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FLECOM
Bay Networks Freak
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join:2003-03-03
Miami, FL | Re: I been IMed ya this is total crap... i sent them an email and they were like "blah blah our users love our service!"
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Bye Bye I removed AIM this morning, AOL is reaching all new lows. | |
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KAD Imaging
Just Shoot It
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join:2002-09-21
Hialeah, FL | Re: Bye Bye There's a full out discussion on it in the Security forum.
»Aim Virus
Removal tips and all included.  | |
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DivineDark
join:2001-08-30
Oklahoma City, OK
clubs:
| the spam phone I would like to install this phone in everyone of the homes of the creaters of this garbage. This special phone cannot be hung up or turned off no matter how you try. It recieves calls every hour of the night and day from hundreds of different companies attempting to sell them something. Often it will trick them by sounding like a friend or family member. Just as it reels them in it screams a add for a penis enlargement or a low cost mortgage in their ear. | |
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join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL | Re: the spam phone Sounds like Max Headroom except you could not turn off the TV's. | |
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Greg_Z
Premium
join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | Re: Bye Bye Has nothing to do with AOL. If people would read the TOS before installing a program, there would not be as many problems and there would be less complaining. | |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
Premium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Re: Bye Bye It's the stupid people who click and install this junk without knowing what malicious crap it comes with. | |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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join:2002-05-21
B-3000 | Re: Bye Bye you could even try out gaim for instant messaging ( »gaim.sourceforge.net/ )
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Alien is my name and headbiting is my game. | |
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jose3030
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join:1999-08-17
Manassas, VA | Re: Bye Bye I prefer DeadAIM. | |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
Premium
join:2002-05-21
B-3000 | Re: Bye Bye you have all sorts of other instant messagings inside gaim, not only AIM, there's ICQ,MSN,yahoo,jabber,IRC,...
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Alien is my name and headbiting is my game. | |
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
4 edits | It has nothing to do with AIM by itself. Its a spam message circulating on aim and people who get the message to click the website and download the game and proceed to download it without questioning infect themselves.This has happened on MS messenger and yahoo and can happen on trillian or ANY IM application in different forms too.
Do you download every spam email attachment you get? I hope not.Same thing.
"If users click on the link, a program that is supposedly a game asks permission to be downloaded and installed onto their computers. Installing the game gives the company that produces it -- purportedly, an outfit called PSD Tools -- permission to display ads on the users' computers. In addition, the software spreads the "fun links" to everyone on the users' Buddy Lists."
"While many who have installed it are describing the game as a virus, the truth is that by neglecting to read the terms of service included with the game, they have given the program's distributors permission to take over their computers," said Matty Janko, a systems administrator whose 23-computer network was invaded by the game Wednesday | |
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MY HEAD A SPLODE
Premium
join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH
| Re: Bye Bye said by storm64007  :
"While many who have installed it are describing the game as a virus, the truth is that by neglecting to read the terms of service included with the game, they have given the program's distributors permission to take over their computers..."
So does this mean, I could create a virus or worm, and attach a EULA that states it will take over your computer, open a port to allow hackers in, and email itself to every email address it can find, and drop itself into your Kazaa shared folder, and because the victims "agreed" to the terms, the AV companies won't recognize it as a virus? Sheesh... a worm is a worm, no matter how much sugar you pile on top of it... | |
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b34tBoX
Premium
join:2003-12-28
Ontario, CAN | Re: AOL not trying to trick you somehow? said by Mike:
gaim > you
MSN > gaim > you | |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
Premium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY |  what?
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| Arch16
join:2002-06-15
Auburn, NY | Re: what? www.oldversion.com
Get an older version of AIM. | |
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| joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
| Sure, AOL could say "By agreeing to this TOS you are agreeing not install any add-ons that (spam, spam, spam) but I doubt it would ever be enforceble, anymore than it would be if the Microsoft Windows license said users agree "not to install spyware or adware". What are they going to do, sue their users? Could they even prove damages? Regardles, since the companies developing the scumware never agreed to the TOS, they are not bound either way. | |
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pcdebb
I see you
Premium
join:2000-12-03
Tampa, FL
clubs: | heh i think my buddies know better as I havent received anything "yet", so I should shoot them another heads-up email..... | |
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draven
Premium,Mod
join:2002-02-20
my bunker | Best quote ever From the spammers themselves, BuddyWorks:
"Please understand, our flash games are in no way a virus. We simply combine peer-to-peer, social networking, and instant messaging into one spectacular technology." | |
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elias
Premium,VIP
join:2000-07-24
Miami, FL
clubs:
| The Bin-Laden Thing? Someone sent this both to me and to a co-worked of mine.
I didn't click on it, because I was not only busy, but I found it strange that that particular person would send me a joke page through IMs.
Unfortunately, my co-worked clicked on it, and she says that one of her friends said they got an IM from her shortly after.
-- Elias
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NetCoalition | DSLi Forum | Crunching the Midnight Oil | |
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Theo25
@attbi.com | Matter Of Time Its just a matter of time before virus's start spreading through IM..... we will see alot more of this. | |
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| geek49203
join:2000-11-25
Jackson, MI | Re: Matter Of Time Already been done. Had to remove a few copies of those. | |
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richk_1957
If ..Then..Else
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join:2001-04-11
Minas Tirith | I only use AIM rarely Because of so much junk on it.
Now I have a new reason not to use it | |
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richk_1957
If ..Then..Else
Premium
join:2001-04-11
Minas Tirith | Re: I only use AIM rarely True, but a lot of people don't like it or have it set up. Yahoo IM is popular | |
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copperdoctor
Premium
join:2003-12-08
Palatine, IL | AOL is to the internet... ...what Velveeta is to cheese.
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
Premium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Sooner Sooner or later, the anti-spyware programs will update for this nasty crap. | |
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furlonium
Computer Over? Virus equals Very Yes?
join:2002-05-08
Bethlehem, PA
| Re: Sooner I'm glad I had read about it yesterday morning, because a few hours later, my friend IM'd me with the "try this game out blah blah" and if I hadn't read the article, I probably would have clicked the link (although I wonder if NAV would've caught something) | |
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nightrider45
join:2003-11-22
Sandwich, IL
|  want to get read of the spyware?
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CNet:
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this kind of sounds like an ad but i tell you if you guys never heard of spybot S&D this is you chance to try it. i would never live with out it.
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Random Nut
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join:2002-11-29
Mosh Pit | Re: want to get read of the spyware? Trillian:D | |
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY | Re: want to get read of the spyware? It can happen on Trillian too. It can happen on ANY IM application.It has NOTHING to do with what IM app you use. | |
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
4 edits | Re: want to get read of the spyware? Not an ad..i mean you can get a IM message from someone on any IM app to go to any website (which this is actually doing) and download a game that really is a worm or virus. Its the same as any spam email.
The only reason why its spreading is becouse of people that click on ANYTHING without questioning and reading.
Its all due to ignorance..not any particular IM program. | |
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mario55
join:2002-02-12
Pompano Beach, FL | i dont get it ,.. can some 1 fill me in i usually dont upgeade my AIM when they say theres an update.. was it the update that was bad, or an add on to AIM that is bad ? if it is an addon, let me know what ist is so i dont download it. | |
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