Re: No web connect after SP2 Update

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: 13 Feb 2005 23:14:01 -0600

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:32:50 GMT, "Doug Kanter" <*email_address_deleted*> wrote:

>
>"Chuck" <none@example.net> wrote in message
>news:poiv011hohaf6tn0qg0c99mh02jheq6qd8@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:23:56 -0700, "Steve Winograd [MVP]"
>> <*email_address_deleted*> wrote:
>>
>>>>The hotmail address is a crap-catcher. I don't care what ends up there.
>>>>What
>>>>amazes me, though, is that the fake MS security emails are still flying
>>>>around. That must mean there are people who live in caves and still
>>>>haven't
>>>>heard about that scam.
>>>
>>>I've posted news group messages using the same real E-mail address for
>>>several years. Pobox.com has topnotch spam filters and blacklists
>>>that stop the spam, let the real messages through, and almost never
>>>make a mistake.
>>
>> The problem is not you or me, the problem is the naive ones who see your
>> post as
>> an example, without realising what precautions you take to make it safe.
>>
>> The naive ones are the ones who then post with their actual email address,
>> get
>> more malicious spam in their Inbox, and don't know to not open it or to
>> not
>> click on the link inside. They get infected with the latest worm, and
>> provide
>> yet another bot delivering still more spam to your email box, further
>> overloading your email server and bringing the spam load closer to the
>> predicted
>> 90% level.
>>
>> Please don't be a bad example to the naive users.
>
>There's a setting on OE which says (and I have embellished a bit) "Any time
>you reply, put the recipient in your address book. This way, when YOU get a
>virus that spreads via the address book, you can infect not just the 4
>people in your life, but the 183 you've responded to just once, each, over
>the past 3 years, and then forgotten about".
>
>Is that on by default with a fresh installation? If yes, someone at MS needs
>to be taken out behind a dumpster for a little kneecap redesign.

That, along with "Hide extensions for known file types".

A lot of folks were really naive when the internet was designed. Microsoft
followed in their footsteps. Who knew then what evil lurked in the minds?

I don't use Lookout Distress, or even regular LookOut. I know those who do
though. %( 

-- 
Cheers,
Chuck 
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My        email         is          AT         DOT
   actual       address    pchuck       sonic      net.

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