The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You guys need to get the newest Spybot SD, it comes with a monitor that lets you know when something is trying to change your registery, VERY handy for stoping those browser stealers and other assorted annoying programs.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Or you can just not download spyware. It doesn't take a fucking genius to figure out what's a spyware/virus.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Errr sometimes shit just gets installed dude.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>1. Clicking <b><u>AND RUNNING</u></b> the executable on an e-mail. Looking at an e-mail won't do anything, unless you have a really old and unpatched version of Outlook Express. (And then I ask "Why the fuck are you using Outlook Express?!")

2. Clicking <b><u>AND RUNNING</u></b> an executable on the web. In the case of a virus, nobody is stupid enough to leave a paper trail like that and leave a virus on the web. That's just asking for persecution. Even then, why are you going to a site that HAS a virus on its page?! In the case of spyware, it has to have a EULA that says its spyware. If it's a program I don't know, I skim through the EULA, just to be sure.

3. Running an unpatched version of 2000/XP with the broken RPC code, or running an unpatched version of IIS. The former should be patched, and the latter shouldn't be running at all. In any case, spyware is not going to sneak in like this (no EULA), and there's just a few viruses that do this. In any case, the Windows Updater saves your ass on this one.

That's it. There is no other method. Viruses don't come in through your keyboard or speaker wire, or magically execute themselves just by looking at it. Spyware does not enter your system without your own permission, so don't give it your permission.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm no so much as worried about my viruses or spyware as I am when my browser's homepage suddenly changes to something else out of the blue without me clicking yes to shit.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Spyware can be in cookies, since I immunized with Spybot I've found that a lot of ads on webpages try to load it up.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Cookies are data, not executables. Spyware can't be in cookies. Stop spreading the myths!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Javascript.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I know Javascript, too. It doesn't do that. Sun's not stupid.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, you're a Javascript expert? You know all of the possible exploits? Then how else do you explain that I visit a site, and then Norton tells me it detected a trojan? I accepted nothing; it was some sort of scripting.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... =Search</a>

Know how you tell people to google it all the time?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Tell me: what web sites are you going to where the webmasters WANT to harm your computer?</div>