Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

MR ZenWiz wrote: (PS: Direct email reply to Sean bounced) -- ... Q: What's the quickest way to get a mailbox full of spam? A: Post a message in any newsgroup using a real email address. * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org ___

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

On 02/13/2014 10:43 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: That would be easier if the group weren't set to default to individual replies, vs. automatic replies to the group, but what the hey. you obviously don't understand newsgroups... (And your (at)example.invalid is perfect, right?:-) He never said anyt

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

MR ZenWiz wrote: > and I didn't see Malwarebytes anywhere on the list. That's an anti-malware app, not an anti-virus app is why. ;-) -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > > See , which places MS Security > Essentials last in various analyses of protecting users. > Well, it's not so much "last" as the baseline for measures, but your point is well taken. I stand corrected. I a

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

On 2/13/2014 10:43 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty > wrote: >> >> Would you trust an anti-virus product from the company that wrote the >> operating system that needs it? ;-) >> > I don't trust the OS enough to use it unless I have to, but I do tr

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

MR ZenWiz wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> Would you trust an anti-virus product from the company that wrote the >> operating system that needs it? ;-) >> > I don't trust the OS enough to use it unless I have to, but I do trust > their greed in keeping unhappy users from defecting, so

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > > Would you trust an anti-virus product from the company that wrote the > operating system that needs it? ;-) > I don't trust the OS enough to use it unless I have to, but I do trust their greed in keeping unhappy users from defe

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

MR ZenWiz wrote: > sean nathan wrote: >> [snip] >> > ... I tend to rely on MSE - it's free, it seems to work fairly well > > Yes, I know it's also an MS product, but for what I see, it works better > than most of them. Would you trust an anti-virus product from the company that wrote the opera

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:09 AM, sean nathan wrote: > DoctorBill wrote: >> >>> DoctorBill >> >> >> BTW - on my "Preferences" bar, the POP-UPS Button is checked. >> DB > > fwiw, back when i still used windows, AVG & AVG Free failed miserably at > protecting my machines from fake anti-virus pop-ups.

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: At first I'd get popup windows asking me to change my "Search Engine" defaults to Amazon. I hit the Esc button to kill them. Now I get an AVG Popup asking the same thing. Are these Trojan or Virus related ? I do an AVG Free Virus search occasionally and it

Re: Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

DoctorBill wrote: At first I'd get popup windows asking me to change my "Search Engine" defaults to Amazon. I hit the Esc button to kill them. Now I get an AVG Popup asking the same thing. Are these Trojan or Virus related ? I do an AVG Free Virus search occasionally and it finds two or three

Amazon & AVG Pop Ups - Trojans ?

At first I'd get popup windows asking me to change my "Search Engine" defaults to Amazon. I hit the Esc button to kill them. Now I get an AVG Popup asking the same thing. Are these Trojan or Virus related ? I do an AVG Free Virus search occasionally and it finds two or three "Threats", but t