WARNING ABOUT SIMS CHEATS SITE

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Hello Everyone:
Just wanted to warn everyone about
http://www.cheatgenius.co.uk/cheats/12043/PC-cheats/The-Sims-2-Cheats.html

Don't go there unless you want a number of REALLY REALLY hard to remove
spyware programs downloaded to your computer without your permission. The
site is the sleaziest of the sleaze and the cheats are not EVEN worth it!

Barb

 

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"Barbara Buckley" <BBuckley58@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Ronyd.5438$_62.3982@trnddc01...
> Hello Everyone:
> Just wanted to warn everyone about
> http://www.cheatgenius.co.uk/cheats/12043/PC-cheats/The-Sims-2-Cheats.html
>
> Don't go there unless you want a number of REALLY REALLY hard to remove
> spyware programs downloaded to your computer without your permission. The
> site is the sleaziest of the sleaze and the cheats are not EVEN worth it!
>
> Barb
>
>

Stick with the majors: MTS2, TSR, Simslice, even the official Exchange.
You won't have a problem. And if you know some of the well known sites that
are now doing TS2, those should be okay. I'd stay away from anyplace else.
The net is less safe now than it ever was before. There are new zero day
viruses that have no virus signature for your AV to pick up. You can be
infected with keyloggers all kinds of stuff that hides from the task
manager, so you wouldn't even know you had it. It's really scary.
--
Carrigon
http://carrigon1.proboards43.com
TV and Movie Spoilers on the Darkside

 

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"D" <deeus@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:4tyyd.85996$K7.52578@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
>
> That is the major reason why I reformatted my system and installed a Win
XP
> Proffessional with SP2 slimstreamed into it, so the clean install would
> somehow protect me better, so far everything is very good. My programs all
> work perfectly, the only thing of complaint I guess is that my printer
> didn't work straight away even though it's USB, I had to download a SP2
> patch...but beh...not that difficult, however it took me a good hour to
work
> out why it wasn't working in the first place!
> Before that, I was getting highjacked by bots, trojans and bugs galore, my
> ports were nothing but dirty ho's, the scariest day was when I was
> downloading some houses, and writing an email, my email client started to
> type in extra spaces on the screen and it got quicker and quicker...so I
> couldn't finish the email...heck I couldn't even see what I had written!
the
> page just get scrolling down and down
> panicked I went to No Good Norton Anti Virus and desperatly opened
it...and
> then to my horror...I saw my cursor go to File> Disable Service.
> Then my cursor clicked on the desktop folder that said "Receipts" and
that's
> when I yanked the modem's power cord.
>
>
> Ha
> - D
>
>

OMG, I didn't even know I had Remote Desktop enabled on here till you
mentioned it. I just unchecked it. That is scary. But I was only port
scanned by the one jerk as far as I can tell. And now that I have the newer
protection, no one has scanned me since.

I've been trying to switch to Firefox as a browser, but I'm still not that
crazy about it. I do like the skins for it, though. And it does seem
alittle safer.

--
Carrigon
http://carrigon1.proboards43.com
TV and Movie Spoilers on the Darkside

 

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I think we got the message now

"Barbara Buckley" <BBuckley58@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Ronyd.5438$_62.3982@trnddc01...
> Hello Everyone:
> Just wanted to warn everyone about
> http://www.cheatgenius.co.uk/cheats/12043/PC-cheats/The-Sims-2-Cheats.html
>
> Don't go there unless you want a number of REALLY REALLY hard to remove
> spyware programs downloaded to your computer without your permission. The
> site is the sleaziest of the sleaze and the cheats are not EVEN worth it!
>
> Barb
>
>

 

[d]

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> OMG, I didn't even know I had Remote Desktop enabled on here till you
> mentioned it. I just unchecked it. That is scary. But I was only port
> scanned by the one jerk as far as I can tell. And now that I have the
> newer
> protection, no one has scanned me since.

Yep, I am a big fan of the firewall service this new service pack
because I opened an email that said "Merry Xmas"
and although it was from someone I didnt know
I thought maybe it was a lurker in one of the newsgroups or forums or
something
that I visit
Anyways it was a Sillybot virus and it never got its foot in the door
it was detected and destroyed in seconds..
So for that I'm happy
my first encounter with a bug was squished successfully
Happy too I upgraded my Anti Virus


I am too used to IE to try something else at this stage...
And it now has better Active X control than ever before
so its definetly an improvement

Merry Xmas!!!

- D