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Malicious Email Downloads ‘Drive-by Virus’ Just by Clicking Open

In the good ol’ days, one had to actually be duped into opening the attachment — or clicking the link — of a virus-infected email. Now, a new type of PC virus comes without warning.

This is the subject line you need to watch out for: Banking Security Update

The Daily Mail explains how the virus works:

A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs — emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment.

The user will not even be warned this is happening — the only message that appears is “loading.”

The email automatically downloads malicious software into your computer from elsewhere the moment a user clicks to open it.

Think your security system will catch the email? Chances are probably not — unless you have your security software set at maximum level. The Daily Mail reports that because the email itself isn’t necessarily infected, many security systems will not pick up on it. Security experts were reported as saying the virus is “particularly dangerous.”

Eleven Research Team states that the new virus is called a “drive-by virus,” consisting of an HTML email that only requires the user to open the mail.

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  • objectivetruth
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:31am

    I got a pop up from zedo.com from this site.It was actually a pop under.So those who say you’ve been hit with a pop up from here ,I know you are telling the truth.Folks hackers and thieves will use any work around they can find.Be it online or in the real world.Your best bet don‘t open email from those you don’t know.Get a second email account for those sites that may be questionable be it ad-ware malware exc.If you can‘t check the source without opening the mail don’t use the email client.Keep your antivirus antiadware/malware up to date.Set it to include your email if it allows it.Use your emails client reject[spam folder]liberally.Have a seperate computer for financial transaction if you can swing it.Don’t bank on line unless you truly have cause to.Use a preset amount card or a gift card not connected with your account for online transactions.Any phishing attempt from a bank should be directed to the banks abuse dept.If you need to, go out online and find it.Send the email to them.Preferably without opening.Although that isn’t always possible.Masquerading as a legitimate transaction is one of their tricks.You may have a account at that bank or even inquired recently about services products the bank has as a prospective customer.

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  • Raisingmy3boysright
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:55am

    NEVER open emails from anyone you do not know. Hit DELETE! My hubby is a computer geek and always told me that. EVEN if you get a small box pop up that looks like your Microsoft virus protector DO NOT CLICK IT TO SEARCH FOR VIRUSES!!!! I did this the other day :-* and my hubby had a very hard time getting rid of the virus ( it looks just like the real virus protection box). It actually TURNS OFF your virus protection software in your computer!!!!

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    • Pacapapa
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Good advice. Also turn off all preview planes. A preview will open an email. Just delete any emails you’re not sure of.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:07pm

      He also needs to tell you links from friends can infect you. As an instructor of Computer Literacy, it is important that email from friends can be dangerous. Never click any link. Copy the link and paste in the browser if you want to view the contents.

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  • PB2GOD
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:03am

    Simple Fix: TURN OFF HTML EMAIL. USE ONLY TEXT.

    You’d be surprised at all the junk links in your everyday email. By the way, if HTML is on, then every time you open your emails, ….THEY KNOW.

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    • GrumpyCat
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:27am

      I agree, HTML formatted email is evil.

      The default in Apple’s Mail.app for Preferences -> Viewing -> “Display remote images in HTML messages” is off. Unless this is enabled the sender can not track you until you click “Display Images” when viewing the email.

      There are plenty of other email evils such as “top-post, no trim” replies. Just because the idiots at Microsoft (and later Apple) put the cursor at the top of the email when starting a reply doesn’t mean that is where you are supposed to start typing. That is where you are supposed to start EDITING. However brain-dead Outlook won’t let you trim the other text, or insert your reply text where others spoke prompting your reply.

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:54am

      You are correct! As this is based on an HTML exploit, turning off HTML will work.

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    • king1
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:20pm

      what about blocking remote content ? firefox does it or does that apply here

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  • bets
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:31am

    Two days ago opened Blaze article and got a pop up add. It is now all over the blaze just click on the blaze then you have a pop up. Not sure why has to do with some kind of education i close it all the time. It is weird.

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    • number9
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:39am

      Same exact thing here. I suspect spooky dude.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:12pm

      You may have accidentally clicked a link. I did this when moving my mouse. I have never received a pop-up or pop-under from The Blaze. Check your settings.

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    • number9
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 3:09pm

      Thanks @COFEMALE I’ll do that. The pop up I got 1st shows up as The Economist (I’m telling you, it’s spooky dude) ad then quickly switches to, well, now I can’t remember! I think someone else posted it here, it‘s the same one I’m getting.

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  • LouC57
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:14am

    Challenge to brainiac geeks…There MUST be a coder out there that can create software that will automatically detect a virus or worm laden email and automatically bounce it back to the evil sender.

