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Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:36 pm
by Halbert
Used to be. And still to some extent I suppose. Wiki "Botnet" and you can see how they use things like this to wreak havok on commercial and government websites and networks. They can be used as instruments to aid in credit card theft, other types of data theft and denial of service attack, etc.
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:43 pm
by cjj
Well, yeah. I hadn't thought about the outright criminal activities that go on...
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:57 pm
by winston
No disrespect intended but, hackers in general need to get a life.
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:32 pm
by DoubleThink
winston wrote:No disrespect intended but, hackers in general need to get a life.
Amen.
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:33 pm
by cjj
winston wrote:No disrespect intended but, hackers in general need to get a life.
It's OK, I think the current crop of hackers deserve any disrespect they get. I "got a life" close to 30 years ago, yeah I suppose I'm a "reformed" hacker, though sometimes, I miss the fun of it, but in reality, there's just a lot more fun things to do in life than sitting in front of a computer... Oh, wait,
WHAT am I saying??? OK, yeah, I spend at least 10 to 12 hours a day on a computer (or 3), but at least I'm well paid these days...
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:06 pm
by winston
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:22 pm
by cjj
Yeah, I do...
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:31 am
by winston
cjj wrote:
Yeah, I do...
Well I never. I must have missed the bit about getting paid to do this.
Infected page...
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:14 pm
by 8mileshigher
Was it ever determined who or what the source of that virus was ?
I can't remember this happening on the Forum before.
Are we safe going forward ?
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:53 am
by admin
Rich: The virus was in a jpg file. The first here ever to my knowledge. I would say a solid virus protection is important for all of us all the time.
Infected page...
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:38 pm
by 8mileshigher
admin wrote:Rich: The virus was in a jpg file. The first here ever to my knowledge. I would say a solid virus protection is important for all of us all the time.
Noted and thanks, Peter.
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:09 am
by electrofaro
admin wrote:I would say a solid virus protection is important for all of us all the time.
An up-to-date browser and a patched OS would be enough actually. Pictures with bugs in them was a Windows issue like 2 or maybe 3 years ago!
Was the picture actually analysed what triggered the infection notification? Maybe the picture just wanted to go viral
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:07 am
by manta
Solution: Get a MAC!
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:00 am
by electrofaro
manta wrote:Solution: Get a MAC!
Get a life
Re: Infected page...
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:58 pm
by redamber
As a relative dinosaur in all matters involving computers, I have to confess that I don't even understand about 70% of this thread.
It reminds me of the time, back in 1999, when my (then) 8-year old son asked me if one could not simply take some medicine to ward off the threat of the Millenium bug! Sometimes, these kids are brighter than you think.