Why not??!?
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
Fair question, easy answer. Security. Unless it's air-gapped, I
wouldn't put anything sensitive on WinXP. Every month, we are finding out
just how much WinXP is like swiss cheese.
THAT is a good answer/reason!
Why do the experts advo
If you have some storage, then you can lose a microcomputer.
If you lose a minicomputer, then you have a lot of storage.
If you lose a mainframe, then you have ENOUGH storage.
Put everything delicate and heavy in the truck, and put lighter, bulkier,
less delicate stuff in the trailer. Are you using a trailer with shocks?
In a message dated 7/2/2015 5:14:33 P.M. MT, billdeg...@gmail.com writes:
I have been using Mosaic on my OpenVMS system, almost unusable, but fun.
In what way is it "unusable"?
It's more important in this day and age to keep up with the web publishing
standards than maintain backward compa
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Joe Giliberti wrote:
Greetings,
I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB
floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a
Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring
data.
Hardware, yes.
Sof
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Mike Ross wrote:
Now I haven't powered it up since I got it... over ten years ago now! But
in my basement I have a no-brand vanilla PC... which allegedly has special
internal IBM software on it, which allows the user to low-level reformat
standard IBM drives to have 524 byte s
I'd vote for "big VAX" list. The minutiae of marketing names is
pretty boring and irrelevant to such a list isn't it?
Should the requirement be weight,
physical size,
or what tools are lost in it?
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Let's see if my reply has the same problem as Chris cited.
Yep!
It took
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
and parsed it into:
gene...@classiccmp.org,
discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Dave Wade wrote:
Personally I think anything with castors on
No.
I have a PC "server" case from late 286 era with tiny casters.
But, it was nice to be able to have more than 4 "full-height" drives.
(meaning some state sponsered spy program) that's the
big problem, it's the hundreds of spam malware that's sent using email
and image or other "auto loading features" of mail programs as an attack
vector.
It's why everyone I know who isn't really compu
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
:-)
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
We had some difficulties with college administrators that resulted in, "The
question is not 'are you paranoid?';
the question is 'are you paranoid
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Jay West wrote:
One problem is going to be authentication. If it has any contact
information (and it seems like it would need to in order to be useful)
then it's gonna become a target for SPAM.
Captcha?
Isn'y third world labor cheap enough to out-source Ca
Isn't third world labor cheap enough to out-source Captcha answering in bulk?
Only if someone has a failure of imagination. Here’s the way the third-world
interface on that application will probably look:
“Exercises in applied colloquial English translation”
“Only 35 per hour"
:-(
lumosity.c
The 8086 had four segment registers:
CS - Code segment, used with IP register
DS - Data segment
SS - Stack segment, used with SP and BP registers
ES - Extra segment, used with DI for string instructions as
destination (DS:SI as
The 8086 had four segment registers:
CS- Code segment, used with IP register
DS- Data segment
SS- Stack segment, used with SP and BP registers
ES- Extra segment, used with DI for string instructions as
destination (DS:SI as source)
You could override ins
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Kip Koon wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have finally decided to restore my original Altair 8800 which has been in
storage for over 30 years. Does anyone have a copy of Microsoft's Multiuser
Disk Extended Basic for the Altair 8800? When I was in college in '79 to
'81, in the computer roo
The 8086 had four segment registers:
. . .
That certainly sounds reasonable, but,
have you noticed the difference in behavior of 8086/8088 V 80386?
Haven't. The SDM covers Pentium forward (and even then it attempts to
document the differences between the different models). I think
anythin
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
FWIW, Dijkstra disliked the 1620 immensely. I don't recall his opinion of
the 1401.
There was a somewhat minimal 1401 emulator that could be run on the 1620
Wow! should I dig out my Herty-Gerty?
On 16/07/2015 00:13, Jay Jaeger wrote:
One size fits very many, but not all. I know for sure that the PDP-8/L,
PDP-8/m, PDP-12, PDP-11/20, PDP-11/40, PDP-11/45 and VAX-11/780 all use
the same xx2247 key. My PDP-11/24 has a silly plastic "anti static"
key,
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, jwsmobile wrote:
Stamp sets are 10 or 20 bucks @ harbor freight. But that isn't the problem.
http://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/stamping/36-piece-18-in-steel-letternumber-stamping-set-60670.html
How hard is it to set up a CNC mill to engrave letters and numbers?
