>> Tips for Preventing Cancer
>> http://www.studyandjobs.com/prevent_cancer.html
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> back as they spend in financing the website and will become
> discouraged.
Am I the only one concerned about the REAL threat of oddball websites
like this and products such as freeware screensavers and even some
name-brand commercial products: malware? Doesn't anyone care how easy it
is for miscreants to dump every single bit in your computer onto theirs,
record every keystroke you make in the future, post the contents of your
computer (including every account and its password) on the internet,
divert your hand-entered URLs to perfect imitations of big-name sites
(e.g., Amazon or Mastercard) which answer your questions legitimately
but hijack ANY useful information, seal all your files in one of Al
Gore's lockboxes and send you an e-mail demanding a ransom to unlock it
(admittedly rare . . . so far), and use your computer for their every
whim (commonplace)? What do think it would cost me -- one of the least
computer-savvy people here -- to buy and operate canned software to
achieve most of this?
As little as twenty bucks. And there are up to a hundred such programs
available, some of which include rootkit technology, which hide all this
malware from most anti-virus programs.
Am I paranoid?
HELL, yes! Especially given the ratio of benefit to threat from visiting
oddball websites. Let someone else take the risk and report on its
superficial content (who knows WHAT STD's -- software transmitted
diseases -- they picked up in the process?). I never even read these
spammers' e-mails; I let the more gullible of you do that for me and
read your RESPONSE if I'm that curious about it. This in one activity
in which extra layers of condoms add more than they take away from the
experience.
I.P.
Glowing in the Dark - 12 Jul 2006 18:33 GMT
>>> Tips for Preventing Cancer
>>> http://www.studyandjobs.com/prevent_cancer.html
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> like this and products such as freeware screensavers and even some
> name-brand commercial products: malware?
Doesn't bother me... I use a Mac. You should get one :-)

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Beverley - 13 Jul 2006 02:47 GMT
I know at least two guys who got nailed bad with the lure of a Brittany
Spears nude ad. ROTFLMAO (Bad boys!)
I have so much firewall protection, spyware, and virus protection because
I'm married to a computer geek and he works for a big name company that
allows him to access his company computer from his home network and provides
a great deal of the necessary protection as a company benefit. It is such a
complicated mess that I could not explain it if I had to do so.
There are also no restrictions on our computers which means our
granddaughter (age 12) could wander/see something that she doesn't need to
see. We've simply explained to her that if she does, she needs to click off,
and if she has questions about anything she sees then she is free to talk
about it.
Several year ago there was a virus on a newsgroup - what a problem that was!
I'm sure if you googled something it is still apt to nail you. Fortunately
it was a minor virus. But it sure drove the members nuts for a few months.
(Not this NG)
Bev