Wednesday, March 01, 2000, 9:46:43 AM, tracer wrote:
> If you had read whats being uploaded from ones system then its clearly
> not exactly what they are telling...

    I read it and I don't trust the person who posted it /UNLESS/ it is from a
recognized security source.  I named two.  Why?

    How many people told you about the Goodtimes virus through the years?
'nuff said.


> However uploading ones personal data isnt something one should accept.
> For those who use at guard firewall, settings can be supplied to pull
> the teeth of the dll's in question.

    Yeah, block outbound connections to port 1975, yay, that was hard.  No, it
shouldn't be accepted but paranoia is also not to be accepted.  I'm big on
privacy, but I'm also tired of all the bogus alerts going around which are not
confirmed through people who stake their names and reputations on verifying
such exploits and privacy violations.

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