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Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers
LehiNephi writes "If you're not diligent enough at whacking malware on your computer, you could end up in jail, whether or not you actually did something wrong. Hijacked browsers can not only annoy you with a never-ending string of pop-ups, they leave a less-than-virtuous browser history behind on your computer. This guy claims that some piece of malware hijacked his home page, opened an unstoppable chain of pop-ups, and filled his cache with porn. He now has to register as a sex offender, even though he denies that he did anything his computer says he did. Makes me glad for built in pop-up blocking in Mozilla."
Makes me glad for built in pop-up blocking in Mozilla.
you turds haven't heard about MSN toolbar?
mozilla was developed by hackers, so who knows what it's downloading to your computer while you're away.
MSN Toolbar - toolbar.msn.com
Umm.. please stop this crap. Your OS is used by about 2% of the global computer using populace. I am a 3D animator. No one ports the software I use to that 2%, and when they do, like Alias Wavefront, it's so horrible. For instance, OSX Maya couldn't even recognize dual processors, it was not SMP capable, and it crashed left and right.
You are right about spyware. Not enough people in the world use Macintosh for writing mac adware/trojans pallatable. But at the same time you need to understand that companies feel the same way. Not to mention when problems arise they are patched for PC first, then maybe mac. It's all about profit, I was a Mac user for ten years, I lived Mac Paint and Hypercard, and for a while there was a gray area, but there isn't anymore. I mean look at the PC Preffered campaign Adobe launched. Sure, their apps were originally written for the Mac, but now the windows ports run better, I am not going to start this kind of thing here, just go google some mac/pc benchmarks for yourself, and stop assuming mac is the best option for everyone. Very few of the programs I use on a day to day basis have *ANY* mac support, and no Mac alternatives.
This post was completely unbiased, and I hope that a torrent of Mac enthusiasts don't mod my karma down, because what I said was true.
If he's telling the truth, it should be easy to prove.
.. so that the real perpetrators can get away by pointing out the spyware behavior.
No it's not easy to prove. You are an absolute fucking moron!!! People like you are the cause of injustice. First off, ALL spyware works OVER TIME. Also, why don't you look at all the possibilities... Isn't it possible the spyware can make things look this way? Also the software may start getting to be designed specifically to get as many people in trouble as possible
Learn to capitalize the beginning of your sentences.
Also, this idea is for people above grade 1 so you might not understand completely, paragraphs are used for a new idea.
This concludes your lesson from your friendly spelling/grammer Nazi.
Once someone forwarded a link to a bunch of people in our office.. it went to a kiddy porn site.. wich opened another 10 sites wich all opened another 10.. the windows machines had to be rebooted.. and the linux machines had have a "killall -9 netscape" (this was before mozilla)
Those people really are souless. I fixed all 4 computers doing it then went for the washrooms to finish feeling sick.
They need to bring back the death penalty for the people who rape children producing this stuff.
They need to bring back the death penalty for the people who rape children producing this stuff.
As a viewer of said filth, that would include YOU. Remember, in the eyes of the law, what you did was exactly as bad.
So be careful how thick that brush is before you dip it into the tar, unless you don't mind getting some on yourself.
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
Because we're a nation that believes in silly fantasies of demons and gods, and evidently there's one god out there who is particularly hateful about human sexuality, for some mentally sick and diseased reason, and many induhviduals in this country like to kowtow to it.
If there is such a god, and if Christianity is "it", I can't wait until all these people get thrown into hell.
Jesus: Where did I say to go apeshit on minor offenses and punish people viciously, destroying their lives?
Bottom line is we are too up tight in the US. Stupid feminists get these laws passed, all to hurt men. Sexual harrassment - same thing. I wonder how come they are not hitting the female soldiers in Iraq with sexual harrassment. Oh yea, they don't do such things, the pictures were staged or faked.... but that would show the pictures of the tortures is a fake... what to do ... liberals delema. Get them to not charge the women with sex crimes.
Worse the feminists pass a female genital mutilation (FGM) law and leave males out of it (MGM), clear an unconstitutional law (it only protects women). BTW it is the same thing, you can cut away the hood and such that approximates what a circumcision does and leave the clitoris. If it is "just a snip", then lets do it to little girls too - without antistetic like they to do the boys. Another source for collegen for women to put on their faces to smooth out wrinkles. Yup, made from circumcized skin! Think about it ladies while you put it on your face. Think of the torture that baby went through for you, and perhaps that baby paid for it with his life.
I know, nothing new about men dying for women, women think men are disposable. In this case not for doing anything more than looking at pictures on the computer. The men of the world should rise up against this crap and get rid of it.
It was kiddy porn. I imagine was downgraded to normal porn for the media, so as not to completely destroy the life of the guy.
IMO, if they're on a computer which is under his control (ie he owns it, or he administers it) then he deliberately put them there. He may have deliberately put them there by allowing his machine to become infected with some winfestation, but allow them he did.
I take the same attitude to spam. If your computer sends spam, regardless of whether you wanted it to or not, then you are a spammer and should do jail time for it.