Re: How secure is your Windows Computer?

From: TisMe (anotherMungjob_at_invalid.duh)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 07:34:22 GMT

Pain Devine wrote:
: Ugh... 99.99% of people that think they got "hacked" were never
: hacked at all.
:
: One of the following is more likely your problem:
: 1. You opened and email attachment and, as a result, Got a virus.
: 2. Have a husband that downloaded porn and, as a result, got a virus.
: 3. Have a kid that was trying to dowload a pirated video game and, as
: a result, got a virus.

Believable I suppose. But most today get them because of social
engineering.

: 4. Got a computer than had something wrong with it, took it back to
: the store and they didn't know how to fix it so they told you that
: you were hacked to get you to go away... and probably charged you a
: fortune to format your hard drive even though it took them all of 10
: minuites to do.

Mostly bull***. one to three hours is the norm now on these larger hard
drives to reformat.
Plus most ignorant users that don't know how to fix and only how to be click
happy
on their computers. They want the IT to install everything if it is
reformatted.
Including the extra software they had. But the norm is they want it fixed
they don't
 want it reformatted. They want to save their stuff. By the time the IT
gets it, it
has multi viruses and Trojans on it, which takes hours to fix.Because the
owner
doesn't get it to the shop till the computer is at a crawl, and about dead.

:
: Hackers don't hack normal peoples computers!!! There's no reason to!
: At worst they'll email you a Trojan and then use your computer to
: hack a REAL target like microsofts website or soemthing. Hacking is
: all about bragging rights... there's no bragging rights in hacking
: "Jane Smiths" computer!

Bull*** They all had to start somewhere.

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