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If the Hackers were not Bad enough - False Alarm

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If the Hackers were not Bad enough - False Alarm

With Apologies to Samsung.

http://antivirus.about.com/b/2011/03/30/samsung-installs-keylogger.htm?nl=1
from JoeUser Forums

A  report out by NetSec Consultants Corp. is reporting that Samsung is installing a hidden keylogger on all their new laptops!  While no official statement has been forthcoming from the company, a support person at the company has confirmed it.

The key logger is invisible to the user and records every keystroke the user(s) makes.  It can then send that information to any email it is set up to work with (or to any email that is hijacked by it).  Keyloggers in a class room (or a marital situation) are one thing.  Perhaps necessary in some cases, the programs are a severe security threat and really bad news!  It can steal all of your credit card information, bank account information, and just about everything that makes you unique (if you do anything on a computer).

I have not bought Samsung laptops in the past.  Given this revelation, I will not be buying any in the future either.  This is one of the biggest blunders a company has done in recent memory.  They have destroyed any trust they may have had with their clientele.

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Reply #51 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting coreimpulse, reply 50
Which goes to show, experts know nothing.

Goes to show they don't know what they don't know, I'd say.  They do know something, it's just not always what they think they know.

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Daiwa, reply 51
Goes to show they don't know what they don't know, I'd say. They do know something, it's just not always what they think they know.

Hands up, who's now lost? ...;)

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #53 from JoeUser Forums Top

Who's on first?  He is? :)

Reply #54 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 52

Quoting Daiwa, reply 51Goes to show they don't know what they don't know, I'd say. They do know something, it's just not always what they think they know.
Hands up, who's now lost? ...

Actually it is a lot of words for the simple wise man (wise and knowledgeable are not the same). ;)

The wise man is he who knows that he knows not.

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Dr, reply 54
The wise man is he who knows that he knows not.

The problem with mankind is he's too intelligent to understand just how stupid he really is....;p

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ahhh Grasshopper, or perhaps he is too stupid to know how intelligent he really is? o_O

Reply #57 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'm dumbfounded. :omg:

Reply #58 from Sins Forums Top

sorry, but I can not find a particular form of dumb, as there are SO MANY forms (about 8 billion or so).

also reminds me of the old saying

what is an ex-spurt, it was a drip under pressure, and either the fluid, pressure or drip failed.

this suggests that ex-spurts are more likely to be pressure or fluid fails than a hole failure, but could be any of the three.

harpo

 

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting harpo99999, reply 58
what is an ex-spurt,

More correctly...

What is an Expert?  A has-been drip under pressure...;)

Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Truer words have never been ...... and that's right.

Reply #61 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 55

Quoting Dr Guy, reply 54The wise man is he who knows that he knows not.

The problem with mankind is he's too intelligent to understand just how stupid he really is....

Another way of saying it. ;)

Quoting Jafo, reply 59

Quoting harpo99999, reply 58what is an ex-spurt,

More correctly...

What is an Expert?  A has-been drip under pressure...

Being a math person - I was taught it was an unknown (x the unknown in algebra) drip under pressure.

Reply #62 from Elemental Forums Top

There are lessons to be learned:

1) Install OS yourself. Before doing so, dd zeroes over everything.

2) Use only open source OS that can be scrutinized by peer review for serious thing (work, banking, etc). Use Windows partitions only for gaming and browsing, but for nothing else.

 

Reply #63 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Kamamura_CZ, reply 62
There are lessons to be learned:

1) Install OS yourself. Before doing so, dd zeroes over everything.

2) Use only open source OS that can be scrutinized by peer review for serious thing (work, banking, etc). Use Windows partitions only for gaming and browsing, but for nothing else.

 

Good advice - for most on this forum.  But not for my Mother and her sisters.  One of them calls me daily because the damn Symantec is REPORTING attempts to infiltrate her computer (I have tried to tell her if it is reporting it, she is probably safe - as have techs who have actually looked at her computer).