07-21-2010, 10:32 AM
For what it's worth ...
Where my post says ...
"Norton Rating
WARNING
Threats found: 4
Here is a complete list:
Threat Name: HTTP Malicious Javascript Encoder 5
Location: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://trainweb.org/usarail/">http://trainweb.org/usarail/</a><!-- m --> ... " ...
I would tell you that I merely copied that list from the window that popped up centerscreen from Norton Internet Security, which I have set at MAX protection ... it even blocks all pop-ups and alerts me it has done so, etc.
Due to all the time I spent working for computer companies, added to my time in the Army Security Agency, I am always on the alert for covert activity (one of my primary tasks in the Agency) ... My daughter always gives me crap about being a conspiracy freak, but being a Mac user, she sees no need to assign a password other than the default one when she gave me one of her old (brand new) wireless routers. She had complained about it not working well, that she supposed that it didn't talk "Mac" ... my guess is she had a half-dozen neighbors in her apartment complex "climbing on" the Internet using her essentially unsecured router. Service slows way down and sometimes drops when that happens. And for the record, default passwords are available easily over the 'Net from the Manufacturers' Web sites!
Security is the very serious business that not many people take seriously.
Where my post says ...
"Norton Rating
WARNING
Threats found: 4
Here is a complete list:
Threat Name: HTTP Malicious Javascript Encoder 5
Location: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://trainweb.org/usarail/">http://trainweb.org/usarail/</a><!-- m --> ... " ...
I would tell you that I merely copied that list from the window that popped up centerscreen from Norton Internet Security, which I have set at MAX protection ... it even blocks all pop-ups and alerts me it has done so, etc.
Due to all the time I spent working for computer companies, added to my time in the Army Security Agency, I am always on the alert for covert activity (one of my primary tasks in the Agency) ... My daughter always gives me crap about being a conspiracy freak, but being a Mac user, she sees no need to assign a password other than the default one when she gave me one of her old (brand new) wireless routers. She had complained about it not working well, that she supposed that it didn't talk "Mac" ... my guess is she had a half-dozen neighbors in her apartment complex "climbing on" the Internet using her essentially unsecured router. Service slows way down and sometimes drops when that happens. And for the record, default passwords are available easily over the 'Net from the Manufacturers' Web sites!
Security is the very serious business that not many people take seriously.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln