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VideoSan  All-Star Member 168 Posts 6/03 |  Posted - Apr 11 2004 : 10:37PMI'm really very interested in understanding how this happened. I was doing some web browsing (with PopUpCop enabled) and this link led to that link which led to this link - which you don't want to cut-and-paste into your IE browser: http://ww1.top100.org/ ~21911/skirts.top100.org/index.html (Note that I intentionally left a blank between the / and the ~ in case someone tried to mindlessly go there). At this site, somehow they managed to fire off software that got a webdialer downloaded! This is scary! I got a message about mssys .exe failing, then I found that I had a dl .exe and a dlm .exe running, and then I got a couple of browser windows up acting all strange. It also put a movietrader1 icon on my desktop, and installed files in c:\program files\websiteviewer. I downloaded the HTML at that site (via wget) and saw that there's some strange looking (not knowing the language very well, I still suspected that it's the culprit). How is it that this stuff can get downloaded without my getting warned in any way? I'm running NAV to see if anything else is there. Note that I had no phone line connected into my laptop at the time. I'm running XP Pro.  [Link] |
| GaySatyr Senior Member Half dirty ol' man; half horny ol' goat! 1684 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Apr 11 2004 : 11:15PM Also, since you are connected via broadband, if you don't have firewall software running, you should. The version built into XP is pretty useless. Get Zone Alarm or get a hardware router with a built in firewall like the USR-8000A (actually, a better choice than zone alarm). Another suggestion is to switch to Mozilla -- it is a much safer browser. ~ GaySatyr  [Link] |
| Loraine Senior Member 1559 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Apr 12 2004 : 6:41AM Christ I hate it when shit drops into your computer creating havoc and unknowable chaos! VideoSan, excellent technical advice in a language you can understand can also be had on the boards at the following link. I've found this site extremely helpful and the folks friendly. Useful if you have any of those about to drive you insane questions or problems and need some good geek advice promptly. Cheers 'rain [Link] |
| Damn~small~penis Member 100 Posts 4/04 | Posted - Apr 12 2004 : 8:00AM I have a regular Winmodem in my PC, but its not connected up. Instead I use the ethernet port going into a adsl modem/router [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Apr 12 2004 : 6:53PM [Link] |
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