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Yeah, I do remember :D there were a whole raft of pranks and hoaxes designed to make fools of the recipients IIRC?

In the context of the OP's post, the modern equivalent is the Scareware that he...

Well, it ought to be helpful, as virustotal runs quite a few malware detectors, so if you get positives you should be very wary of the file.

At the same time submit the file name to Google or...

Errr, yes I did..............:D

According to Wikipedia, button pushing is trolling (in the original sense that is).



I rest my case :p

I really don't understand your obsessive distaste...

Hmmmm,

OK mate, then I will, what you are saying is the totally biased garbage you keep trolling us with every few months :rolleyes:

1. Windows isn't an operating system, it is a registered...

Hmmm,we seem to have lost the plot here?

Unless I am mistaken, this thread is about the security of home PCs and has absolutely nothing to do with servers, Apache or anything like that.

In the...

They would need to know your IP address or be physically close enough to your wireless router.

We don't know enough about your system to say much more than that. In my case if I turn off the...

OK, I think that you see where I am coming from?

Back in the day (2001) When Windows XP was released, it had a built-in firewall, that wasn't turned on by default.

Around 2003/4 we had Code...

I am afraid that that is absolute nonsense! The 15 seconds is unsubstantiated in this day and age.............back in the days of Sasser, Code Red and the like, it might have been true, but not now....

Hi listener,

The general rule of thumb is that you do not have more than one security application doing the same thing interactively, at the same time. Personally, I have never seen or heard of...

Mostly they are "anchored", frequently without the knowledge of the true site owner.

They want you to buy some totally useless "anti-malware" solution, so they tend to live just within the law, in...

Hi there listener,

No, I have never had that happen, nor had I even heard of it until you posted :confused:

What you experienced sounds very much like the tactics used by "scareware", which...

Hi,

I use Windows Defender a lot, and have had no problems thus far :)

I test individual files/folders against Jotti and virustotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/

Basically they test a...