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06-07-2006, 10:21 PM
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| Most Interesting Man in the World  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chantilly, VA Age: 25
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| Re: strange email i got the sweetest spam email a month ago... it was titled "pony rides 25 cents, horse rides 50" lol
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06-08-2006, 11:44 AM
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| The Starter  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 29
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Matty, if you'd spend more time moderating the forums and less time "surfing the pr0n on the interwebs", maybe these things wouldn't happen to your computer. On a serious note it wouldn't hurt to do a thorough virus and spyware sweep of your system, if you haven't already. Since it's a Gmail account I think it's just someone phishing for valid email addresses - it's a piece of cake to spoof the sender address. But, it never hurts to be sure your system is clean. Norton Antivirus is good for virus checks, and spyware often takes a software cocktail composed of SpySweeper, SpyBot, AdAware and HijackThis!. Those four used in conjunction with eachother should catch pretty much anything. On a side note, spyware is getting freakin' insidious these days. The stuff these guys can do and the ways it gets on your system is really just incredible.
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06-08-2006, 11:47 AM
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| I like big (_|_)s.   Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lexington, Virginia Age: 31
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| Re: strange email Actually I'd go with AVG Antivirus for virus scanning. Honestly, it finds more and is less of a resource hog than Norton.
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06-08-2006, 11:48 AM
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| I like big (_|_)s. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lexington, Virginia Age: 31
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| Re: strange email On the note of spyware, honestly if you have SP2 installed on your Windows XP machine, you should NEVER get spyware unless you have little computer know-how or you ARE too busy surfing pr0n and click OK to the messages that basically say: "We are going to HATE F*CK your computer with spyware? Is that OK if we show you boobies? Click Yes to continue." I've cleaned up my fair share of that stuff in the years I've worked in IT and it all comes from porn.
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06-08-2006, 11:55 AM
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| \m/   Join Date: Feb 2004 Age: 40
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| Re: strange email I routinely run spyware and virus scans so that shouldn't be an issue. |
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06-08-2006, 12:04 PM
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| The Starter Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 29
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The spyware I was actually referring to is the newer stuff - SP2 is only useful in certain cases, and really only if you've got the Windows Firewall turned on. Of course that craps on a whole bunch of other network and performance issues, but at least you're safe I guess. There's a new one going around, I forget the name, but it basically requires zero interaction from the user to be installed on your machine - basically just visit the wrong website by accident and it's there. It then does some crap to your registry and manages to set itself up as a service running in memory to the point where you've got to go into safe mode and manually delete a whole bunch of stuff and fix your registry. Leave it to a bunch of asshole programmers to take ALL the fun out of surfing for pr0n. Matty, what Spyware protection programs are you running?
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06-08-2006, 12:11 PM
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| Mad Men  Join Date: Feb 2004
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06-08-2006, 01:27 PM
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| I like big (_|_)s. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lexington, Virginia Age: 31
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