New Windows Security Scam

[What The Duce!]

October 13, 2008 (IDG News Service) Scammers are sending out phony e-mails that claim to include critical Windows security alerts, Microsoft Corp. warned Monday.

The fake alerts describe themselves as part of a new "experimental private version of an update for all Microsoft Windows OS users," Microsoft said in a note on the scam, posted Monday.

The e-mails then instruct the victim to download an attachment, which is actually a malicious Trojan Horse program known as Win32/Haxdoor. This software records sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers and sends this data back to the attackers who are running the scam.

[Salty Dog]

I run Spybot-Search and Destroy and AVG- both free downloads and are updated ongoing.

Easy to Google/ download - five minutes and you have pretty good protection from the assholes out there.

[What The Duce!]

then read this

October 13, 2008 (Computerworld) Security software suites don't protect users from real-world exploits, a bug-tracking company charged today after launching 300 test attacks against a dozen programs, including popular software from McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro Inc.

"The Internet security suites are marketing themselves as the one solution users need to be safe online," said Thomas Kristensen, chief technology officer at Secunia Inc., which ran the tests. "In our opinion, that's just not true."

[What The Duce!]

the main point of the article above was the problem is people are not applying patches and the av/as suites dont monitor that. Today as an example MS released 6 windows patches and 2 for ms office

[desmilie]

the main point of the article above was the problem is people are not applying patches and the av/as suites dont monitor that. Today as an example MS released 6 windows patches and 2 for ms office

bill gates is major spammer in the world. it is amazing how someone like that can make billions on cheap crap like microsoft software products.

[What The Duce!]

well in all fairness if all the spammers and hackers turned their focus on apple, macs would be almost as fucked up as windows. They target what most people use and most people use windows. However as macs get more popular you can expect more people to target them

[desmilie]

well in all fairness if all the spammers and hackers turned their focus on apple, macs would be almost as fucked up as windows. They target what most people use and most people use windows. However as macs get more popular you can expect more people to target them

I think there is another issue there. you cannot earn as much money if you create good product without problems. if you create cheep product you need army of IT and bunch additional software to support you and help you survive another day. and the best of all is when you start selling beta version of system and let market report the bugs as they discover them.

[desmilie]

well in all fairness if all the spammers and hackers turned their focus on apple, macs would be almost as fucked up as windows. They target what most people use and most people use windows. However as macs get more popular you can expect more people to target them

I think there is another issue there. you cannot earn as much money if you create good product without problems. if you create cheep product you need army of IT and bunch additional software to support you and help you survive another day. and the best of all is when you start selling beta version of system and let market report the bugs as they discover them.

[What The Duce!]

well windows 7 will be out end of 2009 or early 2010. We will have to wait to see what thats like. I will be skipping vista completely

[desmilie]

that really make sense since vista is in the same cycle as RIP windows 2000. it is sad that there are still people formatting drives on the new computers with vista in order to install XP (hopefully proffesional verison). sad reality.

[What The Duce!]

most business laptops now come with phone support on how to downgrade vista business to xp pro

[Guest]

most business laptops now come with phone support on how to downgrade vista business to xp pro

lolol k that's to funny - how lil faith in your own product can you have:))

[desmilie]

at least now everything is fixed and everyone know the boundaries: what works and what not.

not to mention the memory processor requirements.

[What The Duce!]

I still prefer linux to windows

[desmilie]

never tried it, moved to MAC after that. but i really do respect UNIX base and the fact that is not making the wealthiest nerds on the planet.

[emily cummings]

ha! what's wrong with wealthy nerds lol are you a nerdist or something

[desmilie]

ha! what's wrong with wealthy nerds lol are you a nerdist or something

stop barging in you one-day-wanna-be-wealthy nerd. read the rest of the tread to understand what's this about or press F1 for help and if that's not enough follow the link to microsoft online help stupid staple wizard to guide to the eternity.

[emily cummings]

lol what what desmilie getting lil touchy:)))

[desmilie]

not really, just trying to provide quality IT support to the little lost one-day-wanna-be-wealthy nerds.

[emily cummings]

lol that's all ok, but who mentioned anything about being wealthy:))

[desmilie]

one-day-wanna-be-wealthy

[emily]

k.. that's like wanna-one-day-be-wealthy or something?

[desmilie]

maybe you can chat on this topic with bill gates himself? i'm sure he could help you.