Comments on: Bill Gates Is Not Giving You His Money http://www.pcmech.com/article/bill-gates-is-not-giving-you-his-money/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:43:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Richard Ward http://www.pcmech.com/article/bill-gates-is-not-giving-you-his-money/comment-page-1/#comment-15384 Richard Ward Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:16:21 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=8094#comment-15384 I always thought that a forwarded E-mail was a little like getting a STD. The old “you are sleeping with all of the ones your partner has slept with” line. You can have a vast group of security on your machine, but if you get those forwarded E-mails that have 300 addresses in them, is that not opening your front door to someone that got into any one of that 300 people’s machine? I always thought that a forwarded E-mail was a little like getting a STD. The old “you are sleeping with all of the ones your partner has slept with” line.

You can have a vast group of security on your machine, but if you get those forwarded E-mails that have 300 addresses in them, is that not opening your front door to someone that got into any one of that 300 people’s machine?

]]> By: Mitch Dominguez http://www.pcmech.com/article/bill-gates-is-not-giving-you-his-money/comment-page-1/#comment-15314 Mitch Dominguez Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:07:47 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=8094#comment-15314 My partners & I sell ANTI Keylogger software, as part of our service to our PAID clients we have a Notification Service alerting them to scams like this. Bet you dimes to donuts there are either key loggers or other spy-bot wares once any links are clicked, or worse with embedded badware right in the email itself, even if it's text. Our advice is geared towards those folks who are just regular online users. Your newsletter/announcements are a little advanced for most casual online users. We try to instill in all of our clients to automatically "Delete It & Fuget It", when they get such obvious but potentially dangerous craparooni. Still folks are tempted and click on links or forward it. Social engineering is alive and well, it seems. Justin, I feel for you that friends would send such stuff. I mean if it's a joke because they know it's such obvious bushwa,maybe OK. Still it can be dangerous to ones PC/Laptop if inadvertently you click on a link in the message or forward it. Wouldn't it be great if we could click on "Reply" and send the offenders a little surprise of our own? Who knows, maybe someday soon, real soon. Stay Frosty Mr. Jason My partners & I sell ANTI Keylogger software, as part of our service to our PAID clients we have a Notification Service alerting them to scams like this. Bet you dimes to donuts there are either key loggers or other spy-bot wares once any links are clicked, or worse with embedded badware right in the email itself, even if it’s text. Our advice is geared towards those folks who are just regular online users. Your newsletter/announcements are a little advanced for most casual online users. We try to instill in all of our clients to automatically “Delete It & Fuget It”, when they get such obvious but potentially dangerous craparooni. Still folks are tempted and click on links or forward it. Social engineering is alive and well, it seems.
Justin, I feel for you that friends would send such stuff. I mean if it’s a joke because they know it’s such obvious bushwa,maybe OK. Still it can be dangerous to ones PC/Laptop if inadvertently you click on a link in the message or forward it.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could click on “Reply” and send the offenders a little surprise of our own?
Who knows, maybe someday soon, real soon.

Stay Frosty Mr. Jason

]]> By: Justin http://www.pcmech.com/article/bill-gates-is-not-giving-you-his-money/comment-page-1/#comment-15313 Justin Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:50:58 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=8094#comment-15313 I delete emails like this all the time. Friends I know sent emails like these to me all the time, I hated it. I delete emails like this all the time. Friends I know sent emails like these to me all the time, I hated it.

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