On Oct 30, 1:56*pm, Mike Easter <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote:
> ~BD~ wrote:
> > Here is a screenshot of the 'advice/warning' given on my iMac (using
> > SeaMonkey 2.0.10) when I followed a link in the 24hoursupport.helpdesk
> > newsgroup.
>
> >http://tinypic.com/r/zivk45/7
>
> That is the MS Portugese page and .exe download for the Portugese
> version of MS's Win XP SP3. What post on 24hshd would be giving a link
> to a Portugese XP sp3?
>
> Most people who might have their IE browsers configured securely and
> with active-X disabled are going to allow/enable active-X and otherwise
> enable as trusted webpages from microsoft as well as their executables.
>
> The file for download is WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-PTG.exe where the
> -PTG part is the Portugese. English users would get the -ENU version
>
> > I'm wondering - if I'd followed the link using MS Windows - would the
> > .exe file have been *automatically* downloaded to my computer and, if
> > so, whether or not it might be genuine or malicious.
>
> The file is from MS. People trust MS to not provide malicious
> executables. sp3 is a very important service pack for XP, but not in
> Portugese.
>
> --
> Mike Easter

@ Mike Easter

I have no idea why the body of your post isn't showing in my recently
updated version of SeaMonkey when it is showing here in Google Groups
as plain as day!

I note that you didn't take the 'challenge' I posted recently on
Scorched-Earth.

Here it is: https://www.phish-no-phish.com/default.aspx

Perhaps you'll take the test now - and then explain to me exactly *how
you know* that the 'Portugese* page is a *Genuine* Microsoft page.

I'd hoped that someone on the 'spyware' group might have had the
wherewithal to check the link. Maybe they still will, eh?

Dave