BUT,
A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975,
the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called
Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was
opened by Dick Heiser. How time has flown by!
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Richard Loken wrote:
What
A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975,
the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called
Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was
opened by Dick Heiser. How time has flown by!
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
Do
A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975,
the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called
Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was
opened by Dick Heiser. How time has flown by!
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
Was tha
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Richard Loken wrote:
Ah that was my question. I did not pay attention to computers at all until
1980 and it another five or more years before I had any interest something
that could be lifted by one man.
My interest is still largely confined to big iron.
I am sort of curious
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Evan Koblentz wrote:
"Vintage Computer Federation".
We'll continue to do business as MARCH. The new name, which
happens to have the abbreviation "VCF" (get it? --
and yes we got permission from Sellam and from Erik K.),
allows us to potentially expand beyond just being a reg
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Oldcomputers wrote:
I received this email - they want am IBM AS/400 for a film - it doesn't
have to work. They will pay for transportation and rent.
Near Brooklyn NY I think.
And what will they pay for damage or destruction?
Always get more details - as others have said p
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
Incidentally, what exactly differentiates a computer-grade cap from any
other alum. electrolytic?
Maybe computer-grade don't need gold-plated oxygen-free leads?
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I think it was someone on this list who told the story of some
antique furniture that was rented out with a ridicoulously high
deposit and got it back with bullet holes. Apparently the
deposit wasn't ridiculous enough with respect to the overall
budget
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
That would be to stop people like the film crew we heard of who borrowed
something, deliberately destroyed it as part of a scene, and them calmly paid
the lender the assessed value. If they're looking at having to pay a _ton_ of
money if they pull that stu
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Jay West wrote:
Stopped in the local electronics haunt, and the owner directed me to a "Fine
to Very Good" IBM 5150. I did not look at it closely, but externally appears
to be very good shape with minor scratches on the under-side. It has two FH
5.25's, and a cassette port on
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic computers?
A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
of marijuana seeds
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
What is that item?
Looks like a piece of laced (p)leather-craft from a children's summer camp
project..
an improvised floppy drive shipping head protector?
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic
computers?
A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
of marijuana seeds
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Eric Smith wrote:
Someone was using it wrong. No seeds or stems!
After I fixed it, they did offer me
Are SCSI ID numbers likely to be an issue?
Which ones are most commonly used on SparcClassic?
I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412 hard drives don't count? :-)
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
In the early days, particularly when actual ST506 and ST412 were common
drives, there were VERY VERY few that had no bad tracks.
In the days of ST506
On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben wrote:
Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
The bad blocks were "written on the drive" in the sense that they were
written or printed on a paper label stuck to the top of the drive, no
On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :)
6.6[043] gallons of water
a 25Kg bag of dogfood
1470 3.5" floppies
Hmm.. 55 pints?
In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming
that 'pint' means the drink commonly called that over here and assuming
beer has a density similar to water [1] then 44 pints is very close.
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Those are "imperial pints
Wow. I'll never complain again that it takes too long to boot Windows...
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, geneb wrote:
One thing I don't understand - why can't the machine boot on its own? Why
would IBM design a computer that required another computer just to boot it?
"Why CAN'T the operating system have
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Acch. All this modern/complicated stuff. Once you powered on an IBM
1410 (2 seconds), you could have it (141O O/S: 1410-PR-155) running in
as little as a minute, counting the tape drive mount:
Mount tape on unit 0 [30 seconds tops, as tape is probably alrea
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Until that console processor fails with no backups. I seem to recall
having 4 or 5 "backups" (aka operators). ;)
Your expertise is the simplest and most reliable way to do it.
Pin-out?
Data sheet?
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The problem is, that even with the "Fast boot" BIOS setting, it takes well
over a minute to get to the point where it tries to boot.
Does anyone have a clue on why it's so slow? Even getting the POST down to
15-20 seconds would be wonderful.
Slow boot ca
Did you say that the slow boot problem that you were having was a
machine with ISA?
Would it make sense to put in a POST card, and make a new [temporary] BIOS
with its POST peppered with OUTs? Just seeing any output that would let
you know WHERE in the process it was getting bogged down might
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I've watched this thread with interest because I am struggling with getting
up to speed using Microsoft Visual C++ version 1.5, which I think was their
first IDE.
