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OS X Users Hit by Ransomware Websites Posing as FBI Notices
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guess the troll is deleting his posts?
Kind of funny, it seems his silly posts are disappearing.
Listen we get it, either you have no life (and blindly hate all things Apple), or you are paid to shill and troll. Either way instead of providing a valid counterpoint, you sound like an uninformed idiot.
Do you even own a computer? Because it is obvious you do not work in the IT industry, most especially the network administrator / desktop administrator field...
Kind of funny, it seems his silly posts are disappearing.
Listen we get it, either you have no life (and blindly hate all things Apple), or you are paid to shill and troll. Either way instead of providing a valid counterpoint, you sound like an uninformed idiot.
Prior to the release of the SuperDrive, some Power Mac G4 computers shipped with a DVD-RAM drive.
Mac OS from 8.6, and OS X support DVD-RAM. I used a couple of Macs at work (IIRC they were Sawtooths) that had internal DVD-RAM drives out of the box.
Turned out to not be very useful to us, but there they were.
He says that Microsoft has tons of malware, viruses, spyware, bloatware, adware, etc. That's so very true. Everyone I know has problems with those on windows. When something goes wrong with a Windows PC at work, the very FIRST response by the Help Desk is to scan for viruses. They don't do that for a Mac EVER. There has never been a single reported incident on Macs at our workplace of 2,000+ users. Tells you something.
Are you referring to the same people that actually believe the fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone is for "convenience"....ha..ha..ha...
I read (heard?) an argument that these scams may be purposely obvious. The reason is that the malicuoius email or website acts as a filter after which an actual human gets involved to try to squeeze as much money as possible out of the victim. The scammer figures anyone who is confused/vulnerable enough to fall for the obvious intial scam is worth spending some time on to fully fleece.
It's pretty digusting, because, of course, probably the only people who will fall for these obvious scams are suffering from brain disorders or are otherwise vulnerable.
That's right: these guys are targeting your confused grandmother.
as far as you, you only need to read your signature to know that nothing you say will be more than a troll blathering on. If you went Applefree in 2010, why the hell are you wasting your time tell us all about it? Your posts are about as welcome as a fervent doglover's rants against felines on the CatFancy.com forums.
On top of that add in that grandchild who is about 8 to 12 and super gullible and believes that GrandMa just won the lottery if they just enter in all her information or download the "pay" app. Hell why shouldn't grand ma hand over her credit cards. "That kid is a genius! She turned off SAP and managed to connect to the internet while I was on the phone with Marge. I didn't get disconnected or nothin'"
Time to get rid of these browser-centric javascript boxes, and implement a tab-centric model. One tab giving you a head ache? close it. gone. done.
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it was time to get rid of them a long time ago.
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it was time to get rid of them a long time ago.
Well uninformed is right though you need to turn the finger 180deg.... If you had any concept of context, you would read between the lines and interpret that if he did in fact fit any of the criteria mentioned in my "uninformed" post. He would have heard about the FBI malware variants for PC....Those variants even made the evening news several times on TV and most definitely tech sites.. He himself touted he was a well read person on tech items.
Don't worry guys- I paid the release fee and all the popups went away and are no longer happening.
I'm now able to surf for Taylor Swift on Bing again without interruptions.
I'm now able to surf for Taylor Swift on Bing again without interruptions.
A-effing-men (AMEN)!!
Is it a rant if it is EXACTLY what needs to be said?
Also I'm inundated with calls when Security Centre is disabled, as are Windows Firewall and Windows Updates. No, not just 'disabled' as in 'restart it in services.msc', I mean malware deleted the registry entries (common theme?) so we have to readd them, and then change the folder permissions in a certain registry key to add MpsSvc and give full permission to that, then you can see it in services.msc and re-enable it
It's a PITA. It really is. Malware, spyware, adware, bloatware -- whatever you want to call it -- is a huge problem on Windows. People like you who are so willingly ignorant, who say things like: "Oh, I've never had a BSOD/virus infection/inexplicable Windows fail in xx years of using Windows computers" -- well, I call shenanigans. I really, really do.
If you think Windows is easy to use and doesn't have problems as long as you 'know what you're doing', you don't know anything more than the basics. If you think it's an easy OS to use, you haven't used enough of its features. And certainly, if you haven't heard of similar malware on Windows, then you're either a poor troll or you really do know nothing, Jon Snow.
And as an aside, I've always found that Apple-haters are far more aggressive and arrogant than the Apple lovers. It's a shame you've done little to disprove that.
/rant
Is it a rant if it is EXACTLY what needs to be said?
Of course, and no disrespect to them, all what i am saying is many of us here grew up with the internet, a lot of the 'older' generation didn't, so some of them jumped on the internet wagon later, and barely get by, that's all
I'm sure it's been mentioned, but the last time I dealt with this problem, it was on Windows and it required a "third party" explorer program, also named Explorer.exe, so the malware was fooled into running it. Once it ran, you could kill the malware and have access to all the programs that were blocked. Then, anti-malware stuff to the rescue.
The Mac version simply seems to be:
window.onblur = function()
{
for (i=0; i<100000000000; i++)
really = prompt("Are you sure?"); ........
}
Annoying, but not dangerous.
The Mac version simply seems to be:
window.onblur = function()
{
for (i=0; i<100000000000; i++)
really = prompt("Are you sure?"); ........
}
Annoying, but not dangerous.
How's the view up there on that high horse?
I'm sure there are things you know little to nothing about that you use everyday. Would you like it if plumbers thought you shouldn't be anywhere near a sink because you don't know how plumbing works? Or auto mechanics taking an attitude with you about driving a car because you don't understand transmissions? Or maybe you shouldn't dream of ever touching a DSLR because you're not a master photographer?
A lot of very intelligent people out there know little to nothing about computers beyond how to get online or check email. I know lots of them, and that's just fine. It's not their "thing." How about we put away the attitude and just help people out instead of passing harsh judgment on them?
And BTW, most people don't understand the hierarchical nature of domain names. Many of them would see the fbi.gov part of this URL and make the reasonable assumption that it was legit. Most people don't know what a subdomain is and there's nothing wrong with that.
