Posts by happygeek

Hi Michael, you'll need to first show us how far you have got with your code (or pseudo-code) so that our experts can help point you in the right direction. Simply supplying the code for your assignment isn't actually going to help you with your course, and isn't something that DaniWeb condones.

Hi John - click on the person icon at the top of the page, then edit profile. Make sure you have 'Automatically Watch Topics I Post In' and 'Receive Community-related Email' selected.

All the best

And here now (in UK)

People aren't tagging their posts effectively is at least part of the problem.

Morning and welcome to DaniWeb...

Welcome Mohit, as an expert I look forward to you helping less experienced members with their questions.

Well Dadar is in Mumbai, and Comenity is a bank/credit provider. That's about as far as I've got with it Saladin, care to clarify a little mate?

If people submit to you throw away emails then how you going to contact them in any form of emergencies?

There are unlikely to be any emergencies that I can think of when downloading or viewing content. I think you used the wrong word, did you mean any form of 'marketing' perhaps.

No good wasting time with a crap script that runs on a crap concept

The whole viral share concept is crap. I have saved you time right there, find something else to pour your obvious enthusiasm into...

Improve these viral marketing scripts? Nope, I hope they all fail and burn.

The XP thing is a massive red herring. As is the idea that the NHS was targeted. The main reason for the rapid rate of infection appears to have been the use of the EternalBlue vulnerability to spread the WannaCrypt0r payload. This was one of the NSA developed vulnerabilities that got leaked in the Shadow Brokers hack. It meant that any systems not patched by the March 14th Microsoft 4013389 security update for SMB Server 1.0 would be susceptible to passing the infection from LAN to WAN (remote code execution by way of a specific message sent to Microsoft Server Message Block 1.0 (SMBv1) server.

XP usage remains a major concern of course, just not really something that contributed massively to the spread of this particular ransomware attack.

Hey Azeez, the clue is in the first three words: write a program. At least start doing that and then share the code, or pseudo-code, with us and I'm sure someone will be able to help you get past your stumbling blocks. If you cannot write any code for this, then I suggest you are taking the wrong class...

Hi Dave, welcome to DaniWeb. The posting rules which are sadly ignored by so many (who probably don't even bother reading them) state: "Do provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments."

Those who ignore this rule can get an infraction under the 'Keep it Organised' criteria that this rule sits in. Usually this is restricted to those who just paste a question up without any additional comment apart from maybe 'I NEED THIS BY TOMORROW' or somesuch. More often we will try and cajole further information, by way of whatever code or pseudo-code they have, from the poster. Although this is only successful in some cases, when it is at least the poster can get some actual help in understanding the task at hand and hopefully that will help them going forward.

It's a problem that has always been around, and we do our best to deal with it while still trying to help folk where possible. We won't do homework for anyone, there are plenty of dodgy sites that do that. We will try and help people. Which is why the only way we can deal with this is by the methods explained. Preventing newbies from posting a homework help question would just mean they would go somewhere else less picky, and possibly get the kind of ready made help that actually helps nobody. Likewise, the method of flagging posts and having a review process would put even …

Moz.com has a good definition: "Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results."

I will leave it to the SEO experts to answer your second question.

My name, email, life has been an open book on the Internet (and FidoNet, Prestel, Micronet, Cix, The Well et al before that) for close on 30 years. I was a launch contributing editor to (and wrote about a third of) the first UK Internet magazine in the UK (.Net) and wrote one of the first UK-published books about the thing in 1989. I'm listed in Wikipedia as an 'Internet Personality' and so on. I could care less about who 'likes' me online, and to be honest if I was at all sensitive to negative reviews/comments I would have been hanging from the rafters long since.

Likes are overrated. Content is still King.

Get the latter right, be that software, editorial or whatever, and the 'likes' will come by way of word of mouth without any need to force the user to do anything.

In answer to the question as to if I would hit a mandatory thumbs up/down button in order to read content the answer is no. At least, if I did find myself in such a system I would just downvote everything by way of protest...

