MSN My Photos virus

[Dino M]

"/Tx2" <noreplies.usenet@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.20f5f63696decc87989729@News.Individual.NE T...
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:59:19 +0100 Far Canal
> from the village of me@privacy.net
> felt we might be interested in the following...
>
>
>> Do you open any old **** that arrives via IM or email?
>
> You'd be surprised how many people do...
>
> Admittedly not a file in my case, but I got caught out when a friend I
> was chatting to on MSN sent me a link - she hadn't of course, her
> machine was infected with 'something' which had done so on her behalf.
>
> Without thinking, i clicked the link which then tried to plant something
> on my machine, but fortunately my NOD32 jumped in and saved the day.
>
> I've now disabled active links in MSN chat windows, but as a normally
> very vigilant user I was more quite shocked as to how easy it is to
> infect a machine when you are momentarily off guard.
>


I would like to point out that if Far Canal had read my post properly then
you would have seen it was not me, but my wife that did it, and normally no
I would not.

AVG scanned the file and said it was ok, so she opened what she thought was
something her friend had sent her. It was not her fault as Tx2 said, it can
be quite easily done when you are caught off guard.

Also Beauregard T Shagnasty, I am sorry for posting a question on here as
well as another newsgroup. I did not cross post so I have not broken the law
by asking on here as well as somewhere else. I did not know it was a crime
to ask on more than one newsgroup and I will write out 50 times

I will never ask on more than one relevant newsgroup for a solution to a
problem I have, considering I was not sure what to do and thought it would
be OK to ask in relevant newsgroups if anyone could help me.

I think that should do it.

So considering you have not helped me in any way, if it was that much of a
problem to you then why bother posting a reply to my question with nothing
more than a sarcastic response.

The reason I asked on different newsgroups is because I was not sure which
one to ask in, so I asked in both.

[jen]

"Dino M" <dinom@nospamntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:laUii.5875$oa7.616@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
]snip]
> Also Beauregard T Shagnasty, I am sorry for posting a question on here
> as well as another newsgroup. I did not cross post so I have not
> broken the law by asking on here as well as somewhere else. I did not
> know it was a crime to ask on more than one newsgroup and I will write
> out 50 times
>
> I will never ask on more than one relevant newsgroup for a solution to
> a problem I have, considering I was not sure what to do and thought it
> would be OK to ask in relevant newsgroups if anyone could help me.
>
> I think that should do it.
>
> So considering you have not helped me in any way, if it was that much
> of a problem to you then why bother posting a reply to my question
> with nothing more than a sarcastic response.
>
> The reason I asked on different newsgroups is because I was not sure
> which one to ask in, so I asked in both.

Then you should crosspost, not multipost...
Here's why:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html#why

-jen

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Dino M wrote:

> The reason I asked on different newsgroups is because I was not sure
> which one to ask in, so I asked in both.

If you *had* cross-posted to the two groups, that would have been fine.
It's the *multi* posting that is wrong. With multi-posting, you get two
separate sets of people giving you answers, and doing double work.

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

[Woody]

Yes he would have saved all this bs from you moron self proclaimed news
police with no idea of how to help someone other than chastise him for not
doing it your way. Grow up and try to post something productive.


"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:wm_ii.276880$p47.183198@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Dino M wrote:
>
>> The reason I asked on different newsgroups is because I was not sure
>> which one to ask in, so I asked in both.
>
> If you *had* cross-posted to the two groups, that would have been fine.
> It's the *multi* posting that is wrong. With multi-posting, you get two
> separate sets of people giving you answers, and doing double work.
>
> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost
>
> --
> -bts
> -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Woody wrote:

> Yes he would have saved all this bs from you moron self proclaimed
> news police with no idea of how to help someone other than chastise
> him for not doing it your way. Grow up and try to post something
> productive.

I'll bet you top-posted to your first grade teacher, too, right? Called
her a moron when she tried to teach you something. Last week.

You probably didn't notice that Dino received a satisfactory answer in
a.c.a-v. Where was the need to answer twice, which is the problem with
multi-posting.

And I do not think my original statement was non-productive and a
chastise:

"Were not the answers you received in alt.comp.anti-virus sufficient?
Please return to that thread. Thanks."

...especially since a full day had elapsed between his multi-posts.

>> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost

Didn't read that page, did you? Try this piece of it:

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#upside

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

[cmsix]

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:zdBji.287214$p47.215085@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Woody wrote:
>
>> Yes he would have saved all this bs from you moron self proclaimed
>> news police with no idea of how to help someone other than chastise
>> him for not doing it your way. Grow up and try to post something
>> productive.
>
> I'll bet you top-posted to your first grade teacher, too, right? Called
> her a moron when she tried to teach you something. Last week.
>
> You probably didn't notice that Dino received a satisfactory answer in
> a.c.a-v. Where was the need to answer twice, which is the problem with
> multi-posting.
>
> And I do not think my original statement was non-productive and a
> chastise:
>
> "Were not the answers you received in alt.comp.anti-virus sufficient?
> Please return to that thread. Thanks."
>
> ..especially since a full day had elapsed between his multi-posts.
>
>>> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost
>
> Didn't read that page, did you? Try this piece of it:
>
> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#upside
>
> --
> -bts
> -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Come on man, lighten up. You know that some people are just too important
and in too much of a hurry to waste their time reading the rules.

cmsix