Bad computer news

[Anon]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412161,00.html
This makes me so mad. I have had two close friends within the past two months discover porn and porn videos on their husbands' computers. For Microsoft to come out with a browser that actually hides porn from everyone is even worse. Now, people can sin without worrying that anyone has to find out. Its absolutely pathetic.

I will not download IE8 that's for sure.

[deafnva77]

I believe it.

my aunt had a virus from a security hole (you know, the one that suppose to be a website and some hacker made that website to take them to another website)

She did a scan. found xxx teen. com from a spyware program she got.

and other porns. She was shocked. she never visited there, and that computer was used only by her.

personally, I think we are being under harrassed attack from other countries because of the war in Iraq and all.

[deafnva77]

I think I will switch browser.

[Anon]

Hmmm no I don't think so, there are enough rotten people in America to blame viruses and porn sites on without moving to other countries....

You'd be surprised how many people eat up that porn stuff. More than you'd ever care to find out. More pastors and other Christians than any of us care to think about, too.

Its not the current IE, just the new beta version.

[deafnva77]

no, not my aunt. I believe her.


in fact you probably got porns on your computer as well.

[trc123]

This feature, though not as streamlined, has basically existed in all the recent Web browsers for the 6 years at least. Anyone can "clear history" and/or "private data." It's not just MS IE but also Firefox etc. This new feature puts it one click away and "as you go," but it has only been about three clicks away up until now.

[deafnva77]

I should mention that some of these viruses was originally from other countries.

[trc123]

P.S. In a former life (about 10 yrs. ago) I worked for a State run job placement center. We had a computer lab for job search related activity which included 20 PCs. I used to have to monitor the activity of the users to make certain no one was using the PCs to access porn. I used to also get the activity logs for all the employees. One thing you learn very quickly is that many people do access the stuff on purpose; but many more people get false positives because of all the pop-up ads, links and other pointers on legitimate websites that actually point to a porn site or are hosted by a porn company who does ad hosting on the side. You have to be very careful of who you accuse and have very good detail and facts. Those not knowing how it all works (www; ftp; etc.) as it is very easy to falsely accuse someone and ruin their career and marriage!

I'm glad to be out of that type of position as I'd much rather have God be the judge and enforcer; it's just not in my nature to enjoy that type of thing.

[dwayner79]

P.S. In a former life (about 10 yrs. ago) I worked for a State run job placement center. We had a computer lab for job search related activity which included 20 PCs. I used to have to monitor the activity of the users to make certain no one was using the PCs to access porn. I used to also get the activity logs for all the employees. One thing you learn very quickly is that many people do access the stuff on purpose; but many more people get false positives because of all the pop-up ads' date=' links and other pointers on legitimate websites that actually point to a porn site or are hosted by a porn company who does ad hosting on the side. You have to be very careful of who you accuse and have very good detail and facts. [b']Those not knowing how it all works (www; ftp; etc.) as it is very easy to falsely accuse someone and ruin their career and marriage!

I'm glad to be out of that type of position as I'd much rather have God be the judge and enforcer; it's just not in my nature to enjoy that type of thing.

I consider myself a power user when it comes to this stuff, and I have been dupped. About a month ago, I almost gave my wachovia online login I had typed them in and was about to press the Login button. This sounds arrogant, but if I got that far down the road, others certainly would have pressed that button. It has happened with porn as well, but those are a little easier to catch.

Long story short, I agree. This is definitely an area when one random link hardly is enough to ruin someone.

[Anon]

I'm pretty good about the internet as well (and I guarantee you I have no porn on my computer, I know what is on here and what is not, believe me!) and the last time I got duped was on VistaPrint...I was stupid to click a button I should have known better. They are really good about that these days.

I just had to fix my SIL's computer, it was FULL of trash, from popups that claim you have a virus and needs to be fixed, and you click it, and your system gets full of very difficult to remove trash. Luckily it wasn't far enough gone to where I couldn't download some good software, defrag, clean it up, and delete all the bad stuff.

I can't stop her son and his friends from visiting questionable sites though and bringing it all back up.

[deafnva77]

was it antivirus2009 popup?
if so, that itself is a virus

alt+ctrl+del is the best way to shut it down without clicking... (I believe it is one of the security hole btw, that take over good sites and tranport them to another site)

[Pastor Matt]

Wasn't this stupid feature already available on the other browsers? FF and Opera? Not that I agree with it, but IE is trying to catch up with other browsers.

[trc123]

Was the feature put in to stop people from having their porn discovered or the other 1,000 reasons to not want someone to have access to your private data and this is just one of the side affects?

I mean, if you share your PC (especially in a work environment) then you may not want someone being able to hit the back button, look at history or cookies, etc. and gain access to a website that you do financial transactions on. All websites are not created equal and not all take the appropriate precautions to clear local cache and other data left on the client side PC.

[Anon]

I'm not familiar enough with the others, but this one blatantly calls it "Porn Mode".

[dwayner79]

I'm not familiar enough with the others' date=' but this one blatantly calls it "Porn Mode".[/quote']
That's not true.... its being called that by people, but its call InPrivate (or at least thats how I read your original post's link)