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Trojans and Popups and Slimeball Business
Selanit writes "Salon.com is reporting
on a company which exploited a vulnerability in an old but common version of Internet Explorer's Java engine to install spyware on the visitor's machine. " It's a pretty in depth story showing the lack of respect that
some companies have. My favorite part is that the guy who denies any knowledge
of the trojan popup is named 'Frank Bigott'.
as ISP techsupport front line, I hear about this type of stuff all the time. Customers often think the ISP is the culprit and ask us to stop the pop ups. These are the same folks who can't get thier email after messing with firewall settings (not even knowing what a 'port' is). I'm amazed that novice users put up with all that winblows vrus crap. I guess they don't know there's another way to deal with it, until I tell them about Linux.
As a Linux user, my platform doesn't seem to be supported by any of these AdWare/SpyWare applications.
Sometimes it's good to be unsupported, and I think a lot of these novice users might do well on an unsupported platform.
Long live Tux, Defender of the free!
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Its clear that the federal government is zealous in its crusade to protect corporate America from "hackers". But who protects individuals from shady companies?
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Companies and corporations can do no wrong! Just ask Senator Disney^H^H^H^H^H^HHollings. On the other hand, those Evil Unamerican Terrorist Hacker Content Pirates(tm) are a threat to our very way of life!!!!!
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To comply with the ADA, SARCASM tags have been added for the sarcasm impaired.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.