Hi Mark,

On Fri 2012-Jul-27 17:02, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Roy Witt:

 ml> you may have a rogue browser plugin...

 RW> Rogue, as in?

ml> rogue as in basically a trojan... in other words, you visit a site
ml> and there's content there you (think) you want to see but the site
ml> tells you you need to update your flash or pdf reader or video codec
ml> and offers the supposed update to you... so you download it and the
ml> infestation ensues...

This is often the way bad stuff happens.  You think you're
getting what you want.  tHis is why I tell anybody that if
you really want the world to see/view/read it, make it plain vanilla.  If
it's gotta be audio, a garden variety mp3 or
.wav, a file, .txt always works, or if you just gotta do it
.pdf, etc.


ml> here's another example... what whould you do if you found a USB
ml> stick laying on the ground outside your home or office?

HOpefully you'd look it over very carefully in a way that
nothing on it might be executed.

Two stories from the old days ...

Kathy's daughter was foten doing work and other tasks at the library that
she wasn't getting done at the community
college, and then, since I had a decent inkjet bringing it
to my place to print out instead of paying a dime a page or
whatever at the library.  I had mcAfee and another virus
scanner, and wrote a batch for her to scan a floppy, just in case.

HEr response when I showed her how to use it was "But the
library wouldn't have a virus ... "


So, one afternoon she comes home, usually she just has stuff she's going to
load into wordperfect 5.1 and print, but
something different on her disk, I don't recall what, a game or something.
She scans the disk, and ... you guessed it.

Then, a few years later, I buy a new midi interface for a
pc, I've installed it in the machine, made my midi sequencer software
address the right driver for the midi interface,
but things aren't happening as they should.

I pull out the disk with the software which came with the
device (cakewalk for dos had its own driver for that
interface) and go to run the diagnostic tool the hardware
manufacturer provided with their generic midi interface
drivers, etc.

Yes, being a little thick at the moment, and a bunch
frustrated, wanting to make it run, I executed the
diagnostic tool *from* the floppy.

A nice infection of the old stoned virus.


Regards,
           Richard
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