kcm.MN
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- NW Minnesota
This IDIOT just signed up tonight, but has an amazing 28 posts!!
I can't help but wonder what kind of ignorance it takes to keep doing things like this. If someone else knows, PLEASE inform me!
There was a lengthy conversation about this kind of stuff not too long ago on another site. Most people seem to think these folks make money from their spamming, and that may be true. However, you really need to look at this from a PC security point of view. Please read this next part carefully - IF YOU CLICK ON THEIR LINKS, YOU COULD SEVERELY COMPROMISE YOUR COMPUTER!!
By clicking on their links, you're going to some unknown site. And, they may, in fact, be delivering the intended product or event, but that's just the start. While you're there, one or more of several things could be happening. Some of these things are:
1) they can upload malware to your PC without your knowing
2) they can potentially gain access to your PC, and search through your files for private or financial information, etc.
3) they can hack into your email, and possibly even use your PC to attack your friends - hey, why would YOU send some strange email? But by then it's often too late.
There's more things also, but can't think well right now. Hurting a lot tonight, so can't sleep. Anyway, PLEASE do not give these people power over you, or the ability to attack your friends and family through your PC. And all it takes is simply clicking on one of their links! And trouble is, it may also be a sleeper kind of thing, so that by the time bad things start happening, you don't remember clicking on the spammed link.
If necessary, make a note to yourself and stick it on your screen - [color=blue:f9c881b482]"DO NOT CLICK ON SPAMMER LINKS!"[/color:f9c881b482]
I can't help but wonder what kind of ignorance it takes to keep doing things like this. If someone else knows, PLEASE inform me!
There was a lengthy conversation about this kind of stuff not too long ago on another site. Most people seem to think these folks make money from their spamming, and that may be true. However, you really need to look at this from a PC security point of view. Please read this next part carefully - IF YOU CLICK ON THEIR LINKS, YOU COULD SEVERELY COMPROMISE YOUR COMPUTER!!
By clicking on their links, you're going to some unknown site. And, they may, in fact, be delivering the intended product or event, but that's just the start. While you're there, one or more of several things could be happening. Some of these things are:
1) they can upload malware to your PC without your knowing
2) they can potentially gain access to your PC, and search through your files for private or financial information, etc.
3) they can hack into your email, and possibly even use your PC to attack your friends - hey, why would YOU send some strange email? But by then it's often too late.
There's more things also, but can't think well right now. Hurting a lot tonight, so can't sleep. Anyway, PLEASE do not give these people power over you, or the ability to attack your friends and family through your PC. And all it takes is simply clicking on one of their links! And trouble is, it may also be a sleeper kind of thing, so that by the time bad things start happening, you don't remember clicking on the spammed link.
If necessary, make a note to yourself and stick it on your screen - [color=blue:f9c881b482]"DO NOT CLICK ON SPAMMER LINKS!"[/color:f9c881b482]