My son got me to get a myspace acct. Does anyone else have this???



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Hi Kimberly,

Yes I have one.

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same on facebook if you are there

Tess

Yes. Here's mine:
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Sanna

I do, my address is in my tagline below.

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Perhaps one doesn't have to.

As for the whole world knowing my info... I have my myspace profile set to private.  Anyone that wants to view my profile has to be accepted by me, before they can view my info.

As for viruses and spybots and such, I'm not having a prob with it.  And so far so good (((knock on wood)))

Sandy you are not alone.  I for the same reasons dont click on the links posted.  I have not gotten any viruses etc but dont want them either.  Just a question, were you updating your AVG software daily or weekly or not at all.  I update my avg software daily to make sure I have all the latest virus warnings on there.  Just an idea.

  There is no privacy on the social engineering sites like Facebook and MySpace. And the phishing tools available, and the methods the bot herders have for zombing MS lusers machines from sites like Youtube and liveleak. Are more than the AV companies can keep up with.
  Comcast has 1.25 Million zombied machines on its network last time I checked 4 months ago. The lazy jerks won't even do a thing about it, as long as they get their money each month.
  If you feel you must be on the net, with a presence. Get a domain. Only cost you about $10 a year at most. You can have it hosted for the same price or less. And even get an e-mail account to boot.
  Two places I can think of right off the top of my head are godaddy.com and register4less.com. I have no affiliation with either of these companies. They just come to mind is all. Shop around.
   If you need a primer (free) on how to make web pages and stuff. There is a place I found that is pretty handy for beginners called, htmlgoodies.com. Even BD could learn to write a web page in 6 hours, useing Note Pad there.
   Having your own domain is a lot cooler than being lumped with all the sheeple anyway. Buncha lame assed targets. You can pick them off like grapes on the vine. Not that I would, mind you. That would just lump me in with all the ankle biters already doing it. The largest Bot herder caught was 16 years old. Aren't you glad that Hackers don't bother doing this stuff.
  Off my soapbox already. Get yerself a Domain, its fun, its easy and its a lot safer.

If you don't want the whole world to know about it - don't put it on the internet. Period.

I just recently got a MySpace account and so far I'm having a lot of fun with it. If a friend of mine adds pictures of her vacation or another friend wants to anounce something, I can easily go in and look and see what everyone is up to. I've also reconnected with a friend I haven't seen since high school.

My link is at the bottom of my posts. It's set to private - but I'm happy to add my CH friends.

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   AH Kris, I thought I had made this clear. NO, it is not private. And neither is your Personal Computer at this point. Sorry for your luck kiddoo.

Here in the Netherlands, kids don't play so much with Myspace.
The huge thing around here is Hyves.nl, which has a staggering 5 million people on it. Remember, the Netherlands are a very small country with just a 16,5 million population, so that would mean nearly one in three is on it.
Not sure about other European countries, but I do know for a fact the Belgians have Hyves as well, maybe coz they speak Dutch too.

On my account there I put a CH clip I got from Youtube just to educate people on the condition we have, and all who've seen it say it scares the bejeezers outta them. Praise the internet for this.

Anyway, if you wanna see our funny little language in the flesh and maybe have a laugh about it, here's me:

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PF wishes to all, Pascal.

I recently took 27 trojans off one of my computers, after I opened the games console. This is an HP machine, and anyone who has an HP that is less than 3 years old has this HP games console. I hardly ever open it up, so when I did last week, it did an auto-update, HP updates the games available, and upgrades existing games and installs new ones. I played one game until the trial period was up. I then clicked on another game to see what it was like, and got a warning from AVAST (my free anti-virus program) that there was a trojan in it, while it was loading. Before I could stop it, it opened, and there it was... a Neptunia trojan (which just came out last month btw). I quarantined it to the "Virus Chest" and did a boot scan. I had AVAST scan every single file in every folder on my machine. The first time, it found 17 trojans, all of them were from the games console, inside games. All of them were downloaded by HP, yes Hewlett Packard. I put them in the virus chest. I then did a little investigating.

WildTangent is the games distributor for many of these games for HP, although HP does the installation and upgrades. I found some games were wildtangent, and some were from HP Media center.

I then did another boot scan right away. There were 10 more trojans, most of them the Win32 with various versions. 7 of them were in my "D" drive, which is the back up for my system, and they were contained in the media games center. The other ones had migrated to other files.

These all came from an update to my computer from HP's website. They weren't there before, as I haven't used this machine in awhile, and had it off and not connected. Plus, I ran a boot scan when I brought it back up, and found nothing. Now, I have several files that are corrupted that I've been deleting and running more scans to see what comes up next.

I sent an email to HP support about this, and they never responded, although they did want me to take a customer care questionnaire.

Thing is, this machine is networked to the other machines in the house, and only one other one runs XP. That laptop didn't have any problems at all. The other machines are either 64 bit systems, or they are running Linux, so they didn't pick up the trojans. I'm just amazed that HP is installing updates, not only to the games, but to the computer itself, and with them, installing virii and trojans.

That is neither ethical, nor practicing due diligence. Think a letter to "The Register" is in order. Think they may like to know.

oh.. BTW. I use my computer to work from home and my company screens for viruses if that makes you sleep better.