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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 05:23:41 PM

Title: What does sleep do?
Post by: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 05:23:41 PM

When I put my computer to sleep does that mean it's down (As in programs stop running) or could a virus still get to it? I usually leave chrome on if I put the computer to sleep and today I left it for a few hours and I'm curious what sleep actually does.

Fox.

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: Pondus on September 07, 2013, 05:41:04 PM

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 05:56:55 PM

Pondus scanned this link through virus total and it came back with a 1/39 thinking it's a False Positive.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/3bf54d7675af35b3ec140994724aa094e9db4de7963951b4d33643c5172a58ed/analysis/1378569308/

Fox

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: CraigB on September 07, 2013, 06:02:38 PM

The website is fine, it's the Microsoft website with a description about sleep and what it does which is what you wanted to know.

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: DavidR on September 07, 2013, 06:05:20 PM

Seems somewhat strange that Sucuri SiteCheck considers microsoft.com a malicious.

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 06:06:25 PM

Welp it's a false positive then. Anyways I got the information I wanted. So thanks Pondus.

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: Pondus on September 07, 2013, 06:14:55 PM

seems to be related to forum spam.    http://labs.sucuri.net/?details=windows.microsoft.com

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 06:16:35 PM

So a bunch of bots posting bad links in their forums?

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: Pondus on September 07, 2013, 06:18:28 PM

Quote from: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 06:16:35 PM

So a bunch of bots posting bad links in their forums?

happens here also .... have deleted 4-5 today ....

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: YellowFox on September 07, 2013, 06:21:29 PM

So it's not the site itself it's just bots in the forums posting spam links?

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: YellowFox on September 08, 2013, 03:36:02 PM

 Also how do bots know where to post? Is there a human host that tells them what to do? Because I've seen an influx of bots on youtube where one bot posts a link and 17 others thumb the bad link up.

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: Secondmineboy on September 08, 2013, 03:40:39 PM

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

Title: Re: What does sleep do?
Post by: Secondmineboy on September 08, 2013, 03:45:49 PM

Also someone in the german AVADAS forum thought that i am a bot, cause ive given so many
likes there. ;D