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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> Worm Spam Grrrrr (9/11/2003 12:17:43 PM)
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Ok I don't mind hearing about nasty stuff like worms and viruses, but worm and virus warning spam is too much damnit all.
I was using my Yahoo Messenger tonight, and had just opened my friend's web cam, and it activated a window claiming doom and gloom and that my system was about to shut down.
Well naturally that bothered me.
After a good deal later, I finally realised it said to click on the window, so I did thinking I had to find out whatever was going on.
And this window opened reliably each time I went to open a web cam while using Yahoo, so I think it is a condition particulkar to Yahoo IM.
Well it sent me to a web page claiming dire warnings about the SoBig.f worm etc etc.
I find out though, the web page is a frigging advertisement for software to protect me in the same way my firewall already is.
Friggin spam, is all it was.
I will say this much, I will not buy anything from these jerks regardless of what it might or might not do to protect me after this.
I am not impressed being stressed out over a scam of an advertisement exploiting a logical concern over a virus and or worm.
Right now, I have as little love for people clamouring about worms and viruses, as I do for the actual worms and viruses.
I mean really, there is a limit. I know how to prevent worms and viruses. And it basically uses the same logic as avoiding STDs for that matter.
Sorry for this post, it is late, and I have had my fill of hysteria about worms and viruses.
I don't get them, because I know how to avoid getting them.
Just wish I could avoid the hysteria about getting them as well.
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