On Friday 24 November 2006 04:55, Standing Bear wrote: > On Wednesday 22 November 2006 08:54, lgarrett wrote: > >dont clik on http : / v/www.fr eep.com/ap ps/pbcs.dll/ar ticle?AI > > D=/20 061 119/NEW S03/6 11190 639 > > Article does not exist, but some hostile app to windows computers > ....might. Notice the presence of a '.dll' file referred to in the URL. I > think websites can function just like a program in many ways using the > software tools available to site crafters. Shpammmers may be at it again. > Checked the art out on the freep.com, which is the website for the > Detroit Free Press here in Michigan in the United States. The Detroit Free > Press is a major paper and a good one generally. I do not think that they > would be part of a scam. The author of the above post appears in my > posting history of over twenty thousand posts just one other time, in May > of this year. Then he replied to one of Mr Spandonk's posts with a > basically uncommented list of URL's to 'visit'. He said then that those > URL's would be 'interesting'. Just thought fellow Vortexians would like to > know. By the way, my mailbox has suddenly started to recieve posts from > punters for shady trades, which I promply file under crooks after checkin > the whole document for content to see if it could be determined where it > was from. It was the usual drivel, gibberish message covering a hidden > HTML payload leading windows users to some dark alley of the 'net to be > mugged. It started right after I replied to a fellow lister. Some of you > might want to run bot checkin software on your boxes to see if some scum > has recruited your machine without your knowledge or consent. > > Standing Bear > > And yes, the probability of a suburban Detroit garage noooke created by a > kid is probably quite a bit less than of a north Korean wahr headd smuggled > there by one of the more than fifty thousand Iraqis that 'immigrated' there > in the last few years.
Eating crow on my own post.....post mortem... Another article had a good link. This time from the British 'The Register'. It appears from the TheRegister that the kid actually did something. He created a working Farnsworth fusor replica in his garage using info from fusor.org. Not a self sustaining source, Just another radiation source although the website hopes that someday somebody like that young fella in his garage will actually pull it off. Looks like the bear got himself. Sorry. Standing Bear
