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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| rocklee wrote: |
Yeah I know what you said...just that the rant is too long and I can't be bother to read every word.
Korean do make a couple of good software including Gom player and KM player. In fact I was a fan of Gom player until I tweaked Media Center. |
Then no, you don't know what I said. Yet you reply as if to answer? Oh right...it was my fault for making the post too long.
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: |
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Look, rants like these starts to sound gibberish after a while. This is the internet and I'm lazy. I know you probably spent a lot of time writing your rant but in the end what are you really trying to say?
Cliffs notes please.
Seriously what is wrong with you these days being so argumentative. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| rocklee wrote: |
Look, rants like these starts to sound gibberish after a while. This is the internet and I'm lazy. I know you probably spent a lot of time writing your rant but in the end what are you really trying to say?
Cliffs notes please.
Seriously what is wrong with you these days being so argumentative. |
Argumentative? You're joking, right? I mean, you come on with a half-baked reply to something you haven't read, blame the post for being too long, then say it's probably gibberish and you cry for cliff notes.
Yeah, I'm the one with the problem.
Laziness may be the least of your concerns. You want to know what I said and will waste 3 replies asking me...you could have read the OP by now and spared humiliating yourself. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| How the heck did Gomplayer get an audience outside of Korea? It's approximately worthless. Actually, worthless would be a step up from its quality level. Whenever I go to an Internet Caf� here, the first thing I do is reassociate video files with WMP. |
Gomplayer outside Korea is just a video player without all the Spam and ad ware of its Korean counterpart. Also, it will play just about any video without you having to ad codecs. |
Ah, I see. The company realizes its Korean version is worthless and managed to create a decent product for use in other countries. I've only encountered the thing in Korea, where it doesn't play WMP files, at least not without downloading a bunch of crud I don't feel like looking for to get the worthless local-market program to work like a real program should. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: |
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I *hate* the Ahnlabs Security Suite. I thinks that was the name of the program I had on my computer.
First of all, I have no idea how it got on my computer. I strongly suspect that a University IT guy let himself into my apartment and installed it whilst I was out. That's the only way it could have got on there I could think of. I was staying in profs apartments in a dorm building at the time.. they let themselves in ALL THE TIME without permission.
Secondly, it messed with a lot of other programs.
Thirdly, it was a bitch to get rid of. I spent several hours getting rid of it. Here's how I did it:
First, I tried the add/remove applications thing in Control Panel. It told me I didn't have permission to do that. (It's my computer damn it!)
Second, I thought 'screw this, I'll do it the old fashioned way". I cancelled every process related to Ahn and then deleted every single Ahn related directory I could find on the hard drive. As soon as I rebooted all the directories reappeared and its annoying little icon was back in the system tray again.
Third, I downloaded a registry editor and selected to "don't load at startup" everything even remotely Ahn like, cancelled all the processes that I figred were related to it and deleted every directory to do with it, and rebooted. It reappeared. Again.
Fourth and finally, I did exactly the same as I did the third time but did it in Windows Safe mode. That apparantely managed to kill it. I"m still using the same computer without re-installing windows and it hasn't reappeared. Yet. |
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ed
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: . |
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years ago I was thinking about korean spyware so I googled for a program that would detect and remove.
I downloaded a korean program that had english commands.
can't remember the name of it now.
I asked it to scan and it told me to update definitions first.
I did and it took a few minutes then I scanned and it found 32 spyware problems on my computer.
I deleted them then asked for another scan and again it had to
update definitions for a few minutes then the scan told me it had again found 32 problems!
I was shocked. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ahnlab is such worthless tripe.
I infected my school computer via a usb key because the stupid software at my 2nd school didn't detect anything on that machine.. I took my key home and AVG went friggen beserk.
