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Damn right!
The recent WannaCry outbreak should ram that message home: backup. Often.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You two do know that you sound like Professor Proton and his puppet Gino The Neutrino?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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What, we got you interested in science?
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DNFTT
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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BURP!
Too late.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Oi! That was my goat!
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I found just the right recipe, but I don't want to be metasoapboxed.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: backup. Often
So you can have more useless crap when it hits you (if you don't keep backup offline).
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Cornelius Henning wrote: If you are not making regular drive images, give these some thought
Of course, but how did the trojan get there in the first place? Is missus opening the attachments of "please find your xxxx in the attached document," or downloading 'that looks neat' "utilities", or ...
medicine is usually useful, prevention is best.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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She almost certainly got it from a poisoned website.
Quote: medicine is usually useful, prevention is best The point is that you do not have to live in fear of viruses if your system and data are properly backed up. How will you know in advance that a particular web site is toxic? Abstaining from all browsing to new sites? That will put a serious crimp in your ability to utilize the Net to its full extent.
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Not just new sites (which would make Google pretty redundant) - XSS can make "safe" sites dangerous as well.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: How will you know in advance that a particular web site is toxic?
AdBlock + NoScript + CommonSense
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Are you implying:
Quote: AdBlock + NoScript + CommonSense + No Backups?
If so: Good luck to you!
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Backups are also subject to ransomware attack unless you store it on WORM storage. I doubt DVDs and BDs are popular these days for storing backups.
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Our backups (images and data) are stored on external drives that are normally disconnected and powered down. Ransomware cannot get to them. I also use DVDs for very critical data (such as password files, encryption certificates and financial info). This data fits comfortably on a DVD or USB stick. I keep more than one copy to cover potential failures.
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...and popup blocker.
prevention. Simple and effective.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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... and VM if you really need to visit dodgy sites.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: serious thought
You know what else needs serious thought? Clicking random links
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See my response to Lopatir above.
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I got this at work last week and again at home yesterday. Both times as soon as I closed the automated message window with voiceover a pr0n pic opened. I closed and I ran a scan and found noting.
Phising attack
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I wish I would have read this before 3:01 AM CDT yesterday. Apparently that's when my main data drive for my home/office server failed. I do remember waking up and hearing a constant clicking sound, but convinced myself that it was a ceiling fan. Three hours later when I got up, I realized that the noise was coming from my office.
I felt like an idiot when I realized the last full backup I can find was 3 years old!
It will take a long time to get things back to 'normal'. I've already spent hours re-installing sql server and fighting with reporting services to get it back up and running.
I'm considering sending the drive off to a data recovery service, depending on cost. It's going to be another long day!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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What can I say?
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There has been a lot of this going on today. Even Griff once called me Shirley.
Here[^] is someone who does not like this at all, plus some support from Leslie himself.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It's your own fault! Shirley is a h**l of a lot easier to remember than CDP1802!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Why do I feel the urge to reach out with my hand and say something like 'I find your lack of faith disturbing'?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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