    Of course, this person would almost automatically be shoved into the 1% overnight! Any takers?

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:32am

      Problem is that the return address is, 98%, a fake return address, either entirely, or someone’s “repurposed” one.

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    • GrumpyCat
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:31am

      There is no need for what you describe. Simply use a plain-text email client and refuse HTML.

      If one were to automatically bounce spam/virus emails back to the sender then that would only prove to the sender 1) that they have found a live email address, and 2) the email they sent didn’t get through, so 3) keep trying until the returns stop as then you know you are getting through. So what you suggest only harms *you*.

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  • Twobyfour
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:10am

    Rational Man: ” But Norton kills them.”

    Not always. Nor McAffe for that mater. There was a hole in it that allowed slipping through via raw sockets and getting passwords to email account without even phishing. It’s plugged now, but a lot of people got their window boxes zombified.

    I use linux as a bare metal OS (meaning primary). Since I have to use different windows versions for testing, I use vmware to run them on top (or from within as it were) of linux. I clone the virtual windows machines before every major update, so if something goes wrong, I just ditch the messed up VM and use a clone. This is an ideal configuration, well worth the $99 I paid for vmware layer.

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  • barfield2256
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:12am

    BULL SNOT! Plain and simple.

    1. Has this ‘discovery’ appeared in ANY peer-reviewed computer science journal? If so, a link to that article would be nice.

    2. Where can I get a copy of this email for inspection? If it exists then certainly someone somewhere has it available for download (as a plain text file).

    3. “The email automatically downloads malicious software into your computer from elsewhere…” — Where does this magic mystery attachment come from? A domain name would be great! A country of origin would be awesome too – and can be derived from the IP Address associated with the domain name.

    4. “Security experts say…” Do these experts have names?

    So, in summary: “Eleven Research Team (people you’ve never heard of) says to go BUY more software. Your computer is a piece of junk until you dig deeper into those pockets!!”

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:39am

    OMGosh!

    Anything Google is more intrusive on privacy than anything else you can use.
    Your a ******** troll and not as smart as you think you are.
    Microsoft Security Essentials??…..Give me a break!
    I have all the Microsoft stuff AND the latest Norton 360 and Rapport. They don’t stop all phishing pages. And Norton updates all day long as neccessary automatically………………….

    Funny that your trolling everyone’s posts telling us what you learned in High School Computer 101.
    It is true that Windows Update allows Trojans to slip in with their updates though. But Norton kills them.

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  • tea-sack
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:32am

    Your client should have an option for plain-text only.

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  • Spyder
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:31am

    Considering that I’m gearing up to get off the grid entirely, bring it. It’ll just make it easier to toss this POS, self-imposed tracking device in the garbage and move on.

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  • grannyrecipe
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:20am

    I have a friend who is really good at programming and he gave me a program that he made that basically acts as a reverse spy. It discovers the origination of a viruses’ IP and all this other crap. He uses it to for counter surveying the originator and some other stuff…but it makes me laugh…geek wars! It even monitors your online accounts for hacking.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:48am

      Yeah I found one that does the same.He created it for a friend by his bio of the app.I think I may use it to backtrack a certain type of email I keep recieving.Hope I can use it for that.Hope it includes email.These freaks are truly starting to annoy me.Thery have an amazing ability to jump any barrier.Its just one sender,using multiple locations.Source code is telling me that.Its also confined to one or two pieces of mail.I just hope it isn’t connected with whats happening in the real world.If so its gonna bee a nasty day for them.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 3:03am

    I recently received an email from my son’s mother-in-law. Of course I opened it, BUT it was about increasing my penis size. I’m a woman, so I don’t believe it was really from her.

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    • OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:00am

      Where can I buy an Aluminum Foil Hat for my Computer??

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:17am

      Someone has hijacked your daughter’s email. Tell her to try changing her password. It happened to me and changing the PW seems to have fixed it. They get your PW through a phishing page that asks for your PW. It looks like your email site page and asks you to re-enter your PW, but it is a false page. Once they get your PW, then they send out spam emails, (from your email), to everyone on your contact list. It happened to my daughter too early last year or the year before. She did nothing but get a new email. I and everyone on her old contact list, STILL, get the spam emails in her name.
      Now if I get a request to re-enter my PW, I close the window and go to the email site to log in again. So far, (about 4mos), no spam has been sent from my email address.

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    • GrayPanther
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:07am

      This type advertisement is allowed to those who refuse to remove all the forwarded e-mail addresses. A teaser or innocent ad can allow the sender to pick up all the addresses attached. Do yourself and your friends a favor and delete all forwarded addresses before sending on. And YES, delete before opening unknown e-mails.

