No, this is not an OS bashing post, it's much more serious than that.

Are you using the Microsoft® Windows™ operating system?
Have you downloaded shareware/freeware software recently?
Have you installed it?
Are you online a good deal of time?

If so, please check the following URL and any links you find in it:

http://grc.com/aureate.htm

It *is* a serious matter and has been the main topic for discussion in
alt.privacy, comp.security.misc and comp.security.firewalls for quite
some time now. I thought it would be good to let you all know.


Peter Popov
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Peter Popov wrote:

> No, this is not an OS bashing post, it's much more serious than that.
>

> Have you downloaded shareware/freeware software recently?
> Have you installed it?
> Are you online a good deal of time?
>
> If so, please check the following URL and any links you find in it:
>
> http://grc.com/aureate.htm
>
> It *is* a serious matter and has been the main topic for discussion in
> alt.privacy, comp.security.misc and comp.security.firewalls for quite
> some time now. I thought it would be good to let you all know.

Oh, just a quick FYI.

In general the info at grc.com is detailed and accurate, whatever it is
Steve is addressing.

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Thanks

I've removed the offending files from my machine - but with over 40,000
files on it there could be more.

Mick

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"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
news:38C49752.CC2E012C@geocities.com...
> Peter Popov wrote:
>
> > No, this is not an OS bashing post, it's much more serious than that.
> >

> > Have you downloaded shareware/freeware software recently?
> > Have you installed it?
> > Are you online a good deal of time?
> >
> > If so, please check the following URL and any links you find in it:
> >
> > http://grc.com/aureate.htm
> >
> > It *is* a serious matter and has been the main topic for discussion in
> > alt.privacy, comp.security.misc and comp.security.firewalls for quite
> > some time now. I thought it would be good to let you all know.
>
> Oh, just a quick FYI.
>
> In general the info at grc.com is detailed and accurate, whatever it is
> Steve is addressing.
>
> --
> "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
> But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
>
>
>

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It's not this what surprises me at all. What surprises me is the amount of
people who don't know that windows is very insecure.
  I haven't connected to the internet using windows in years and I never will,
as long as I can avoid it. I will never, ever trust windows. Never.
  And this is NOT a bash. I'm talking very seriously.

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Thanks! I'll be sending a copy of your post to all my email contacts.
I'll also be checking to see if that's why my games suddenly started
crashing. No virus has been detected, so...

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I decided before I ever hooked up that nothing I value would reside on
any machine connected to the net. Security begins in the brain...  :)

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On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:01:26 -0800, Scott Reid <s.w### [at] homecom>
wrote:

>Thanks! I'll be sending a copy of your post to all my email contacts.
>I'll also be checking to see if that's why my games suddenly started
>crashing. No virus has been detected, so...

If you do so, please just send the URL and not my e-mail addy or name,
thank you.


Peter Popov
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The fact that a virus scanner doesn't detect a virus doesn't mean that
there isn't one.

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http://kumite.com/myths/myths/myth036.htm
http://www.aureate.com/privacy/falserumors.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-1558696.html
http://kumite.com/myths/opinion/thoughts/2000/#000229

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Ron Parker wrote:

> http://kumite.com/myths/myths/myth036.htm
> http://www.aureate.com/privacy/falserumors.html
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-1558696.html
> http://kumite.com/myths/opinion/thoughts/2000/#000229

I'm not so sure.

A lot of this reads very much like what Double-click said upon their
original acquistion of the identity company. Or like what MS initially
insisted about the Win95 on-line registration. Of course, things are not
nearly as bad as the initial hype, but then again there might be some
very valid concerns.

Among other things, http://grc.com/aureate.htm does specifically mention
the second and third links you have there. So go read the stuff at grc.

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"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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