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March 24, 2008 at 9:16 am #28444php111Member
Hi,
I must be lucky or it didn’t get to me yet. I did seen a few threads on here, I believe I did but why didn’t the worm get to me? Or could it be the people I speak too on Yahoo, AIM and MSN are to nice to hack me?
March 24, 2008 at 8:38 pm #167738Jeff HesterKeymasterLuck has little to do with it in this case. You’ve simply got to NOT click and download things that your contacts send you. Unless you click the link, you cannot get infected.
Here’s what I do when a contact sends me a link. I always reply and ask them what it is. If it’s a worm, they won’t even know that the message was sent, and will probably reply with something like “What the heck are you talking about?” That’s usually a pretty good clue that THEY have a worm on their system.
March 24, 2008 at 9:22 pm #167740php111Member@Jeff 228097 wrote:
Luck has little to do with it in this case. You’ve simply got to NOT click and download things that your contacts send you. Unless you click the link, you cannot get infected.
Here’s what I do when a contact sends me a link. I always reply and ask them what it is. If it’s a worm, they won’t even know that the message was sent, and will probably reply with something like “What the heck are you talking about?” That’s usually a pretty good clue that THEY have a worm on their system.
OK Jeff,
I am not clicking on NO websites at all but what’s up with the support.proboards.com/whatever and whatever it is.
He hangs out there mostly…..I really don’t buy it. Who would hang out at a Pro Board site where you would register yourself for a forum?
March 24, 2008 at 9:48 pm #167741php111MemberWell, well…..here we go…It’s a good thing I didn’t click on it…..How do I know? Well I did posted on the Pro Board forums and here is what the Moderator said.
That goes to this forum…. It takes you here. That’s all it does…
March 30, 2008 at 11:51 pm #167739DermotParticipantMSN, Yahoo, AOL and ICQ will NEVER ask you to update in a link in PM
Specially not via your “friends” id
These programs have their own built in updaters for that.
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