On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, somethingkillingyou <somethingkillingyou@...> wrote:
malware can do this?
...(un)cool!!!
Yup. Raiding your address book and spamming everyone in it is MINOR.
Watching all your clicks, and siphoning off passwords and credit card numbers is the serious problem.
There's also the drafting of your machine into a botnet to attack servers as well. If you don't run antivirus software on Windows, start! Simply visiting some sites can end up loading this crap on your machine.
No reports of this kind of thing on OS X ... yet. (There have been a few Trojans that require the code to actually be installed on the machine ... mostly purporting to be "special codecs" for viewing porn.)
Back to the topic at hand ... has anyone got a recommendation of a cheap *modern* PC that will run EDE? I'd like to be able to make backups with less than a dozen disk swaps...
--- Joe M.
Watching all your clicks, and siphoning off passwords and credit card numbers is the serious problem.
There's also the drafting of your machine into a botnet to attack servers as well. If you don't run antivirus software on Windows, start! Simply visiting some sites can end up loading this crap on your machine.
No reports of this kind of thing on OS X ... yet. (There have been a few Trojans that require the code to actually be installed on the machine ... mostly purporting to be "special codecs" for viewing porn.)
Back to the topic at hand ... has anyone got a recommendation of a cheap *modern* PC that will run EDE? I'd like to be able to make backups with less than a dozen disk swaps...
--- Joe M.