NOD32 comment
NOD32’s engine has been upgraded and the previous problem of infected
files remaining accessible to a Pegasus Mail user appears to have been cured.
Editor's
note: The
virus described below is also
known and detected as
Win32.Bagle.AQ [Computer Associates], Bagle.BC [Panda], WORM_BAGLE.AT [Trend
Micro], Bagle.AT [F-Secure], W32/Bagle.AQ@mm [Norman], W32/Bagle.bb@mm [McAfee],
W32/Bagle-AU [Sophos], W32.Beagle.AV@mm [Norton]
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You Can Almost Count on Each New Mass Shooter Being a Veteranprintable version
02 Jun 2019: posted by the editor - Features, International, United States
By David Swanson "He enlisted in the Virginia National Guard in April 1996, according to spokesman A.A. Puryear. He was assigned to the Norfolk-based 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team as a 13B cannon crew member. He was discharged in April 2002 and held the rank of specialist at the time, the spokesman said. His records did not indicate overseas deployments." -CNN on latest mass shooter
We're supposed to overlook this bit of information. We're supposed to focus on mental health questions or the inscrutable incomprehensible mystery of the inevitable human tragedy of mass shootings, which bizarrely and unfairly are inflicted by the universe on this particular 4 percent of humanity living in the United States, which quite irrelevantly has been glorifying violence through endless wars for many years.
Is it relevant that Virginia and the United States bestow greater rights on guns than on human beings? Of course it is. In Charlottesville two years ago, the city refused to ban any weapons as armed fascists came to town, but a year later banned all weapons other than guns.
If I could speak perfectly honestly, I'd probably blurt out something like this: Ban the damn guns. All of them. Everywhere. Do it now, you fucking idiots!
But that would be inappropriate.
Is it relevant that every mass shooter is male? Well, sort of. We can't exactly ban males, but we could develop a culture that viewed proper manhood as opposing rather than celebrating violence.
Is it relevant that you can just about count on each mass shooter having been trained in mass shooting at public expense by the U.S. military?
Hell no! If they hadn't been trained by the world's most far-reaching and expensive ever killing machine, they might have learned their shooting skills somewhere else - like from video games funded by the U.S. military. If they hadn't been praised for that training, and in many cases for actually engaging in mass killing (of the right people), they might have imagined such praise (by picturing themselves in movies funded by the U.S. military).
Last November, U.S. Marine Ian David Long failed to stop doing his job. He had been employed by the U.S. government to fire a machine gun at people. That had been his job for years, and part of that time he had participated in the war on Afghanistan. He had been given awards for the fine job he'd done in combat. Nobody had been outraged. Nobody had called him names or questioned his sanity.
CNN's inaccurate headline, "Thousand Oaks gunman went from Marine vet to mass shooter. Investigators want to know why," created a mystery where none existed. The question is not how he became a mass shooter but how so many others have managed to cease being mass shooters.
While you can almost count on each new mass shooter being a veteran, you can of course by no means count on each new veteran being a mass shooter. Most veterans are no such thing. How that happens is where the investigators should focus.
Ian David Long died in the most common manner for participants in recent U.S. wars, namely by suicide. The difference is that he killed a lot of other people-who-matter first. But this, too, is not as unusual as we might wish. At least 35% (probably much more, and it seems to have be rising steeply since I made that calculation) of U.S. mass shooters were trained by the U.S. military.
Imagine if 35% of U.S. mass shooters were . . . anything at all: black, Asian, Muslim, atheist, female, wealthy, foreign, red haired, Latino, gay . . . can you imagine? It would be the leading news story for weeks. There would be chairs endowed at universities to study it. But the fact that so many of the killers are men who were trained to kill by the world's leading killing institution is not only unworthy of mention, but is depicted in each isolated instance as a mystery to be explained in some other terms.
Imagine if the mounting death count from all of these shootings included not just the hundreds killed within the U.S. but also the hundreds of thousands killed outside it. Imagine treating the vast majority of the victims as if they mattered.
A public debate over how to tackle a mass murderer is as insane as a public discussion of how to build a stronger house on the beach. If you won't address the training of murderers, and you won't ban guns, and you won't stop destroying the earth's climate, what's left is madness.
Often the madness takes the form of repeating the evil that goes unmentioned. Stick an armed security guard in front of every building. In November that policy simply determined the name of the first victim. It may even (one can only speculate) have presented the killer with an inviting or rationalizing sense, a familiar sense, of taking on an "enemy." The solution is not even more armed guards.
The solution in the war on Afghanistan is not even more armed killers. The war on Afghanistan came "home" to California, but how many people know that? How many people know the war is still raging? How many know that Obama promised to escalate it and did so, and that Trump promised to end it and escalated it (albeit on a smaller scale)? How many were outraged when Ian David Long was killing mere Afghans? How many are outraged that thousands of U.S. and NATO troops are still over there making Afghanistan worse and bringing the war back with them?
