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1. Wondering where the spam comes from?

   

   Topic by Mark Dygert · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004 "In soviet Russia, computer uses you!" Stop clicking weird links and opening unexpected attachments you silly silly humans. Seriously, though thats some freaky stuff.

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   Reply by flaagan · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   Gmanx, I certainly hope your articles on viruses and avoiding them comes to fruition for some. One of my biggest headaches from my network admin days was trying to keep the geniuses in sales from opening all the spam and crap they'd "unknowingly" signed up for. It really is rather disturbing how flat out dumb some computer…

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   Reply by nealb4me · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   My hat...is very shiny.

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   Reply by eld · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   in every case, peoples stupidity becomes our downfall :/

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   Reply by jgarland · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   Interesting read. It reminds me of the "Live Free or Die Hard" storyline. Maybe the "cyber-terrorism" deal that the crazies were talking about might actually happen...? Not that I'd mind a bit of Mack-Truck-fighting, fighter-jet-exploding, fire-sale-having excitement.

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   Reply by Asmuel · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   So those sexy girls who keep sending me invites aren't real? Spam bots are my only friends

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   Reply by aesir · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   I bet its government controlled (not our government, a government). Cyber attacks would be a very important type of warfare against a tech society like ours.

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   Reply by Emil Mujanovic · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   Wow! That's really intense. With all this talk that it doesn't really do anything other than increase in strength... It really makes you question, what will it be capable of doing once it has increased in strength. -caseyjones

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   Reply by Lord McMutton · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   Good thing I saw this. Otherwise, I might have followed that Youtube friend request I recieved just now.

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    Reply by Gmanx · Oct 2007 · Home› General Discussion

    Thanks Vig! That's a very sophistocated program - I guess we'll eventually find out what it was for when all our bank accounts clear of funds. I'm currently writing a series of newspaper articles on de-mystifying computers and the internet for 'average Joe'. My first column is going to feature viruses, and basic…