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Thread ID: 95359 2008-12-03 06:53:00 Scare mongering linw (53) Press F1
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725410 2008-12-03 06:53:00 Gee, I hate those smug 'experts' that like to scare the hell out of the unwashed without really educating them (seen on 'Closeup' tonight). No wonder I still get people scared to do anything on the Internet.

It looked liked the test machines had routable IP nos, although they didn't say so, and were badly unpatched. Just a NAT router would have done wonders with this so called expose.

PCAuthority magazine tested Internet exposure on ordinarlly protected systems and found it pretty hard to get infected in spite of going to dodgy sites. But we didn't hear about this.

Grrrrr!!
linw (53)
725411 2008-12-03 06:56:00 people overreact to the "dangers" of the internet, didnt seen closeup....so im a little lost at what it was about aidanmaz (7180)
725412 2008-12-03 08:57:00 I missed it... but you'd be surprised, the FUD isnt just limited to computers, but things like global warming, economic crisis... Chilling_Silence (9)
725413 2008-12-03 10:37:00 wot do u expect on anything hosted by the walrus? Zippity (58)
725414 2008-12-03 19:39:00 wot do u expect on anything hosted by the walrus?

Coo coo kachoo??
nofam (9009)
725415 2008-12-03 20:09:00 Just saw the episode on TVNZ on-demand ..

tvnzondemand.co.nz

Good old AntiVirus 2009 and limewire!!
GR8Metal (14133)
725416 2008-12-03 20:58:00 Actually with no protection at all it is fairly easy to get infected.
I waited for the what to do part:
MS fixes (Yeah right)
$130 "protection" package. 3 guesses what that probably is.
pctek (84)
725417 2008-12-03 21:04:00 A friend rings me up and says "Help, I cant get Security Suite product X installed .. Ive been offered a free trial for X-amount of time"

I asked "Sooo... your problem is? Its a blessing!"


;)
Chilling_Silence (9)
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