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http://en.akinator.com/personnages/
** Not to be used without protective clothing near feminists. ** (I just tried it on 'er indoors and it asked questions like "Does your character live with both his parents?" when it didn't yet know the sex of the character.) -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 8:59:54 PM UTC+1, wrote:
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It confuses Lord Peter Wimsey with Richard Hannay and Jackal. Owain |
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On 08/04/2014 20:59, ARW wrote:
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. Took over 60 questions to get to A.J. Raffles -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:59:54 +0100, "ARW"
wrote: http://en.akinator.com/xxx/personnages/ It is addictive. WARNING! Infection BlockedURL: h_pub_akinator_com__www__delivery__afr_php?charset Infection: JS:Redirector-BJC [Trj] It's got a trojan horse redirector. -- Regards, J B Good |
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On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote:
On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I defeated it because it asked 'is your character a girl' and because she was in fact a woman, I said 'no' -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote:
On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:02:12 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I tried it on 19th century and early 20th century books and it got them every time. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me Β£30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam And it kept asking the same questions.. -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On 09/04/14 10:54, Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:02:12 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I tried it on 19th century and early 20th century books and it got them every time. Perhaps you only tried the 'ones everybody knows' Rather than the 'ones that a lot of people know, but not you' Oh It DID get 'Captain Nemo' but I think that was because he's been in films. Narrows the range. Reminds me of the book title I used to defeat some silly party gamne "The electric kool-aid acid test" is apparently not as well known as I thought. -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:13:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Ha! I doubt many *people* would these days (I do). It got Irene Adler, though. Mind, that's been on TV. I was thinking of Hoppy and his famous phrase "Shall I give him de woiks, boss?" only yesterday, strangely... -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me Β£30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 09/04/14 12:07, Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:13:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Ha! I doubt many *people* would these days (I do). I own all but one of the saint books and then I discovered they were ALL on ebooks. So if anyone wants the entire paperback collection -1, tatty as whatever culled from half a dozen publishers over 30 years in many different countries.. It got Irene Adler, though. Mind, that's been on TV. I was thinking of Hoppy and his famous phrase "Shall I give him de woiks, boss?" only yesterday, strangely... -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:19:27 GMT, DerbyBorn
wrote: "ARW" wrote in news:li1kh2$2r9$1@dont- email.me: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ Virus threat! So... Just you and me then? BTW, did you see the same trojan threat I saw? Looking at the way the thread is progressing, it's little wonder that malware seems to be so successfully infecting windows machines in spite of 'security patches. Maybe they're all using *nix based distros (where the presence of such threats is largely of academic interest other than to protect smb connected windows boxes). -- Regards, J B Good |
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:38:21 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/04/14 12:07, Bob Eager wrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:13:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Ha! I doubt many *people* would these days (I do). I own all but one of the saint books and then I discovered they were ALL on ebooks. So if anyone wants the entire paperback collection -1, tatty as whatever culled from half a dozen publishers over 30 years in many different countries.. I have a very large number, but never counted... -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me Β£30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 08/04/2014 21:19, DerbyBorn wrote:
"ARW" wrote in news:li1kh2$2r9$1@dont- email.me: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ Virus threat! Could you be more specific? Reported as what, and by what? -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 09/04/2014 04:09, Johny B Good wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:59:54 +0100, "ARW" wrote: http://en.akinator.com/xxx/personnages/ It is addictive. WARNING! Infection BlockedURL: h_pub_akinator_com__www__delivery__afr_php?charset Infection: JS:Redirector-BJC [Trj] It's got a trojan horse redirector. Ah, a malwaretizing style hack - probably why I did not see it since I run adblock. More details on this one he https://blog.avast.com/tag/openx/ -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk... On 09/04/2014 04:09, Johny B Good wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:59:54 +0100, "ARW" wrote: http://en.akinator.com/xxx/personnages/ It is addictive. WARNING! Infection BlockedURL: h_pub_akinator_com__www__delivery__afr_php?charset Infection: JS:Redirector-BJC [Trj] It's got a trojan horse redirector. Ah, a malwaretizing style hack - probably why I did not see it since I run adblock. More details on this one he https://blog.avast.com/tag/openx/ That says "Unfortunately, the only antivirus detecting this threat is avast! " and I am running Avast which detected nothing. -- Adam |
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On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted:
