Re: How did Google Know my System ws infected?


"C.Wilder" <CWilder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shenan Stanley wrote:
C.Wilder wrote:
I had been wondering how Google knew my System was infected from
just trying to log on?

PA Bear wrote:
post back to this thread with the information we'd need to be able to
assist.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
PA Bear (and many of the rest) were left to figure out what you even
meant.

C.Wilder wrote:
I am sorry if I was to vague. I can understand an answer that says
"You are to vague". Now I am left to sift through rules that are
not consistant with 99.9999% of the rest of the *regulars* and
wonder what the problem is?
I did not find my question all that confusing and after a review I
still see it the same way. Unless *no one* is aware that Google can
detect infected systems.

Thus the question. "How did Google know my System w(a)s infected."


Google what?
Google - as in www.google.com?
A Google service as in http://www.gmail.com or
http://groups.google.com? A Google provided application like Google
Toolbar or Google Desktop?
Perhaps a Google for Mobile device application?

What was the exact message that lead you to believe that whatever
'Google' service/app/web page you are talking about knew you were
infected? And what were you infected with according to Google XXXXX?
And What did Google XXXXX tell you to do?

My recent security issues had been addressed and solved by advice from
posters in this group. I saw a direct connection with my System's security
issue and the topic of this post. I was mistaken and for that I am sorry.

So, you mean when you fire up Google Earth it was telling you that
your system was infested and so Goolge Earth zoom would be bad ?
No. Oh, then it was the toolbar that gave a popup?

What is so hard about giving someone a clue to what the issue is instead
of this guessing game.


Ummm . . . that is exactly what people have been attempting to
make clear to you.
Google is a company.
It has many, many ways that people interact with it on the network.
You have said a company told you that your machine was sick, and
asked how it knew.
People here have said, tell us what interface to the company,
i.e. what software from it, you were using.

There is no order on this group.That is plain to see by anyone. Top
posting is rude by most standards but not if you are above the rules on
your favorite group. Those that live in a glass internet should not troll
thyself.


More true conclusion is hard to voice. ALL should heed it.
Also, top vs bottom is IMO archaic war, long ago obsoleted.

Now wouldn't one think that a simple answer would have solved all this
instead of self righteousness.


Yes, and you still have not said what of Google's softwares
is involved.

How can you expect any attempt at plausibility in a response
based on near zero context ?

Roger


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