast enough for desktop use.[/QUOTE]
a) a pack repo is no less safe than downloading from a reputable source on the internet
b) UAC is in a lot of ways a more (in some less) secure sudo elevation. Most of all if you work in the sandboxing it does to a lot of areas.
c) uac on windows is not crippling in anyway. In many ways running a linux distro is far more crippling from a user standpoint
d) running a CISC processor is not exactly a win over a RISC, in particular when intel will fix this very very quickly.
[QUOTE=Xonax;48423845]This is gonna sound dumb but does the BIOS update automatically or is it manually?[/QUOTE]
Depends on your motherboard vendor. Many offer easy in windows tools for bios updating.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;48445751]A pack repo is no less safe[not any safer?] than downloading from a reputable source on the internet[/QUOTE]
I do believe that repos can be safer than using [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=sourceforge+adware"]reputable sources[/URL] if the program you're going to download has sources available since repo builds are usually automated and hosted by people not trying to make a profit possibly at the expense of your privacy/security.
If whatever you're using has no sources then you can't really trust it regardless of OS or how you download it.
The whole [URL="https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf"]trusting[/URL] thing is [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+unity+amazon"]tricky[/URL] but you can reduce risks a lot.
[QUOTE]UAC is in a lot of ways a more (in some less) secure sudo elevation. Most of all if you work in the sandboxing it does to a lot of areas.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about UAC being good or bad but sandboxes aren't perfect and [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=kernel+scrollbar+exploit"]neither[/URL] [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=ttf+kernel+exploit"]is[/URL] [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=http.sys+exploit"]windows[/URL].
[QUOTE]UAC on windows is not crippling in anyway. In many ways running a linux distro is far more crippling from a user standpoint[/QUOTE]
I was talking there about disabling javascript and flash not UAC. The linux being crippling to people who don't know anything about computers becomes less of a problem as gnu/linux distros improve over time.
[QUOTE]Running a CISC processor is not exactly a win over a RISC, in particular when intel will fix this very very quickly.[/QUOTE]
So the thing here is not about cisc vs risc, iirc x86 isn't really cisc internally anymore.
The thing is that the ibm-pc/x86 platform has a bunch of unneeded/legacy and potentially exploitable crap under your nose and arm doesn't, afaik.
In terms of performance, instruction sets don't matter since that's not the bottleneck in cpus; arm isn't the only possible [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_CPU_Architecture"]competitor[/URL] either.
[QUOTE=AWarGuy;48421973]But I need Java for Runescape....shit.[/QUOTE]
Not too long until NXT (I hope we can come up with a better name by launch...)
Believe me it'll be worth the wait
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