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Sick, no. Frustrated, yes
Martin Brown wrote in
: On 01/10/2011 12:50, Baz wrote: Martin wrote in news:5RAhq.140 : I suggest you stop reading scare stories in the Daily Mail or Express or which ever paranoid right wing tabloid rag is feeding your delusions. Get a grip. There are risks to being on the internet, but they can be managed with a decent firewall and suitable anti virus and malware tools will go a long way towards protecting you. Trouble is people click on links and allow unknown code to run. Today even major players distribute unsigned driver code online which is a total disgrace. BTW: Knowing a postcode gives you next to nothing in a city. You should probably be a lot more scared of 118 people search http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc Or the fully searchable copy of the (edited) electoral roll for England given away with a computer magazine a few years back. If you are really worried about online banking security you can run something like Trusteer Rapport as recommended by some banks. http://www.trusteer.com/product/trusteer-rapport This blocks a most of the potential weak points in common browsers and adds another layer of protection to secure online transactions. Regards, Martin Brown I may appear to be an alarmist, but truly I am not. I have a firm grip. I would respectfuly ask you to wait until Forensic Internet Fraud(FIF) hits the news before you condemn me. It will no doubt shock you. The ability of the great unwashed to get themselves into trouble on the Internet by clicking on dodgy links and allowing arbitrary hostile code to run does not surprise me at all. However, the risks from far more mundane card skimming at petrol stations, pubs and clubs is a lot worse. I know of a few major corporates still running XP with IE6 and WEP128 WiFi - they are the real targets for skilled blackhats. You are not. Although there are cold caller type operations that will try to trick you into downloading Trojan code and installing it by pretending to help you solve a virus problem - very clever social engineering in the script that they use. Good enough that non-experts seem to fall for it. And if you are thinking that the recently set up Internet ActionFraud website can help you all they really provide is a bit bin for the worried to send their spam to. They could not even configure their own email system correctly to accept the spam they asked people to send to them - rejecting it as "spam" let alone unravel forged headers. It would make an interesting FOI question - "How many prosecutions has this useless ineffectual quango initiated?" Despite my criticisms of them some of their advice is just about OK http://www.actionfraud.org.uk/suppor...ect-yourself-f rom-fraud I remain seriously unconvinced by Verified-by-Visa which is a textbook example of how *not* to implement a secure transaction system. Forensic science is used by organised criminals, as well as the authorities. Forget paper chases for a moment and think software chases by those who like money SO much that they will go to any lengths to have ours. As far as I am concerned this matter is closed until a time when it will be taken seriously and everyone is aware. Baz You really do need to stop reading sensationalised paranoid rightwing media and get a grip on reality. There are some real threats online and they can be managed provided that you are reasonably sensible about it. Regards, Martin Brown OK then Baz |
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