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  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) Hate to say it, but if you use ISS, the kiddies have won too. Btw, I'd recommend removing the hacked page from the server, or at least warning people who go see it. I believe it tries to exploit a vurnerability in windows media player - so if (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) I was trying to figure out what ISS was, then I realized, it was IIS! (...) One thing I learned from Chris all these years is not to use IE. It took a very hard learned lesson to convince me to leave my beloved IE after years of Netscape (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) pigs in the sky? no figure skating in hades? no ummmmmmm what gives? Chris (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) thanks dan. i didnt see any of that till 15 hours later. my intention was NOT to spread maleware. i use mozilla myself, so i dont really think about those exploits. Chris P.S. its my HOST who uses IIS, not me. i dont get a say. (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) One day I was happily surfing along. And BOOM, I got some trojan/scriptvirus/browser exploit/spyware/malw...'s-revenge thing and my entire Dell Precision Workstation 360 "sooperworkstation" (like a soopercomputer, but with better engineered (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) Sadly, as firefox gets more popular, people will find more holes in it (even though it'll still be so much fewer than IE), and write viruses for it too. As long as you're on windows, you're should worry about such things. And when you move off (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) I would worry even more with Linux or something else--unless you really know what's going on, it's very hard for the average user to know what the hell is going on underneath that layer. You can put lipstick on the pig with KDE or Gnome or (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: HACKED by AKINCILAR --OT-- and harsh language
 
(...) While true that you wouldn't know if you were hacked, that's no different than windows, is it? The average user wouldn't know if their XP box is a zombie now in a DDoS, would they? The difference, as I see it, is that on a Linux desktop, (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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