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Old August 29th, 2006, 03:12 PM
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Interesting thing at college Induction day

Well I had my day at college where they set you up with all the crap like timetables and I got a USB flash stick for taking work there. I decided to stick it in to see what was on it and there was some documents + a windows backdoor trojan virus thingy with an autorun.inf pointing right at it! Stick that in an unprotected pc and it will infect itself

I am glad I use a Mac
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Old August 30th, 2006, 02:07 AM
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Were you given that from the school or did you buy it? If you bought it like that, I'd send a nasty-gram to the manufacturer or at least a warning. Another idea would be to call one of the local t.v.(news) stations and I'm sure they'd jump right on that story!
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Old August 30th, 2006, 03:17 AM
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It was included in the pack for my computing couse which is them giving it to me. I'm gonna have to use smelly dells If I had to buy it I would just use my shuffle instead
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Well I had my day at college where they set you up with all the crap like timetables and I got a USB flash stick for taking work there. I decided to stick it in to see what was on it and there was some documents + a windows backdoor trojan virus thingy with an autorun.inf pointing right at it! Stick that in an unprotected pc and it will infect itself

I am glad I use a Mac
I heard about this USB stick exploit on PaulDotCom Security Weekly some weeks back. Maybe it was a way of showing students to whatever class you took that gave those out about security. Some teachers are crazy like that you know...
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I heard about this USB stick exploit on PaulDotCom Security Weekly some weeks back. Maybe it was a way of showing students to whatever class you took that gave those out about security. Some teachers are crazy like that you know...
I have nothing to add I am just playing with the new quote style ;-)
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I have nothing to add I am just playing with the new quote style ;-)
You never even got the smiley right
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I use the original Smiley(tm) it has a nose not like these new lazy noseless version the kids came up with because they were too lazy to type the hyphen

(Before the site upgrade ";-)" used to turn into a little apple smiley but I guess that is gone.)
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I use the original Smiley(tm) it has a nose not like these new lazy noseless version the kids came up with because they were too lazy to type the hyphen

(Before the site upgrade ";-)" used to turn into a little apple smiley but I guess that is gone.)
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