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| TopJimmyCooks:
With internet connectivity and autohotkey, you could map one of your admin buttons to order a large sausage and mushroom from Papa Johns. >:D |
| kalars123:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on July 06, 2011, 08:48:06 pm ---With internet connectivity and autohotkey, you could map one of your admin buttons to order a large sausage and mushroom from Papa Johns. >:D --- End quote --- Imagine showing that "feature" off at your next house party LOL "yea joe check out this new feature i built in" and you have a button labeled Papa Johns, ---smurfette---! |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on July 06, 2011, 04:07:22 pm ---Lew : I have heard of them, both of them require outgoing "hand shaking" streams. Conficker was close to what you were saying, but it attacked corporations / registered domains. Nimda was spread the standard way : emails, websites, files. A virus would have to ping random Ips to get someone just by logging on. I suppose by random chance you could be infected before it was stopped, but a person spreading a virus wouldn't typically do this because it would quickly be detected and precautions would be taken against it before it could cause much damage. --- End quote --- I have no idea what versions of conficker you have seen, but all it takes is an unpatched system on the same network as an infected system. No outward bound handshake required. Which means, if someone hops on my wifi with an infected machine or plugs into my network, my machine could be compromised in no time. It does more than just attack corporation domains. It fills up the task scheduler with small jobs and eventually takes up all available system memory and brings the system to a crawl. I've been fighting it for over a year and it totally sucks. I have no reason to connect my Mame computers to the network/internet. If I wanted to play some online game with one of my cabinets, I would have to do a lot of patching, but I wouldn't not do it. I'd just have to take a lot of precautions that I don't have to do now. --- Quote ---I'm not saying it's impossble, just saying in my years I have never seen it. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest. --- End quote --- If you want to see it in action. Put an unpatched Windows XP system straight on the internet with no firewall, service packs, antivirus and a real IP. |
| kalars123:
--- Quote ---I'm not saying it's impossble, just saying in my years I have never seen it. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest. --- End quote --- If you want to see it in action. Put an unpatched Windows XP system straight on the internet with no firewall, service packs, antivirus and a real IP. [/quote] but who would do that anyway?, I mean honestly I think we as a hobby industry have come far enophe that even the beginner collector/restore/custom mame cab, will know at least that you never put an unpatched unprotected system on the internet. One of the very reason's I've never had many virus issue's unlike ALOT of my friends is that i keep by virus protection up to date, i keep windows up to date and i don't do anything stupid, I don't download/open an e-mail that i don't know, i don't visit any random porn sites...ect. And when I do very rarely get a virus I just format and restore from a 3mo offline backup. Internet safety isn't all that hard people |
| Generic Eric:
The thing that has prevented my most from having my mame pc connected was its proximity to the router. Now that I have another ethernet cable I can plug it in. At least when its not connected to the xbox360. |
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