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2009-08-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

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Woop Woop

2009-01-12T07:27:00.001-08:00

okayyy so this is like January 19th and im adding this to my current blog as part of my social softare task XD go me :D this is the last task tht i have to do to date because im finsihed everything else :D

Online Diary XD

2008-10-20T06:18:00.000-07:00

well basically weve been doin social software finding out about site programmes that are used for social interaction, e.g. Bebo, Windows Live Messanger, Myspace and various othersites.Also included in this are MMORPG's any game that can be played online.

i had to create a poweroint presentation on MSN Hotmail and Google Mail to compare the 2. next

13 May 2008

2008-05-13T01:25:00.000-07:00

We printed out our and finished the course today =) and it was fun to do but im sad to see it end =(

Copyright

2008-05-06T01:45:00.000-07:00

The Duration of Copyright depends on what type of infringement was infringed.

Duration of copyright

The provisions on duration have been largely modified by the Duration of Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1995 No. 3297.^[4] The provisions of the 1988 Act (ss. 12–15) as it received Royal Assent are given below. All periods of copyright run until the end of the calendar year in which they would otherwise expire. The duration of copyright under the 1988 Act does not depend on the initial owner of the copyright, nor on the country of origin of the work. The following durations do not apply to Crown copyright, Parliamentary copyright or the copyright of international organisations.

Literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works:Copyright lasts for seventy years from the death of the author. If the author is unknown, copyright expires seventy years after the work is first made available to the public. If the work is computer-generated, copyright expires fifty years after the work is made.

Sound recordings and films: Copyright lasts for seventy years after the recording or film is made. If the recording or film is released (published, broadcast or shown in public) within this period, the copyright lasts for seventy years from the date of release.

Broadcasts and cable programmes:Copyright lasts for seventy years after the first broadcast or transmission. The repeat of a broadcast or a cable programme does not generate a new copyright period.

Typographical arrangements: Copyright lasts for twenty-five years after the edition is published.

Penelties for Infringementon The Copyright Design and Patents Act can Result in : Section 107(4) provides that the offences under section 107(1)(a),(b),(d)(iv) and (e) are offences tryable either way. On conviction on indictment the maximum penalty is ten years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. On summary conviction the maximum penalty is 6 months imprisonment and/or a £5,000 fine. All of the remaining offences under section 107 are summary offences carrying a maximum penalty of 6 months imprisonment and/or a £5,000 fine.

Comparing Anti-Virus

2008-04-29T02:03:00.000-07:00

I have Used Both the Anti-virus that i have revewed and found tht AVG is far better than Nod 32. Avg has a free edition but Nod 32 doesnt and what your payin for isnt really much better than any of the free anti-virus currently on the internet.

Nod 32

Ease of Use:

ESET NOD32 Antivirus is a changed product. The base features are extremely simple and easy to use while still being effective. The redesigned interface includes a menu on the left with sub options on the right. Several options exist in the sub options to assist in "drilling down" to what you wish to do.

Effectiveness:
ESET NOD32 Antivirus is very effective in detecting and cleaning viruses from your computer. The on-demand scanner is fast and effective while still allowing you to do other things on your computer during the scan. The on-access scanner is almost behind the scenes compared to many other options out there. The only time you will notice what it is doing is when it detects a threat

Updates:
The standard update cycle for ESET NOD32 Antivirus is once a day if needed. They have the ability to "push" updates if there is a significant threat though

Feature Set:
Included with ESET NOD32 Antivirus are several layers of protection. Antivirus scanning includes integrated real time email protection, web access protection as well as a rootkit scanner and a spyware scanner

Ease of Installation:
Installing NOD32 Antivirus is very simple and posed no problems for us. The install took less than 5 minutes and required a quick restart of the testing computer.

Help/Support:
NOD32 Antivirus includes several support options included with your subscription. Included with these options are email support, a well stocked knowledge base and FAQ, as well as phone support available from 6AM-6PM Pacific time.

AVG

Ease of Use:

Though AVG Antivirus is mostly a hands off program, there may be some instances when you may need to configure some advanced options. For 99% of the population though, the default options will be more than sufficient.

Effectiveness:
AVG Antivirus is one of the most complete programs we have found to date. It includes many new options to make it one of the most effective virus scanners on the market.

Updates:
AVG Checks for updates every 4 hours by default. You can change this to any interval you wish. The updates section of AVG Antivirus also shows you which virus database version you have as well as when the last update was. It also tells you when the next update is scheduled.

Feature Set:
AVG Technologies, formerly Grisoft, has gone above and beyond with the new release of AVG Antivirus. Included with the virus scanner are a rootkit scanner, spyware scanner, an on-access scanner called Resident Shield, email scanner and a link scanning browser plugin.

Ease of Installation:
Installing AVG Antivirus 8 was easy and only took about 10 minutes including downloading the additional updates required after installation finished. We had no issues or errors during the install

Help/Support:
With the name change from Grisoft to AVG Technologies, the support site was updated and saw many improvements over the old design. Support offerings included with AVG Antivirus 8 are a FAQ, email support, phone based technical support as well as including a support section within the program itself.

Summary:

Version 8 of AVG Antivirus is a definite improvement over version 7.5. The scanning features have been sped up and the new interface is a clean and modern take on a time tested product.

