TheAuldGrump
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David Simpson who is the catoonist who creates Ozy and Millie has also had problems...:
Yipes! I recieved it 8 times, and blew up at the first one, sending a nasty gram to the unfortunate who's email address had been spoofed.
I have been having a bad time with viruses this week. When I went camping this weekend I loaned a friend my computer. When I came back I found several pirated programs on it (I keep my computer legal), and 3 viruses, one of which wiped my documents folder. He had apparently collected a list of pirate sites, and when one of them told him to turn off any virus protection he did! (Idiot.) He also had pirated about a hundred cds. (And this was on a dial up connection! When the heck did the moron sleep?)
Needless to say this is the last time I loan anybody my computer.
I also hhad a version of Spybot, which I apparent contracted by visiting a porn/spam site to tell them 'stop sending me spam!' So yes you can get viruses without downloading them, if the html code for a website loads the virus in. It took quite some time to track it down, and I had to change the settings on a read only folder. My anti virus could find it when it engaged, but not when I ran the scan. I had to change the read only setting for the antivirus to even find the sucker.
The Auld Grump, who wants to kill both the spammers and the virus makers.
Yipes! I recieved it 8 times, and blew up at the first one, sending a nasty gram to the unfortunate who's email address had been spoofed.
I have been having a bad time with viruses this week. When I went camping this weekend I loaned a friend my computer. When I came back I found several pirated programs on it (I keep my computer legal), and 3 viruses, one of which wiped my documents folder. He had apparently collected a list of pirate sites, and when one of them told him to turn off any virus protection he did! (Idiot.) He also had pirated about a hundred cds. (And this was on a dial up connection! When the heck did the moron sleep?)
Needless to say this is the last time I loan anybody my computer.
I also hhad a version of Spybot, which I apparent contracted by visiting a porn/spam site to tell them 'stop sending me spam!' So yes you can get viruses without downloading them, if the html code for a website loads the virus in. It took quite some time to track it down, and I had to change the settings on a read only folder. My anti virus could find it when it engaged, but not when I ran the scan. I had to change the read only setting for the antivirus to even find the sucker.
The Auld Grump, who wants to kill both the spammers and the virus makers.
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