Discussion » The Power Of The World Wide Interwebiverse.

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Posted by Sul, 20:08, 10th May 2004:
 
I just helped a mate out with his PC. It was playing up while connected to the net. On his machine were 16 different porn diallers, ad-aware found 280 seperate objects, his favourites were entirely XXX related apart from the default ones and when I asked him to go to a site to test it he decided that instead of google or yahoo or hotmail, he'd go to a free galleries listing site.
On his browser was a legitimate toolbar, much like the google one. When I dropped down the recent searches box there was only one entry. And that entry was, as you've probably guessed, "porn".

The power of the web eh?
Posted by Sul, 20:14, 10th May 2004:
 
And by "mate", I really dont mean me.
Posted by Alfie, 20:20, 10th May 2004:
 
you mean Abe
Posted by WarHead, 20:21, 10th May 2004:
 
Hur hur.

My boss got a letter from his provider telling him someone had hacked his PC and was using it as a mail relay. They gave him 14 days to sort it out or they'd pull the plug on his account. Silly sod didn't install a firewall after I'd told him several times about the possible quinciquonces.
Posted by Alfie, 20:23, 10th May 2004:
 
"quinciquonces"

i like that word
sounds a bit Ned Flanders
Posted by WarHead, 20:35, 10th May 2004:
 
Yes indeedly-do.