.. its not normal for Plymouth or Nalin to post one or two posts in one day... the only normal thing, they both had to try and bash me again when they did post... LOL
But thats not why I am posting this ... I have been getting a few emails from members here NOT FROM THE ECOUSTICS NOTIFICATIONS EITHER... just email to email accounts.. anyway with in these emails there are links... links that are in fact a virus/ Trojans. Upon confronting the sender of these emails, they deny ever sending me anything lately and say they have gottin the same thing happening to them.
I think SOMEONE OR SOMEONES are some how getting into this sites IP information and are sending us emails to each other either to crash our COMPUTERS or GAIN all INFO from our computers ( maybe spying' on me / us.)
What I find even stranger is Plymouth and Nalin are not posting much.. ( preoccupied perhaps?) Are they sitting back getting into members computers here to set us up and then RAT US OUT TO THE MAN... Not sure if thats even legal. and or will hold up in court but.... be careful what you click on in your emails
I would not put it past either of them. Remember, Plymouth claims to be a "MOD" ( privy to our IP info) and Nalin is his ONE AND ONLY FRIEND HERE and (a software developer)... both gone for days now. Just as the emails are starting to come in... think about it .
But you see the problem is you are giving them attention so they are going to keep screwing with you.
Very simple list of things to do for stupid end users who talk out of there /\ss.
Disable WAN ping on your router if you have, if you are plugged directly in to your modem i hope you have a good firewall and not the one in windows. Get a router and stay behind NAT and a firewall.
If you are on a MAC you are even more open to attack then a windows box. The windows viruses won't work on a Mac but they have some nasty security holes. There a UNIX system so any one fluent with the shell can do what they want once they are in.
if you are on ipv6 and it does not start with the fe80::/10 prefix you have a public address not a private address which means you are open to attack and most firewalls do not protect IPv6 right now or no one turns them on.
Have some form of active antivirus, it should catch anything when it trys to run not after.
Learn to make bootable backups of your OS drive and have all your data backed up, preferably off site and a hard backup that you keep at a friend's house or in a safety deposit box.
Never hurts to encrypt your data and your wifi. For wifi use WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK with TKIP or WPA2 with AES. It's free and usually built in to your wireless router or access point. For your laptop or desktop use true crypt it's free and will keep your data safe if your computer is stolen.
Use pass phrases instead of passwords or use passwords that are 10+ characters in length or longer with upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters. if you want to have secure login's for your websites use last pass they have an amazing setup that makes great passwords and keeps you safe, read up on it before using it. Also use a different password for every site.
any login info you enter on a page that says http:// is sent in clear text and any one can read it, any login info sent over https:// should be safe unless man in the middle attacks are taking place or you are singing in to a cloned or faked site.
Never give info to anyone or anything asking for your login info that is not a trusted source and even then you are taking a risk of having that data relayed if the site has been compromised.
Don't do anything important on public wifi without using a VPN or SSH. You can also use TOR I suggest using the Firefox add on for TOR its pretty idiot proof.