Blocking threats from USB storage device

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USB storage devices have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB disk
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB disk by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the disk. After that, when you use the USB disk in another
computer, the one will be at risk. Threats from USB storage devices to
computers have been a huge security risk for businesses and
individuals. So, how should we protect against threats from USB
storage devices? Well, here are some suggestions.
1. Disable AUTORUN in the registry and remove the AUTORUN.INF file
manually. The AUTORUN.INF file is a text file located in the root
directory. It enables malicious programs to automatically run when the
USB storage device is plugged into a computer. Therefore, many
instructions online suggest you to disable AUTORUN in the registry and
delete the AUTORUN.INF file and the malicious programs manually. But
we are not familiar with the registry and AUTORUN files.
2. Scan the removable storage media by certain antivirus software
whenever it is plugged into a computer. However, antivirus software is
always based on the database of signature and can't find new malicious
programs. What is more, scanning USB disk is time consuming.
3. Choose the software Removable Storage Guard to help you turn the
AUTORUN off and remove all the threats from your USB storage device
quickly and exactly by its new technology. You needn't worry about
threats from USB storage as soon as you install the software.
You can find the software on http://www.download.com
Download link:
http://www.download.com/Removable-Storage-Guard/3000-2239_4-10708709.html?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

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zhengshareware wrote:

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Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
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Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

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Hello again Malke :)

On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?

BD

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> zhengshareware wrote:
>
> spam
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
 
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'BoaterDave' wrote:
| On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
_____

Not from Usenet servers where you read this.

Phil Weldon

"BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| Hello again Malke :)
|
| On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
|
| BD
|
| **********************************
| "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
| news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| > zhengshareware wrote:
| >
| > spam
| >
| >
| > Malke
| > --
| > Elephant Boy Computers
| > www.elephantboycomputers.com
| > "Don't Panic!"
| > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
|
|
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

NNTP is a burst protocol messages are replicated it's hard to delete!

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"BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hello again Malke :)
>
> On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
>
> BD
>
> **********************************
> "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> zhengshareware wrote:
>>
>> spam
>>
>>
>> Malke
>> --
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> "Don't Panic!"
>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
>
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Thanks for that, Phil.

Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
Does anyone check the links?
Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be mis-directed
to, say, an infected site?

BD
***********************************************************
"Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
news:yGMoi.10743$Od7.9140@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> 'BoaterDave' wrote:
> | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
> _____
>
> Not from Usenet servers where you read this.
>
> Phil Weldon
>
> "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> | Hello again Malke :)
> |
> | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
> |
> | BD
> |
> | **********************************
> | "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> | news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> | > zhengshareware wrote:
> | >
> | > spam
> | >
> | >
> | > Malke
> | > --
> | > Elephant Boy Computers
> | > www.elephantboycomputers.com
> | > "Don't Panic!"
> | > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> |
> |
>
>
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Thanks James,

Please see my response to Phil Weldon. If you can answer too, it will be
appreciated. TIA

BD

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"James Matthews" <jamesmatt18@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:A606D263-9A1A-4A1B-9828-74E6E4664561@microsoft.com...
> NNTP is a burst protocol messages are replicated it's hard to delete!
>
> --
>
> http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=14
> "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hello again Malke :)
>>
>> On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
>>
>> BD
>>
>> **********************************
>> "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> zhengshareware wrote:
>>>
>>> spam
>>>
>>>
>>> Malke
>>> --
>>> Elephant Boy Computers
>>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>>> "Don't Panic!"
>>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>>
>>
>
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

'BoaterDave' wrote:
| Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
| Does anyone check the links?
| Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
mis-directed
| to, say, an infected site?
_____

Microsoft runs its own servers for the microsoft.public.* newsgroups (and
provides access through its web based interface [look for 'CDO' in the
header of a post, that identifies a message posted directly to the
microsoft.public.* servers through the web based interface]). The messages
on these proprietary servers are propagated through the Usenet ad hoc (as in
long standing, set up through RFCs, but decentralized) network. There is a
'message cancelation' command, but that is only available to the original
poster, and not all Usenet servers honor message cancellations. So
essentially, no, Microsoft has no control over posts once they reach Usenet
servers. But that is the nature of Usenet (Google search 'Usenet'); one of
its major strengths - NO Centralized Control.

The best protection is an educated user, someone who uses always on
up-to-date antivirus and other antimalware protection, who keeps the
operating system up-to-date with ALL security patches and service packs, who
uses a router with NAT, and who uses some discretion in where they go and
what packages they open (as in real life.)

Yes, I am sure Microsoft monitors the posts, but that is certainly no
gauruntee... the greater dangers are perhaps from well meaning but dangerous
advice - but that is generally kept in check in microsoft.public.*
newsgroups as well as in de jure (as opposed to de facto) Usenet newsgroups
through the kind of 'peer review' you see in this newsgroup. (At one time
there were numerous posts with Internet Worms as attachment to newsgroups,
but that has dropped to zero, probably because most ISPs now scan email and
newsgroup posts for malware (Google search 'Swen').