Unfortunatly I can't get rid of some asslab shit since its manditory for Nonghyup banking.. I just do my banking at work since I have a personal machine and its clean as a whistle. I wouldn't ever dream of infecting my computer at home with such garbage. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Temporary wrote: |
Unfortunately I can't get rid of some asslab shit since its mandatory for Nonghyup banking.. I just do my banking at work since I have a personal machine and its clean as a whistle. I wouldn't ever dream of infecting my computer at home with such garbage. |
Yes. My wife has her system which is used for all of that; it is loaded with XP still for that reason. My system never strays into those waters. Superhero is the same, AFAIK. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Softer Side of Technological Republic
by Matthew Weigand, Korea IT Times (August 13, 2007)
http://www.kdcstaffs.com/it/main_view.php?mode=view&nNum=4276&This_Issue=200708&xKey=&sWord=&sPart=Analysis
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... However, one area of the computer revolution that Korea does not dominate is software. Korean software is nothing to write home about. Many people wonder why. On business directories and indexes online, there are very few Korean software companies listed.
Mr. Cho Si-haeng works for one of the most successful and well-known software companies in Korea, AhnLab. AhnLab makes security software for end users and corporate clients in Korea. He works as the External Relations Executive, and commented on the phenomenon by saying: "The market prefers hardware solutions to software." He went on to say that while hardware manufacturers sell products above costs and make a profit, it is a struggle for software developers to sell their products and make a profit. "Companies are finding it difficult to meet sales targets by only selling software," he continued. |
Review from CNET's Download.com
two stars out of five stars
http://www.download.com/AhnLab-V3-Internet-Security-2007-Platinum/3000-2239_4-10760470.html?hhTest=1
Anti-virus comparison test of current anti-malware products, March 2008
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/alex/Results_2D2008m3b_US.htm
What's the best low resource free antivirus software
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/236741-49-what-resource-free-antivirus-software-case |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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You're slipping a bit, RR!  |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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What other option do we have?
I HAVE to use IE for Korean websites. Half the websites have so many damn popups that unless you use IE, they display incorrectly and often coverup links/textboxes.
Hell, even Foreign companies with websites in Korea require Resident ID numbers and IE.
Korea is Microsoft's wet dream. Everyone uses IE. Everyone has windows. And if you don't use both, you can't do shit. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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What other option do we have?
I HAVE to use IE for Korean websites. Half the websites have so many damn popups that unless you use IE, they display incorrectly and often coverup links/textboxes.
Hell, even Foreign companies with websites in Korea require Resident ID numbers and IE.
Korea is Microsoft's wet dream. Everyone uses IE. Everyone has windows. And if you don't use both, you can't do shit. |
Nobody is talking about IE. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Funny.. There a tonne of companies in the software biz that make a tonne of cash.. Microsoft, Corel, Adobe, MacFee, Norton, Oracle see the whole point is that their software doesn't suck ass.. It wasn't coded by a bunch of morons interested in annoying users to high hell.
First rule of Software.. Make something everyone needs.
Second Rule, don't make it suck a big fat dick.
Pkang. WTF are you on about?
We are talking about shity Korean adware not a Browser that has been retired long ago... Oh wait, this goes back to morons coding programs, ah yes Korean programers are a bunch of fucking knobs. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Pro-security software swats necessary code
By Sung So-young, JoongAng Daily (July 12, 2008)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2892226
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... AhnLab, the nation's largest information security company, said yesterday that it will make a concerted effort to correct an error it made on Thursday when it flagged a key Windows operating system file as a computer virus.
Its software then zapped the file, potentially rendering a computer useless. AhnLab�s V3 Engine recognized "lsass.exe" file as Trojan horse, a type of malware that can take over a computer for nefarious purposes. In fact lsass.exe is an integral part of Windows' security system. Without the file, which is part of Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3, there is a chance that an otherwise healthy computer cannot boot up, according to AhnLab. AhnLab, however, assured customers saying that deletion of the file does not destroy data stored on hard drives....
"The only data we have is that about 3,000 people applied for the restoration CD so far," said Park Keun-woo, a manager of AhnLab. |
Local Security Authority Subsystem Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Security_Authority_Subsystem_Service
What is lsass.exe?
http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/lsass |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, count me in the "wife's computer is the Korean active-x/malware *beep* machine" crowd.
I don't let that crap touch my machine, either! |
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