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    • astroroach
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:30pm

      She probably meant to send it to Debbie Wasserman Shultz.

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  • Matt
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:52am

    OMGWTFSPPMTFOYPWTHIWU

    TRANSLATION: PEOPLE just get GMAIL. you will never get another phishing email again!!

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  • dumbugga
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:42am

    to weigh a ton

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  • dumbugga
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:41am

    It takes a big dog weigh a ton.

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  • PAINESMAN
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:07am

    Anybody know why those who perpatrate these acts against innocent folks cant be caught. What is thier motivation for doing it. I aint buying that its just some prank by goofy nerds. I been wondering if its not sent by variose computer repair shops since they’re the ones that profit off my misfortunes.

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:38am

      I do know why they cant catch them. Heres the rub, the internet is MASSIVE. It is millions upon millions of computers connected together in a web. Lets say that each of those millions of computers is a separate haystack and the police are looking for one needle in that haystack. Now lets take it a step further, (there are hundreds of thousands of needles, which is still so few compared to all the haystacks that they are still impossible to find) and there are only one thousand police trying to stop them. Now imagine that the needles work together to cover each others backs and attack the police. Now further imagine that the programmers who become the police are the WORST of the programmers out there and the ones that become the needles are the BEST. There is no way the government could ever possibly fight internet crime. That is why the people leading the fight are corporations, becuase they can make money off of protecting people. So Google, Norton, McAfee, Microsoft, they all make money in part by doing what the government cannot, which is keeping you safe. But they can only innovate so fast, give Google a month and I bet that Gmail will be immune to this virus if it isnt already….cant say so much for AOL and MSN though. If you want to make yourself immune though do the following. a.) go to your email settings and disable the loading of external content (like pictures) without user authorization. b.) if an email looks at all fishy, even if its from a friend, dont open it

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:40am

      Ultimately the people who make viruses bank on one thing. Your ignorance. If you are a savvy internet user it is nearly impossible to get a virus. (step one to becoming a savvy internet user? Either learn TONS more about computers than you already know…..or just buy a Mac, which is already immune to nearly all viruses, including this new one)

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:41am

      If you seriously take your computer to the repair shop each time you get a virus, then you should really educate yourself. Most viruses are pretty easy to manage if you have even a rudimentary level of computer knowledge.

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:50am

      third reply…i know, but you need to hear this
      A. Computer repair shops do not exist anymore. All that exists is the Geek Squad…they drove everyone else out of business.
      B. they do not need to send you a virus, since 99.999999% of the things people take to the Geek Squad crying “virus” are actually having a problem that was in no way caused by a virus.
      C. their @$$es would be sued to high heaven, not to mention the fact that their managers would be put in federal prison if they spread viruses just to generate business.

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    • jado1981
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:06am

      Matt, you are mostly right, except the part about Macs are mostly immune to viruses, that’s the bs line they sell.
      Most of the world uses pc, either windows or linux based, there is a fraction that uses mac, sure, but if I were to want to create a virus to wreak havoc on as many people as possible, I would try to go after the largest percentage of computer users out there. So, I would start with linux, and work my way into windows, and then eventually I would get to the macs.
      Most of the business world uses windows, so if you want to try and steal important financial information, going after windows would be a wise idea.
      The idea that macs are immune to viruses, or most of them is absolutely not true, if the mac was as popular or more so than a pc, then I‘d put good money to it that they’d be the computer that always got infected.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:47am

      People that run linux more often (than not) know what they are doing. You chances of infecting them are quite slim, cuz the inherent security is rather a top of the line (you can use selinux layer to make it really really hard to break in, if you are extra paranoid) and they are less likely to engage in insecure patterns.

      Hosting servers–depends. They are usually less secure as a tradeoff, to accommodate site owners that would be inconvenienced with a beefed up security. I run my own server, that way I have a full control to express my inner control freak.

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 3:42pm

      @Matt:

      I’m a computer guy, and I request that you please stop giving people terrible and incorrect information presented as if you are an authority.

      MacOS is a version of Linux. BOTH have viruses specialized for them that would not infect a PC. Please stop telling people that Macs can’t get viruses, it’s simply wrong.

      There are a few VERY simple steps that anyone, of any skill level, can take to protect themselves from the overwhelming majority of viruses out there.