The most passionate supporters of current wars call them premeditated murder and themselves premeditated murderers, but not like it's a bad thing - like it's perfectly acceptable.
How many can put 2 and 2 together and recognize that all the just-retired U.S. commanders in Afghanistan who have said the war is counter-productive have been right, that it endangers the very people who think the sound of fighter jets ruining their vacation at Virginia Beach has something to do with "freedom."
March
7, 2004 NOD32 Antivirus 'NEW
GENERATION' ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE BLOCKS MOST VIRUSES, WITHOUT UPDATES Netsky, Bagle, MyDoom, Hiton,
Sobig, Nimda, Swen etc. no threat to NOD32 users
NOD32's
new 'next generation' antivirus software has detected > 80% of all new
in-the-wild viruses in the last six months without needing specific signature
updates, and without 'false-alarms'.
In
this era of fast infecting, mass-emailing viruses, any delay in providing
protection can have a huge impact on virus spread. NOD32's performance in
stopping most viruses without any need for a signature update is highly
significant.
'While
most antivirus makers were scrambling to create signature updates NOD32
users were already protected even before anyone knew what these infections
were.' commented Kirk Parker, NOD32 Corporate's Technical Manager.
'Many
antivirus products use a combination of signature and heuristic detection
methods, but few give much attention to the heuristic side,' commented Richard
Marko, NOD32's head of Strategic Development.
NOD32
antivirus is the exception, with new, world-leading technology in both signature
and heuristic detection. NOD32 was able to block these latest infected messages
using its 'Advanced Heuristics', detecting more than 80% of new 'in-the-wild'
viruses without a signature update. Viruses pre-detected by NOD32's heuristics
include LoveLetter, Marburg,
Badtrans, Swen, Bugbear, Sobig, Kournikova, Lovsan, Lablan, Mapson, Sobig
Mimail, Klez, Sircam, Nimda, Bagle and Netsky. Signature updates are released
as often as needed.
NOD32
has been awarded more VB100% awards (by Virus Bulletin Magazine UK) than
any other antivirus product, and actually has not missed a single 'in-the-wild'
virus in over 5 years of testing by Virus Bulletin Magazine.
For
more information see www.nod32.ie www.nod32.ie
First
To Receive Checkmark Antivirus Certification Levels 1, 2 And Trojan For
Windows 2003
San Diego, CA - September
2, 2003
NOD32
is a user-friendly, fully configurable anti-virus software package suitable
for single user stand-alone use or for network environments and systems
managers. It is particularly well tailored towards network systems protection.
It
has all the programmable features you'd expect of good anti-virus software
and Eset Software provide an interactive and automated virus database download
upgrade service so your virus definitions can be always up to date.
The
program incorporates a wide range of protection levels and the software
has gained many acclimas for detecting previously unknown viruses in the
wild.
The
manufacturers say the following:
Eset
Software, a leading provider of Internet software security solutions, announced
today that its NOD32 Antivirus software has become the first product for
the Windows 2003 operating system to receive prestigious Checkmark certification
at Levels 1, 2 and Trojan, from SC Magazine's West Coast Labs.
"The
Checkmark certification of NOD32 for Windows 2003 to AV [Anti-Virus] Levels
1,2 and Trojan, is the hallmark of a company whose philosophy is to be a
cutting-edge AV developer," commented Chris Thomas, Operations Director
of West Coast Labs, in a statement announcing the results.
"West
Coast Labs' certification process represents the true test of an antivirus
product's capability to detect viruses, worms, and Trojans. Eset is pleased
to provide its growing client base even further proof of the top detection
qualities of NOD32 Antivirus on the Windows 2003 platform," commented
Miroslav Trnka, Eset's Chief Technology Officer. Unprecedented Virus Detection
NOD32 Checkmark certification comes just after the product received its
record 23rd Virus Bulletin VB100% Awards granted by Virus Bulletin, the
"Antivirus Industry Bible". Analysts have confirmed the company's
claim of having the only product to never miss an 'In the Wild' (ItW) virus
during its Virus Bulletin testing since May 1998.
The
developers say that NOD32 Antivirus' effectiveness is due to its unique
core technology that addresses both known and unknown viruses. NOD32 Antivirus,
by way of its advanced heuristic technology, provides state-of-the-art protection
against both ItW and unidentified viruses. Heuristics enables NOD32 Antivirus
to detect virus-like activity, thereby automatically initiating action to
isolate the potentially infected files without false alarms. NOD32 Antivirus'
remarkable detection rate enables it to do its job without impacting system
performance-a major concern for many users. NOD32 Antivirus' throughput
rate-more than twice the speed of the next best product on the market-also
provides the fastest possible detection with minimal impact on system performance.
Eset Software's NOD32 Antivirus Version 2.0 is available for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003,
MS-DOS, Unix, and Novell.
