hackers are dead (teleported to oblivion)

Iĺl make this short and sweet.
Since the educational system, worldwide, has switched to targeted skills, the wannabes hack/crack-ers have to do so much reasearch on their own that It has become virtually impossible to become one. Using other people scripts, or writing code based on published RPC built-in faulty design makes you an advanced USER. Only!
There are tons of knowledge required from the H/W, that the M$ application software wonna-be called OS, and vast knowledge of many programming languages and definattelly O.Ss to start thinking about hacks. Everybody else is a luser that might create a slight discomfort to the sysmgr at the other end. You exist cause there is a majority of lusers like you who became administrators.

WHY? i am seeing this everyday. Real LUSERS (customers) are so impressed with little things you do, and other LUSERS (h/w & s/w providers) are selling basic knowledge for advanced techniques (overcharging too). That is the reason I recently decided to move all my systems and my customers (slowly adapting, but they do) to FSF using ubuntu/debian as a platform of choice. Before you nag, its the closest platform they can get to visual acceptance, as to what they've been used to all these years. If it would be my choice I would have switched everybody to vax/vms (ok OpenVMS) where you have to be a "real man" to work that thing.

I have been under attack, my systems that is, every month for a week at least since 1994. I do not hold funcy systems, just regular https from customers, email and ftp. They target me for some reason (?easy target?). I always keep low resources (average related to my users) and never been brought down once. Have to delete (dont get huppy, copy to storage and then delete) gigs of detailed logs. Well ok...I only keep the last 5 years. I got your IP and provider listed with GMT. That means I got you someplace.

The same with the companies that make the viruses. Wonna see, what you gonna do when people dont use admin accounts on M$ to surf the net. Proven fact: all my installations that users dont have admin privs, do not get viruses. Also use hosts file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm blocks a huge percentage of slime and http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html aka Spybot to clean the unwanted. k9 http://keir.net/k9.html for your email (excellent) and they are all FREE. No tricks no frills.

Never need to spend money on antivirus companies ever again. remember that you have to use a non admin account too. Simple as that.

the best of all, switch to linux, prefferably www.Ubuntu.com since they are doing such a great job and you can get about 24000 utils/applications for free. Runs skype, googleearth and picasa too natively. Get openoffice in any language (even cambodian) and ditch m$ office still been able to read and write the old documents you have and more.

Lets give computing and internet another chance.
Dont pay money for something that should be free from people that are providing it with no charge. ( check www.fsf.org)

Turn your back to useless hacks and cracks since they are not worth it any more (we are not in the 80's). The real hack is to have an M$ system with uptime and not slowing down like melassa during the winter in Canada, and erase from your memory the blue screen of death (BSOD)._

ps billy shall not starve, he has made a bundle, and m$ is like the cure for cancer. it makes money, no need to cure it. to make it harder to cure they moved to svista (greek word for "erase them" -gr:σβήστα)