Chromebooks

[Anonymous 11]

I picked up a Lenovo one the other day for $149 on clearance. I will say for the money it’s not a bad deal or performer.

I plan on using it primarily as my bedroom Chromecast controller. I know it lacks a lot, but for an non-savvy web surfing only home user these may be of some value.

Caveat: I attempted to download an app from the Google and my IPS triggered on Ransomware being contained in this particular app so Google had better get their act together.

I’m reading a lot of c~~~y crap about how Chromebooks cannot be infected with any viruses, but why was my security appliance’s IPS the only thing that prevented my ass from getting hit with some Chrome ransomware. Most people do not have the security technology I have so get crackin’ Google.

Ransomware is spiraling out of control.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

Ransomware is probably just the easiest virus that is able to get onto a chromebook.

While i use windows as my primary os browswer lockers are most frequent thing i come across when looking at porn i meant looking for school paper.

How do you access task manager on a chromebook? its the thing i use the most whenever i get my browser locked because i am looking up info for school papers.

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

[Anonymous 11]

Chromebooks are for drooling idiots which is most of the market. It’s one hell of a Chromecast controller though which is my primary use.

There is some kind of CI that one can access though I have not learned what it can do, yet.

Maybe, ps -ax then kill PID. Chrome is derived from Linux.

I just love the c~~~iness of people on the Interweb telling people Chrome is virus proof. Bulls~~~, if it executes, it’s all over even better when they can bust a memory buffer. Apple does a much better job of policing its App Store than Google does Google Play.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

Chromebook is just for a different type of user it leans more toward the i just want to get on the world wide web crowd rather then those with actual experience with computers. The goal for the chromebooks just is to get to college kids who need a cheap laptop and old people who need their coupons for their pall malls.

The only thing the chromebooks are meant to do is look up information for papers, go on facebook and watch youtube. The base memory of the system is just 2 gigs of ram and can vary in size for flash memory but the majority of the memory being cloud memory.

And the only virus protection you get is the one with the chrome addons (like the one by avast and malwarebytes). It is super easy if you are looking up school papers to enter a website that will lock your computer all you need to do is have a ad redirect happen and boom your computer is locked.

What did you try to download that nearly bricked your computer anyway? did you try looking at a hot girls webcam app? or a porn app?

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

[RennieParticipant]

These criminals use porn sites as bait, to trick you into going to their malware ridden sites, or they compromise an existing one for maximum carnage.

Compartmentalization might not be a bad idea here. Get a machine, just for browsing porn. Keep it isolated from the important systems.

Though it’s interesting. Since I stopped going on porn sites and visiting dodgy places many years ago, problems with malware have almost entirely vaporized.

[AnthonyParticipant 2281]

Anonymous wrote:

Chromebooks are for drooling idiots which is most of the market.

Both my sister and my dad have Chromebooks. They are for drooling idiots. But, they do save me the hassle I would of gotten if either of them got a Windows machine. The only thing my dad knows about is vehicles and construction work, otherwise, he’s completely ignorant of computers. He’s one of these people that clicks any ad imaginable when he’s surfing porn sites.

Now if he had a Windows machine, he’d destroy it within a few days and I’d have to keep doing a complete system wipe out and reinstall Windows every few days.

Anonymous wrote:

I just love the c~~~iness of people on the Interweb telling people Chrome is virus proof. Bulls~~~, if it executes, it’s all over even better when they can bust a memory buffer. Apple does a much better job of policing its App Store than Google does Google Play.

Apple has by far, the best App Store around. Most of Google Play’s programs on their App Store are either s~~~ty copies, or just adware.

For me, I’d setup my home office like this:

Gaming/porn/etc machine: Windows

Office/Business machine: Mac

Once you have a Fleshlight real vaginas become worthless.

[Anonymous 11]

Anthony wrote:

What did you try to download that nearly bricked your computer anyway?

I have not spent too much time with Google’s Play store, and my experience with Apple’s store over the years led me to actually trust the stuff in these stores.

The app claimed to be an anti-virus app and the s~~~ it tried to download was from a third party web site. My Android phone version will not allow 3rd party site app downloads by default. I tried to find the Avast one that I run on my Android phone which is not available for Chrome. I eventually located that Avast extension though along with my standard Chrome extensions like Adblock and Flashcontrol. From now on, I’m treating Google Play like I’m randomly downloading stuff off the Internet at large. You can’t let your guard down for even a second.