For more information about NOD32 Antivirus contact Richard Foley at +353-51-841051
or info@nod32.ieor visit our website
at www.nod32.ie
About
ESET: Eset is a privately held software development and research
company with offices in San Diego, London, Prague, and Bratislava.
Founded in
1992, Eset has focused on developing innovative antivirus software systems.
NOD32 Antivirus has evolved from that development process to
be consistently
rated as one of the best antivirus products. In fact, NOD32 Antivirus
holds more Virus Bulletin 100% Awards than any other product
available,
and is now the only product to be certified at Checkmark Antivirus Levels
1, 2, and Trojan on the Windows 2003 platform. About Checkmark:
The Checkmark
provides a clear and unambiguous indication of attainment of a relevant
standard for users of computer security solutions. The Checkmark
standard
is a real-world, industry accepted test. Users can very easily tell if
a product possesses a Checkmark certification by ensuring that
the Checkmark
logo appears on the product package, by contacting West Coast Labs, or
by visiting the Checkmark web site, www.check-mark.com http://www.check-mark.com.
Outpost Firewall Pro Available in
Republic of Ireland [Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP only]
News
Agnitum, the home of Outpost Personal Firewall Pro and Tauscan-Windows
security applications for business and home use-has signed a distribution
agreement with Reflex to market Agnitum's Outpost Firewall Pro in the
Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Outpost will be customized
for the local market, and sold in an online store at www.outpost.uk.com Reflex will also provide technical support for customers.
"After
investigating several competing products we decided on Agnitum Outpost Firewall
Pro because of its versatility and reliability. It is a feature-rich product
and offers an excellent line of defence towards PC security," said
Richard Foley, Reflex's Managing Director.
Outpost Firewall Pro is a powerful, full-featured firewall for Windows that
is designed for families and businesses of all sizes. Outpost Firewall Pro
gives peace of mind from any threats by cookies, banner ads, e-mail viruses,
backdoors, spyware, hackers, adware and virtually every other Internet danger.
Unlike other personal firewalls, Outpost starts protecting against internal
and external attacks as soon as it's installed. This is the first firewall
with an open architecture and support for plug-ins, so its capabilities
can easily be extended by thousands of developers worldwide. Outpost
Firewall Pro protects your system from worm and virus attacks that arrive
by e-mail. You can filter e-mails based upon their content, and Outpost
will prevent dangerous attachments from executing. Outpost performs web
filtering, allowing parents, educators and businesses to exercise control
over the content that is allowed to reach each computer. Outpost offers
a privacy guard feature as well as a plug-in that will block banner advertisements
from your web pages. When processing packets, the program offers complete
flexibility for power users who want to fine-tune their firewall protection.
You can use Outpost's wizard to develop custom rules for dealing with all
packets. Application authentication (MD5), ICS support, Trusted IP group
and ICMP rules can all be controlled. Less experienced users can simply
use the predefined system and application settings for all common tasks
such as browsing the Web, allowing ICQ and allowing DNS and DHCP. There
is even an easy NetBIOS rule-creation process for working with home and
office networks. Users can get free updates to Outpost automatically, using
the program's built-in update utility. Outpost's
interface is multi-language, configurable for each user and its settings
can be password protected. Inexperienced users will appreciate the ease
of installation and ability to simply set Outpost's protection features.
Power users will appreciate that Outpost resides on the lowest possible
level of the operating system, allowing it to filter RAW-SOCKET and direct
packet sending into the drivers, bypassing the TCP/IP stack. Outpost
runs under Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, and a free version is available for
home, business and educational use. You can download a copy from the Outpost
web site at http://www.outpost.uk.com
For more information, contact Outpost at info@outpost.uk.com.
About Agnitum
Since
1999, Agnitum has been developing and marketing Windows security applications
for business and home use. In addition to Outpost, Agnitum also offers Jammer
and Tauscan. Jammer is a multi-barrier protection complex design for novice
users. Jammer investigates incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, monitors
applications, and protects the Windows registry. Tauscan is a powerful Trojan
virus detection and removal application - www.agnitum.com About Reflex
Reflex was founded in 1992 and specializes in IT security solutions.
The company distributes award winning NOD32 anti-Virus, Adhaero Access
Control
software and specializes in IT security solutions including SurfControl
WEB & Email filtering, RSA, Veritas, Symantec, Nokia, CheckPoint & Citrix
- www.reflex.ie About Outpost
Firewall Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro is the most feature-packed personal
firewall for Windows, a fact that is proven by many independent reviews
and millions of users around the world. Outpost provides a superior arsenal
of defense against all kinds of PC infiltration. Outpost Firewall Pro is
the only product of its breed to implement plug-in technology, which allows
third party developers to further extend Outpost's functionality.
Norton
2001 - anti-virus programme.
If you are using Windows 2000 you can download trial use of the Norton
Anti-virus programme from http://www.symantec.com
Norton Internet Security 2001 is still avaliable on the net as a full download
package but adjustments will need to be made to your system to install.
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