Reply #16: Ugh [View All]

[Occulus]

You're painting a real nightmarish picture here, unc. Not that I disagree with you at all, but man, I had no idea it had gotten that bad. Good thing I avoid these sites.

So, I suppose it's safe to say that creating a limited guest account on my Windows box doesn't really mean anything anymore, even if my router is properly configured (and I hate hate hate this DLink DI-604 router, it has a limited number of slots in its hardware for rule exceptions, and I find it hard to configure in the first place)?

Do we all need to be getting a separate machine for internet browsing, then? One that we just don't care about? And I suppose it shouldn't be visible to the LAN, too, right?

Just how drastic do changes to our computing habits need to be before attacks such as you have described here can be brought under control- or is that even possible?

From a security standpoint, how do you feel about 'cloud computing' or a 'cloud network'?