T M Krishna's website

koyaliya · Post by **koyaliya** » 18 Nov 2009, 16:37

I am shocked and devastated

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He let his website expire just as the season is about to begin? Someone please call him up and tell him to renew it already...

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 18 Nov 2009, 16:55

Haha...yes very devastating....i almost cried

musicfan_4201 · Post by **musicfan_4201** » 18 Nov 2009, 17:24

Oh my god, thats really sad!
May be, he is waiting for a sponsor

Why cant you call up ?

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 19 Nov 2009, 00:42

Easily done. Nearly happened to Microsoft once!

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 20 Nov 2009, 21:11

I think his website got hit by a virus.
I was browsing through his december season schedule and my machine got infected with an annoyingly dangerous trojan that launches a fake virus scan. It took a while to quarantine and contain it.

appu · Post by **appu** » 20 Nov 2009, 21:52

Mahavishnu, Were you on a mac or PC

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 20 Nov 2009, 22:19

In this context (and given that sangeethapriya was also infected recently), I hope this site (rasikas) has enough security protection?

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 20 Nov 2009, 22:47

appu, I was on a PC... althought I wish I had a Mac.
It was an svchost.exe family trojan. Like they say in the apple ads, these viruses would not run on a Mac.

ragam-talam: We must all thank Srkris for his efforts in keeping this site stable, spam-free and secure.

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 05 Dec 2009, 10:26

His site seems to be up again.....its gotten worse

I liked the old format.

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 13 Dec 2009, 04:51

"Like they say in the apple ads, these viruses would not run on a Mac."

Mahavishnu, would u like to elaborate on this? Quite facinating if particular kind of computers not affected by certain viruses. Goes to prove the hardware architecture is way beyond advanced in the case of apple....

By the way, stay out of Musicindiaonline.com.....got hammered with viruses....thankfully, my virus software picked it up and saved my computer...

Cheers

Sam

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 13 Dec 2009, 10:21

Sam, it isn't necessarily that one system is superior to another; a lot of it is to do with targeting the system that the vast majority of people have

Enna_Solven · Post by **Enna_Solven** » 13 Dec 2009, 22:32

Disclaimer: I am neutral party. My observations here are simply based on my limited knowledge/understanding. Professionally, I stand to gain if both companies do well

Nick is right about Mac OS population being much smaller than Windows' and so lesser of a target. However, if you have patience read on. Correct me if I am overstate something.

Windows started off as a single user environment. So, many of the inherent security controls that are present in a multi-user system were incorporated later and without much success. Microsoft's idea that world is filled with only good people was naive at best. ActiveX is a prime example.

Apple's Mac OS is a Unix based operating system with it inherent approach to system security. Any attempt to modify protected system files will trigger acceptance by user. Microsoft tried this with Vista but people were already used to its anything goes approach to security and it was too late to change risky user behavior.

For a while I tried use my Windows PC and my kid's PC logging in as 'limited user' instead of administrator. Unfortunately, many programs had issues.

So, now the minimum security needed for a Windows PC to go online without getting infected & being turned into a zombie is:

1. Hide the PC behind a firewall (router). (For added security use a software firewall. Comodo is a good choice www.personalfirewall.comodo.com. But it needs a more experienced user to set it up.)

2. Use only Firefox and not IE. Enable 'block reported attack sites and forgeries' under Tools -> options -> security. (Also, one may download the 'NoScript' add-on and allow only known sites to execute scripts. But, it is very restrictive.)

3. Use an anti-virus program. (Avast Home Edition, free for individuals: www.avast.com) and turn on the web/email modules. Allow it to auto-update itself.

4. Don't click on any link without thinking. If you search anything in Google, check the links. If you enter your name and search, you will find a web page with your name embedded in it. How is it possible? You did not create it. These pages are created on the fly by bad sites to hook you in.

After doing all this, pray to God

The internet is a dangerous place. Microsoft has to take a large share of the blame.

If you have money and if you like shiny white plastic, buy a Mac. I use it but don't own one. I will eventually go to Linux, just waiting for a good equivalent for my MediaMonkey software that taught me carnatic music

I installed Ubuntu 9.1 on an old computer lying around in my house and liked it a lot. But then, I work on Linux machines day in day out.