??!?
December 1993
1.0 was February 1993
Do you really mean "first Microsoft IDE"??
Howz
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
One of my favorite old computers to tinker with is a rev B IBM PC. I
recently moved it out into my living room to hopefully inspire me to
mess with it more, but I still didn’t want to mess with having to put
everything on 360k floppies. With all the slot
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Josh Dersch wrote:
Thus far I've been successful in creating images of floppies, but less
successful in writing them back out. Thus far I've tried a pair of
Shugart 851s and a Qume QumeTrack 842. I'm using a DBit FDADAP
I agreee with Eric and Chuck.
A quick experiment,
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
I have a Shugart 800-8 with a media centering problem. I know it is
definitely that and not something else (say, electronics, TRK00
position, etc.), because I can see the "wobble" in the signal coming
from the heads on a 'scope.
If all thge disks were for
I'd always wondered why that was so.It has been handy to see which
were 360K as I don't think HD everhad the donut ( maybe rare ).Dwight
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Where I saw the problem was with the Micropolis 77-track (single sided) 100
tpi drives.
Their 35 track 48tpi ss drive
Any sense of what PC models / controllers are capable of this task?
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
Anything that will run ImageDisk or Teledisk will work. It doesn’t
necessarily have to be one of those computers, you could pull the 360k
drives from one of them and hook them into a “ne
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
Terry & all,
To be clear - SD on a "360K" floppy is 180K? Yes?
NO.
Osborne SD was also single sided.
10 256 byte sectors per track. 100K.
"360K" was 9 512 byte sectors, with TWO sides used.
NO.
Osborne SD was also single sided.
10 256 byte sectors per track. 100K.
[IBM PC] "360K" was 9 512 byte sectors, with TWO sides used.
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Terry Stewart wrote:
Hmm. I don't have the machine in front of me to check (I'm at work), but I
pretty sure my Osborne 1A drives are sin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
Reminds me of a guy who sold US military aircraft flight manual scans,
with his "copyright" notice on every page. Never mind that such things
are in the public domain by law.
The ORIGINAL is in the public domain, and he would have no rights to
restrict
Just in case anybody was unaware, . . .
VERIFY is NOT a suitable test in this situation.
Most beginners assume that VERIFY will re-read the track, and determine
whether the write wrote the correct content. IT DOES NOT.
VERIFY checks the sector headers and CRCs, and determines whether there is
I assume all the 8K, 4K BASICs are in public domain by now. The demo
for the kids will be the 15 minutes of paper tape, followed by READY.
Bad assumption. Things that were actually registered even if there was
no notice, or published with a copyright notice would still be protected
under U.S.
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Mouse wrote:
Copyright violation is not theft. (That doesn't make it OK. I just
get so sick of people tossing around emotionally loaded words like
"theft" and "stealing" when discussing copyright violation I feel it
incumbent on me to point out that they are not accurate.)
> I suppose they started to use the term due to the "sea of information" that
actually is internet, but technically the act of copying a software is
closer to making good fake copies of an item ( bags, shoes, etc ), at least
this is my personal view
That's usually called "forgery"
On Thu, 20 Au
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, william degnan wrote:
I do have my MITS Basic license, so..
Is it transferrable?
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
But yeah, I'd hate to run up against BillG in a spat over appropriating his
Altair BASIC. He could squash me like a bug with his legal resources. I
recall that other outfits stealing his code was one of his big public gripes
back in the pre-PC days.
Bet
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, william degnan wrote:
Gates does not care about personal use of MITS software, be
realistic. B
. . .
Be it right or wrong to use an unlicensed copy...Even back in 1976 MSOFT to
my knowledge did not pursue legal action against end users for violation of
its BASIC license, so
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote:
And...
We have a new question. What would have been the first piece of
copyrightable software?
Combined with the issue that many lawyers and judges did not consider
software to BE copyrightable.
And then, there was a general consensus that the
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Mouse wrote:
But that is not what the word means in law and it is not what the word
means in ordinary usage.
I'm confused on some of the terminology. I don't think that I'm alone.
