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archimeech
04-14-2005, 07:04 AM
People,
Don't take for granted that everyone on the internet is a nice, fuzzy, warm feeling person. There are companies and individuals out there that want your info. They want you surfing habits. They want your credit card numbers. They want you tax info. They want your social security number, (for us Americans). Be careful what sites you go to, what kind of cutsie avatars you use, what kind of windows pop up on your screen. There are groups out there that don't even require you to click anything on a screen anymore to automaticly load bad stuff onto your computer. And as for you MAC users that say you don't have to worry about it, I say, "maybe not yet, but they'll be coming for you soon, and your little dog too!!!!!"

camjen1
04-14-2005, 01:48 PM
People,
Don't take for granted that everyone on the internet is a nice, fuzzy, warm feeling person. There are companies and individuals out there that want your info. They want you surfing habits. They want your credit card numbers. They want you tax info. They want your social security number, (for us Americans). Be careful what sites you go to, what kind of cutsie avatars you use, what kind of windows pop up on your screen. There are groups out there that don't even require you to click anything on a screen anymore to automaticly load bad stuff onto your computer. And as for you MAC users that say you don't have to worry about it, I say, "maybe not yet, but they'll be coming for you soon, and your little dog too!!!!!"


Does this apply to me considering I have a big dog??? LMAO Also can you direct me to a site that has some cutsie avatars. Just can't seem to find any.

Thanks for the heads up. :thumbsup:

UpNorth
04-16-2005, 12:58 PM
www.animationer.dk is a site i've found to be safe. Been using quite many of their pics the last year or 2 without a problem:) My avatar here is from them.

gettingby
05-11-2005, 05:06 PM
I had a pretty bad one that kept popping up. I had a friend on here who looked at it and said it was a bad one. Had to wipe out everything and start over to get rid of it. :mad:
PS I never even accessed that site, so yeah, they can get ya.