Comparing Firewalls

A comparision of 2 popular firewalls is shown below

Zone alarm firewall- Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts
Automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet.

Comodo- The firewall itself is very robust and the just released version 3 includes a well designed intrusion detection system.

Most Firewalls are similar but some are more advanced than others

I use Zonealarm at home and find it easier to use compared to Comodo.

testage

2008-03-25T02:48:00.000-07:00

we did the online test i scored 68% =) which is a pass

11 March 2008

2008-03-11T02:36:00.000-07:00

Captains Log : we read up on a few subjects . a short explanation of the subjects is shown below XD

Social Engineering: Social engineering is a collection of techniques used to manipulate people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.While similar to a confidance trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery for information gathering or computer system access and in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim.

Passwords:A password is a form of secret authentication data that is used to control access to a resource. The password is kept secret from those not allowed access, and those wishing to gain access are tested on whether or not they know the password and are granted or denied access accordingly.

Email Encryption: E-mail encryption refers to encryption, and often authentication of e-mail messages. E-mail encryption usually relies on public key cryptography.

Security Suites:A security suite can do many things such as firewall spyware malware all of these can be controlled by the suite

Proxy Servers: A Proxy Server is one that acts on behalf of another server, usually for Web related purposes. The proxy server is set up by an organisation's system administrator as a gateway between trusted (local server) and non-trusted networks (Internet).

Back Up and Restore: The idea of backing up is to make a copy of your important data as a precaution against losing the original, if you lost the original you can just import from the data disk or external HDD

Content Filtering: Content filtering software works by checking the information, eg: URL, typed in by a user against an exclusion list. This list could also contain words that would be blocked if the user tries to enter them.

Content Rating: This is to let you know who the site you are viewing is suited for The labeling is done using a web-based questionnaire. The content creators check which of the elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their Web sites, and a small file is automatically generated using the RDF format, which is then linked to the content on one or more domains. Formerly, the system was based on PICS.

Hackers(Crackers)

2008-03-04T01:58:00.002-08:00

In a security context, a hacker is someone involved in computer security/insecurity, specializing in the discovery of exploits in systems (for exploitation or prevention), or in obtaining or preventing unauthorized access to systems through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. In the most common general form of this usage, "hacker" refers to a black-hat hacker (a malicious or criminal hacker). There are also ethical hackers (more commonly referred to as white hats), and those more ethically ambiguous (grey hats).

Rootkits and Mail Bombs

2008-03-04T01:27:00.000-08:00

An Explanation of Root Kits and Mail Bombs is show below

Mail Bombs- these generally send hundreds of emails to one address in an attemp to crash the server,easy to design but are easily to filter thro spam filters.A form of mail-bombing popular in Russia is called a ZIP bomb. This is a slightly different form of denial of service attack against a computer system's (mail server). After most commercial mail servers began checking mail with anti-virus software and filtering certain malicious file types, trojan horse viruses tried to send themselves compressed into archives, such as ZIP, RAR or 7-Zip. Mail server software was then configured to unpack archives and check their contents as well. That gave black hats the idea to compose a "bomb" consisting of an enormous text file, containing, for example, only the letter z repeated millions of times. Such a file compresses into a relatively small archive, but its unpacking (especially by early versions of mail servers) would use a high amount of processing power, RAM and swap space, which could result in denial of service. Modern mail server computers usually have sufficient intelligence to recognize such attacks as well as sufficient processing power and memory space to process such attachments without interruption of service, though some are still susceptible to this technique if the ZIP bomb is mass-mailed.

Rootkits(Backdoor)-The term rootkit or root kit originally referred to a maliciously modified set of administrative tools for a Unix-like operating system. If an intruder could replace the standard administrative tools on a system with a rootkit, the modified tools would give the intruder administrative control over the system while concealing his activities from the legitimate system administrator. The earliest known rootkit was written ca. 1990 by Lane Davis and Riley Dake for SunOS 4.1.1. There was an earlier, quite famous, exploit equivalent to a rootkit which was perpetrated by Ken Thompson of Bell Labs against a Naval Laboratory in California to win a bet. Thompson subverted the C compiler in a distribution of Unix to the Lab.
Rootkits were so named because they allowed an intruder to become a root user (ie, the system administrator) of a Unix system. Since then, similar software has been developed for other operating systems, and the term rootkit has been broadened to include any software that surreptitiously alters an operating system so that an unauthorized user can take arbitrary control of the system. .
Rootkits became much better known in 2005, when Sony BMG caused a scandal by including rootkit software on music CDs which altered the Windows OS to allow access to anyone aware of the rootkit's installation. Supposedly, this was done to enforce copy protection of the music on the CDs.

rawr....

2008-02-19T01:21:00.000-08:00

19th February 2008

Today we done more silly quizzes
it was well boring but soo easy

Viruses =D

2008-02-12T01:55:00.000-08:00

yeah 'cause like viruses are like awesome, they can like whipe a HDD and like destroy software =D hw awesome is that stuff haha untill it happens ti you ....=( lolage

so like today we done this bloog whoppeee
then we like watched a vid 8-)
done a quiz that didnt exsist haha
and now im writtin on this =) eventful tuesday this
more quizes on Viruses damn this is fun =D =P
got full marks oooo yeah baby you love it =)