Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Viruses and Shit

There is a new virus attack out. You get an email message that looks as though it came from someone you know. It asks you to open a document on Google Docs.

And if you do so, you are hosed.

What you should before opening any document sent to you (which you did not specifically ask for) do is write a second email (do not hit "reply") to your friend, or, better yet, call them up and ask if they sent that.

4 comments:

Old NFO said...: Excellent point! :-); 5/13/2013 12:13 AM
Eck! said...: Better yet I don't use google docs _ever_. So any doc from there is clearly
not for me by anyone that knows me.

SO those I hit delete reflexively. Alone with those that pretend to be
UPS, FedX, WellsFargo....

Eck!; 5/13/2013 6:07 AM
Nangleator said...: Worst thing about these attacks is, you now have to write an email along with any link you want a friend to open. A convincing email.

The Nigerian scammers are improving. I saw one that suggested he was an investigator in the AIG scandal, and one of the messed up accounts belonged to a dead person with my exact name, and if I kept quiet about it, we could conspire to sneak off with the money... The English was almost perfect.; 5/13/2013 8:50 AM
w3ski said...: I got one from my wife, timed at 2:30 in the morning?
I'm sorry, we were sound asleep at that time, no one was up to send an E-Mail.
FAIL!
It turned out she had forgot to sign off of Yahoo when she went to sleep at night, busy little fuckers at 2 in the morning aren't they?
w3ski; 5/13/2013 12:09 PM