I am NOT a Thief!
I don't know about you, but I am really fed up being treated like a thief.
I realize that there are a lot of thieves out there, but I am not one of them. If Microsoft is so clever, they should be able to detect my system is legit without me having to jump through hoops to prove it. But I paid for my version of Windows and I am sick of being treated like I stole it.
Why I have to prove my Windows is legitimate before I can download something from Microsoft is beyond me. Every time I have to prove my trustworthiness. This is just wrong.
Now I have to prove my worthiness just to view a video about Windows 7! (There used to be a link here, but Microsoft moved the video, so the link is gone. Maybe too many folks besides me got tired of trying to prove they are not thieves.)
This is one of the reasons that makes honest people turn to other operating systems like Linux. My next operating system may just be Linux.
Martha
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
What's Next?
All of us have endured the endless onslaught of Spam for a long time and there doesn't seem to be an end to it in sight.
In the last few months I am getting 'invitations' from people I never heard of to join web sites of dubious value and motives.
First it was the invitation to visit 'my Refriendz page and see my latest photos.' I blogged about this a while back.
But now it's a flood from Refriendz, FriendsClub, Question It, etc and of course Grouply. I expect others will soon follow. It makes no difference, it's all Spam to me.
I am not sure exactly how these 'social' sites work and I really don't care to find out, other than they annoy folks like me who do not want those spammy emails.
But Grouply really worries me. The concept sounds good, get all of your Groups emails on one web page. There is another way to get them all in one place, folks. Download the messages to an email program or to Gmail! That way you don't compromise your Yahoo login and password by giving it to some website!
You say, well if some fool wants to give up his or her logging credentials that's their problem. Guess what, it could be your problem and my problem. All it would take is for some sneaky soul to scrape his Grouply site to a blog and your email address and mine are exposed to the world.
If you have a Yahoo Group and you don't want your Group posts on Grouply you can stop it. Just use the information here to keep your members from belonging to Grouply if you wish. Tell Grouply to leave your Group alone
Once you enter your Group's owner email, you get a code to enter and then you can set the controls to allow or prevent Grouply from taking control of your Group.
Now Yahoo is trying to get in on the invitations. They call theirs 'Connections'. In all fairness, they don't attempt to have users send an invite to everyone in their address book, but some of these 'Connections' are a tad dubious.
I just wish these sites would leave those invitations, connections or what ever they want to call them, alone and not keep adding to the Spam in our Inboxes!
Martha
In the last few months I am getting 'invitations' from people I never heard of to join web sites of dubious value and motives.
First it was the invitation to visit 'my Refriendz page and see my latest photos.' I blogged about this a while back.
But now it's a flood from Refriendz, FriendsClub, Question It, etc and of course Grouply. I expect others will soon follow. It makes no difference, it's all Spam to me.
I am not sure exactly how these 'social' sites work and I really don't care to find out, other than they annoy folks like me who do not want those spammy emails.
But Grouply really worries me. The concept sounds good, get all of your Groups emails on one web page. There is another way to get them all in one place, folks. Download the messages to an email program or to Gmail! That way you don't compromise your Yahoo login and password by giving it to some website!
You say, well if some fool wants to give up his or her logging credentials that's their problem. Guess what, it could be your problem and my problem. All it would take is for some sneaky soul to scrape his Grouply site to a blog and your email address and mine are exposed to the world.
If you have a Yahoo Group and you don't want your Group posts on Grouply you can stop it. Just use the information here to keep your members from belonging to Grouply if you wish. Tell Grouply to leave your Group alone
Once you enter your Group's owner email, you get a code to enter and then you can set the controls to allow or prevent Grouply from taking control of your Group.
Now Yahoo is trying to get in on the invitations. They call theirs 'Connections'. In all fairness, they don't attempt to have users send an invite to everyone in their address book, but some of these 'Connections' are a tad dubious.
I just wish these sites would leave those invitations, connections or what ever they want to call them, alone and not keep adding to the Spam in our Inboxes!
Martha
Monday, October 06, 2008
Those Awful Fakes!
(Why you shouldn't use Google to search for security products.)
Everyday a new so-called security program rears it's ugly head. These rogue programs invade a user's computer in several ways and one of the ways is by an unsuspecting user downloading the scumware on purpose.
A few of the fakes.
So many of these ripoff products name their scumware something close to a real and good security product. So if a user sees something that looks familiar they think it's the real deal. Not.
I've been reading a book about security on the Internet and trust me, the ways that crimeware can intrude on a user's computer is almost enough to make me stay offline and keep the computer turned off.
However, most of us will be safe if we only follow a few simple rules. Use a firewall, an updated anti-virus scanner and 'good' spyware removers. Don't click on links in email from unknown senders (better, don't even open those emails) turn off ActiveX in Internet Explorer (better, use Firefox or Opera), disable javascript in all browsers and never, ever, search Google for security products.
One last thing, if you are using a router, change the default password to something harder to guess than 'password' or 'admin'.
Stay safe!
Martha
Everyday a new so-called security program rears it's ugly head. These rogue programs invade a user's computer in several ways and one of the ways is by an unsuspecting user downloading the scumware on purpose.
A few of the fakes.
So many of these ripoff products name their scumware something close to a real and good security product. So if a user sees something that looks familiar they think it's the real deal. Not.
I've been reading a book about security on the Internet and trust me, the ways that crimeware can intrude on a user's computer is almost enough to make me stay offline and keep the computer turned off.
However, most of us will be safe if we only follow a few simple rules. Use a firewall, an updated anti-virus scanner and 'good' spyware removers. Don't click on links in email from unknown senders (better, don't even open those emails) turn off ActiveX in Internet Explorer (better, use Firefox or Opera), disable javascript in all browsers and never, ever, search Google for security products.
One last thing, if you are using a router, change the default password to something harder to guess than 'password' or 'admin'.
Stay safe!
Martha
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