General Discussion - is this legitimate?

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is this legitimate?

DOS on NOS

2005-02-27, 9:51 pm

its this a legitimite site or iz it a virus?
this pop up keeps appearinggg saying i'm infected with a virus and i can get the fix there...

www.updatepatch.info

yanqui

2005-02-28, 1:20 pm

As long as you keep your virus signatures updated and your malware updated and run them regularly, you don't need to worry about whether that popup is legitimate or not. I'd say it's probably advertising, but I've never pursued it when I've seen it. By the way, if you use a good popup blocker, you'll never see it. And if you never see it, it won't bother you. So keep those programs updated, run them regularly, keep your firewall up and you'll be fine. Just tell that popup NO and surf on.

evilkid

2005-02-28, 3:29 pm

Isn't spyware great?

yanqui

2005-02-28, 4:08 pm

AT least it keeps techs busy and makes us feel superior to everyone who still hasn't heard about it.

evilkid

2005-02-28, 5:14 pm

Lol. A point for you. I was working on my moms PC and she kept getting pop up adds in an insane amount. Told her it was probably spyware. She stared at me like I was speaking another language.

yanqui

2005-02-28, 5:54 pm

switch your mom over to Mozilla Firefox. Take the IE shortcut off her desktop and taskbar, replace it with the firefox shortcut. Show her how to get to IE if she absolutely has to see something that firefox won't display--which is not going to happen a lot. She will have NO popups! Firefox blocks all popups, and you get a little tiny red X up in the left corner that says firefox blocked a popup, click here for options, and then if you want to turn off the blocker you click on the X down at the bottom right. It's fast and clean--she'll love it and when she tells her bridge club that she switched from IE to Firefox she'll sound like a techno-geek like us.

evilkid

2005-02-28, 6:27 pm

Already put firefox on it. It was one of the first things I put on her machine when she bought it. Also put spybot on there, just to be safe.

yanqui

2005-02-28, 6:35 pm

And she's STILL getting popups? Change those options. (or is she still clicking on that IE icon out of familiar habit?) Also, and they always say the doctor is his own worst patient, I found out that it takes a LOT less time to update spybot if you do it every week or two weeks, same with AV s'ware. So I guess you go and see your mom pretty regularly to do this for her?

evilkid

2005-02-28, 6:57 pm

I think she is still using IE. I keep telling her that firefox will block all that. I've checked her settings when I was there last. She had options marked that I never seen, let alone know what they do. She explained some of it to me and I was too shocked beyond words. I introduced her to firefox and she already knows more than me on it. But shes a web developer, she knows these things. I make sure she updates spybot as much as she can, but she only does it once a month. I informed her of AVG, but she thinks McFee is god. I don't think anything anyone says will change that. Shes more stuborn than me. I do update spybot when I go to see her, but since she moved to colorado, I don't get to see her much.

yanqui

2005-02-28, 7:10 pm

Well, I can't say anything about anyone using McAfee, I use NOrton which people think is crap, but I've never, ever, ever gotten infected with a virus, and it has caught and quarantined one or two emails. I've also only had two or three incidents of malware, and they weren't really bad, mostly just adverts. My biggest problem is that b-SAK: Between Seat and Keyboard. Actually, what happened the last time is that I installed the software that came with a piece of hardware instead of checking with the vendor for the latest version.

Lesson learned.

evilkid

2005-02-28, 8:13 pm

Lol. No worries. It happens to the best of us. Went out and bought a 400 dollar video card only to find out my power supply can't get enough power too it. The lesson I learned, ALWAYS CHECK SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS. b-SAK is a new one for me. We usually call em BKAC errors (between keyboard and chair). pretty much the samething, but a new one to me all the same. Then theres my personaly favorite. the ID10T error.

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