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frankwilk
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New virus coming soon.
I believe it has been confirmed by Norton and Snopes. It will come from a friends e-mail address. It burns the C drive so I am led to believe
Frank Wilkinson Once Navy Always Navy
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rose
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Posted - 27/02/2009 : 19:11
Hello,
So is this attached to e-cards from Hallmark.com?
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rose
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Posted - 27/02/2009 : 19:12
Sorry, forgot to say thank-you!
Rose
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frankwilk
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Posted - 27/02/2009 : 19:16
Hi Rose
It comes as an attachment to an e-mail from a friends address book " Postcard from Hallmark "
Frank Wilkinson Once Navy Always Navy |
Big Kev
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Posted - 27/02/2009 : 19:52
There are a lot of these about. This latest one is actually a hoax. It's always worth putting the subject, of any dodgy looking emails, into Google to check.
If you don't recognise who it's from don't open it is the best rule to follow.
Have a look here Urban Legends
Big Kev
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rose
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 00:35
Thanks! Have any of you heard of "Twitter" ? I signed on, but when it asked for my e-mail account password so it could download my address list, I signed out.! Didn't sound like a good idea.
Rose
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 05:41
Wise choice Rose. I am wary of all 'social networking' sites. There is a lot of fraudulant activity connected with them. I have been asked to join a network by a friend of mine who is a curator with the US naval museum so his colleagues can tap into my steam engine knowledge. I have told him I'll do it but I want information about how intrusive it is. You can't be too careful.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Stanley
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 05:48
http://vil.nai.com/vil/Content/v_153777.htm
Have a look at this for the one that Mcaffee and Ad-aware are watching....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 12:36
Once your information is on someone else's computer it can be saved in many other places - in fact it will be, as a back-up anyway. And it can easily be spread around the world. Don't believe it when organisations like Facebook, Ebay, Amazon etc claim that they will only keep your information for a while then delete it. It will still be on a disk or tape somewhere. How could you ever know that they have really deleted *all* copies of the data? Even the companies probably don't know many copies there are of the data!
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rose
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 15:05
Thank-you Stanley, I checked out the website. I have McAfee on my computer and ran a scan yesterday. Nothing detected.
Rose
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Sue
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 17:45
This message has been going around for at least 6 months. I first received it from a friend who works for an examination board. It all seemed very valid, but now I am wondering if it is a scam
. Oh yes, just a wanother warning and I don't know how it happened. Someone got hold of my email address book and sent a spoof sales email out to everyone on my list from A to C. Yahoo told me to get some sort of antivirus program on my computer to stop it happening as we had obviuosly been infected by a trojan horse, worm or something We already had two antivirus systems set up and a check revealed we had no contamination so we can only conclude some one got or worked out my password. I changed it and lo and behold withing 12 hours I had a yahoo spoof email asking for my password. So beware everyone, someone can hack in to your email if they can work out your password, no virus needed.
Sue
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pluggy
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 20:36
In all my experience (14 years on the internet) not once have I ever recieved a virus warning by e-mail that was real. Hundreds and hundreds of hoaxes. They are put out by 30/40 something talentless losers who live with their parents.
Back in the real world, it seems every other memory stick from kids that passes through my grubby mitts has a virus (trojan strictly speaking). Way back Microsoft made some pretty stupid and/or naive decisions about how an operating system should work. Which spark thought up autorun ? and hiding file extensions ? Between them they account for many, many needless infections. The mould was set by the time 'security' found its way into Microsofts vocabulary around 2003.
Need computer work ?
"http://www.stsr.co.uk" 
Pluggy's Household Monitor |
frankwilk
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 21:22
" They are put out by 30/40 something talentless losers who live with their parents "
Thanks Stephen, that lets me out then!!!!!!!!!
I only passed on what I thought was correct. For me it came from a good source.
Frank Wilkinson Once Navy Always Navy |
pluggy
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 22:04
Properly written malware is kept well under wraps until its unleashed, there is no warning, it would defeat the entire purpose. They want the maximum time between releasing it and the Anti Virus companies writing a signiture file so it can be detected. Nobody writes this c**p to damage machines anymore, its purpose is to remain hidden and one way or another helps them at your expense. A lot of it is to just send spam emails using your hardware, electricity and bandwidth.But there is stuff with much more evil intent.
Most modern stuff, if it beats your AV will quietly shut down the AV or its updates so it won't be found and open up the firewall and prevent windows from telling you about it. The best way to keep malware off your computer (other than not running windows) is to not go anywhere near the internet running an account with administrator privileges, which of course everyone does because M$ make the default account an administrator and few have got the first notion of how to do otherwise.
Somewhat ironically, the operating systems with little threat form malware (Mac OS X and Linux / Unix) have the safest default users. They don't get administrative privileges without first confirming their identity by asking for their password again. Zero driveby installs.......
Need computer work ?
"http://www.stsr.co.uk"
Pluggy's Household Monitor |
Stanley
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Posted - 01/03/2009 : 09:33
Steve, give me the route to making Admin function pword protected and default as user. Please....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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pluggy
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Posted - 01/03/2009 : 17:37
The only way to do it in windows is to have two users. . You can go into Control Panel, Users to make a new user. Make a new one with admin privileges and then log out. Log in with the new admin user and then remove the rights from the user you want to use normally.
In Control Panel, Adminsitrative Tools, Computer Management,Local Users and groups. Go into Groups and Administrators and remove your user from the group.
Logout and log back in with your normal user.
If you normally use Administrator then you'll need to make another user who isn't an administrator and use that, but all your 'stuff' and settings will be on Adminsitrator. It can be moved but thats for another day as its quite involved.
Heres a screenshot of XP which should give you some clues. Always make sure you have an administrator account you can get into or you're stuffed ....
http://www.pluggy.me.uk/photo/xpgroups.png
Need computer work ?
"http://www.stsr.co.uk"
Pluggy's Household Monitor |
Postcard from Hallmark
