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Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
Something interesting found on Advogato this morning: the Linux deobfuscation project. Certainly no surprise to anyone, the Linux Kernel is not the most well documented and organized piece of software on this planet. What's interesting is that the author, who's proposing a machine-led process to force the Linux Kernel into a form that has fewer issues with Types and file calls, hopes such a project will benefit not just Linux driver developers, but more importantly developers who are using Linux as a reference platform -- something that can be seen as very beneficial yet tricky, given the Kernel's "social" construction.
...in the course of the (now abandoned) Linux Kernelbook Project, we used Rigi to distill the source code into an object/method model and discovered as others have noted, that the structure of Linux fits the social structure of the kernel as much as it fits the technical requirements."
My question is why has no one entered the kernel into the International Obfuscated C Code Contest?
Posted by Network Computing at 7:13:29 AM
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Good day all. I just thought I'd post a thread excerpt from our internal editor's list, outlining some tools and tactics for fighting virus advertising (where an advertisers takes control of your machine). I hope you find it useful.
I wondered if one of you could help me with a tech problem I'm having. My daughter was using my machine and when I got back on and tried to access the Internet my browser defaulted automatically to www.found404.com/affiliate/pc404.html?id=1125 and then I got a message that it was loading an executable and then began to populate so many advertising popup boxes that it overwhelmed my system. Then, when I'd try to close these boxes the act of closing them would propagate more ads. Essentially this thing ends up being a DOS attack via ads.
Christy Hudgins
I would suggest AdSubtract for active blocking at www.adsubtract.com and for a scan for adware and spyware, use AdAware at www.lavasoftusa.com. Give it a whirl. AdSubtract has to be purchased, but AdAware is free. I recommend running both. Run AdAware in particular, you will be appalled.
Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
All you've seen here is good advice - but I'd add that you need to run a virus checker. I researched a couple of these things for an article a while back, and most of them will run a program in the background to keep changing your homepage back. A Virus checker catches these programs now because most people consider them viri.
Don MacVittie
Posted by Network Computing at 12:10:36 AM
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