[AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does

[Wayne Johnson]

My Spybot ate my Ad-Aware and then turned and savaged my hard drive, my 
monitor, my monitor lizard and my parrot.

Be careful what you ask for.

wgJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does



> Michele,

>

> Cookies are an excellent contrivance. They permit

> a Web site to recognize you automatically when you

> connect to them without you having to identify yourself

> to them.

>

> As for malware that gets into your computer, you

> should flush it every few weeks using one or 2 of

> the free anti-virus programs available. For PCs,

> I recommend Spybot and Ad-Aware, both free.

> Everytime i run them they find and delete up to

> 30 items from folders and from the registry..

>

> I guess there must be similar frre programs

> for Macs.

>

> Mike

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:51 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does

>

>

>> I'm also dumping cache and cookies almost daily,  mm

>>

>> On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

>>

>>> A piece of software resident in your computer

>>> which copies to a file the letters and numbers which

>>> you u strike on the keyboard.with your fingers.

>>>

>>> Subsequently some nefarious agent can look at the

>>> file and see what you typed in. Trivial in terms of

>>> programming.

>>>

>>> Any computer not your own might have such a

>>> program. I said recording in the sense that the

>>> program records your keystrokes.

>>>

>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>> From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh at shentel.net>

>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:51 PM

>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does

>>>

>>>

>>>> What you mean by "key board recording"?  An audio record?  whoa.

>>>>

>>>> Plez explain.

>>>>

>>>> wayne

>>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>>> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>

>>>> To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:27 AM

>>>> Subject: [AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> Michele,

>>>>>

>>>>> On PCs, it is the same. Firefox wont work, but Internet

>>>>> Explorer will.

>>>>>

>>>>> As for bank biz in the new Internet age, YMMV.

>>>>> Depends on how strong your nerves are.

>>>>>

>>>>> As for the security of your password, in theory every

>>>>> time you type it in, a key tracking program might be

>>>>> secretly recording it. Assuming that your home computer

>>>>> is being secretly plumbed without your knowledge. What

>>>>> is your current conspiracy index?

>>>>>

>>>>> As for doing bank biz on someone else's computer

>>>>> whilst you be on the road, a keyboard recording

>>>>> of your password would have it, the password,

>>>>> and your user name, so they could take all your funds

>>>>> by making a payment to some other bank account.

>>>>>

>>>>> Mike

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>

>>>

>>

>

>