Dustin wrote:
> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
> news:9f-dnW86hrldMlDRnZ2dnUVZ8iydnZ2d@bt.com:
>
>> Dustin wrote:
>>> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>>> news:sMSdnYBB-Lzz_VDRnZ2dnUVZ8uednZ2d@bt.com:
>>>
>>>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The file is from MS.
>>>>
>>>> How do you *KNOW* that? Serious question regarding that particular
>>>> link.
>>>
>>> You provided the links, moron.
>>>
>>>> They do! What better domain to choose to fool folk?!!!
>>>
>>> Again, your wasting our time and looking in the wrong places.
>>>
>>> your refers and plaguirism has been snipped; YOU need to read AND
>>> understand the material, not us.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Dustin
>>
>> Here is the link in question:
>>
>> hxxp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=5b33b5a8-5e
>> 76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&displayLang=pt-pt
>>
>>
>> If YOU test it, and YOU say it's clean, I'll believe you.
>
> ARGH! It *IS* service pack3 for windows XP- portugese edition.
>
>> Your call.
>
> Not my call; damnit! BD, educate yourself; quit being obnoxious here.

Dustin,

*Did* you *TEST* it to see if there was anything else *with* it, or just
'go with the flow'? I don't care about this for myself, but on behalf of
others. I want folk to be safe - that's all.

Surely that's not being obnoxious in any way. *YOU* are the expert and
*might* just determine something which others cannot. If you confirm
that you *have* done all that you can to double check the link and find
nothing, I'll let the matter drop. I hope that is fair.

I'm trying to smooth our relationship so bring to your attention another
post on 24hsh <ndWdnVGMion4TFDRnZ2dnUVZ7oednZ2d@bt.com>
where your past comments about Uniblue to me have been mentioned. It's
quite a long thread again now!


>> Btw, Aardvark says that putting xx's instead of t's (as taught to me
>> by David Lipman IIRC) does *not* obfuscate a link. Is he right?
>
> It depends on the client, some "newer" clients are deliberately de
> obfuscating them. Why, I don't know.

The link 'looked' live (blue) in Google Groups (apart from the http://
part, which was grey)) and one can click on the blue part and be whisked
away to ......

Not Found

The requested URL
/www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&displayLang=pt-pt
was not found on this server.

The obfuscated link is certainly not 'live' on my iMac!

D.