Phil Weldon


"BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:OZLskwLzHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| Thanks for that, Phil.
|
| Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
| Does anyone check the links?
| Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
mis-directed
| to, say, an infected site?
|
| BD
| ***********************************************************
| "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
| news:yGMoi.10743$Od7.9140@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
| > 'BoaterDave' wrote:
| > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
| > _____
| >
| > Not from Usenet servers where you read this.
| >
| > Phil Weldon
| >
| > "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
| > news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| > | Hello again Malke :)
| > |
| > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
| > |
| > | BD
| > |
| > | **********************************
| > | "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
| > | news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| > | > zhengshareware wrote:
| > | >
| > | > spam
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > Malke
| > | > --
| > | > Elephant Boy Computers
| > | > www.elephantboycomputers.com
| > | > "Don't Panic!"
| > | > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Thank you so much for your reply, Phil.

I'm beginning, at last, to understand how everything works here, but it's
taken two years to do so! <g>

I first found out about Newsgroups only *after* I had had my identity stolen
and started to look into how it could have happened. Thousands of people
evidently browse the MS Newsgroups looking for help and advice. I'm sure
many are even more naive than I was (am? <g>) and must be highly vulnerable
to being exploited. How many of them do, actually, click on a link - which
might take them to an infected site? I suspect that I did on more than one
occasion! <g>

I admit I had to look here for clarification of your latter comment:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure

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WHO CLICKED ON THAT LINK? <G>



"Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
news:BeWoi.10871$Od7.1412@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> 'BoaterDave' wrote:
> | Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
> | Does anyone check the links?
> | Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
> mis-directed
> | to, say, an infected site?
> _____
>
> Microsoft runs its own servers for the microsoft.public.* newsgroups (and
> provides access through its web based interface [look for 'CDO' in the
> header of a post, that identifies a message posted directly to the
> microsoft.public.* servers through the web based interface]). The
> messages
> on these proprietary servers are propagated through the Usenet ad hoc (as
> in
> long standing, set up through RFCs, but decentralized) network. There is
> a
> 'message cancelation' command, but that is only available to the original
> poster, and not all Usenet servers honor message cancellations. So
> essentially, no, Microsoft has no control over posts once they reach
> Usenet
> servers. But that is the nature of Usenet (Google search 'Usenet'); one
> of
> its major strengths - NO Centralized Control.
>
> The best protection is an educated user, someone who uses always on
> up-to-date antivirus and other antimalware protection, who keeps the
> operating system up-to-date with ALL security patches and service packs,
> who
> uses a router with NAT, and who uses some discretion in where they go and
> what packages they open (as in real life.)
>
> Yes, I am sure Microsoft monitors the posts, but that is certainly no
> gauruntee... the greater dangers are perhaps from well meaning but
> dangerous
> advice - but that is generally kept in check in microsoft.public.*
> newsgroups as well as in de jure (as opposed to de facto) Usenet
> newsgroups
> through the kind of 'peer review' you see in this newsgroup. (At one time
> there were numerous posts with Internet Worms as attachment to newsgroups,
> but that has dropped to zero, probably because most ISPs now scan email
> and
> newsgroup posts for malware (Google search 'Swen').
>
> Phil Weldon
>
>
> "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:OZLskwLzHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> | Thanks for that, Phil.
> |
> | Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
> | Does anyone check the links?
> | Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
> mis-directed
> | to, say, an infected site?
> |
> | BD
> | ***********************************************************
> | "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
> | news:yGMoi.10743$Od7.9140@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> | > 'BoaterDave' wrote:
> | > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
> | > _____
> | >
> | > Not from Usenet servers where you read this.
> | >
> | > Phil Weldon
> | >
> | > "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> | > news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> | > | Hello again Malke :)
> | > |
> | > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
> | > |
> | > | BD
> | > |
> | > | **********************************
> | > | "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> | > | news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> | > | > zhengshareware wrote:
> | > | >
> | > | > spam
> | > | >
> | > | >
> | > | > Malke
> | > | > --
> | > | > Elephant Boy Computers
> | > | > www.elephantboycomputers.com
> | > | > "Don't Panic!"
> | > | > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> | > |
> | > |
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
>
 
Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

Re: Blocking threats from USB storage device - *spam*

'BoaterDave' wrote:
| I'm beginning, at last, to understand how everything works here, but it's
| taken two years to do so! <g>
|
| I first found out about Newsgroups only *after* I had had my identity
stolen
| and started to look into how it could have happened. Thousands of people
| evidently browse the MS Newsgroups looking for help and advice. I'm sure
| many are even more naive than I was (am? <g>) and must be highly
vulnerable
| to being exploited. How many of them do, actually, click on a link - which
| might take them to an infected site? I suspect that I did on more than one
| occasion! <g>
_____

Glad to help. I had a head start on you; I began programming computers in
1965 B^)

Many of the dangers on the Internet will get sorted out; and those that
don't, well, it's better to meet them through electronic mediation than
face-to-face. Some rob you with a digital touch, some with a gun.

