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Re: Keeping Win 10 safe

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Keeping Win 10 safe
Date 2025-01-16 23:37 +0100
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On 2025-01-16 23:20, Paul wrote:

...

> For example, one user in another group, he was a small business man.
> A one-man business. He had his own domain. Godaddy. He didn't cloak his
> ID on the domain registration. Well, some perp crafted an email purporting
> to be from GoDaddy, a domain renewal with a "PDF" attachment. Well, the PDF
> attachment was actually a ransomware executable. He double clicked it.
> Life for him, was over after that. Wiped out. Entire computer room.
> All with red rectangles demanding bitcoins. As soon as you raise your
> "profile" even a tiny bit on the Internet, that's what happens.

Arguably, the mail provider should have quarantined that email. It is 
trivial to block or sanitize executable attachments (not so links).


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Keeping Win 10 safe Bennett Price <bjprice@cal.berkeley.edu> - 2025-01-16 10:13 -0800
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-16 18:57 +0000
    Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-16 15:02 -0600
    Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-17 07:31 +0200
      Re: Keeping Win 10 safe "Thomk" <thmk@aol.com> - 2025-03-06 15:03 +0200
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 17:20 -0500
    Re: Keeping Win 10 safe "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 23:37 +0100
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Head of Cyber Security <security@cyber-security.com> - 2025-01-17 01:17 +0000
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-17 08:55 -0500

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