[lopsa-discuss] Survey on professionalism in system administration

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Limoncelli
I'm doing research about professionalism in our industry. I'd like to hear your thoughts. Please take 5 minutes to answer this simple survey: http://tr.im/IeWf Thanks! Tom Limoncelli http://everythingsysadmin.com The Practice of System and Network Administration Time Management for System Admini

[lopsa-discuss] google install creepiness - clickonce - viruses - malware

2009-12-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
So I never expected myself to do a 180 on this one, but . Viruses, malware, etc come in one of two forms: 1) Involuntary exploits. Something that takes advantage of system vulnerabilities. Every system everywhere is susceptible to this sort of attack. 2) Voluntary exploits. Somet

Re: [lopsa-discuss] google install creepiness - clickonce - viruses - malware

2009-12-21 Thread Dave Close
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >2) Voluntary exploits. Something that tricks users into running >something voluntarily, that they didn't know would be harmful. > ... >So why wouldn't a "bad guy" just sign their apps and bypass the prompts? >Surely sometimes they will, but the process requires prov

Re: [lopsa-discuss] google install creepiness - clickonce - viruses - malware

2009-12-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Or a bad guy can infect the origin machine of the signed app and alter > the binary before its signed. > > Personally, I don't like letting ANYone run ANY code on my machine > without my explicit permission. That includes HTML email. Nobody said anything about running code without your permissi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Survey on professionalism in system administration

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Limoncelli
I'm told that the short URL isn't working for some. Please try: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/whatexit.org/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHM3TTlnamRMZWN6UjRPak1qOHE3UkE6MA On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > I'm doing research about professionalism in our industry. I'd like to