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Old Apr 23, 2007 | 1:49 pm
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Emma65
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Near an airport
Programs: FB, EB, Delta, AC, PC, HH.
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Originally Posted by sandiegofun
I stupidly clicked on one of the earlier links to your host, which opened a file tree in IE, and then continued with my stupidity by clicking on one of the folders which tried to install something. Our scanners at work picked it up, scanned my laptop for an eternity, then our porn blocker added your site as a block due to 'malicious content'... Sometimes my brain fires backwards..
I did a classic one 5 years ago. Installed my PC laptop with a full win2k server install. Me thinking "I know what I'm doing. I work at an ISP." (I did back then) stupidly did not install antivirus and firewall. Flew to Luxemburg to deliver a site, went on line from there and within seconds all the sites that were in development on my laptop were infected by that effing virus that attacked win2k servers and spread via html pages. I spent 10 minutes trying to fix it only to realise it was an impossible task, closed the lid, flew home and had to start all over again.

Since then I always travel with install disks and backups of my content on external HDD or CD/DVD despite the fact I'm now a mac user.

Can't be too cuatious these days.
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