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There is no such thing as "Internet Security" unless you disconnect.
Being an IT individual since before the internet was release to grandma and grandma I can tell you
that they bring in thier pcs with Symantec "Internet Security" AND McAfee Total Security (both because
they don't know to uninstall one or the other) and have them infected to the gills with every piece of malware
ever created. This is getting to be less and less of a thing though as they die off and the next up just use thier phones.
My lease is up in July and after 30 some odd years - we quit.
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Ron Anders wrote: There is no such thing as "Internet Security" unless you disconnect.
It's like home security. No home security package will prevent a really determined thief from breaking in, but if one makes it hard enough, the thieves will go elsewhere.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Same principle than running from a hungry wild animal, you don't need to be faster than the animal, you just need to be faster than others around you.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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There is no such thing as "Internet Security" unless you disconnect.
Being an IT individual since before the internet was released to grandma and grandma I can tell you that they bring in thier pcs with Symantec "Internet Security" AND McAfee Total Security (both because they don't know to uninstall one or the other) and have them infected to the gills with every piece of malware ever created. This is getting to be less and less of a thing though as they die off and the next up just use thier phones.
The lease is up in July and after 30 some odd years - we quit.
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How many are asking: what's security?
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We are happy to announce that we just published an early preview of support for testing Native AOT with MSTest, and we welcome all of you to try it. Because it's always a good idea to test your code ahead of time
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You'd think they'd AOT the definition of AOT rather than after the 5th use of the term in 2 paragraphs.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether. You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
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What the absolute flying fracklebunnies!? Here I was thinking it was fully automated, clever AI, image recognition, etc. But no, it was Indian people watching every single item that every single customer picked up! That is utterly, utterly barking mad.
If they were supposed to be training AI then it would seem that it didn't learn.
And they are keeping 'Just Walk Out' in some locations. So do they still have some Indian guys watching those ones?
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This make me think of the open line(s) of this tune.
Max Webster - Check - YouTube[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And the CEO will get a bonus worth more than all of those Indians were paid in a year 🤬...
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Kroger/Smith's tried their new idea--check out as you go--and dropped it. Almost nobody used it (aside from us nerds.)
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The girls at Dollar General told me they are ditching self checkouts.
It may not be chain-wide but more regional, like locking up deodorant or whatever. These stores around here don't tend to do the stupid locking stuff up because people don't tend to steal. But that stereotype was challenged by self-checkouts. This is "interesting"... because why? They didn't steal before (evidenced by the typical stuff not being locked up).
Do self-checkouts make people so angry they forsake a bit of morality in acts of retail theft vengeance?
Did "just walk out" make people who'd otherwise not steal want to find ways to "get away with it"?
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We are all part of something bigger and our best selves pass through those that support us. Help me come up with a good blurb?
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Even John, Paul, George and Ringo knew that.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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"Hey Siri! How can my best self pass through those that support me? That seems a little ... um ... awkward?"
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<those that support us>: Is it in yet?
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The Extended Security Updates program was first introduced for Windows 7 Present arm and leg for billing purposes
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pinkie on finger: ONE MILLION DOLLARS
oh, maybe we should be asking for more
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I sure would like to see a graph displaying the frequency of new vulnerabilities over their lifetime for all Windows versions (with timeline marks for end of support and end of extended support).
It must be thirty years since I last heard of a new boot sector virus. 20 years since the last Win98 virus. 10 years since the last XP virus. How many new Win7 viruses were detected five years ago? How may new Win10 viruses are detected per week, or month, today? What can we expect a year and a half from now? What can we expect at the end of the three year long Extended Security Updates, four and and half years from now?
That graph should display, for all Windows versions, not only frequency of new viruses, but also the frequency of observations of those viruses in the wild. (For unknown reasons, boot sector viruses are never observed today  ). Also, the graph should show the number of known but not (yet) fixed vulnerabilities over time. How many fixes were made during the Extended Security Updates period, for each Windows version? How many known vulnerabilities were never fixed?
Is paying the annual fee for new virus signature files for my old XP machine worth the money? Do I use that XP machine for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? No, and no. How about my Win 10 machine after 2025-10-14 - worth the money?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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That would be an interesting graph!
I would think that the two times a Windows version would be most vulnerable are when it’s active, and immediately after it goes off support. That’s when people would dig out the vulnerabilities they were saving for a while.
Probably a year after support ends, the attacks drop off sharply.
TTFN - Kent
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trønderen wrote: for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections?
I would say, that's what VMs are for.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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trønderen wrote: for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections?
I would say, that's what VMs are for.
Or the extended version:
trønderen wrote: for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? No, and no.
I would say, that's what VMs are for.
So VMs are for not surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Programming languages currently offer few defences against supply chain attacks where a malicious third-party library compromises a program. I think they're called, "write everything yourself"
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Which is exactly what's done in any safety relevant industry.
Also, getting any OSS library to pass A-SPICE and MISRA is a pain in the ass, even worse if you must write them with built-in code path validation.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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