Early on, I had a telephone call where they told me that their testing showed that my computer had a virus. They would fix it for me for only $50. At the time, I didn't even have a computer connected to the web at home ( lived in the mountains ). Dwight
________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 9:20 AM To: Dave Wade; gene...@ezwind.net; Discussion@ Subject: Re: OT RE: Bogus "account hacked" message On 01/10/2019 01:19 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > > > I was going to say that permanent blocks on IP addresses seems fruitless. > > I assume that BotNets are compromised end user machines, and that the end > users that have them are on standard dynamic IP address, so when some one > gets one of your blocked addresses..... > > Well, they are not "permanent". I forget what I have it set to, but after some time it does expire them from hosts.deny Likely, I could set that sunset period shorter. Jon