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Just spent most of yesterday evening resetting passwords, running checks, etc

 

My German e-mail account was one that had been identified as appearing in a hacked database currently under investigation in DE

 

Now I need to reset ALL passwords due to the OpenSSL problem - hope I can remember them afterwards

 

Question: Has OpenSSL been fixed properly or will a 'new' bug be found?

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One can never be 100% sure about a bug vulnerability or exploit being found in the future, look at Windows. 95, 98, NT XP 7........

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I've been getting a lot of what I call 'girlie' spam, usually its in the form of one of three varieties of messages, accompanied by photoshopped overly nubile young women claiming to have known me at school, or lived near me as a child - well as I am 56 and they are all cleary 20 somethings they could not have lived near me as a child or known me at school... I've been blocking them with varying levels of success but every so often they come flooding back in.

 

They always seem to append themselves to the end of my email message downloads if that is any help - I'd love to stop these alltogether

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any one know anything about this computer bug/virus mentioned on the news? will it affect personal computers? it was a warning it will hit all UK!

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any one know anything about this computer bug/virus mentioned on the news? will it affect personal computers? it was a warning it will hit all UK!

There is a possibilty if an infected site or someone has opened that infected email.

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any one know anything about this computer bug/virus mentioned on the news? will it affect personal computers? it was a warning it will hit all UK!

Zeus and Cryptolocker have been around for years.

 

It is in the news now because the "authorities" managed to disable the servers that send commands to the software. They think it will only be a matter of time before new servers are set up somewhere else. When this happens Zeus and Cryptolocker will become active again. Then we will only be back where we were before the servers were disabled.

 

I don't know where the British Police got 2 weeks from. It could be days or months. And it is worldwide.

 

The best thing you can do is:

Make sure your operating system is up to date.

Make sure you are running up to date anti virus software.

Make sure you never open attachments (or click on links) in emails you were not expecting to get.

 

Advanced users may want to look at running Firefox with the NoScript addon. Or the Chrome browser. Both of which add some extra protection from web based attacks.

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Bandit127

 

Is correct

 

Zeus and Cryptolocker have been around for years.

 

Never had any real problems over the years with virus/bugs/ malware so on, Always had Full internet security suit installed on my pc's and keeping it up to date ...

 

Spending some money on Full internet security suit will help a lot, Virus scan, Firewall, Spyware scan, Anti-Phishing All in one plenty on the market

 

McAfee Internet security

 

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Plenty more out there ...

Please use the quote system, So everyone will know what your referring too, thank you ...

 

 

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