A friend of mine was in law school before he'd believe me that "burglary"
and "robbery" were
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
So, how does one de-yellow something? I have a VT-100 and some other
gear that could use that process.
UBIK
Where would MICROS~1 be if Gary Kildall were to have been litigious?
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
How so? Digital Research spurned IBM, and would have had to take IBM
on as well as Microsoft. Litigious or not, it would have been a
seriously uphill battle.
The influence and basis
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote:
It also brings up another issue. When they did finally get some legal stuff
into place (circa 1988 over here) was it retrospective.?
If not then by definition anything prior is not protected and my be freely
distributed.
If it were changes in the law
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
The written records I have read state that Kildall finally came to his
senses way way late, and realized what a market opportunity the IBM PC
represented. But by then he was too late. By every account I have
read, he blew off a meeting arranged by Gates th
But that is not what the word means in law and it is not what the word
means in ordinary usage.
I'm confused on some of the terminology. I don't think that I'm alone.
A friend of mine was in law school before he'd believe me that
"burglary" and "robbery" were not fully synonymous.
On Sat, 22
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
The way I've heard the story before, was that Kildall was surprised when
he finally saw the price sheet for the pricing of CP/M-86 vs PC-DOS. I
I've heard that, but it was from people who did not think that the
original contact with IBM was mishandled.
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Tothwolf wrote:
Indeed. Apple even screwed up on this with their iconic rainbow apple logo. I
discovered this while researching the history of the logo while doing image
work on Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons many years ago. It is still a
trademark, but the image is public d
There were two IBM 1620's in the College of Engineering in Madison, WI
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Kevin Tikker wrote:
A possible lead?
There was one at Merritt College in Oakland during the days when the Black
Panthers started out there.
If you make a list of every one that there was, you're stil
On 8/28/15 12:46 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
leave the tapes in my truck for a week to bake them? :)
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
not enough airflow
humidity?
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Kevin Tikker wrote:
I went to both Laney and Berkeley City College so you may have a clue.
Thank you
If you actually want to follow-up on such tenuous leads, . . .
Wil Price would know what happened to the 1620 and 1401. So would Ben
Micallef and Jack Olson, but they're d
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, tony duell wrote:
I realised the other day that I do not live in a normal house. Apart
from the toilet, every room on the ground floor contains at least one
PDP11 (some not set up yet).
Nice!
The WC only has microcomputers?
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, tony duell wrote:
I realised the other day that I do not live in a normal house. Apart
from the toilet, every room on the ground floor contains at least one
PDP11 (some not set up yet).
On 2015-08-28 20:07, Fred Cisin wrote:
Nice!
The WC only has microcomputers?
On 08/28
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Kevin Tikker wrote:
I attended Vista at both locations the main building and the basement of
the former Ross store. The new building was a mess, half finished,
poorly designed and with the video studio poorly built.
It is now a mess, half finished (unwired handicap door bu
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, ben wrote:
Just the US goverment in general. Try area 51 next.
There are lots of 1620s there. Many have seriously upgraded RAM and
storage, to run Linux, Windoze 12, and Apple System 11. They have
interplanetary WiFi.
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
I thought the center thing was a duct also Ed#
Baking diskettes in it would reduce the central ducting.
The HarborFreight food dehydrator (#66906 $30, currently sale at $25)
will work with the central ducting partially blocked.
It has a hea
The HarborFreight food dehydrator (#66906 $30, currently sale at $25)
will work with the central ducting partially blocked.
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Ooooh. Thanks for the pointer to HarborFreight. I think I will pop
over to the store with a tape and see if they have one out to
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
IF IT DOES NOT HAVE A TEMP THERMOSTAT DO NOT GET
So that we can remove it and put in a trustworthy one?
The commercial part is the housing, trays, lid (with adjustable vent).
Prefer transparent.
You can make your own, or buy something cheap
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Lyle Bickley wrote:
I was surprised to see the average cart price to be over $120!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/29/sales-unearthed-atari-games-total-more-than-10/?intcmp=hpbt4
Is that true?
Where can we bury some stuff?
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, william degnan wrote:
often the card is the culprit, sometimes shorting out the entire sytem.
Absolutely!
