| Author | Message | ||
     Union_man |
Still online! Boooya! | ||
| Loose1 |
Me too, all hype, and just another scare tactic Matt | ||
| Geforce |
Scare Tactic? There is no scare tactic to it. Hackers managed to upload malicious code and spread it world wide to attempt to derail the DNS system and cash out on stuff. It really happened, and it did cause a lot of issues globally over the internet domain name system. I don't see how something that actually happened is hype or a scare tactic. Today's "deadline" was simply a server shutdown so if you happened to have it installed on your system, your terminal may not have been able to communicate out the rest of the net. Perhaps, they hyped the number of infected systems up a little, but that was all just an estimation. | ||
| Redbuelljunkie |
Or a clever ruse to trick the public into voluntarily letting the govt into their computers under the spurious guise of a "virus checking" website... for your protection, of course. | ||
| Crusty |
Ik Screeble Honk Flap Tweet Gibber Razz Poot! Yeah, it didn't get me either! (I bet nobody here knows where the above came from) | ||
| Reindog |
Don Martin. | ||
| Froggy |
John, you posted the same thing 3 years ago | ||
| Cityxslicker |
both of my anonymous email accounts requested phone numbers and password questions 'if I should ever forget the passwords'.... that smells like a sniffing scam to me | ||
| Froggy |
There is a scam going around a bit as of late, I've been meaning to post about it. Someone calls you, they claim to be from Microsoft/Dell/Etc, they say your computer is infected. They make you check your system files, then they show you a legitimate file and claim its infected, and thats when they start asking for your credit card or other info before they can connect to your computer to evaluate it. After they do that, they do fake scans and then want more money to remove the fake viruses. At that point if you refuse, they sabotage your machine so it will not boot again, then they want even more money to fix it. | ||
| D_adams |
And when you're running linux, they get all confused about where the files are located. Damnit! /usr/bin or /usr/src/linux or w/e.  I hate it when that happens. | ||
| Crusty |
John, you posted the same thing 3 years ago Did I? It's a line I've always liked. I could readily identify with the original source. Of course, that was in the early '70s; I've changed a lot since then. Reindog, It's not from Don Martin, though he's one of my favorite cartoonists. National Gorilla Suit Day and The Hardest Head In The World from Don Martin Bounces Back are masterpieces that still make me chuckle nearly 45 years after I first read them. | ||
| Drkside79 |
>>>>>>>Or a clever ruse to trick the public into voluntarily letting the govt into their computers under the spurious guise of a "virus checking" website... for your protection, of course. Because you believe that the fed isn't capable of monitoring you anytime they want? | ||
| Xdigitalx |
Because the fed capable of monitoring you anytime they want, you believe that means that they are? | ||
| Pwnzor |
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| Glitch |
I hate it when that happens. I have the same issue.  |
