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#81799 09/26/02 02:54 PM
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Was in Wordplay and Fun when I followed a link and got a pop-up that looked like the ones Microsoft sends. It said "Warning your computer is broadcasting a signal that makes your computer vulnerable..."
Well! I read no further. Shut down and called the Computer Gurus. They told me they'd had several calls about this and had checked it out.
Seems some clever boots has found a new way to spam. If I had clicked for more info it would have asked me to buy some so-called security. Arrrggghhh©
Thought I'd let everyone know ... just in case!
Blessings, Wow.
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#81800 09/26/02 03:06 PM
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This is just another variant of pop-up ad - a nasty one, cos it looks very like a standard Microsoft dialog window, meaning you may feel inclined to click buttons etc. Practically the whole dialog window is a link to a website selling stuff that you almost definitely don't want, which will probably dump loads of unwanted cookies on you.

You can get ad(and pop-up)-blocking software, but if you don't have any, try closing these "dialog" windows down from toolbars, from menus, or by right clicking on them. If the windows appear to be glued to the page you're looking at, effectively as one with it, just quit that page and don't come back.




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Yeah, Weatherbug disguises itself as a free Windows update, too...usually appearing in the upper corner of the screen so you can't read it fully or click the close "x". But as you keep clicking further into it, each window asks for more and more information until you get to a screen that advises you if you do not furnish the required information it will now cost you $19 a month. I cancelled out, but couldn't uninstall the damn thing...so far I haven't been charged. Finally I had a cyber-expert friend uninstall it for me, or I might've been hooked into paying. So beware of this one, it's a Catch-22 scam if there ever was one.


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Another reason to have a Mac. Ya don't get confused by those ugly gray Windows boxes.


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Yep.


#81804 09/26/02 07:46 PM
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Oh, you two *really* ought to get a room.




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Mac,yak,yak,yak!...


#81806 09/26/02 08:26 PM
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Rather than buy a pretty toy for graphic designers, why not just switch browsers? Mozilla lets one completely block all pop-ads without the need for any third-party software, and without the need for shelling out for a Mac. Mozilla is free, and available from http://www.mozilla.org


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Hoot, mon, there's three of us!


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I've nothing against a menage à trois.
Whose cave shall we gather in?


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