Suspicious link? - A query

[Dustin]

~BD~ <~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
news:Q8mdne9Rjo43bVDRnZ2dnUVZ8tGdnZ2d@bt.com:

> 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.

What in the hell is wrong with you? It's an offline (network install)
edition of service pack3. I really see no reason to humour you with
this nonsense.

> 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.

Are you high? Really, have you been sniffing gas or something?
The link is fine, you trollish *******.

> I'm trying to smooth our relationship so bring to your attention

Your doing what?

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

Have you considered the possibility that the returned 'link' you got is
malformed in some fashion? What's that? No? I didn't think so.

Piss off, you trollish stalkerish old fart.


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can't help but smile when one tumbles down the stairs.

[Dustin]

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:iaktr3$3u5$1@speranza.aioe.org:

> For the last time. That link from Microsoft for the Portuguese SP3
> is a bonafide link and nothing wrong with it except in your Trolling
> head. Go away and get a life.

You could do everyone a favor and quit poking his paranoid/stupid arse
with sticks. STOP telling him horse**** and nobody will have to explain
why it's horse****. Ok?

It used to be somewhat amusing, but now, he's posting nonsense after page
of nonsense. Please stop.




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help but smile when one tumbles down the stairs.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Dustin wrote:

> It used to be somewhat amusing, but now, he's posting nonsense after
> page of nonsense. Please stop.

"Killfile Them All, Let God Sort Them Out!"

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-bts
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[Peter Foldes]

"Dustin" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in


> You could do everyone a favor and quit poking his paranoid/stupid arse
> with sticks. STOP telling him horse**** and nobody will have to explain
> why it's horse****. Ok?
>
> It used to be somewhat amusing, but now, he's posting nonsense after page
> of nonsense. Please stop.


:-). Heard you . I will go another way with him in another group where nobody from
here is at and that includes SE also

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"Dustin" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in

[~BD~]

Dustin wrote:
> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
> news:Q8mdne9Rjo43bVDRnZ2dnUVZ8tGdnZ2d@bt.com:

[....]

>> 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.

> What in the hell is wrong with you?

I'll take that as a *no* then, shall I? ;-)

> It's an offline (network install) edition of service pack3.

I imagined that my initial query could have been *simply* answered but
AFAICT no one has advised *why* with this particular link the .exe file
is *automatically* downloaded to a computer without any user interaction
(i.e. no need to press a 'download button').

Maybe, Dustin, you have just nailed the reason.

Could it be because, as you say above, it's an offline (network install)
edition?

Might that be the explanation?

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

~BD~ wrote:

> I imagined that my initial query could have been *simply* answered but
> AFAICT no one has advised *why* with this particular link the .exe
> file is *automatically* downloaded to a computer without any user
> interaction (i.e. no need to press a 'download button').

Fer cryin' out loud... it's an *.EXE* file! It's not a *web page*. A
direct link to an *.EXE* file CANNOT have a *'download button'*.

--
-bts
-now just drop it, wilya?

[Dustin]

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:ial7i0$o1i$1@speranza.aioe.org:

>:-). Heard you . I will go another way with him in another group
>:where nobody from
> here is at and that includes SE also


I really appreciate it.


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Some people are like a Slinky. Not much good for anything, but you can't
help but smile when one tumbles down the stairs.

[~BD~]

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> ~BD~ wrote:
>
>> I imagined that my initial query could have been *simply* answered but
>> AFAICT no one has advised *why* with this particular link the .exe
>> file is *automatically* downloaded to a computer without any user
>> interaction (i.e. no need to press a 'download button').
>
> Fer cryin' out loud... it's an *.EXE* file! It's not a *web page*. A
> direct link to an *.EXE* file CANNOT have a *'download button'*.
>

Bts,

Let me *show* you the web page which *I* see.

Surely *THIS* is not an .exe file - is it?!!!

http://i52.tinypic.com/nbemuu.jpg

I'm really *not* meaning to be difficult about this - I simply wish to
understand! Any other Microsoft web page I go to offering a download of
some sort (some examples were earlier posted by Peter Foldes) have a
'Download' button - this one does not.

WHY? That's all I ask!
***


D.

[~BD~]

~BD~ wrote:
>
> WHY? That's all I ask!
> ***


Here's a translation by Google.

The way I read it, it seems that one *should* have to 'click' before a
download starts. <shrug>

http://i55.tinypic.com/1z6cto1.jpg

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly? If I'm not not, please explain.

TIA

D.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

~BD~ wrote:

> ~BD~ wrote:
>> WHY? That's all I ask!
>> ***
>
> Here's a translation by Google.
>
> The way I read it, it seems that one *should* have to 'click' before a
> download starts. <shrug>
>
> http://i55.tinypic.com/1z6cto1.jpg
>
> Maybe I'm not understanding correctly? If I'm not not, please explain.

1. "Clique aqui para instalar o Silverlight"
2. you weren't using Windows XP
3. you weren't using Internet Explorer

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-bts
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