And, if the motherboard is set for CGA, instead of MDA, the board might
not come up. BUT, he did say that he had what the thought might be video
signals reaching th
I am trying to identify why my IBM 5151 display has no picture when
connected to a normal MDA card in a IBM PC 5150. So armed with an
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, william degnan wrote:
There is a 2nd connector for the video card of the 5151.
5151 is a monitor number.
I can't quite tell
if you mean yo
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
they are PUNCHED cards
look at ALL of the documentation of the period
NO ONE called them PUNCH cards
Half a century ago, there were already some people who got it wrong.
I had a boss who insisted that blanks in the box were "PUNCH CARDS",
that it wasn't un
If you find a source of paper stock that works, please let everyone
know about it. The real paper is gone, and will likely never be made
again. It is a specialized stock that is extremely difficult to make.
What is different about it? Thickness? Weight/square metre? Density?
Impregnated with some
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
I have a few old ... let's just say Hollerith cards ... LOL ... and the
stock feels a little reminiscent of that of a manilla folder or 3x5 card,
but slightly thicker. It's kind of an odd basis weight ... too heavy for
cheap folders, too light for expensive
On 10 September 2015 at 15:42, Fred Cisin wrote:
He also said that the colored pencils that I manually did graphs
with were "COLOUR PENCILS".
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Liam Proven wrote:
Sounds legit to me. But then in the old world we still spell the
proper, old-fashioned-way. ;¬)
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
For a while many utility bills etc. were sent out with prepunched cards
containing the customer and billing information, to be mailed back with your
payment for proper allocation.
A guy that I went to school with, would always take those utility bills,
a
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, geneb wrote:
This is at least the 2nd time I've seen this message today. Mailman gone
mental on us Jay?
Some of the messages might be worth getting more than once. Not that one.
I think that I got EVERY message twice. Is this still CCTECH/CCTALK
issues?
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Joseph Lang wrote:
It takes that long because the clerks have no idea what tab does. Watch
somebody who does and see how fast they can fill in a form. Mouse
actually slows down data entry a lot.
yes.
Is there any reason why driver's license number couldn't be entered, to
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Joseph Lang wrote:
The card stock should be available. It's 90 lb card stock. The same
stuff ATB airline tickets are printed on.
The die to cut to size May cost a bit
Conventional paper shear for sides, ends, and corner, plus conventional
corner rounding on three corn
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
Five years ago the paper stock was still available in the US, and you
could get cards from Cardamation as well.
A lot of bad things have happened in the last five years.
Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be
interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls
"BASIC" anymore.
Does it have to be TRUE BASIC, or are street BASICs accepted?
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Adrian Graham wrote:
Morning folks,
I've been contacted by a teacher who's looking for any information about
12" floppies. Am I imagining that they really existed? I'm sure I've seen
one or seen adverts for them, maybe at Bletchley Park. Others he's
contacted think he's getti
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Guy Dawson wrote:
Delete it on the master and have it faithfully deleted on the replica.
Yeah.
Backup should NOT be connected to the computer that it is backing up, and
should be a drive, NOT a connected computer.
Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from l
Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at PDFs on
the web while doing some research. It's a trojan, not a virus. It runs in
the background encrypting files. Then it pops up a message demanding 500
euros for the key!
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Out of cu
Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at PDFs on
the web while doing some research. It's a trojan, not a virus. It runs in
the background encrypting files. Then it pops up a message demanding 500
euros for the key!
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, et...@757.org wrote:
Sounds li
Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at
PDFs on the web while doing some research. [...]
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Mouse wrote:
I trust you've now switched PDF viewers to one that doesn't
gratuitously execute (attempts at) live content?
Google Chrome and Internet Explore
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, jwsmobile wrote:
One system, or did it propagate thru the organization?
Did you eradicate it, then get a tool for the decrypt?
Not very hard to stop it, but the damage that it does to the files (RSA
encryption) is irreparable, unless you pay the ransom. A significant
per
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Robert Feldman wrote:
There is a ramsomware variant that encrypts the files but silently
decrypts them when they are accessed. It does this for six months before
deactivating the on-demand decryption and displaying the ransom message,
the theory being that by that time all
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, dwight wrote:
If working on a newer X86 processor, this is necessary, not to protect the
code but because the code is cashed and my not be updated in time for
it to be executed.
Write through is expensive and only provided on the data side, if at all.
Dwight
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