boyachi
Posts: 1161
Member #92
Aug 26, 2009 23:43 |
So, I was reading the paper today, and McAfee released a list of people safe to search for and people who weren't (they'd have results with phishing sites and trojans and the like). Yea, Brad Pitt is dangerous and so is that other chick who was voted number one, but then they had a list of safe people, and I got to wondering, why would you tell us who is ok? Isn't that just giving the creators of the viruses their next targets since the masses will be less suspecting? Or am I overthinking this, or is it actually a good idea to give the masses a safelist?
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Blade
Posts: 366
Member #99
Aug 27, 2009 19:22 |
You mean Jessica Biel yeah? I'm sure that safe list is no longer safe, maybe people should stop being jerkoff's, could be a help.
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MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Aug 27, 2009 20:46 |
Who else here thinks that MacAfee is actually the largest phishing network around, and they in fact posted a list of people safe to search so that unsuspecting internet users would instead look for only "safe" celebrities they had phishing sites set up for?
No one? Really? Well, fine, be that way.
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"It does not." ~ Dr. Brennan
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Rook
Posts: 497
Member #112
Aug 29, 2009 4:31 |
Who else thinks McAffee is an overrated piece of junk and that we should all switch over to a less processing-power-hogging application like AVG?
Maybe I'm just used to computer-related topics being written somewheres on the intertubes, but I just think it's rather silly to put something like that in the newspaper. Who reads newspapers anymore anyways? By the time the newspaper reaches your mailbox, you could've read it online twelve hours ago.
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MadGoblin
Posts: 1515
Member #2
Aug 29, 2009 5:30 |
I think you could say "Jessica Biel gives cancer" and it'd increase the amount she'd be googled 'cuz people would be reminded that she exists. Not me, of course. * class changes to Abbot to show how innocent he is *
But, nuts to your phishing theory. I'm pretty sure MacAfree is part of some super secret group that's trying to control the tide of Hollywood by promoting and demoting celebrities purely on search volume statistics. Once they've played up the ponies they've bet on, then the star that they paid not-hot-topic money to do a commercial for them suddenly becomes a lucrative investment!
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Lugiatrainer
Posts: 400
Member #20
Sep 2, 2009 24:58 |
I wouldn't be too surprised about McAffee propagating viruses. It's in their interest that as many people get infected as possible.
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Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Sep 2, 2009 13:16 |
I attended two different high schools, one was very small. Pretty much 8 classrooms. These classrooms had goodly sized closets, which generally didn't have real doors on them.
Occasionally we'd do a bit of a drill for in case one of us brought a gun to school and waved it around threateningly.
Standard procedure:
1. Lock the classroom door and turn the lights/monitors off. Act like there's nobody there during the middle of 4th period algebra.
2. Everybody get into the closet and be quiet.
Every possible nutjob student now knows that everyone else is gonna be stuffed in the closets like sardines. Good job.
PS: Why am I going to search celebrities? Oh wait, I'm not.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.
[Edited by Afiag on Sep 2, 2009 13:22]
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