My network is psychotically physically compartmentalized and VLANed. Everything is proxied in/out the Internet with IPS, three antivirus engines, blacklists and nothing executable (Windows) is allowed through unless I permit it. I’m going to have tune my Windows centric web proxy more for Chrome now as I don’t like being saved by IPS. The web proxy is like a narrow pass where I can implement all kinds of security strategies.

I don’t surf porn these days. I did 20 years ago before modern malware. I still have a nice archive of it.

This thing is basically going to be the Chromecast remote control and bed web surfer. I do like how quickly it boots even faster than my Surface Pro which is my other bed machine. I kept losing that damn pen so now it never leaves my nightstand.

Frankly, the fact I have so many redundant layers of security makes troubleshooting the occasional issue a bitch. I’d just love to put a bullet in the head of Flash.

[coolthingy450Participant 1223]

Anonymous wrote:

Chromebooks are for drooling idiots which is most of the market. It’s one hell of a Chromecast controller though which is my primary use.

There is some kind of CI that one can access though I have not learned what it can do, yet.

Maybe, ps -ax then kill PID. Chrome is derived from Linux.

I just love the c~~~iness of people on the Interweb telling people Chrome is virus proof. Bulls~~~, if it executes, it’s all over even better when they can bust a memory buffer. Apple does a much better job of policing its App Store than Google does Google Play.

It is based on gentoo linux, and while there is a CLI you can access. It’s on the f~~~ing browser only.

I have no google account whatsoever. But you can use alternative package managers on android. The two I use is F drive for Foss software, and APKPure for android packages, and I can read the licensing before downloading.

Actions have consequences and consequences have prices. Cause and effect at work.

[Anonymous 11]

coolthingy450 wrote:

It is based on gentoo linux, and while there is a CLI you can access. It’s on the f~~~ing browser only.

Thanks man for that info. I brought up the CLI and found it weird to see it running in a browser. I did not have time to see how many commands it offers. It seemed like it was hobbled though from what few I tried to run.

Google is using Chrome to infect other OSs with their environment. Of course, Internet Destroyer/Edge are not options for anyone with more then two brain cells. I also like the fact Google is preparing to drive another stake through the heart of Flash though who knows what hell HTML 5 will bring to us.

Google has such a large share of the mobile device market their live traffic data seems to be the best. It’s saved my ass more than once. I figured, since the NSA was already tracking me via my smartphone, I might as well benefit from the data. I don’t go anywhere without consulting it.

I remember when Steve Jobs caught hell for not allowing Flash on iOS. He was a true visionary. I would be Flash free if it were not for Georgia Power using it extensively on their web site.

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

My network is psychotically physically compartmentalized and VLANed. Everything is proxied
I don’t surf porn these days. I did 20 years ago before modern malware. I still have a nice archive of it.

These days I might go on porn once a year for a few minutes tops. But it does not have the importance it once did to me and if it was to entirely vanish off the internet, I would not miss it.

Like you, I have my own archive of pics and it’s got enough variety to it, that I rarely need to look anywhere else.

I also don’t go on crack/warez sites anymore, since I can actually buy things online now.

My network is low budget. It is a open source router/firewall running on an old PC, double natted, with a wired connection to the ISP router(which I can’t get rid of). I use an old wireless router with the wireless disabled as the switch on the internal side of the network.

[Anonymous 11]

Those old PCs are very useful as firewall/routers. You can do a lot with opensource.

I use a Watchguard XTM25 up front. I buy my other networking equipment using the rewards points I collect from my purchases for my clients. I just added another 5 port gigabit switch for my “backbone” and a new $200 wireless AP for $53 after taxes after cashing in my rewards points. I’ve now got gigabit Ethernet service from the office to the tech room. I was using powerline ethernet adapters to connect them. I can tell my RDP sessions are a little bit snappier now.

My tech room is all used Cisco routers and switches and a Dell Poweredge server. I picked everything up on eBay for next to nothing. I can emulate a multi-site corporate network quite well. I’m waiting for a decent 24 port Layer 3 Cisco switch to come up on eBay for my next acquisition as I need a third switch to properly delve into learning Spanning Tree Protocol(STP).

I have a friend who does a lot of residential work. He’ll bring me the infected PCs that he can’t handle. I have a quarantine network for them that between the VLAN and the separate physical network port on the Watchguard these PCs can never come near my stuff.

Supposedly, Watchguard supports Cisco’s VPN standard now for its site to site VPN. I’m going to learn how to configure it.

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Those old PCs are very useful as firewall/routers. You can do a lot with opensource.

