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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+47Man people are stupid, no one sent you and ecard!! Ecards were like over in 97.
- RyeBrye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+44Wouldn't it be ironic if the botnet started using headlines related to itself to lure people in?
- tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -7/+42Maybe for you. Awww, no one wuvs you anymore.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29im in UK ..i got an email from NatWest (big bank) last week telling me theyre upgrading their servers
"We noticed several unsuccessful login attempts and therefore have decided to temporarily restrict your online access.
To regain access to your online banking Please click on
• Online Banking Logon to continue the verification process.
• (Failure to verify your Online Access service changes will lead to account
disconnection)"
i didnt click - i dont have an account with them so i phoned the bank
who said it was a scam and i forwarded it to them
..phew - zjordan04, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19No, I believe that would be ironic...
- hiro, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19"i didnt even rtfa cuz im using a mac lol"
Interesting, so you're saying that Mac users are illiterate? - Gutterpunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16As a rule, most (if not all) banks never send any email with any kind of link in them. If they send any, it will be a text email, no HTML.
I'm sure that asking for the email to be fowarded was just their customer service way of showing that they care. They won't do anything with it.
That said, email clients should have a feature where they block "a href" tag when the destination link doesn't match the displayed one. I alway wondered why they don't (or missed the options in all the one I tried) - vertice, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15imagine a worm that extends a freenet / tor like system, for true anonymity.
i bet the content industries wouldn't be too happy with microsoft if running their OS meant their client's machines were constantly pirating media/software and publishing sensitive data, without user intervention. - Heilige, on 10/10/2007, -20/+34Again, get a Mac OR use Linux
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Macs have been targeted by viruses. They just don't usually work.
Linux *hasn't* been targeted by viruses because everyone *knows* they wouldn't work. - getrealnow, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Im sure they get millions if not billions from selling personal information and/or pop up ads.
Also they can take over computers using it to do other things for it, kinda like a getting all these computers infected then having a small army of infected zombie computers :x - Mononuclear, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11spyware/botnets are a multi-million dollar business from stealing credit cards and bank account information, ad revenue from popups, using botnet for DOS attacks and ransom schemes. The people who control botnets make a lot more money than you do. Drug dealers make a lot more money than you do too. I don't support the actions of botnets/spammers but to claim the can make more money getting a real job is ridiculous.
- jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10because they don't have financial incentive?
- z987k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10"it could also be used for DDoS attacks on businesses or even countries."
Might be a threat to national security to run windows. - tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11I can't help but lol. You totally sound like you know what you're talking about. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? Have fun when that virus you don't know is working in the background captures financial transaction keystrokes.
- Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Let me guess, it only affects IE users...
- zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -18/+25or learn how to use windows you lazy twit.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Of course, this falsehood is propagated by windows users. Market share has nothing to do with the number of vulerabilities a piece of software has. Compare Apache and IIS for a clear example of this.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8How do we even know if jwmcevoy wrote that comment....
- Kappa00, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10AmigaOS
- GregR, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"My computer, for example, works totally"
... yeah, totally for the various bots that own your machine! - mooninite, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7... but I thought Windows was so easy to learn? It's so easy it doesn't require learning! At least, that's what all the people on digg say.
- fac51, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"i got an email from NatWest (big bank) last week telling me theyre upgrading their servers"
Welcome to the inteweb, enjoy your stay! - kurtergad87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"but a friend sent me an email with an open list"
I've tried the same thing, but thankfully I only get 3 Spam messages per day and they all land in the spam-folder. Still; with friends like these, who needs enemies? - Tenoq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Try fitting the list of WIndows viruses on one page.
- alassiry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5A cluster bigger than Google?
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Watch out! this article might be a trap! with all of its fancy current head lines and all ;)
- leogodin217, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5My wife sends me Ecards
- leogodin217, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5How does "Interesting article, thanks for the link :-)." get dug down 5 time?
- toddwdraper, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8You know, I always hear this argument, but no one ever backs it up with more than speculation.
It's also a little like telling a starving man not to go to a restaurant, as he would only be hungry again if they should run out of food. - Jfave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Actually, yes it works all the time. They will give it up as soon as they stop making millions of dollars a year. It may not be a "job" but organized crime has never been categorized as a "job" now has it ;) You obviously do not get to work on computers for a living.
- zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5how come white hats don't write a worm that exploits the same hole, and removes the bad worm?
- alciadanet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because it's a crime to do that, lol.
- martian67, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7You are an idiot if you think mac and Linux exploits don't exist.
- Tenoq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Shame 90% of users can't manage to 'learn how to use Windows.' Put them on Linux or Mac OSX.
- sudowrestler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5How popular is popular enough? If Macs were as easy as Windows to write exploits for, there would be at least some out there, not essentially none. Especially since practically no Macs are running any sort of antivirus or antispyware software at all.
- thefinger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I blame the out n out stupidity of the average user for this. A sucker is always the key ingredient.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4HAY TATS NOT TREU
- Nidht, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I agree with Vault. You speak nonsense PaulRay. =P
- indicas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3you must be the most naive person on digg. these guys make hundreds of thousands.
- purpmint008, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I don't use antivirus, I have a hardware firewall though.
DeepFreeze is my antivirus (in a way). - RussellDovey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What makes you think they don't?
- GeekyGerge, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Correction: "i didnt even rtfa cuz safari crashed"
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3haha - it did - but i thought id find out what they had to say
i ve managed to avoid SPAM up untill now but a friend sent me an email with an open list
and it got picked up by packet sniffer bots - like i read about here..(im not that much of a geek myself)
http://www.thebear.org/
so ive been getting a full bulk folder for the last few weeks but this was my first blatant trick security message..no doubt the first of many
im no longer a SPAM virgin and im slightly depressed about my recent fall from grace - Jfave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Someone did a while back didnt they? Maybe the Sasser or Code Red worm? Anyone?
- vault, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Actually, I'm a high horse mac user.
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Damn dupe.
- cfuse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Stupid people shouldn't be allowed to use the interweb.
- dogstylee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not every internet surfer is technologically aware... this is why we build websites that work in IE too.
- Jfave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The botnets are already doing this now.
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