If you are using Firefox read this.

[solmisation]

Got this from a computer forum I use, another reason to switch to Linux?

http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/4...gin-pokes-qcriticalq-hole-in-firefox-security

 

[Davidc]

Note that Firefox has been cured (restart when prompted).

One day perhaps Microsoft will lose their de facto monopoly. I'd love to go to Linux, but much of my business software is only Microsoft compatible.

 

[gaz]

i'll stick to OS X

 

[HJ]

Aye, I'm sticking to Ubuntu...

 

[thomas]

Well thank you Microsoft for letting me loose all my work over the weekend as my computer got a couple of viruses which automatically installed themself on my computer.

Thanks a big f'ing lot!

 

[mr Mag00]

i am sure they needed to shout it

The answer of Firefox was faster see Bellow :

 

[peanut]

Well thank you Microsoft for letting me loose all my work over the weekend as my computer got a couple of viruses which automatically installed themself on my computer.

Thanks a big f'ing lot!

yeah me too. had to format and re-install.
Tried everything but eventually gave up. Lost all my banking and accounting ID's and security /passwords etc. nightmare.

No idea where my ghosted drive is grrrrr

 

[johnnyh]

y'know, as someone who runs two XP machines with ZERO antiviral software, connected to the internet 18 hours a day, with a hardware based firewall, I do wonder at the

"Well thank you Microsoft for letting me loose all my work over the weekend as my computer got a couple of viruses which automatically installed themself on my computer.

Thanks a big f'ing lot! "

I mean come on, what activity did you partake in that facilitated the download of the virus code onto the machine in the first place?

And naturally, since we are all so much better than Microsoft we'll be carrying out best practice and would all have good back ups in place of our work, and images of our stable systems to restore to in the event of failure.... so other than a couple of hours down time no biggy eh???

No? thought not.

I don't work for Microsoft, I dont have loyalty either way, but I do deal with this stuff day in day out and know that blame of tools is usually a sign of something amiss with craftsman!

 

[beanzontoast]

I mean come on, what activity did you partake in that facilitated the download of the virus code onto the machine in the first place?

Nowadays, you don't have to be doing anything much. I visited a legit pc manufacturer's homepage the other week and Avast stopped a virus on the way in. Grim stuff.

But I agree with you about keeping backups and system imaging. The latter isn't something most users would ever want to get into though, I suspect.

 

[ASC1951]

Well thank you Microsoft for letting me loose all my work over the weekend as my computer got a couple of viruses

It's a bugger when that happens, isn't it? But it's your own fault.

 

[peanut]

y'know, as someone who runs two XP machines with ZERO antiviral software, connected to the internet 18 hours a day, with a hardware based firewall, I do wonder at the

"Well thank you Microsoft for letting me loose all my work over the weekend as my computer got a couple of viruses which automatically installed themself on my computer.

Thanks a big f'ing lot! "

I mean come on, what activity did you partake in that facilitated the download of the virus code onto the machine in the first place?

And naturally, since we are all so much better than Microsoft we'll be carrying out best practice and would all have good back ups in place of our work, and images of our stable systems to restore to in the event of failure.... so other than a couple of hours down time no biggy eh???

No? thought not.

I don't work for Microsoft, I dont have loyalty either way, but I do deal with this stuff day in day out and know that blame of tools is usually a sign of something amiss with craftsman!

who stole your toys today

 

[johnnyh]

hahaha the nasty pesky pixies!

 

[thomas]

yeah me too. had to format and re-install.
Tried everything but eventually gave up. Lost all my banking and accounting ID's and security /passwords etc. nightmare.

No idea where my ghosted drive is grrrrr

Yep. I had a couple work things which I'm most annoyed about loosing. I do have back ups, but they're back home and I can't explain where the disks are....as I don't really know without looking .

I mean come on, what activity did you partake in that facilitated the download of the virus code onto the machine in the first place?

I was browsing the internet, came across a website which obviously wasn't any good as AVG pinged up warning me. Computer crashed. I turned the power off. I turned it back on...or, more correctly, couldn't, as I kept getting bluescreens of death.

System restore wouldn't work, or the handful of fixing programmes available on boot up.

It's a bugger when that happens, isn't it? But it's your own fault.

No it's not. It's my fault that someone decided to create a virus which would download onto my computer and **** it up? Just like it's a bugger when you get run over, but it's your own fault.

It wasn't like I downloaded the attachment to an email, from a stranger, called "paris hilton sex video .EXE".

Anyway. It's amazing how much stuff I had on my computer which I never used . It's really only internet.

 

[solmisation]

Nowadays, you don't have to be doing anything much. I visited a legit pc manufacturer's homepage the other week and Avast stopped a virus on the way in. Grim stuff..

Reading one of the computer forums today, someone was on a photo upload site(didn't say what type of photo's) when his AV software started flagging up warnings. But if you do get infected this may be of some use.
http://www.free-av.com/en/products/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html

 

[hackbike 666]

I'd like to go Mac but I have aquired quite a bit of software over the 13 years I have been using Microshaft.

My Rapidshare account has been hacked,I got quite a rude email from Rapidshare.

I must have been half asleep to allow this to happen.