Phil Weldon

"BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:ed00kVTzHHA.4652@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
| Thank you so much for your reply, Phil.
|
| I'm beginning, at last, to understand how everything works here, but it's
| taken two years to do so! <g>
|
| I first found out about Newsgroups only *after* I had had my identity
stolen
| and started to look into how it could have happened. Thousands of people
| evidently browse the MS Newsgroups looking for help and advice. I'm sure
| many are even more naive than I was (am? <g>) and must be highly
vulnerable
| to being exploited. How many of them do, actually, click on a link - which
| might take them to an infected site? I suspect that I did on more than one
| occasion! <g>
|
| I admit I had to look here for clarification of your latter comment:-
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure
|
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| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
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|
| WHO CLICKED ON THAT LINK? <G>
|
|
|
| "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
| news:BeWoi.10871$Od7.1412@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
| > 'BoaterDave' wrote:
| > | Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
| > | Does anyone check the links?
| > | Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
| > mis-directed
| > | to, say, an infected site?
| > _____
| >
| > Microsoft runs its own servers for the microsoft.public.* newsgroups
(and
| > provides access through its web based interface [look for 'CDO' in the
| > header of a post, that identifies a message posted directly to the
| > microsoft.public.* servers through the web based interface]). The
| > messages
| > on these proprietary servers are propagated through the Usenet ad hoc
(as
| > in
| > long standing, set up through RFCs, but decentralized) network. There
is
| > a
| > 'message cancelation' command, but that is only available to the
original
| > poster, and not all Usenet servers honor message cancellations. So
| > essentially, no, Microsoft has no control over posts once they reach
| > Usenet
| > servers. But that is the nature of Usenet (Google search 'Usenet'); one
| > of
| > its major strengths - NO Centralized Control.
| >
| > The best protection is an educated user, someone who uses always on
| > up-to-date antivirus and other antimalware protection, who keeps the
| > operating system up-to-date with ALL security patches and service packs,
| > who
| > uses a router with NAT, and who uses some discretion in where they go
and
| > what packages they open (as in real life.)
| >
| > Yes, I am sure Microsoft monitors the posts, but that is certainly no
| > gauruntee... the greater dangers are perhaps from well meaning but
| > dangerous
| > advice - but that is generally kept in check in microsoft.public.*
| > newsgroups as well as in de jure (as opposed to de facto) Usenet
| > newsgroups
| > through the kind of 'peer review' you see in this newsgroup. (At one
time
| > there were numerous posts with Internet Worms as attachment to
newsgroups,
| > but that has dropped to zero, probably because most ISPs now scan email
| > and
| > newsgroup posts for malware (Google search 'Swen').
| >
| > Phil Weldon
| >
| >
| > "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
| > news:OZLskwLzHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| > | Thanks for that, Phil.
| > |
| > | Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
| > | Does anyone check the links?
| > | Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
| > mis-directed
| > | to, say, an infected site?
| > |
| > | BD
| > | ***********************************************************
| > | "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
| > | news:yGMoi.10743$Od7.9140@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
| > | > 'BoaterDave' wrote:
| > | > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
| > | > _____
| > | >
| > | > Not from Usenet servers where you read this.
| > | >
| > | > Phil Weldon
| > | >
| > | > "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
| > | > news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| > | > | Hello again Malke :)
| > | > |
| > | > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
| > | > |
| > | > | BD
| > | > |
| > | > | **********************************
| > | > | "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
| > | > | news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| > | > | > zhengshareware wrote:
| > | > | >
| > | > | > spam
| > | > | >
| > | > | >
| > | > | > Malke
| > | > | > --
| > | > | > Elephant Boy Computers
| > | > | > www.elephantboycomputers.com
| > | > | > "Don't Panic!"
| > | > | > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
| > | > |
| > | > |
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
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Thanks again, Phil. In my case, I did get my money back (eventually!)

