On 4 Jan 2007 at 6:34, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 3 Jan 2007 at 17:11, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > > > >> Johannes Gebauer wrote, of the site "TranferBigFiles dot com" > >>> Can someone explain to me how this service can survive? It seems > >>> to be free, it doesn't have adds on the site, how do they earn the > >>> money? > >> One possibility is that they do not intend to make money, but are > >> using the site as a means of slipping in adware, spyware, or > >> malware past the defenses of otherwise savvy users. Personally, I'd > >> rather get large files as email, or from the webspace of an > >> individual user, than through a third party. > > > > That's only a possibility for people using IE6 or before. It's not > > even remotely plausible for anyone using any non-IE browser, or IE7. > > What's not possible? Downloading from someone's personal webspace?
I guess I didn't trim the quote appropriately! I was referring to the assertion about malware installation. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
