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Is there a windows equivalent of "chmod 0000 /file/to/be/made/unavailable" ? Even that seems pretty brutal but at least it's easily reversible if you discover that "oh I needed that to download the vendor patch that will _actually_ fix the problem"
People who delete system binaries due to whacky CVEs deserve a broken system. I don't even know who else to blame for this.
They deserve to not be allowed to restore their system to normal? > The people who deleted or replaced the curl executable noticed that they cannot upgrade because the Windows update procedure detects that the Windows install has been tampered with and it refuses to continue. This policy makes absolutely no sense.
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You can't just disable this 'feature' from Vodafone? I'm in the UK and my ISP doesn't do this. I'm not sure why you would want your ISP interfering with your traffic like this. To me, it seems like a dealbreaker.
All UK ISPs do. It's very annoying trying to access sci-hub
The UK government threatened to make it a legal requirement that all internet connections have filters for adult content on by default.
The major ISPs and mobile networks voluntarily put filtering in place by default to avoid the regulation.
The filters can usually be removed quite easily.
While there are some smaller ISPs that don't put filtering in place, they account for something like < 10% of the market.
People who delete system binaries due to whacky CVEs deserve a broken system. I don't even know who else to blame for this.
They deserve to not be allowed to restore their system to normal? > The people who deleted or replaced the curl executable noticed that they cannot upgrade because the Windows update procedure detects that the Windows install has been tampered with and it refuses to continue. This policy makes absolutely no sense.
As noted on the blog post, the solution is to run the system file checker (sfc) to repair it before running the update
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It could also be to do with the word “hack” because https://hackmii.com/ is blocked too
Good thing there is no shake shack in the UK.
Next time anyone runs into a similar problem you might just want to zip the file before deleting it put a password if you AV still reports it. Or just get rid of your AV software it clearly su*ks if it reports legit system files.
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
Wow. I’ve never seen this class of ISP censorship. Is this some sort of government mandated system or has Vodaphone taken it upon themselves to do this?
All of the major ISPs and mobile networks now do it on a voluntary basis.
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Two xx's. That's almost as bad as three, and surely heuristically naughty.
"heuristically naughty" may be my new favorite phrase.
Doesn't work as well today, but there were surprisingly few false positives at the time.
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They deserve to not be allowed to restore their system to normal? > The people who deleted or replaced the curl executable noticed that they cannot upgrade because the Windows update procedure detects that the Windows install has been tampered with and it refuses to continue. This policy makes absolutely no sense.
curl is used to download files… if it is missing, Windows presumably won’t be able to download something. If they just go for it anyway, the system could end up in some undefined state.
Antimalware is the worst malware I’ve seen in my decades-long career in IT.