[AccessD] It just goes to show ya

Brad Marks BradM at blackforestltd.com
Thu Dec 15 10:05:08 CST 2011


I would guess that almost everyone has been burned by a virus in the past.

Here are some things that I have done to reduce the risk on the "main" PC that I use for work purposes.

Use an iPad for "web surfing"
Have multiple PCs so that the teenagers don't use the "main" one
Use Microsoft Security Essentials (free) 

Brad
   

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Gary Kjos
Sent: Thu 12/15/2011 8:18 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] It just goes to show ya
 
Whew!  Glad your safeguards protected you. I had a virus creep in a
year or so back. I know I messed up and did something I knew I
shouldn't have. Took me about 10 hours of messing around to get it
back the way it was. It became a quest to defeat the b at st@rds that did
it to me though.

GK

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:47 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> 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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