I use a Watchguard XTM25 up front. I buy my other networking equipment using the rewards points I collect from my purchases for my clients. I just added another 5 port gigabit switch for my “backbone” and a new $200 wireless AP for $53 after taxes after cashing in my rewards points. I’ve now got gigabit Ethernet service from the office to the tech room. I was using powerline ethernet adapters to connect them. I can tell my RDP sessions are a little bit snappier now.

My tech room is all used Cisco routers and switches and a Dell Poweredge server. I picked everything up on eBay for next to nothing. I can emulate a multi-site corporate network quite well. I’m waiting for a decent 24 port Layer 3 Cisco switch to come up on eBay for my next acquisition as I need a third switch to properly delve into learning Spanning Tree Protocol(STP).

I have a friend who does a lot of residential work. He’ll bring me the infected PCs that he can’t handle. I have a quarantine network for them that between the VLAN and the separate physical network port on the Watchguard these PCs can never come near my stuff.

Supposedly, Watchguard supports Cisco’s VPN standard now for its site to site VPN. I’m going to learn how to configure it.

All that stuff blows my mind. Went to college mainly for that, but they wanted to rush through everything so fast and made us use this terrible online Cisco Academy curriculum(No textbooks). They were too fixated on trying to push as many people through the program as they could.

I am sad to say I did not do well in those courses. I knew atleast of couple of people who had resorted to cheating to get by.

[Anonymous 11]

Cisco is very funky and hard to learn. I’m teaching myself alone in true going your own way fashion. I’m not paying whatever multiple thousands of dollars for some boot camp style training.

I’ll then take the cert tests when I’m ready just to have something formal to wave so I can sell the skills to potential clients.

No one can truly learn this stuff by the firehose method. It’s too complicated. That college you went to was more interested in making money than truly teaching people.

I’ve been doing networking for so long that I’ve a very solid foundation that has been slowly built up over the years. I also used to work with a lot of lab equipment so arcane methods of getting things to work are something I’m used to handling. Someone who had never heard of TFTP or done subnetting by hand would have a much steeper hill to climb.

[RennieParticipant]

That college you went to was more interested in making money than truly teaching people.

Yeah, they would lecture on some of it, expect us to read the rest online and take a chapter exam for marks all within the same week and class was only once or twice a week at most. So you would walk in the door on the second day and be immediately dropped into a test. Sometimes I did okay on them and other times not.

Remember you’ve got other courses and their obligations to worry about as well. Heaven help anyone who had to work during that time too.

[Anonymous 11]

One really needs to get hands on time with the equipment. Then you really learn it by troubleshooting your f~~~ups.

It’s freakish how quickly that expensive enterprise grade equipment depreciates.

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

One really needs to get hands on time with the equipment. Then you really learn it by troubleshooting your f~~~ups.

It’s freakish how quickly that expensive enterprise grade equipment depreciates.

Yeah, that seems the most effective way to learn things for me.

[AnthonyParticipant 2281]

Anonymous wrote:

Frankly, the fact I have so many redundant layers of security makes troubleshooting the occasional issue a bitch. I’d just love to put a bullet in the head of Flash.

I just have a laptop running Windows 7 and I’m running Avast on my system. I’d love to have a bigger network once I actually get a bigger place to live in. Flash is definitely a bitch. I only keep it on my laptop because of the anime I watch online. Otherwise, I’d never even keep it on my computer.

Anonymous wrote:

Google is using Chrome to infect other OSs with their environment. Of course, Internet Destroyer/Edge are not options for anyone with more then two brain cells.

I honestly hate all Google products. I only use a few of them though because they’re the best (like Gmail). Otherwise, I’d use a paid service to get my own email domain. But as far as my browser is concerned, I use Firefox because I love their add on support.

Anonymous wrote:

Cisco is very funky and hard to learn. I’m teaching myself alone in true going your own way fashion. I’m not paying whatever multiple thousands of dollars for some boot camp style training.

I was able to practice on a few Cisco routers and switches when I was in college. I found them pretty easy to use. The only thing for me that I hated memorizing were all the commands for the CLI. That s~~~ is a bitch.

I’m learning by using Youtube tutorials and Cisco books right now. I should end up getting my CCNA in a few months. You’re right about colleges, they’re just interested in taking your money. I’ve only ever had a few teachers that were willing to actually teach me and they were general education teachers. So it was all irrelevant to me. All of my core class teachers just said “Google it yourself.”

Once you have a Fleshlight real vaginas become worthless.

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