Re: Spam

Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:18:26 +0100, "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$"
<femail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken wrote:
On May 11, 7:49 am, Christopher A. Lee <ca...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 11 May 2008 07:28:33 -0700 (PDT), Ken <flakey...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On May 11, 5:57 am, Alwyn <al...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <4826e330$0$6430$834e4...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

kmwka...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

commander meridia par mail

I don't normally reply to spam, but I think it's worth cautioning
anybody who might be tempted that this drug, also known as
sibutramine and Reductil is not safe to take without medical
supervision and is probably more dangerous than the condition it
purports to treat.

Alwyn

There's only one dumb ass in here who would fall for this spam

You might be surprised.

A few years ago one of the long standing loonies in alt.atheism
installed a "Microsoft security update" he got in his email.

Which looked at his Usenet spool, his email files, his address book
and anywhere else it could fine addresses.

Then sent 140k copies of itself to every occurrence of every
address it could find. Over and over again.

My 20mb email spool at my ISP would fill up in about 40 minutes in
what amounted to a denial of service attack on every poster in
every newsgroup he infested.

Of course the ISP's tech support people were no help, telling
anybody who complained to install an anti-virus as though that
were the problem.

It took a couple of weeks before I finally got through to a techie
who realised it was happening on their machine not their users.

So they finally installed the filters they should have done long
before.

And the perpetrator whined that it wasn't his fault, he thought it
was a genuine security update.

He even owned up to it, so he must have felt guilty.

Never underestimate the stupidity of these loonies.

Yep
Dumb asses are everywhere.
AmeriKKK no longer has a monopoly on 'em.
BTW....wondering if Dimwit's installed that security patch yet?

What's the betting that Dimwit doesn't install genuine patches from
M$ Update, thinks Vista SP1 is a virus, doesn't update his AV or run
any firewall, and has no anti-spyware? (- Or any combination of any
number of these between 1 of them and all of them.)

Wouldn't surprise me.

But IMO it's criminal that Microsoft put out such crappy software that
you need to buy third party products to make your machines safe.

Mmmm...Not necessarily: Maybe I'm better off than some as I'm behind a
router with a hardware firewall; but I find Windows Firewall is adequate in
tandem with it. I run XP Pro as I think Vista sucks. I use Avast! antivirus
and have set Xoftspy SE to scan for nasties at every boot and when updates
arrive as well as running in the background. I have installed SP3 RTM from
M$ Update and always d/l the latest patches from M$ Update each Patch
Tuesday. I keep java updated and patched, stay up to date with the latest
versions of any software I run, and virus scan any suspicious data. I
usually re4gularly backup my system to another PC as well as external HDD
and online backup. I run Diskeeper for automatic drive defragmentation, keep
the registry optimised and the system tweaked...It's all what I consider to
be standard basic computer maintenance. If one chooses to run Linux instead
of M$ software one doesn't really get the chance to do any of that, as
getting any Linux distro to work efficiently is a miracle in itself IMO, and
consumes all one's available time.

It came as a shock after a lifetime as a mainframe professional on
hack-proof systems using inherently safe hardware and software
architectures.

As did having to reboot after all but a very few software updates. You
usually just had to kill the application you were updating.

I find that actually depends on the computer to some extent: I've applied
the exact same M$ updates to several different brands and types of computer
in the past and although some have said they need a reboot; others have
completed the update without.

But even then you're not always safe.

The supposedly trustworthy site many Americans get their local TV
listings from, let an ad for Colgate through, which had hijacked the
browser with a fake "your computer might have spyware" panel. Clicking
the "close" or "X" took you a web page that "scanned" the machine.
The only way out of it was to kill the browser from the task manager.

Because my system is kept clean I knew the nasties the "scan" found
weren't there, and I wouldn't have downloaded software I'd never heard
of anyway, it stopped there.

'Sounds like "Spyware Nuker" - which adds around 32 spyware cookies and 2
trojans; then "finds" 25 cookies and 1 trojan: Spybot S&D has had that one's
number for quite a while. I see from the link it's "SpywareDestructor";
which IIRC is the former by another name with a slightly different
signature.

But the hijack could have done anything. A net.expert found what was
happenning, and it was a bit scary - a java script had been written to
deliberately bypass normal security and could have done anything.

I think M$/Sun have petched that java vulnerability since.

But you're supposed to be able to trust reputable sites.

http://www.castlecops.com/p1085408-Zap2It_hijacked_by_spywaredestructor.html

'Swings and roundabouts: There is no such thing as *totally* safe computing
IMO.

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