Yanc
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Post by Yanc on Nov 25, 2005 11:26:40 GMT -7
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Post by bescheid on Nov 25, 2005 18:26:15 GMT -7
Yanc
Thanks for the information. The McAfee site was very informative.
Charles
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Bob S
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Post by Bob S on Nov 27, 2005 17:41:46 GMT -7
Thanks for the info yanc. I have SpyBot and two other spyware programs running. I am also running AVG Gold from Grisoft. There are a couple of other sites (Panda for one) that will scan your machine for any threats. Sometimes I thinkI am Paranoid but even paranoids have enemies. I think there are several versions of every virus that was ever invented and a daily scan keeps me clean. I still keep my fingers crossed LOL ;D |
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Post by bescheid on Nov 27, 2005 18:26:30 GMT -7
bob
My opinion, you are not being paranoid, you are being smart. There are so many nuts out there in cyber space and those that suffer, are us....
With your screening programmes, have you by chance run up the web addresses? If not, try it some time. You will learn very quickly to hate! I mean it! Most of those darn cookie monsters are for profit sites. Not only are they a nuisance, but, boy, they take up your c drive space. I am not sure of you, perhaps your computer is loaded with hard drive space, but, mine is a lap top and I have to be careful with hard drive space.
The other consideration for my self, is, how important is it that I must access any Russian address? It seems that I must run a screen to remove out the darn ru address cookies after ward.
I am not sure, but, I am sure beginning to suspect this: There must be a half a billion computer people in Russia, and an equal number of half billion Russian computer hackers.
Just only a suspicion.
Charles
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Post by bescheid on Nov 27, 2005 18:29:07 GMT -7
Bob
It does sound as of German orgion as another one before. But, who knows.
Charles
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Bob S
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Post by Bob S on Nov 27, 2005 18:30:26 GMT -7
;D I Just read about that worm in a Kim Komando newsletter. She said that you will NEVER get an e-mail letter from the FBI or CIA or their German equivalents and the best thing to do is delete the letter without opening it.  |
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Post by jimpres on Nov 28, 2005 7:41:38 GMT -7
You should delete any mail that you don't recognize the sender especially attachments.
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Bob S
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Post by Bob S on Nov 28, 2005 9:45:39 GMT -7
Et Al in the forum. Last night I cleaned my Photo files and this morning I went through the cookies file and cleaned out a bunch of those. Many of the cookies I recognize are kept, the others that I don't know or recognized are dumped without a problem. I visit the Kim Komando site quite a bit and this woman has great alerts, tips, tricks and a bunch of downloads. I subscribe to her newsletters and the only thing I can say is that I have used some of the things she has recommended and have never been disappointed. ;D
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piwo
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Post by piwo on Nov 29, 2005 11:37:48 GMT -7
As for the Russian "cookies", I just attended a Tech Security-symposium in the Greater STL area a few weeks ago, and MacAfee sent their "Security Evangelist" to be the key note speaker. The Russians are indeed the premier web hackers and identity theft culprits out there right now. They do it for profit, not for fun. The real scary group waiting in the wings according to the gentlemen who spoke, were the Chinese. They have two battalions (over 2000 people), State trained in web hacking, infiltration and virus creation just waiting for the orders to do their thing: whatever that will be. Could be large scale denial of service, could be identity theft or financial market chaos, nobody knows. Cyber space is a scary place, and you really can't be too cautious. Have a software firewall, a router if you are on high speed, Anti virus that's kept up to date, and tools to remove the spyware and malware. Be vigilant!
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