      1) STOP using Internet Explorer. Use Firefox, or another alternative that doesn’t use DirectX.
      2) Download adblock plus, and Noscript(for Firefox, or alternatives for whatever browser you choose)
      3) Turn OFF html in your emails. Get all emails as text only.
      4) Do NOT download things without knowing the place where it’s coming from, and their reputation. Even if it is sent by a friend. Most of your friends will give you viruses with the “free” stuff they’re sending, because they don’t know any better than you do.

      #3 stops the particular virus in this article, but the three in combination will protect you from 99.9% of viruses currently out there.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:08am

    I get phishing emails that look just like the ones from my bank and credit card websites. They try to get me to log on via the link in the email, and then they would have my UN and PW to get into my accounts. If they can disguise an email to do that, then they can disguise one that you just click on to open and then you get infected with this ‘drive-by virus’.
    If they can copy any website or email for phishing purposes, then this drive-by virus could be a real problem. How do you know if the email is the real deal or not?
    I already ignore strange emails. It’s the familiar looking phoney ones that are bothering me now!

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  • joetex
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:55pm

    Thank you LINUX

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:40am

      Send it to the DNC, George Soros, SEIU, and the WH.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:10am

      You can’t infect dog crap with a virus, they are carriers.

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:42am

      Lol, its the jerks on linux who probably created the virus in the first place. More like, Thank you Apple!!

      I mean seriously, the reason no one bothers to infect linux is because it already sucks and is easier to hack into then your momma’s pants. The reason they dont hack Mac’s is because they are legitimately more difficult.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:49am

      Matt, you have no idea what you are talking about. Most viruses and trojans. etc. are created on and for windows OS.

      I use linux for work and haven’t had one single infection since I started using it 9 years ago. Not to say it is not possible, but the separation of user accounts and some handy tools — that are quite the same for linux and mac (that runs on modified BSDOS, which is a unix variant as is linux), just compiled for the platform), makes it a safe platform.

      You can use any OS for brute force attacks or for scripting viruses and trojans, but if you track it, you’d find out most script kiddies (or even grownups) use windows based OS.

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    • wifezilla
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:18am

      and mac os

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  • Locked
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:55pm

    Survival of the fittest, here. Or even “survival of the least retarded.” Welcome to the internet, 10 years ago! You receive a message from someone you’ve never met…do you open it? Let’s spread it further. You walk to the end of your driveway, open your mailbox, and see a letter from the Sultan of Brunei. Do you open it? No? Well WHY IN THE WORLD would you open an e-mail from an anonymous source?!?

    Seriously. If you get this malware, it’s “Darwinism” at its best. If you don’t know who sent it, don’t open it!

    But to beat back 95% of infections, download Malwarebytes and Spybot Search and Destroy. Bam! Most of your issues are gone.

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:43am

      lol malwarebytes and spybot? welcome to the internet 5 years ago. more like download Microsoft Security Essentials…or just buy a mac

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    • jado1981
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:23pm

      As ohiorifleman has said, Matt, you are just a mac fanboy, you seem like you’d push any iCrap they sell. People don‘t make viruses for macs because they don’t care about the .1% of the world that uses their mac for the paint program. If people want to get things done, they use linux, or even windows, that’s why viruses are made for those users.
      To help combat the crap that’s out there, use malwarebytes, it’s a great program, as far as an anti-virus to back up with, emsisoft anti-malware, it beats most of the popular programs out there. To protect browsing, I use and suggest Opera, and then use Ghostery to block the ad programs that are running in the background (it shows I’ve blocked 13 on this page).
      Lastly, Matt, you sir, are a moron. If anybody is out reading these comments, please ignore matt’s excrement.

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  • joetex
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:54pm

    Thank you LINUX and Evolution Mail

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:53pm

    Some call it a virus some call it artificial intelligence or signs and properties of becoming self aware.

    Most Anti-virus software check not only the attachments but also the links within the mail. If they send you somewhere flagged or auto active downloaded they are blocked. All you need are a few free programs and you will be fine. Just download Malwarebytes and Spybot Search and Destroy. With any of the other anti-virus programs which are also free.

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:47am

      Artificial intelligence? WTH are you talking about? Its just a new virus delivery system created by a human being who we will call a hacker, but whose real name is probably DouchePants McGee…cuz youd have to be a ***** to create a virus in the first place.

      But once again, people, dont get spybot, get Microsoft Security Essentials, it works MUCH better. (or just dont buy a windows computer) Jeez people, and stop using INternet explorer for goodness sake switch to firefox or chrome. what is it still something like 60% of people use internet exploder? Most of them using 7 and 8 instead of 9…some people even use ie6 still!!!!!!

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  • ZomBrad
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:32pm

    I like how there isn‘t ONE thing under the sun that isn’t touched by “douchebaggory”!

