Massimo

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"Against stupidity, the Gods themselves fight in vain."

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Jan 9	awarded	Nice Question
Aug 21	awarded	Caucus
Mar 7	awarded	Yearling
Feb 14	comment	Why are hash functions one way? If I know the algorithm, why can't I calculate the input from it? Agreed. But the question is asking "why can't it just reverse the process to calculate the password from the hash", not "how can I match the hash even if don't know the password".
Feb 14	answered	Why are hash functions one way? If I know the algorithm, why can't I calculate the input from it?
Jul 28	awarded	Teacher
Jul 28	answered	Do we really need an antivirus? if yes, what for? And how do they activate and enter in a PC?
Jul 13	accepted	Why do malware creators use such clever technologies for such silly purposes?
Jul 13	awarded	Commentator
Jul 13	comment	Why do malware creators use such clever technologies for such silly purposes? Sure. But mine was just an example, there are many more useful things a malware could do than displaying ads... which is also the worst thing it can do as long as "going unnoticed" is concerned.
Jul 13	comment	Why do malware creators use such clever technologies for such silly purposes? I think you misunderstood my question. It was more along the lines of "why do they make the presence of malware obvious by showing ads when they could just have it sit there and steal your credit card number unnoticed?".
Jul 13	awarded	Scholar
Jul 13	comment	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to? @Rory: this is making me wonder enough to open a different question; see here: security.stackexchange.com/questions/5244/….
Jul 13	accepted	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to?
Jul 13	asked	Why do malware creators use such clever technologies for such silly purposes?
Jul 13	comment	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to? They are becoming increasingly cleaver, aren't they? :-/ Wonder why they keep using these things only for adware... such a rootkit would have gone undetected forever if it wasn't for those search hijacking and iexplore.exe background processes.
Jul 13	comment	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to? Agreed that I should have saved evidence for analysis; I was a bit concerned about removing the infection, though... and, anyway, besides the boot sector, I still can't find (manually or through scanners) any offending file.
Jul 13	comment	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to? If I can actually find an executable, I'll do this for sure. This is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, by the way.
Jul 13	comment	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to? Already tried ESET and Malware Bytes, no results. Looks like it actually was a rootkit, so I'll probably have to try again all tools now that it's disabled...
Jul 13	comment	Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to? I don't have any file to submit... it was quite hard to find any trace of it; I managed to disable it by restoring the boot sector to a clean state, but I still have no idea of where the actual malware files are. I totally agree with the clean install, though (will be done ASAP).