D.
____________________________________________________
"Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
news:Z35pi.11254$zA4.111@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> 'BoaterDave' wrote:
> | I'm beginning, at last, to understand how everything works here, but
> it's
> | taken two years to do so! <g>
> |
> | I first found out about Newsgroups only *after* I had had my identity
> stolen
> | and started to look into how it could have happened. Thousands of people
> | evidently browse the MS Newsgroups looking for help and advice. I'm sure
> | many are even more naive than I was (am? <g>) and must be highly
> vulnerable
> | to being exploited. How many of them do, actually, click on a link -
> which
> | might take them to an infected site? I suspect that I did on more than
> one
> | occasion! <g>
> _____
>
> Glad to help. I had a head start on you; I began programming computers
> in
> 1965 B^)
>
> Many of the dangers on the Internet will get sorted out; and those that
> don't, well, it's better to meet them through electronic mediation than
> face-to-face. Some rob you with a digital touch, some with a gun.
>
> Phil Weldon
>
> "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:ed00kVTzHHA.4652@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> | Thank you so much for your reply, Phil.
> |
> | I'm beginning, at last, to understand how everything works here, but
> it's
> | taken two years to do so! <g>
> |
> | I first found out about Newsgroups only *after* I had had my identity
> stolen
> | and started to look into how it could have happened. Thousands of people
> | evidently browse the MS Newsgroups looking for help and advice. I'm sure
> | many are even more naive than I was (am? <g>) and must be highly
> vulnerable
> | to being exploited. How many of them do, actually, click on a link -
> which
> | might take them to an infected site? I suspect that I did on more than
> one
> | occasion! <g>
> |
> | I admit I had to look here for clarification of your latter comment:-
> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure
> |
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> |
> | WHO CLICKED ON THAT LINK? <G>
> |
> |
> |
> | "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
> | news:BeWoi.10871$Od7.1412@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> | > 'BoaterDave' wrote:
> | > | Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
> | > | Does anyone check the links?
> | > | Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
> | > mis-directed
> | > | to, say, an infected site?
> | > _____
> | >
> | > Microsoft runs its own servers for the microsoft.public.* newsgroups
> (and
> | > provides access through its web based interface [look for 'CDO' in the
> | > header of a post, that identifies a message posted directly to the
> | > microsoft.public.* servers through the web based interface]). The
> | > messages
> | > on these proprietary servers are propagated through the Usenet ad hoc
> (as
> | > in
> | > long standing, set up through RFCs, but decentralized) network. There
> is
> | > a
> | > 'message cancelation' command, but that is only available to the
> original
> | > poster, and not all Usenet servers honor message cancellations. So
> | > essentially, no, Microsoft has no control over posts once they reach
> | > Usenet
> | > servers. But that is the nature of Usenet (Google search 'Usenet');
> one
> | > of
> | > its major strengths - NO Centralized Control.
> | >
> | > The best protection is an educated user, someone who uses always on
> | > up-to-date antivirus and other antimalware protection, who keeps the
> | > operating system up-to-date with ALL security patches and service
> packs,
> | > who
> | > uses a router with NAT, and who uses some discretion in where they go
> and
> | > what packages they open (as in real life.)
> | >
> | > Yes, I am sure Microsoft monitors the posts, but that is certainly no
> | > gauruntee... the greater dangers are perhaps from well meaning but
> | > dangerous
> | > advice - but that is generally kept in check in microsoft.public.*
> | > newsgroups as well as in de jure (as opposed to de facto) Usenet
> | > newsgroups
> | > through the kind of 'peer review' you see in this newsgroup. (At one
> time
> | > there were numerous posts with Internet Worms as attachment to
> newsgroups,
> | > but that has dropped to zero, probably because most ISPs now scan
> email
> | > and
> | > newsgroup posts for malware (Google search 'Swen').
> | >
> | > Phil Weldon
> | >
> | >
> | > "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> | > news:OZLskwLzHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> | > | Thanks for that, Phil.
> | > |
> | > | Do you know if anyone from MS monitors the posts on Usenet servers?
> | > | Does anyone check the links?
> | > | Might 'newbies' (as I once was - still am to a degree! <g>) be
> | > mis-directed
> | > | to, say, an infected site?
> | > |
> | > | BD
> | > | ***********************************************************
> | > | "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
> | > | news:yGMoi.10743$Od7.9140@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> | > | > 'BoaterDave' wrote:
> | > | > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
> | > | > _____
> | > | >
> | > | > Not from Usenet servers where you read this.
> | > | >
> | > | > Phil Weldon
> | > | >
> | > | > "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> | > | > news:%23QMqVhGzHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> | > | > | Hello again Malke :)
> | > | > |
> | > | > | On this server, cannot Microsoft remove such posts?
> | > | > |
> | > | > | BD
> | > | > |
> | > | > | **********************************
> | > | > | "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> | > | > | news:us8L1PGzHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> | > | > | > zhengshareware wrote:
> | > | > | >
> | > | > | > spam
> | > | > | >
> | > | > | >
> | > | > | > Malke
> | > | > | > --
> | > | > | > Elephant Boy Computers
> | > | > | > www.elephantboycomputers.com
> | > | > | > "Don't Panic!"
> | > | > | > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> | > | > |
> | > | > |
> | > | >
> | > | >
> | > |
> | > |
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
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