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Started by RubbeR DuckY, May 27 2009 12:17 PM
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 12:20 PM
Awesome! I think you'll be addicted by Friday.
PS: let's get it 1,000 followers in a week!
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PS: let's get it 1,000 followers in a week!
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 12:24 PM
I'm staying away from that train wreck. I don't want to get addicted like I did with Myspace 4 years ago.
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 01:21 PM
I tried
I guess I need a mobile phone to Use Twitter.
Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
I guess I need a mobile phone to Use Twitter.
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P4 2.8GHZ, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HD, XP Pro SP3, 32-bit, avast! V6.0 Pro, Macrium Reflect
with IE8 and Chrome, hpHosts, MVPS HOSTS files, MBAM Full, OpenDNS, SpeedFan, WinPatrol PLUS
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 03:19 PM
Ick... Twitter...
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world...
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 05:16 PM
Double done! 
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 07:30 PM
Are they bad? I use facebook and myspace, and both redirected me to the antimalwarescanner website... once. :/
I don't really trust them ever since but I am hesitant to get rid of them because its how I keep in touch with some people.
I don't really trust them ever since but I am hesitant to get rid of them because its how I keep in touch with some people.
Agreed, I avoid social networking sites like the plague.
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming | Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies | Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me | 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken | I just want you to know who I am
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 08:07 PM
It can be a risk, particularly for the reason you are wary. Their sites are getting hacked all the time and pages get modified to host malicious code, both because it's easy for the malware makers to do and because the sites get so much traffic, thus increasing their chances of infecting more users, which is their goal, either to use the infected PC's in a bot net or to steal personal and financial info, or both, not to mention swindling money out of unsuspecting users with their rogue security software.
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 08:36 PM
Ugh. Yeah I did get a browser hijack on both sites :/
I want to be able to use them but at the same time I find them a risk! I don't even really use them at home anymore, although that hasn't happened again since the few times that I have used the sites at home.
Oh, here is something that I wanted to tell you in another thread, but it kind of applies here too so I'll paste it in. I wrote it to Victimized originally, but I thought that you might be able to help me too
I want to be able to use them but at the same time I find them a risk! I don't even really use them at home anymore, although that hasn't happened again since the few times that I have used the sites at home.
Oh, here is something that I wanted to tell you in another thread, but it kind of applies here too so I'll paste it in. I wrote it to Victimized originally, but I thought that you might be able to help me too
It can be a risk, particularly for the reason you are wary. Their sites are getting hacked all the time and pages get modified to host malicious code, both because it's easy for the malware makers to do and because the sites get so much traffic, thus increasing their chances of infecting more users, which is their goal, either to use the infected PC's in a bot net or to steal personal and financial info, or both, not to mention swindling money out of unsuspecting users with their rogue security software.
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming | Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies | Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me | 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken | I just want you to know who I am
-The Goo Goo Dolls, Iris, Dizzy Up The Girl-
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 09:10 PM
Honestly it depends on when you did the online stuff and when the computer was infected. If a lot of time went by between when you did it and the time it became infected then it should be safe, of course it could have been infected with something else before that so it's never a good idea to use a machine you don't completely trust, if not, you might just make sure you check your credit every once in a while to make sure nothing that shouldn't be there pops up (a good idea for everyone anyway). I do online banking, online shopping and I do my taxes online every year, but I take extensive precautions (as you can tell by my signature below). Most would say it's overkill and it probably is, but it makes me feel safe and I'v had absolutely 0 infections in the past 3 years, which is nice . To be honest though, if you feel insecure about online transactions, then just don't do it as it isn't necessary. There's always phone and regular mail transactions, and of course good old face to face contact in stores and offices 
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. To be honest though, if you feel insecure about online transactions, then just don't do it as it isn't necessary. There's always phone and regular mail transactions, and of course good old face to face contact in stores and offices .
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 09:23 PM
Exile:
Thanks again!
Oh, and by the way, I just learned of a new lovely Facebook virus... Koobface or something. UGH! I think you only get it by clicking on a so-called youtube link, but I am not sure.
Wow I just don't know so many things yet but hopefully that will change with time
Thanks again!
Oh, and by the way, I just learned of a new lovely Facebook virus... Koobface or something. UGH! I think you only get it by clicking on a so-called youtube link, but I am not sure.
Wow I just don't know so many things yet but hopefully that will change with time
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming | Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies | Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me | 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken | I just want you to know who I am
-The Goo Goo Dolls, Iris, Dizzy Up The Girl-
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 09:32 PM
Agreed, I avoid social networking sites like the plague.
I usually do too...
Ah well, I have work to be doing in the lab deep in the dark pits... so if you'll xcuse me..
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 10:12 PM
Is there an RSS feed for Twitter?
No trees were harmed in the posting of this message...however an extraordinarily large number of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 11:35 PM
I am already partly addicted to this site. It is a good thing I stay away from instant messenger, it will haunt my time.
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 11:39 PM
Back to work slave
Yes... I know...
my slavery is for the better good. umm.. that or something.. heh...
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 11:56 PM
@Raid
exile360 caught you be surprise there!
EDIT: happened to me to
exile360 caught you be surprise there!
EDIT: happened to me to
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Posted 28 May 2009 - 03:27 PM
Yes... I know...
my slavery is for the better good. umm.. that or something.. heh...
Marcin have you chained to your desk too? He is such a slave driver, isn't he.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world...
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