If a download 'forced' me into sharing that ad/link with my social network I would run away from it faster than Usain Bolt with diarrhoea. I decide if I want to share something with my friends, not an ad network (ignoring the obvious argument about defualt social network advertising/privacy intrusions for now).

Do you mean something like this:

If so it needs your BIOS password, which you should already know if you have configured the PC to require it upon booting. Or is this a secondhand one you've bought and cannot get past this screen?

If the latter then you can reset the thing by opening the computer up and removing the CMOS battery (tons of help online - search Google for it, there will even be YouTube videos if you need them) for ten minutes before putting it back and starting again.

I would suggest taking a look at the AV-TEST results before making any decisions on AV suites. Also, none of these solutions will save you from the most virulent of threats; the user.

I tend to advise businesses, of any size, that without user awareness training they may as well save the security money and admit defeat.

Good security is a process.

That said, for consumer Windows users I currently veer towards a combination of Kaspersky (test results are rock solid) with Malwarebytes Premium adding a second layer of defence. That's before I start to bang on about ensuring good password security (KeePass is a good choice for secure local encrypted password storage) and to use the Two Factor Authenticaion (2FA - or more accurately in most cases 2FV - Two Factor Verification) option for every service that allows it. On the latter point I'd also recommend using a TOTP (Time-Limited One Time Passcode) generated by an authenticator app (Google Authenticator is free, fast and secure) rather than relying upon SMS which leaves itself open to some interesting man-in-the-middle and side-channel threats.

SPOILER ALERT: American Gods

When a giant woman shoves a fat man up her lady parts and he disappears, without any explanation as to why, I kind of hate that...

What an excellent, well thought out, response. Thanks for that.

Dani must still have some left from all those boxes of bloody t-shirts we lugged into the Playwright Celtic Bar a few years ago for the birthday bash? :-)

Not being a white-supremacist, racist, slavery-apologist myself I'm finding it hard to understand why there's such a fuss over taking down a statue of a white-supremacist, racist, slavery apologist. The 'it's part of our history' argument doesn't wash with me, nor the Germans as I don't think there are any statues of Hitler in public places. Please do educate me...

Show us your code so far if you expect to get help with this my friend. Nobody is going to do your assignment for you, but they will point you in the right direction...

I would suggest that you read the posting rules with an emphasis on the 'keep it legal' section. Then, come back and explain exactly what you are trying to do and what help you are after - within those parameters...

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Yep, for your specific purposes I'd just download the latest Opera browser and it's already built in, already working, nothing left to do...

What if "the government" approached the really smart, really security-conscious developers of this super-secure drive and said, "We want you to develop a high security drive that no one can defeat. Except us."

No doubt that's a sceanrio that could happen. However, when the truth came out (as it almost certainly would) then the drive vendor would be finished for good. Trust really is everything at this end of the market, not just some corporate motto.

I don't know about in jail. I thought they'd just confiscate the equipment.

For US travel, my understanding is that it would most likely lead to confiscation of kit and an unfriendly interview during which you would be denied entry and probably sent back from where you came.

<later> Just seen the additional comment. See, what do I know? That said, I suspect that is an exception rather than a norm,.

Just try to travel in the NSA (USA?) with that.

True dat. I used to travel to the US a few times a year on business, but have not been for the last year courtesy of health issues and long distance flights. However, I'm increasingly inclined to decline such trips in future specifically due to these Orwellian measures. I'm rather afraid I might tell the man in the uniform to go do one. Of course, I could set up a set of fake social media accounts purely for the purpose of US travel (and I'm pretty sure that any terrorist/activist would do just that) but seriosuly, can I be bothered? Nope.

As for data I wanted to keep away from prying eyes I would use my flash drive with a hidden encrypted container that doesn't appear unless you enter the correct passcode. Enter the alternative passcode and it just boots up as a normal drive complete with a nice innocent dataset... Sure, someone could try looking at the drive size against available space, but I doubt they would have time to do that for every traveller.

You set up a home-based business and a website to accompany. Being an SEO expert, your website will rank highly when people search for SEO expert and you will get clients. Or am I missing something?

As always with such homework/assignment tasks, we ask that you show some effort by posting up how far you've got with your code and explaining where you are having difficulty. Everyone here is a volunteer helper, show them you've made some effort and they will respond in kind.

