ewgf - in my youth, a youth club I attended had a program called Futurelock on their machines but they were running Windows 3.1. The person in charge of the computers told me that the producers were having problems getting the program to run properly on Windows 95. However, the program was 'bullet-proof'. He ran an after school computer club on Tuesdays and invited me and some of the members to try and bypass Futurelock, just to see how secure it was.
I need hardly say that we failed!
That is the main problem with computers these days - even if you know someone who doesn't know a thing, there is a chance they know someone who does and knows how to bypass these things. I find it a stupid thing when the Microsoft password prompt for Windows 95 can just be cancelled by pressing the CANCEL button.
Microsoft and security used to go together like fish and ice cream. It's not nearly so bad now, but if I remember rightly, wasn't there once a security hole in a Microsoft program (Outlook, the e-mail reader, perhaps) whereby a jpeg image could actually be executed somehow, so that a .jpg file with a viruse in it could be ran (and therefore contracted) on your PC simply by viewing the .jpg (that you recieved via e-mail) on your PC? I'm 99.9% sure that was the case.
Microsoft and security used to go together like fish and ice cream. It's not nearly so bad now, but if I remember rightly, wasn't there once a security hole in a Microsoft program (Outlook, the e-mail reader, perhaps) whereby a jpeg image could actually be executed somehow, so that a .jpg file with a viruse in it could be ran (and therefore contracted) on your PC simply by viewing the .jpg (that you recieved via e-mail) on your PC? I'm 99.9% sure that was the case.
Yes, I believe you're correct
Ah, the wit of karingal. Presumably the word 'karingal' is German in origin :p
Microsoft and security used to go together like fish and ice cream. It's not nearly so bad now, but if I remember rightly, wasn't there once a security hole in a Microsoft program (Outlook, the e-mail reader, perhaps) whereby a jpeg image could actually be executed somehow, so that a .jpg file with a viruse in it could be ran (and therefore contracted) on your PC simply by viewing the .jpg (that you recieved via e-mail) on your PC? I'm 99.9% sure that was the case.
They're called buffer overflows, and are by no means restricted to Windows. Although less common now, software running on unix-like operating systems like Linux was riddled with literally thousands of examples of that class of vulnerability.
Microsoft and security used to go together like fish and ice cream. It's not nearly so bad now, but if I remember rightly, wasn't there once a security hole in a Microsoft program (Outlook, the e-mail reader, perhaps) whereby a jpeg image could actually be executed somehow, so that a .jpg file with a viruse in it could be ran (and therefore contracted) on your PC simply by viewing the .jpg (that you recieved via e-mail) on your PC? I'm 99.9% sure that was the case.
There was definitely a potential buffer overrun in GDI+ once, which meant any application using it to display images could potentially be used to execute arbitrary code with a suitably malformed image file.
When someone asks me to block certain things, I do everything via the router settings. But nowadays you have 3G and your children don't necessarily need to use your router to access something they want to see. But if you're the one paying for their mobile phone every month, you can probably control that too.
Yes, you can just let them do whatever they want, but this is not what the op asked for. He's being asked to install something to block as much stuff as possible. So...
Option 1: Offer to go on-site and take a look at the router to check its internal settings and try to come up with a filter if that option is available. On most decent routers you can add keywords and websites that the router should block. It works.
Option 2: Follow some of the software suggestions that were mentioned here. Stay away from Windows Live Parental Controls (too confusing and limited) or Internet Explorer ratings settings (limited, and easily bypassed by using another browser).
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Microsoft and security used to go together like fish and ice cream. It's not nearly so bad now, but if I remember rightly, wasn't there once a security hole in a Microsoft program (Outlook, the e-mail reader, perhaps) whereby a jpeg image could actually be executed somehow, so that a .jpg file with a viruse in it could be ran (and therefore contracted) on your PC simply by viewing the .jpg (that you recieved via e-mail) on your PC? I'm 99.9% sure that was the case.
Ah, the wit of karingal. Presumably the word 'karingal' is German in origin :p
It's an aboriginal word meaning "happy home".
When someone asks me to block certain things, I do everything via the router settings. But nowadays you have 3G and your children don't necessarily need to use your router to access something they want to see. But if you're the one paying for their mobile phone every month, you can probably control that too.
Yes, you can just let them do whatever they want, but this is not what the op asked for. He's being asked to install something to block as much stuff as possible. So...
Option 1: Offer to go on-site and take a look at the router to check its internal settings and try to come up with a filter if that option is available. On most decent routers you can add keywords and websites that the router should block. It works.
Option 2: Follow some of the software suggestions that were mentioned here. Stay away from Windows Live Parental Controls (too confusing and limited) or Internet Explorer ratings settings (limited, and easily bypassed by using another browser).
Still won't help they could play Celebrity Arses :lol:
Or get Winston's spectranet. Who is going to be first to whack off to the internet using a speccy?
(Wait I guess Winston already has probably).