On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...! -- David |
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On 09 Apr 2014, "ARW" grunted:
"John Rumm" wrote in message o.uk... On 09/04/2014 04:09, Johny B Good wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:59:54 +0100, "ARW" wrote: http://en.akinator.com/xxx/personnages/ It is addictive. WARNING! Infection BlockedURL: h_pub_akinator_com__www__delivery__afr_php?charset Infection: JS:Redirector-BJC [Trj] It's got a trojan horse redirector. Ah, a malwaretizing style hack - probably why I did not see it since I run adblock. Does this mean that it only infects people who click on the infected advert? More details on this one he https://blog.avast.com/tag/openx/ That says "Unfortunately, the only antivirus detecting this threat is avast! " and I am running Avast which detected nothing. Avast certainly caught it here. The message is dated 13 Jan, so you'd hope that the bit about Avast being the only one to detect it will be out of date now. It also says: "Infection and consequences for users visiting a malicious website are described in our recent post about malvertising, but today lets look at how to successfully clean, update, and secure your application. Below are the top 5 most visited and infected sites. Is yours on this list? pub.akinator.com ads.locafilm.com ads.novsport.com ads.svetplus.com 116.66.206.132" ....so this akinator site must have known they've been infected for about 3 months. Brilliant. -- David |
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o.uk: On 08/04/2014 21:19, DerbyBorn wrote: "ARW" wrote in news:li1kh2$2r9$1@dont- email.me: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ Virus threat! Could you be more specific? Reported as what, and by what? AVAST - Threat Detected. |
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"ARW" wrote in message ... http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. -- Adam You might like this one if you're into geography. http://www.lufthansa-vp.com/vp1/play.html |
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On 09/04/14 18:27, Lobster wrote:
On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted: On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...! Over 1000 books in my hard copy library and a;l;l of thise have been read more than once 57 years of reading.. -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:16:50 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/04/14 18:27, Lobster wrote: On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted: On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...! Over 1000 books in my hard copy library and a;l;l of thise have been read more than once 57 years of reading.. Quite a small one, then. We have ~ 4000 at last count. Excluding the continuous run of Analog (under various names) since about 1943. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me Β£30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 09/04/14 22:10, Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:16:50 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 18:27, Lobster wrote: On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted: On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...! Over 1000 books in my hard copy library and a;l;l of thise have been read more than once 57 years of reading.. Quite a small one, then. We have ~ 4000 at last count. Excluding the continuous run of Analog (under various names) since about 1943. well I gave up collecting and started discarding some years back. So many books are read once and chuck. -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:21:47 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/04/14 22:10, Bob Eager wrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:16:50 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 18:27, Lobster wrote: On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted: On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...! Over 1000 books in my hard copy library and a;l;l of thise have been read more than once 57 years of reading.. Quite a small one, then. We have ~ 4000 at last count. Excluding the continuous run of Analog (under various names) since about 1943. well I gave up collecting and started discarding some years back. So many books are read once and chuck. Oh, we've done that too. Easier to do once we built the catalogue. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me Β£30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted:
On 09/04/14 18:27, Lobster wrote: On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted: On 09/04/14 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 09/04/14 08:23, Huge wrote: On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. I beat it so many times it crashed. Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980 I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum. It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...! Over 1000 books in my hard copy library and a;l;l of thise have been read more than once 57 years of reading.. Actually I was on about the time you've spent playing this game... :) -- David |
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On 09/04/2014 18:09, ARW wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message o.uk... On 09/04/2014 04:09, Johny B Good wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:59:54 +0100, "ARW" wrote: http://en.akinator.com/xxx/personnages/ It is addictive. WARNING! Infection BlockedURL: h_pub_akinator_com__www__delivery__afr_php?charset Infection: JS:Redirector-BJC [Trj] It's got a trojan horse redirector. Ah, a malwaretizing style hack - probably why I did not see it since I run adblock. More details on this one he https://blog.avast.com/tag/openx/ That says "Unfortunately, the only antivirus detecting this threat is avast! " and I am running Avast which detected nothing. Malware that compromises ad servers is usually smart enough to only poison a very small number of ads served - so on a typically site it might only hit every 1000th visitor etc. It keeps the detection rate much lower, since there is a very small chance a AV company will sample the site at just the right moment. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 10/04/2014 01:20, John Rumm wrote:
