WARNING, hacker alert

[dnmun]

we are getting a lot of phony users creating links which will infect you if you click on them.

i reported them, but if you don't already know better, do not click on a hidden link in any post.

just like you would not open virus laden emails from people you don't know, don't open these hidden links or you will get infected.

it would be nice if there was some way to keep people from using hidden links. i know nuts and emf used them a lot, and because of that i never ever saw a single thing they were talking about because i never ever open a hidden link.

 

[Reid Welch]

Whoaaa.... Endless Fear alert?

Huh? LATELY I am putting the more arcane words of my postings into clickable form.

Like this: who knows anyone more obstreperous than "jesus!reid!"?

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Go ahead, anyone? Click on that blued word? It won't hack or infect your 'puter.

FACT: Firefox users are nearly immune to these simple worm-things that are NOT in any of MY postings, ever.
We all learned this three years ago when the old V was hacked and heavily seeded with trojans and worms.
WE, the Firefox users, had no idea. Only when a few of the...hapless...I.E. losers began getting sick computers,
and their stupid $$ aunty-virus alert "oh da sky it be a'fallin" bells and whistles went off, did we all realize,
"Houston, we have a problem. Time to BAIL OUT of this rudderless, owner-abandoned old VisforTiltage place".

So we came here, thanks to knightmb's most gracious invite.

FACT: AVAST is free and it is a super-good highly regarded anti-malware program.
AVAST does not hog your system resources. I won't ever buy a Symantec or other Dr. Virus On Your Toes, brand again.
AVAST is FREE. So is FIREFOX.

I do not use I.E. except on very rare occasion when some web page maker, has kow-towed to the STUPID protocols of I.E.
design flaws, and made the hapless (again) IE user super-duper vulnerable to attacks.

It all goes around: MS makes and foists upon the public a sh-tty browser about as stable as a house of cards ten stories high,
and all the cards are greased with pig fat and ready to crash if you so much as press two buttons on your keyboard at once.

IE sux.
Firefox rocks.

Symantex, et all, suck.
AVAST, rox.

Hacker alerter: what antivirus program do you employ?
What browser do you employ?

I have had ZERO problems. A couple of times in three years or so,
AVAST has stopped a possible viral attack. It did it for me when I test-tried IE on the old, hacked V site.
Bells and whistles went off, so to speak. IE is for dummies. Do not use IE.

My old man uses IE. I cannot get him out of the habit.
His computer is the same as mine.
Mine boots from cold to ready to roll, in about ninety seconds.
His takes about four minutes to get ready to work,
and then it is s l o w. It must be full of malware, or something.

I don't know much but I do know sh-t from Shinola, as we used to say here in Yankeeland.

 

[dnmun]

so you like to use a rubber, that's fine. but for people who don't, i repeat, don't open hidden links unless you know and trust the person sending them. i think these hackers will get cleared out but i am just warning others who are not so sophisticated as reid.

 

[Reid Welch]

Look, Reid (third person, tense, tense) is not sophisticated.

He only SOUNDS like Assholio.

-------this is safe to read and click. it was written last night for poor people who do not have
big vocabularies, yet....but I will teach them what I know, what I taught myself to do:
LOOK UP odd words, and "mown" is an odd word to a poor black feller who quit school at grade four.

SAMPLE, SAFE:


Listen, children, to your elders?
They are maples.
You are alders
like as not
to be mown down
before the frost
turns ground to brown.

Listen, children, to your elders?
They are no better;
not one whit;
only wiser
because
they have,
by Life,
been bit.

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Now, y'all click "quote" and you can see how simple the BBC code really is.
Once you get the hang of it, it's easy as p-i-e. And if the writer is known to you,
you know he's not gonna give you anything worse than a dose of the clap.

Thank you for being calm,
signing off,

V.D. Dawg Welch

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[TylerDurden]

All browsers have vulnerabilities. The only tested browser not successfully hacked at Pwn2Own (at the last defcon) was Google Chrome. It is not the fastest, but is more secure than the others. (Opera was not tested)

Embedded URLs are handy, but view your browser's status bar hovering over any link before you click. Avoid 'tiny-urls' that mask the true target.

 

[dogman dan]

Click on links by people you trust. Anybody you thinks a newbie or a kook, don't click.

 

[Anonymous]

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[TPA]

The only tested browser not successfully hacked at Pwn2Own (at the last defcon) was Google Chrome.

Of course not, you think Google is going to share all the effort it has gone through to spy with other people?? :lol: