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Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
AP ^ | 4/20/2012 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 04/21/2012 2:24:07 AM PDT by iowamark

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To check and clean computers: http://www.dcwg.org
1 posted on 04/21/2012 2:24:11 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Not sure I want the gubmint “cleaning” my computer.


2 posted on 04/21/2012 2:33:16 AM PDT by Centaur (Never practice moderation to excess.)
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To: iowamark
Color me very cautious.

If Microsoft or McAfee warns me about something, I do what they say.

If a news wire service warns me.....

Hmmmm.

3 posted on 04/21/2012 2:33:16 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Centaur

Ditto.

I’d rather hazard the hackers, thanks.


4 posted on 04/21/2012 2:43:15 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey, blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: iowamark
"The average user would open up Internet Explorer and get 'page not found' and think the Internet is broken."

Think the Internet is brok...Nice try, boys.
5 posted on 04/21/2012 2:46:31 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: ShadowAce

ping


6 posted on 04/21/2012 2:49:46 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: raybbr

bttt


7 posted on 04/21/2012 2:50:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: PowderMonkey

I don’t use IE anyway.


8 posted on 04/21/2012 2:55:09 AM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come.)
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To: iowamark

Bump


9 posted on 04/21/2012 2:59:16 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: iowamark; lightman; SF_Redux; Questori; Quix

I have Norton 360 running 24x7, and Malwarebytes scans 5x/week, so I’m not letting the gov’t inside my machines to drop cookies/trojans/keyloggers etc to keep an eye on me, thankyouverymuch. And IE is total crap - I use Opera v11.62 on Win7 Pro w/SP3 - so that’s not an option, either.

Anyone who lets the gov’t *scanner* inside, is asking for problems.


10 posted on 04/21/2012 3:05:42 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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To: iowamark
Iowamark, Your Joking, Aren't you?

Which would you entrust your life? To the Government Weather service or a private one you know and trust?

Private weather services have beaten the Government ones for decades; the statistics prove it.

And when government gets things wrong, they get it REALLY REALLY WRONG.

IE: Some Bureaucrat DREAMS up a Test and/or a Solution to a Internet/Computer Virus and DOESN'T TEST IT OUT, DOESN'T THINK OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE TEST and/or SOLUTION (Think Liberal/Progressive or RINO) and/or doesn't Think of a means to BACK IT OUT if it MESSES UP.

With Luck, their solution works. Usually, as with software not well thought out; IT JUST INCREASES PROBLEMS and MAKES MORE FOR THE FUTURE.

And worse than this, PEOPLE START DEPENDING ON THE GOVERNMENT AND NOT THINKING FOR THEMSELVES. So when the GOVERNMENT MISSES a Big Virus who do you blame and how quickly will it be solved - THINK SSLLLOOOOWWWWW!

DOH!

11 posted on 04/21/2012 3:08:06 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: iowamark

I went to your recommended site and sniffed around.
It is suspiciously like other commercial frauds that rope you you in, tell you how infected your computer is, and then demand payment immediately to fix it.

I would rather trust my Norton 360 and my Malwarebytes.


12 posted on 04/21/2012 3:15:18 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Taxes are taken by governments from profits and pay earned by those who work.)
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To: sr4402

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”..........uh huh, yeah right


13 posted on 04/21/2012 3:17:19 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: iowamark
The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org


14 posted on 04/21/2012 3:27:53 AM PDT by tomkat (...shall NOT be abridged)
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To: Rapscallion

I am lucky having Frontier Communications. (phone and Internet) For free, they furnish very sophisticated virus, firewall, spam and email protection programs that work 24/7 and does a great job of it.


15 posted on 04/21/2012 3:50:30 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
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To: iowamark

I don’t run IE. And I don’t run Windows.

Running Xubuntu 11.04

Wife runs both. So I am stuck with maintaining it.


16 posted on 04/21/2012 4:01:09 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: yldstrk
““I’m from the government and I’m here to help”

Ah yes, Reagan's famous "nine most dangerous words in the English language.

Also this: To err is human, but to really screw things up takes a federal agency!

17 posted on 04/21/2012 4:15:33 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: iowamark

The paranoia on this thread is astounding to me.

Running Malwarbytes 5 times a week? Really?

It won’t affect you because you don’t use IE? Really?

Windows 7 professional SP3? Really?

Trust Norton? Really?

LOL.

I don’t run any anti-virus, nor to do I scan my computer on any regular basis(yearly maybe, probably less). I won’t use IE and I do use Admuncher. I don’t run executables off the internet. My networks also run off of OpenDNS and I block .br .cn .in .info .ir .kr .kz .ro .ru .sa TLDs. My computers simply won’t resolve out to 75% of the worlds malware hosts. Sure, they could use IPs in their malware scripts but most use DNS and regularly change the host IP.

I have seen infections so thick on machines that you literally couldn’t do anything but click the “pay me” button and enter a credit card yet Norton Antivirus was sitting there fat and happy like it didn’t have a care in the world.

DCWG isn’t some organization that’s trying to rip you off. Sheesh, people.


18 posted on 04/21/2012 4:17:30 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: nnn0jeh

Ping


19 posted on 04/21/2012 4:18:49 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: carriage_hill

Malwarebytes is the best, eh? It’s saved my behind many a time. Sadly, it’s mostly a threat from news sites!!!


20 posted on 04/21/2012 4:24:44 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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