Sorry bud, but if 'helping your community' actually means helping yourself by ripping people off with some illegal pyramid scheme (and it sure does look that way) then you have come to the wrong place. If you are going to become a criminal mastermind at least put some effort in at the start of the process, eh?

I can symathise Dani. Taking myself off of morphine and gabapentin at the moment (which I've been on for the last year) and it's not much fun being on them or coming off them...

Hope things pick up for you soon!

Troll hunting.

How to solve the problem? Could the clue be in the error message perhaps? I'm particularly thinking of the bit that says: "fix the version conflict either by updating the version of the google-services plugin or updating the version of com.google.android.gms to 9.2.0."

I've had my hands on what is being described as the 'most secure hard drive ever made' for a while now. Such are the advantages of being a well known reporter on all things security I guess, I get to play ahead of the crowd. As the first journalist to get hold of one of the diskAshur Pro 2 drives from iStorage, I have been able to put it to the test in time for the press embargo being lifted today.

I have, of course, long recommended that portable data should be encrypted. It is seriously stupid not to do so, given the risk of loss whether through misplacing a device or it being targeted for theft. For most people, this means using encryption software to protect the data not the drive. Hardware encryption ups the ante just a tad as there's no software to backdoor, no chance of accessing the drive first and so get time to play with the data within.

It should come as no surprise to discover that I have had one of the original diskAshur PRO devices in my kitbag for some time, and a hardware-encrypted flash drive on my fob for good measure. But whereas the original was really secure, the new model is goddamn batshit crazy secure. And then some.

For most readers I will hazard a guess that such a drive would be overkill. Indeed, it's not aimed at most people; this is a drive …

Web Page is in which our website is appear on first page .

Riiiight. Care to try again?

See https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/nov/15/usa.iraq for starters. Short memory if you've forgotten Vietnam as well...

Not only did I see what you did there, I deleted the spammy link to your site. Good try though...

it does require a level of concentration mentally to be able to do. but see if you can manage it.

And there we go, back to the school playground sniping...

OK I'm done here.

I'm with the Welsh Devil on this one. If you have five minutes, this former UK ambassador to Syria speaks a lot of sense... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5taO5vRDo&sns=fb

a direction to a website that the user may already know that shows how to do this is hardly onerous.

But what you actually asked for was a Skype conversation that the user had already told you he wasn't prepared to do, or "photos of what I might expect to see inside it and mark which items need testing and how."

Your selective memory has been apparent throughout this entire thread. Everyone here has tried to help you, including myself. Cynical? No. Honest? Yes.

You can, indeed, request whatever you want. I was merely pointing out that your requests appear somewhat unreasonable when you take into account that everyone here is a volunteer helper and that maybe you are expecting too much.

James, I think you are expecting/demanding too much.

Everyone here is a volunteer, helping others to the best that their abilities, time and desire allows. This is a community website, it's not a paid for support service. If you paid a dollar to sponsor your question, all that does is flag the question up to the volunteers here who might best be able to help.

Good morning (at least here in the UK) and welcome to DaniWeb David.

Erm, see what the Reverend said a few posts up. This is such an old question, relating to a problem with an EIGHT year old browser client that is no longer used by anyone. Answers now, however well-intentioned, are pointless as they simply do not, cannot, apply to the OP's problem.

It's always a good move to check the date of the post you are replying to before hitting the post button yourself...

Bem vindo Diogo, hope you find what you are looking for on DaniWeb. We're a pretty friendly bunch and don't bite unless provoked :-)

Please continue with any help here, where the OP has already asked the question and a thread is in full swing...

Closing this one.

No, please don't. Why start another thread to go over the same ground again?

<too late> <sigh>

I have closed your other thread, and posted saying that the discussion/help should continue here.

@tony_21 is there a question hidden in there somewhere or did you just feel compelled to share that piece of breaking news with us? ;-)

I recently stayed in a hotel in Dublin owned by Bono and The Edge. I hunted everywhere for soap, the tv remote, aircon controls...

At least part of that statement was, indeed, true.