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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."
The institutionally dumb never take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take special care of these people.
Click here with your Mozilla popup blocker enabled. Go on, I dare you.
Can't take some Mozilla-proof popup sites? Gee, this post should be SCORE 5, INFORMATIVE, but nooooo, it's modded as a TROLL.
You can't hide behind Mozilla -or anything for the matter. Malware no longer requires you to click 'ok' to something. It just hijacks your system on page load.
This isn't true with Mozilla/Opera/Konquerer/Anything that's not IE. Get your facts straight.
by contacting Please U.S., a non-profit agency that specializes in this kind of thing.
Religion is at fault for their shitty marriage. They probably got stuck with each other because there were no other suitable candidates available to them in their church. Marrying someone OUTSIDE the church? Are you nuts? Just settle down with one of the fine women here... there's Bertha, Helga, and Paula. A GODLY man such as yourself should ONLY care about how SPIRITUAL the woman is, not about her looks or other WORLDLY traits.
The sad thing is, I've known people in churches like that. When it comes to getting married, you basically have to choose from the cream of the crap.
He should sue Microsoft and make it as high-profile as possible.
The fact is that this software DOES exist... software that installs itself and runs just by hitting a web page... either by playing on the ignorance of its users or by exploiting holes or "functions" offered by Microsoft.
This leaves these consumer grade operating systems capable of running code without the users consent or even knowledge. Running a program on someone's machine without permission which includes opening web sites via pop-ups is nothing short of piracy... stealing resources without permission.
Sue Microsoft for making it possible. Sue the pop-up people for abusing our machines. Sue the spyware people too. If in fact writing viruses and spreading them is illegal, then why isn't spyware illegal for the same reasons? Why doesn't it apply to pop-ups? Why not to code that modifies our settings to their advantage?
Religion is poison. Jews, Christians and Muslims: Your god is a pig. Stop bowing down before this vile monstrosity and begging forgiveness!
The easiest answer is actually to not run Windows.
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