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Offline rickl

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It's a trap!
« on: May 16, 2011, 09:46:51 PM »


/hat tip Ace of Spades
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2011, 09:48:33 PM »
Right now it's a huge question too.. ::whatgives::
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2011, 09:49:38 PM »
Yeah, I'm trying to fix it.  If I right-click on it the image opens in a new window.

Funny, it showed up in the preview.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2011, 09:53:39 PM »
Quote from: rickl on May 16, 2011, 09:49:38 PM
Yeah, I'm trying to fix it.  If I right-click on it the image opens in a new window.

Funny, it showed up in the preview.

Some websites prevent hotlinking because it steals their bandwidth. Try uploading it to photobucket and reposting it.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2011, 09:54:49 PM »
Right now it's showing up, and it works for me if I right-click.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2011, 09:55:14 PM »
OK, now it's not showing up.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2011, 09:59:40 PM »
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2011, 10:01:13 PM »
That was a lot of effort for something that was only moderately funny.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2011, 10:01:57 PM »
Yep. Worth it ;-)

Last week I got one of those scareware fake virus-scanner bugs. Had a devil of a time getting rid of it. And here I am right back on the same interwebby that infected me!  ::gaah::
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2011, 10:15:57 PM »
And now it's showing up again in my first post, but I'll bet it won't after I refresh.

ETA: I was right.   ::bashing::
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2011, 11:02:09 PM »
Quote from: rickl on May 16, 2011, 10:15:57 PM
And now it's showing up again in my first post, but I'll bet it won't after I refresh.

ETA: I was right.   ::bashing::

When posting a utube it always shows up in the "preview" after posting only the link shows up. 

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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2011, 05:05:31 PM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on May 16, 2011, 10:01:57 PM
Yep. Worth it ;-)

Last week I got one of those scareware fake virus-scanner bugs. Had a devil of a time getting rid of it. And here I am right back on the same interwebby that infected me!  ::gaah::

Soup, my faster, better computer is currently in the hands of my very capable brother, charged with the responsibility of cleaning the freeakin hard drive from the crap associated with "Windows XP Security System 2011."

Those bastards. I tried to clean my system the first time the ad popped up. (Only $59 for a year subscription for the answer to the problem that they caused) Spybot cleaned it once and said "XP Security 2011 is a fraud."

Those bastards. Well, it came back with a vengeance, and locked up my hard drive.

Bastards bastards bastards.
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« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2011, 07:13:54 PM »

I'm sooo lucky blessed.  I hadn't heard of that type of scam until asked to assist a friend with a problem.
Not a week later was I ALERT! ALERT! ALERTED!  by something that said it was AVG and I was being invaded CLICK HERE TO SAVE YOURSELF by eight malwares!

Something didn't seem right about it so I > CTRL  ALT  DELETE  then I shut it down, turned off the modem, booted up, and ran AVG.  The machine was clean. 

When you get an invitation any click could trigger the action.  CTRL  ALT  DELETE  and shutting down avoids that.


Hope you brother is successful.

 
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2011, 07:21:05 PM »
I usually have a good nose for suspicious e-mails.  I've gotten a couple purporting to be from Comcast that say that my computer may be infected with a "bot".  They look perfectly legitimate.  I got one a couple of months ago and I ended up deleting it without taking any action.  I just got another one today.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2011, 07:35:10 PM »
Quote from: rickl on May 18, 2011, 07:21:05 PM
I usually have a good nose for suspicious e-mails.  I've gotten a couple purporting to be from Comcast that say that my computer may be infected with a "bot".  They look perfectly legitimate.  I got one a couple of months ago and I ended up deleting it without taking any action.  I just got another one today.

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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2011, 08:13:31 PM »
Silly PC users.

Get a Mac.

(if that's not flamebait I don't know what is)
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 08:17:23 PM »
Quote from: trapeze on May 18, 2011, 08:13:31 PM
Silly PC users.

Get a Mac.

(if that's not flamebait I don't know what is)

 He has a brand new Mac. ::saywhat::
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 08:23:42 PM »
I'm up to three of them now. Got seriously tired of fixing the wife's PC problems so I bought her one for her birthday. No more bitching about ANYTHING. Best grand I ever spent.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2011, 08:35:38 PM »
Quote from: John Florida on May 18, 2011, 08:17:23 PM
Quote from: trapeze on May 18, 2011, 08:13:31 PM
Silly PC users.

Get a Mac.

(if that's not flamebait I don't know what is)

 He has a brand new Mac. ::saywhat::

Trap, you might have missed this thread where I discussed the death of my G5 and the purchase of my brand spankin' new Mac Pro.
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Re: It's a trap!
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 10:30:51 PM »
I guess I did miss that thread.

So...you did what? Accidentally installed malware?
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