whoa. It wouldn't matter, is all I am saying. Chill. I know I am talking to you and I am not saying you're dumb, naive or anything else. It is possible to take good precautions and not be protected against something simply because you are one of the lucky first people to make contact with a given threat. As it seems Ian was. I had like five minutes to devote to looking the other day, and am just now seeing these followups. If he was infected, would it not be good for him to now it as soon as possible?
As I as coming back over here to say -- I just looked again and if you click his link you go to the web. If you then click "News" you get news stories at item 2, more or less the stuff I was looking at, and then this as item 1: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/cal_fire_malware/ Right now I am thinking I must have opened a separate window and done a search in news. Not sure. Given the above link, I *would* say that anyone that opened one of those links should do some extra security work, but maybe I won't if you are going to interpret this to mean that I think that you personally are ignorant, lol. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote: > > <sigh> Do you really think I dont understand that? I mean really? As in you > really think *I'm* not setup to have adequate protection? I mean just > curious. As in - did I really have to spell out each and every security > program, virus protector, spyware check, registry check, etc that I have > running on my machine to get you to understand my point? Or are you > repllying fromm the web and have no clue who you are responding to? Not > that > I'm a god by any means, but it guess it would make some sense why you > doubting my internet security skillz. > > <double sigh> > > It was simply an FYI. As in I'm clean. As clean as I possibly can be inside > Fort Knox, and I still get bad results. > > It's simply black hat marketing taking advantage of current breaking news > to > get traffic to their crap. It's common practice. It sucks. It's like google > spamming when everyone did to Bush a few years back. > > That's all. > > Trying to a) help the masses understand WHAT is happening .... > and b) not trying to lead them down the wrong road and assume their machine > is possessed by the devil. > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Being completely scanned is not necessarily protection by the way - I > > picked up some pretty serious malware once on a site that allegedly > spelled > > out the interactions for coumadin, and I had up-to-date antivirus, spybot > > and ad-aware. Hell, I picked up spyware the other week clicking on a link > > on > > someone's Facebook, and I'm in the internet security business. Ad-Aware > and > > Avira did not pick up on it at all and I had to go download Spybot to get > > rid of the popups. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303236 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
