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Poobah · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: Who's the Sicko?

Who's got the sick computer? I've been receiving infected mail (allegedly) from both Mr. Nels and Paipo.com, but that doesn't necessarily mean they've got the sick computer.

Nels · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 11:03 am Post subject:

Poobah,

Check your PM. Shouldn't be me - anybody else get anything suspicious with my name attached please let me know. vagabondsurf.com was under constant attack during the Swaylock's flameout a few months ago with rather carefully targeted subject lines, but that abated. Too bad the dweebs who put viruses out don't try to screw up the ad and spy ware people. That crap has been such a problem, and the fixes so time consuming, I'm sitting on a backlog of material (including photos of a Newport Paipo Concave Vector with basic dimensions). I guess that may have to wait longer while I run the diagnostic panels again just in case.

Nels

doc · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject:

the most amusing was when I received virused email that was purportedly from another of my own email addresses.

Turned out to be an idiot who had both of those addresses in his contact list. And who I had told, repeatedly, not to open attachments that were not genuine graphics, jpgs or gifs. I would repeat it for a few minutes straight,Do Not Open Attachments . I even set his computer so it couldn't open email attachments at all, 'cos no way was he gonna figure it out..

His answer was "Oh, man, but these guys sending this stuff are friends of mine". I tried explaining how it all worked, but he's a SoCal skateboarder and thus very non-technical. And he's whine and wail and I'd change it so he could, but I'd say 'Okay, but this time you're gonna be smart about it, right?"

After the third time he got nailed I informed him that I wasn't gonna fix his computer again ( for free) and that there was an outfit that would do it for him ( for $125 ) and ___-____ was their number.

Funny thing, he's gotten a lot smarter about opening attachments. I should have charged him the $125. That's ok, I need a new laptop, and he's got one that's fine except slowed down to almost nothing by all the spyware he's happily downloaded and installed.

Nels · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject:

Finally done (how many hours later?), and my computer isn't harboring anything communicable virus-wise.

Since Doc mentioned opening attachments in e-mail you aren't sure about, I thought I'd put my middle finger in and mention the stuff that gets malicously downloaded without your knowledge or consent while visiting websites...and I'm not talking porn sites, either. I had to stop enjoying the wicked twists of CollegeHumor.com and friends because of that. This crap is going to hurt the www.

Maybe tonight to Tuesday I'll get those paipo photos up.

Poobah · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: Sicko

Got another one this morning...a W32 Netsky that supposedly came from telepaipo Greg L. in the Bay area.

Combine him with Nels, Lindbergh, and my old OBGetty Yahoo address, and I have to say the common denominator might be Rod. Anybody hear from Rod lately? Oh, well...onward and outward...John Galera just sent me some El Paipo photos.

doc · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

rodndtube · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:28 am Post subject: Re: Sicko

stormseeker · Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: Location: CA, SF Bay Area

The telepaipo address was probably obtained from someone else's address book -- most likely an Outlook user. It's an old secondary Internet email account that's been inactive since eary January. My system is clean and running behind updated hardware and software firewalls with additional Internet security programs in force. As a precaution, I've cancelled the old account and will ask Rod to remove that address from his web site. If you receive any more emails from telepaipo, please delete them.

John Galera · Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Mililani, Hawaii

I utilize Notron firewall and virus checker. I scan all items sent out from my email. There was no virus's in the pictures I sent Poobah. I'm running another complete check just in case.

Birdie · Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: Location: so cal

I dont live in the PC windows Bill Gates world, so, all those viruses I never have to deal with.....sounds awful.

Poobah · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Who's the Sicko?

rodndtube · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

Good idea. I will scrub the email addresses from the site. At a later date I might code them with some stealth email coding... that or crosslink their profiles on this forum. Check back in a few minutes.
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Nels · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject:

I haven't received anything with a paipo-related "originating address". I will offer that at various times at vagabondsurf.com we have been subject to waves of pus-filled messages, some quite well thought out, usually after bodyboarding or other inflammatory content went online. Maybe a 50/50 chance on your being targeted; if someone wanted to lurk around and create some paipo animosity, this might be one way to do it. I fear so many people standup surf these days that the air up there must be polluted. Razz

Of course, paipo people and prone riders are generally such nice, trusting types that we may just have caught a cold...