[AccessD] It just goes to show ya

One of the nicest features of opendns is that it will tell you if there are any dns queries coming from malware on your network.

Best regards,
Hans-Christian Andersen


On 16 Dec 2011, at 13:33, "Rusty Hammond" <rusty.hammond at cpiqpc.com> wrote:

> Another thing I've done is setup an opendns account for my home.  It's
> free and does a nice job of content filtering.  No need to install
> filtering software on the computers, but I do run the opendns ip address
> update client on my desktop that's on all the time.
> 
> www.opendns.com
> 
> 
> Rusty
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:47 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] It just goes to show ya
> 
> I got an email this morning - XYZ wants to be your friend on facebook.
> I don't know xyz, but I often go look to see if maybe I do know them out
> in a circle somehow.
> 
> I clicked on the link...  It *looked* just like those things from
> Facebook...
> 
> You guessed it, it was a social engineering attempt to get me to a page
> to do something bad to my computer.
> 
> I run firefox in DropMyRights sandbox AND I have a widget to prevent
> running scripts in firefox which just saved my bacon.
> 
> It just goes to show though.  I *know* about this stuff, I am very
> careful and I still got suckered. 
>  Only my safeguards saved me.
> 
> --
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
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