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Posted on 12/24/2004 8:51:48 AM PST by Mo1
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To: lodwick
Night Loddy. Sweet dreams.
561
posted on
12/27/2004 7:23:58 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we should.)
To: lodwick
Oh my I sure would like to loddy!!
562
posted on
12/27/2004 7:25:34 PM PST
by
Canadian Outrage
(All us Western Canuks belong South - we'd make good Americans!!)
To: sweetliberty
Joey seems to like the shirts and puzzles and I also got him a Sponge Bob doodle art kit!! He seemed happy with that. It's just another fad.
563
posted on
12/27/2004 7:31:16 PM PST
by
Canadian Outrage
(All us Western Canuks belong South - we'd make good Americans!!)
To: Mo1; ValerieUSA; grannie9; restornu; Canadian Outrage; celtic gal; .38sw; andysandmikesmom; ...
Moclips sunset.....
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v365/westmex/Sunsets/MoclipsSunset.jpg)
I'm having a problem here so think I'll bug out...
Goodnight all...
.....Westy.....
564
posted on
12/27/2004 7:46:07 PM PST
by
westmex
(Ruby Ridge...Waco....Redford..our Gov. at work)
To: westmex
Call your daughter if it's medical Westy. OR 911. You take care of yourself 'k? I'm outta here for the night too. Hope your okay. CO
565
posted on
12/27/2004 8:29:09 PM PST
by
Canadian Outrage
(All us Western Canuks belong South - we'd make good Americans!!)
To: westmex; Conservababe
I'm having a problem here so think I'll bug out... What kind of problem????
566
posted on
12/27/2004 11:34:10 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: Canadian Outrage
Just kiddin. My brother in law is a master wine maker. His wine is the only red wine my son in law will drink Thanks for the reminder .. I need to pick up a bottle or two for New Years Eve :0)
567
posted on
12/27/2004 11:35:59 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: sweetliberty
I put it on about the same intellectual level as Smurfs. Sponge Bob isn't suppose to be intellectual .. it's kind of like in the category of the Three Stooges
568
posted on
12/27/2004 11:38:19 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: westmex
Damn...I stuttered......... It happens ... just ask Nully *L*
569
posted on
12/27/2004 11:41:07 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: Conservababe
In the winter time, they make a big fire in the wood stove, make a big pot of burgoo and play cards. Sounds like a mans dream house ...
570
posted on
12/27/2004 11:42:26 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: Mo1; grannie9; restornu; Canadian Outrage; celtic gal; .38sw
Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Scams, viruses hit home
Web mischief-makers arriving for the holidays
By Rachel Konrad
Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. Susan Love's problems began with a smile.
Web master Chris Dale advises a customer on how to protect company data at his company's Ashville, N.C., office.
Alan Marler, Associated Press
The New York City fund-raiser clicked on a happy-face attachment in a friend's e-mail last year. The virus crashed her computer within an hour.
Love, 57, salvaged her data. But within a few months her computer's performance slowed to a crawl. In December 2003, she upgraded to a Sony Vaio with an extra-large monitor and Microsoft Windows XP operating system.
Within a few days, "spyware" programs that sneak onto computers uninvited began sponging up valuable memory. Then her e-mail stopped arriving.
Instead of crafting holiday e-mails, she spent hours installing the latest antivirus, anti-advertising and anti-spyware software. She also instituted a rule: Her computer never gets turned off, so security programs patch vulnerabilities around the clock.
"You have to become something of a nerd to make sure your computer is safe," said Love, a former English teacher who recently installed anti-adware on her daughter's computer. "If you don't sweep the computer every night, you could hit."
Love won't be the last to get a holiday crash-course in computer security. Hackers, spammers and spies go into overdrive in December and January, when unsuspecting neophytes unwrap new computers, connect to the Internet, and, too often, get hit with viruses, spyware and other nefarious programs.
"People want to get on the Net right away, just like they want to put together and start using any Christmas present," said Tony Redmond, chief technology officer of Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co., whose new PCs ship with 60 days of virus and adware protection. "They should be warned that the Net is a very, very dangerous place."
Although few researchers produce holiday-specific security data, experts at IBM Corp., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard, software companies and Internet service providers agree that the holidays are prime time for hackers.
Holiday viruses are so rampant that consumers could be attacked even if their first online destination is to a Web site for updating security patches.
Kris Murphy, help desk coordinator for North Carolina Internet service provider Indylink.org, said his minister got attacked last year, only a few minutes after unpacking and connecting the machine. At the time of infection, the minister was updating security patches to Windows.
"Hackers know that you are most vulnerable as soon as you go online for the first time," said Murphy, whose 10-person company hires temp consultants during the holidays to handle higher call volume. "Inexperienced people tend to fall into traps more readily because they don't recognize that this guy might be trying to get your credit card information."
Technology executives describe the relationship between hackers and security programmers as an arms race both sides keep ratcheting up firepower. But lack of consumer awareness if not downright naivete allows the war to escalate.