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:31pm

    It makes me wonder what would happen if I clicked on all the spam these “Work at Home” idiots post on this website.
    I caught a virus once by opening an email that made me vote Democrat once, changed my sexual preference, I dated a guy named Barney, and it made me sell soap. Fortunetely, my cable box got stuck on Fox, and within an hour of O Reilly, I got my sanity back. Although I still get an itch to wear ladies underwear and call Bill Clinton, “Big Willie”. The shock treatments are slowly curbing that.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:14pm

    PCs only. I remember that the next time I buy a new computer.

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    • GJPinks
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:36pm

      Macs aren’t more secure, just not enough to make a chain reaction.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:39pm

      Apples don‘t have virus’, only worms.

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    • Matt
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:55am

      Macs are FAR more secure. You would be right, that there arent enough of them to cause a chain reaction, because that is one part of it. But the real reason is that the Mac OS is many times harder to fool than Windows.

      If we were to compare it. Lets say the operating systems were written to keep viruses out, and that the viruses are water. A Mac would be a dam built by a beaver, not perfect, might let some water through, but it does a pretty dang good job. A windows would be like trying to stop a river with a screen door.

      A linux would be like holding a hose and spraying it at the water. hahahaha, because if you are using it, you are probably a computer programmer and maybe even a hacker hahaha.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:26am

      Matt, hackers = white hats, crackers = black hats. Nuff said in that regard.

      Now, you can use linux for any number of things, the same as other systems. For a regular Joe, just use firefox, evolution/kmail for mail, and free OpenOffice suite instead of MS office (99.8% compatibility).

      Yes, many coders (hackers = white hats) use linux. But say you’re in a video production or 3d modeling. Instead of an expensive supercomputer ($30 – $120k), you build linux based Beowulf farm on cheap, cheap boxes and you can do the same for $5k. If you tried to do the same with macs, it would cost you all your limbs.

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    • skitrees
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:57am

      @Matt

      Okay, okay, we get it…you like Macs. However, lets see Mac get 80% of the market before we start spouting off about how “secure” it is, okay?! Yeah, when it become the big, hated, monarchy that Windows supposedly is (more like the impotent grandfather it has become), then I’ll listen. Just because no one TARGETS the Mac doesn’t mean it is inherently more secure – it just means no one feels it is worth targeting because it holds such an insignificant market share. If your goal is to gain the most data or infiltrate the largest networks – right now there’s only one target worth going after.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:41am

      @two by four
      You suggested open office.Sorry but several of us have used that.It isn’t as safe as you seem to think.
      It also has a much bigger footprint than its billed as having.You can get a little more performance with the lite version.That still is a big imprint size wise.Don’t get me wrong its a good program for those who need a full scale office suite.I actually like the layout much better than office.Its far more intuitive.
      Its also partly that I’m old old school.I don’t like large bloated programs even quite functional ones.Don’t have the resources[computer wise] nor the time for them to load.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:21am

      objectivetruth, meant with linux. Though, if you run KDE, there is a native office suite built into it. Gnome (I don’t use) has likely a similar set. Problem is with file formats. OO is the solution, if you need to cooperate with someone that has windoze. Naturally, my box, because I need to run several OS concurrently, has 8gb RAM, so no lack of resources. I have an older box with 2gb RAM, and it ran linux/vmware and a couple of vm machines, too, though I had to carefully assign RAM so it was acceptable speed if I ran some intense apps within vm. Both boxes run dual CPU mobo (relatively inexpensive these days if you don’t need the latest gear), the 8gb box has 2 dual core CPUs.

      But I’ve built several boxes that ran on a single chip and 2gb RAM, and for most of the computing needs, they had quite a decent performance.

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  • LeeroyJenkins
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:08pm

    first thing you do is unplug your modem. if you ever have something just start downloading. pull the plug to your circuit breaker. which ever is faster don’t know how big it is might just have to kill power instantly. I only open email I invite.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:58am

      If that doesn’t work, bury your PC and sacrifice a chicken. Virus’s hate birds, unless it’s the bird flu virus. Then you are hosed.

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 2:11am

      I uploaded three megabytes in mere seconds earlier. Not like the days just ten years ago where it took nearly an hour. Before your brain sends the signal to your hands and you react and pull the plug, the virus is already downloaded. Exactly how fast do you think you can move with a high speed coneection, a dou processor, and a user who doesn‘t know what’s happening until too late?

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    • LeeroyJenkins
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 4:12am

      easy enough, if you don‘t know what you’re doing don’t do it. I been online since i was 4 I download virii for something to do…

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