fashizzlepop: I don't get what you mean about DDoSing for only $50 though.
$6 to kill a internet site for 2 hours.....
DEFCON 18: Cloud Computing: a Weapon of Mass Destruction
linkDon't know anything about virus total, ill research the topic and get back to it at some point.
Panda cloud AV i know all about, by using it you agree to allow them to collect the following.
* CPU parameters (name, technical description, current and maximum speed, number of cores and logical processors full hardware stats.
* RAM parameters (total and available at the time of scanning physical and virtual memory).
* Operating system configuration (name, version, build, installed service packs, boot mode, current account privileges—user or administrator—, regional settings).
* Information about other installed anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall and all installed programs.
* Information about threats found by Panda cloud AV (type and name, type and name of infected objects, actions applied to the objects and, if necessary, their file hash).
* Overall Panda cloud AV scanner statistics (scanning end time, total files and objects scanned, number of suspicious objects, number of detected malicious programs of each type).
* Overall statistics about actions applied by the avast scanner (number of objects to which no action was applied and the number of cured, deleted, moved, renamed and ignored objects and full behavioral statics about every option you click on in the app.
* full contents of everything on your herd drives in hash format.
* full surfing habits, any place you go on the internet they know.
* permanent up-link to their servers.theirs no way to dissable this as far as i know.
* your now part of their AV botnet and your computer is now their personal server.
* and moreClick on next.
AGREE ?
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As for your rights when you use cloud anything, you have none,by uploading anything it is no longer your property,
if they don't want to give it back to you they don't have to and if they look at what it is you uploaded, good luck trying to prove it or know about it.
ps Only US Law Applies.
US Government's Attack on Cloud Computing laws
But in addition, the government's approach should terrify any user of cloud computer services—not to mention the providers. The government maintains that Mr. Goodwin lost his property rights in his data by storing it on a cloud computing service.
linkPrivacy Issues related to Cloud Computing linkwiki Thin client infoPs their no need for anything AV wise to be connected in real time to anything on the net,everything can be done in offline mode only as it was done for years as well my self i only use full offline installers and updates.
Link scanner is pointless as well,it just data mines everything you do online.
my self i use a IP blocker for that use.
My policy is simple... block all .
only 3 ports are open atm {53,80,443 + multiple back to back firewalls and IDS} and only 5 TSR's are camping the network stack besides the web browser, worse still is 50% of what camping my network stack all the time doesn't need to be.
tnx micro $oft.
might as add as well that breaking a bot-cloud is the same as breaking a botnet...their more or less the same in meany ways depending on the setup of cores.
yay linkEdit: added final comments~fixed one broken link "EEF"