According to a recent survey by the National Cyber Security Alliance, of the 185 million Americans with home computers, one in three say they'll never get hit by viruses or other cyber attacks. In a Consumer Reports study, 36 percent of U.S. home computers showed signs of being infected with spyware and only 41 percent of surveyed households said they actively try to prevent it.
American businesses are savvy about firewalls, spam filters, multiple passwords and other network protections, said Stuart McIrvine, director of corporate security strategy at IBM. But problems at the consumer level are so severe that every hardware and software vendor should be worried about a backlash.
Seasonal attacks start around Thanksgiving, when online shopping begins an annual spike and marketers pummel consumers with junk e-mail from the perfect stocking stuffer for a balding spouse to a limited-offer holiday cruise.
With the rise in e-commerce, identity thieves try even harder to obtain credit card and other financial data from wireless and home networks. They set up dummy Web sites that seem to be hosted by major financial institutions in hopes that gullible consumers will provide their account information.
Virus writers hide viruses and worms in holiday-themed e-mails, seasonal greeting cards and screensavers.
"W32/Zafi-D," a mass mailing and peer-to-peer worm, harvests addresses from Windows address books and other files. Infected e-mails' subject line begins, "Merry Christmas!" and the text reads, "Happy Hollydays."
The most vulnerable computers are the ones that have sat under Christmas trees for days or weeks. If a consumer buys equipment that arrives on Dec. 15, and it sits in the living room until Dec. 25, it could be hit by hundreds of viruses written in the 10-day interim.
Tony Ross, analyst at British security firm Sophos Plc., advised consumers to get a CD-ROM with the newest updates from their electronics vendor, next-door neighbor or the computer at their office before connecting to the Internet. They should prohibit children who tend to be liberal in distributing their personal data from using the machine until it's patched.
Consumers should vigilantly buy and update security software, which can add hundreds of dollars over the course of a computer's lifetime. Popular anti-spyware and anti-adware programs include Webroot Software Inc.'s Spy Sweeper ($29.95 for a one-year subscription), LavaSoft's Ad-Aware SE Professional ($39.95), Tenebril Inc.'s SpyCatcher ($29.95), the free Spybot Search & Destroy and Computer Associates Inc.'s eTrust PestPatrol ($39.95).
Some experts wonder whether the computer has become the digital age equivalent of a puppy an enthralling treasure on Christmas morning, but a sinkhole for time and energy for years after. At the very least, computers are far more demanding than the typical holiday toy, which merely requires batteries.
"At some point, people who receive them for Christmas often ask, 'Is this computer a gift or a curse?' " Ross said.
571
posted on
12/28/2004 2:05:11 AM PST
by
restornu
(KNEEL TO HEAVEN WITH IT ALL!)
To: Canadian Outrage
Hi, Canadian!
Yep! we do get gyped every year!
Makes a person wonder of they could move thier birthdays to another month! LOL!
But I try to remember WHO we share a birthday with.
572
posted on
12/28/2004 3:09:55 AM PST
by
Pippin
(If trolls, liberals and democrats give you any trouble, give them ZELL!)
To: Woliff
Speaking of Birthdays, you can't fight it, I've tried.![](http://www.pbase.com/grannie9/image/37934964/original.jpg)
Can't forget your other card, lol
Happy Birthday, Woliff. Hope you have some good plans for the day.;)
To: grannie9; Pippin; Mo1; Borax Queen; Darksheare; null and void
Mornin' y'all. Where the heck has everybody been? I'm starting to think that Darks has been up to some kind of mischief or other...and BQ has gone missing as well. Hmmmm... yeah, I know she said something about San Francisco, but it was probably just a diversion. I expect they're conspiring in Nully's basement. She WAS unnaturally curious about it.
574
posted on
12/28/2004 5:57:21 AM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we should.)
To: westmex
Now you've gone and scared me, Westy. Please check in.
575
posted on
12/28/2004 5:59:48 AM PST
by
Conservababe
(I wasn't dreaming of such a white Christmas.)
To: sweetliberty
576
posted on
12/28/2004 6:45:51 AM PST
by
null and void
(I refuse to live my life as if someone, somewhere will be offended if I laugh...)
To: grannie9; Woliff
577
posted on
12/28/2004 6:47:42 AM PST
by
Pippin
(If trolls, liberals and democrats give you any trouble, give them ZELL!)
To: Canadian Outrage
I don't recall in all my 59 years ever hearing of an earthquake hitting 9.0. My husband said there was one in Alaska in 1965 but I don't remember hearing about it.I could say almost exactly the same thing. I'm also 59, I was in college and I don't recall the earthquake/tsunami - I read about it years later. It was far away, only 125 people died (mostly in Hilo, Hawaii). If a thousand people had died on the mainland, it would be remembered.
578
posted on
12/28/2004 6:48:22 AM PST
by
reg45
To: sweetliberty
I'm here!
(in my highest, squeakiest hobbit voice)
579
posted on
12/28/2004 6:48:36 AM PST
by
Pippin
(If trolls, liberals and democrats give you any trouble, give them ZELL!)
To: null and void; Darksheare; Borax Queen
Mornin' Nully. What did you do with Darks and BQ?
580
posted on
12/28/2004 6:48:54 AM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we should.)
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