Comments on: Gone Phishing

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:46:45 +0000

It’s tough because he’s older and lives alone. Without plants or animals his place will be like a cell, and mobility problems will not help. He’s afraid of spreading it so he doesn’ t want visitors. He’s trapped with a TV and his telephone.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:24:21 +0000

argh! i'm really sorry to hear that. i hope he recovers. i've been incubating a post on infection control.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:51:25 +0000

If the monitor was still plugged in and broke a water pipe on the way down, it would be really wrong, Steve.

All the e-mail is scanned by my virus software has it is downloaded, and I don’t like leaving on it the ‘Net any longer than necessary.

Hipparchia, the new person got into some health problems and his doctor told him he couldn’t have plants or animals in his house. He caught a infection while in the hospital for a minor problem, and now has major problems. Our American health system at work.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:38:50 +0000

There are many virtues in checking your mail through webmail, but I’ll confine myself to one: if there’s a link in a received HTML message, you can hover over it and the browser tells you where it really goes. Or if there’s any uncertainty, my host’s webmail allows you to open the message source w/o opening the message itself. That capability has saved my assets a few times.

If phishers “accidentally” got their fingers caught under an old-fashioned 19″ CRT monitor that is “accidentally” dropped from about ceiling height onto their keyboards, they might find that “unfortunately” they can no longer ply their trade for a while. But it would be wrong of me to wish that upon them; oh, yes, that would be wrong.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:57:42 +0000

hehe!

[flash boy?! and did property’s new home not work out?]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:54:25 +0000

Come on, most of the words are English cognates, although a few are a problem.

Next time I’ll let you figure out how to report abuse at Italian web sites, because you have to click around to find the real bank site, from all of the corporate stuff.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:50:33 +0000

cool! my italian is in better shape than i thought it was!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:50:05 +0000

I always look at them because of this garbage. I have the security addresses for a dozen sites in my address book because of this. I don’t know how much good it does, but I do it anyway.

I also send complaints to administrators when I can trace spam sites to people, especially .edu, who wouldn’t like their bandwidth being used.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:38:37 +0000

To the pond scum bottom feeders who send this shite: va fanculo.

Since I am the help desk for various family members, I have over the years successfully trained them to copy and paste links into a browser, rather than directly clicking on them. Would that everyone was paranoid enough to do this.