Malware that compromises ad servers is usually smart enough to only poison a very small number of ads served - so on a typically site it might only hit every 1000th visitor etc. It keeps the detection rate much lower, since there is a very small chance a AV company will sample the site at just the right moment. That doesn't work. There's also a much smaller chance of infecting anyone. (think about it - say every 1000th hit is the AV company, and they infect 1 in ten. After 500 hits they've infected 50, and been detected. If they went for everyone it would only take 50 hits to infect the 50 people, and be detected) Slower infection also means there is more chance that the on-server AV will detect it, or that their exploits will be fixed. Andy |
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On 11/04/2014 21:53, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 10/04/2014 01:20, John Rumm wrote: Malware that compromises ad servers is usually smart enough to only poison a very small number of ads served - so on a typically site it might only hit every 1000th visitor etc. It keeps the detection rate much lower, since there is a very small chance a AV company will sample the site at just the right moment. That doesn't work. Its common practice, so some folks obviously think it worthwhile. There's also a much smaller chance of infecting anyone. Precisely, and that is exactly why they do it. If most people who visit a site get served a "safe" ad, then the site does not acquire a reputation for serving malware, and does not draw attention to itself. However over time, they will still infect large numbers of visitors. I would anticipate that AV companies will pay more attention to sites that draw lots of reports from users than those that don't. (think about it - say every 1000th hit is the AV company, and they infect 1 in ten. After 500 hits they've infected 50, and been detected. If they went for everyone it would only take 50 hits to infect the 50 people, and be detected) Remember though that this is a compromised ad server we are talking about - so even if they go for a regular "1 in n" approach to serving malign ads (rather than a more randomised approach), the ads will be distributed over a number of web sites dictated by who is using the ad server. So infection attempts will not necessarily correlate well with visits to a particular site. (And if the AV company is getting reports of problems from lots of users / honeypots for a particular site then they will obviously increase their scrutiny of that site). Slower infection also means there is more chance that the on-server AV will detect it, or that their exploits will be fixed. Surprisingly few web servers also run their own AV sadly... However in this case its not the web server itself that is compromised, its the ad server they are sourcing ads from. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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You should go to more parties- if you get any invites....:-)
Jim K |
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"Huge" wrote in message
... On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. Just got "Guessed right one more time - I know who you are thinking of and I believe it's not for children" Well that's rich considering it guessed my last character correctly ie John Holmes and it now finds out that Duke Nukem is not for children. -- Adam |
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:12:43 +0100, ARW wrote:
"Huge" wrote in message ... On 2014-04-08, ARW wrote: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/ It is addictive. It is. And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes. Just got "Guessed right one more time - I know who you are thinking of and I believe it's not for children" Well that's rich considering it guessed my last character correctly ie John Holmes and it now finds out that Duke Nukem is not for children. It guessed Rachel Riley far too easily. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me Β£30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 12/04/2014 14:45, John Rumm wrote:
On 11/04/2014 21:53, Vir Campestris wrote: On 10/04/2014 01:20, John Rumm wrote: Malware that compromises ad servers is usually smart enough to only poison a very small number of ads served - so on a typically site it might only hit every 1000th visitor etc. It keeps the detection rate much lower, since there is a very small chance a AV company will sample the site at just the right moment. That doesn't work. Its common practice, so some folks obviously think it worthwhile. There's also a much smaller chance of infecting anyone. Precisely, and that is exactly why they do it. If most people who visit a site get served a "safe" ad, then the site does not acquire a reputation for serving malware, and does not draw attention to itself. However over time, they will still infect large numbers of visitors. I would anticipate that AV companies will pay more attention to sites that draw lots of reports from users than those that don't. (think about it - say every 1000th hit is the AV company, and they infect 1 in ten. After 500 hits they've infected 50, and been detected. If they went for everyone it would only take 50 hits to infect the 50 people, and be detected) Remember though that this is a compromised ad server we are talking about - so even if they go for a regular "1 in n" approach to serving malign ads (rather than a more randomised approach), the ads will be distributed over a number of web sites dictated by who is using the ad server. So infection attempts will not necessarily correlate well with visits to a particular site. By coincidence I came across this talk by a former spyware software developer, that touches on some of these things - this is the second part of a three part talk he gave at DEFCON 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJSEY1O_Pc Makes for quite entertaining viewing. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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