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Please read the attached. I strongly suggest that you don't open any attachments with picture files attached until a fix is on the market.

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/ho...10801,107419,00.html
 
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Good site. Thanks for the alert, Eric.
 
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Hey Eric & Bill, did you guys install the outside patch?

How would we know if we were compromised?

Sometimes reading stuff like this makes my head heart and I feel like just yanking out the modem forever.

I think I got a Happy New Years from Carl. Is that what it's talking about?

Is someone right now just mining all of our data?

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My better 9/10ths just found out that Micrsoft now has a fix. The people that developed the temporary fix are telling us to contact Microsoft. Carl wouldn't ever fall for such a thing and since he's an old guy like me, we're impervious to that stuff anyway.
 
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I never open anything for several days. I have and use Norton Antivirus and McAfee, both of which are updated daily. Waiting gives them a chance to catch up on new gremlins. This helped me once before did the waiting thing. I was suspicious of an attachment that was not alerted by either of them. A day or two later they caught up and alerted on the attachment. Even a friend of 40 years sent me a virus. He had no idea how his computer got it. It took over his address book and sent the virus to all his contacts. His business requires that he deal with Southeast Asia a lot. He thinks that is where it came from.

I do most of my surfing with Mozilla Firefox, too. It is much less susceptible to virus attacks.

And if porn appears on my screen, I hit the big red X box as fast as I can, then shut down the computer with lightning speed. Porn is OK with me, but lots of bad stuff sneaks in with it. I was doing some sort of innocent research once and some porn popped up and it took me days to clear up out the damage. And the site I clicked on was very benign. I told a guy at work about it, and he tried it on one of the company computers. It took the IT guy quite a while to undo it, too.
 
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This I strongly believe..........If you have a XP and Symantec(Norton Anti Virus)screening progam AND Bill Gates automatically updates you AND AND AND you manully update yourself each and every time you boot up your computer AND if you screen every inbound and OUTBOUND message(which may include pictures)you are as safe as possible, short of not turning on your computer........Was this only one sentence???
............carl

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Originally posted by bill h:
I never open anything for several days. I have and use Norton Antivirus and McAfee, both of which are updated daily. Waiting gives them a chance to catch up on new gremlins.


Sounds like the smartest thing to do.

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Originally posted by humbojb:
Carl wouldn't ever fall for such a thing and since he's an old guy like me, we're impervious to that stuff anyway.


The Mr. McGoo way of looking at things I guess. My father is a little like that too.
 
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I'm gladder and gladder I have a Mac and not a Wintel machine. I suppose I should knock on wood, but the computer vandals seem too busy trying to destroy Microsoft to pay much attention to Apple. Or maybe the Apple OS is harder to attack.
 
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Originally posted by olroy:
I'm gladder and gladder I have a Mac and not a Wintel machine. I suppose I should knock on wood, but the computer vandals seem too busy trying to destroy Microsoft to pay much attention to Apple. Or maybe the Apple OS is harder to attack.



Roy, you're right on both counts. That is why I do my research using Firefox instead of Gates Explorer. It is a pain to manage two bookmark lists, though.
 
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Bill H.,

There is a Firefox extension that allows the Firefox user to open a tab using Internet Explorer. This extension has allowed me to discontinue keeping bookmarks for each of the browsers (IE and Firefox) as I can use Firefox exclusively.

Dennis
 
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Soounds great, Dennis. Can you steer me to a link or something?
 
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Bill H.,

Explanation/Download of IE extension can be found at:

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

Dennis
 
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