Good to hear about the cleanup on IE. My workplace is kin to fort knox so I wasn't worried until we got some really wierd hits. Zone alarm is something another friend mentioned to me last month and going to load it up at home this evening. Makes you less visible to marauders eh?
do you think some of this stuff could be from China? heh heh. I hear they are pissed because MS jacked up all the bootlegged MS apps/etc. over there by the bazillions with software varification updates. I imagine legions of pissed off blackmarket users thinking about revenge!!! beware the Chinese Sith! On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:48 PM, BC <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 16, 1:34 pm, CrossBow <[email protected]> wrote: > > We were recently hijacked by a security download from MS, but it was not > > from MS. It was a clever little trojan. Almost took my geeping system > apart > > in little mobius loops! Not only did I clean it off I got paranoid and > did > > a system restore a while later. > You wouldn't believe how many people's computers are infected with > spyware, malware, viruses, trojans, etc., all because they have no > anti-virus or anti-spyware protection installed -- and also b/c they > choose to use IE (thus allowing a bazillion popups whilst surfing, > half of which are likely running scripts that install shit on their > PCs). All a Windows user really needs are anti-spyware, anti-virus, a > firewall -- (some apps contain all of these in one package) -- regular > Windows updates, and some fucking common sense. That's it. 99+% of > threats thus eliminated. > > > anyone ever hear of Zone Alarm? > It's a decent, though bloated, firewall app. > > BTW, the IE fix was released yesterday. > -BC- > > > -- gnothe se auton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
