A worrying trend

[RushesToo]

@Loner
Some generally useful tips:

• Use an anti virus - if you aren't a finance company then it probably doesn't matter which
  
• Use an adblocker - 5 minutes of googling will lead you to a reputable one
• Your on line experience will suffer but disable javascript in your browser [explorer, chrome, firefox or safari might be familiar names]
  
• Your on line experience will suffer but disable flash [not so many websites are using much so it wont hurt to much]
• If you are still worried about being tracked online [this is what "cookies" do] then turn off tracking here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

All of these can be found with google - but if you are not experienced then the most important one to do first is an ad blocker.

As with most things - you will not be an expert so I suggest ask kindly for advice and don't attack until you know enough to know you are right, or it doesn't matter to you if you are wrong.

This advice is given free and is unbiased as you will notice there are no brand names in the recommendations.

I hope this will help you feel more safe online.

 

[Frankzy]

Can you explain to me how you have all this so-called security on your pc and yet you get all up in arms over some cookies!??
Do you actually want us to believe you're an expert when you don't even know how to block or otherwise negate something so rudimentary as that?

Being serious for a second, I do think people should be advised to:

A buy a bondafide (and keep updated) and decent AV suite. Norton is just one.

No need to buy anything, the free versions will be sufficient for just about everyone.

You have rubbish AV software and have posted links to a very suspicious website site that appears to be trying to harvest email - the very issues you warming against

Actually Have i Been Pwned or HIBP is probably the most well known and trusted site of its kind. With that said it is still of course possible for them to harvest email addresses if they were to turn nefarious which is why you should never search by email but rather just your passwords as these could not be used by them even if they wanted to.

 

[Clive]

@Loner (I may be sorry I asked this question) but what’s the point of all this “personal research” into hacked or supposedly hacked websites?

There’s almost 2 billion active websites on the internet, the law of averages suggests that there will be many, many thousands compromised or hacked at any one time.

You could never hope to alert folks to an even non-trivial number of hacks. So what’s the point of all this?

And importantly - to reiterate

This site has not been hacked, has never been hacked and is extremely unlikely to be hacked given the levels of care, investment, expertise and security that does everything possible to ensure that it isn’t !

My earlier advice to @Loner or any anyone else using the internet stands - get good av and malware / spyware (not Russian rubbish !) and stay away from dodgy none HTTPS webosites and unless you are a Bank or military organisation I would not loose sleep ovef it

Alternatively, unplug your pc and along with you phone, smart tv and wi-fi router etc throw it all away !

 

[Ukjay]

I'm safe, me protected better than @roscoe erf

 

[roscoe erf]

I'm safe, me protected better than @roscoe erf

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your not safe to be left alone

 

[Clive]

So - @Loner - is there anything you want to tell the forum members about your previous accounts and usernames on TFF ? Despite a few (very) amateur effort to cloak your identity and IP etc a quick look behind the scenes doesn't take a genius to work out who you are

Odd really considering you asked fro your account to be removed and deleted last year ............

 

[Ukjay]

your not safe to be left alone

I know, them bloody Armadildos are a nuisance.

Keep running out of cartridges

 

[Ukjay]

So - @Loner - is there anything you want to tell the forum members about your previous accounts and usernames on TFF ? Despite a few (very) amateur effort to cloak your identity and IP etc a quick look behind the scenes doesn't take a genius to work out who you are

Odd really considering you asked fro your account to be removed and deleted last year ............

Oops

 

[puppet]

Might the next subject be about TB not being an infectious disease. I recognise a trend of a blitz of posts with a gradual increase in the rhetoric.

 

[roscoe erf]

I know, them bloody Armadildos are a nuisance.

Keep running out of cartridges

 

[milkloss]

Got to be hedgehunter?

 

[Grassman]

Following on from this storm in a teacup lol I have a question. Note. I am quite computer illiterate
I recently was wanting to tax a tractor. Tapped in vehicle tax on Google and get the usual list. Mainly gov.uk/vehicletax type of things. So I click on one and get a message saying "you are leaving safety and the site may be malicious" type of message. So I have to click on "advanced" and then click the option to proceed to the site. I assumed these may be dodgy links but actually they are the genuine thing. This happens regularly. Not just with government sites. Even Argos type companies come up with the same warning.
How do I know I am not proceeding to a dodgy site?

 

[Ukjay]

I am seriously worried about you @roscoe erf
Have you been on the sauce today

 

[PSQ]

Got to be hedgehunter?

With a complete lack of 'wit and wisdom' it could only be Fallowfield.

Funnily enough I was thinking of him the other day; thankful that he'd disappeared

 

[Clive]

With a complete lack of 'wit and wisdom' it could only be Fallowfield.

Funnily enough I was thinking of him the other day; thankful that he'd disappeared

yet another of this idiots alter ego's right there................ we are watching and are not as green as some might like to think not a lot gets by us but often its better to observe that simply react

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

yet another of this idiots alter ego's right there................ we are watching and are not as green as some might like to think not a lot gets by us but often its better to observe that simply react

Nought as queer as folk eh?! Bonkers.

 

[Clive]

Nought as queer as folk eh?! Bonkers.

one day I will write a book !

 

[roscoe erf]

I am seriously worried about you @roscoe erf
Have you been on the sauce today

brown sauce and bacon mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[milkloss]

brown sauce and bacon mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

WTF?! Everyone knows tommy k and Worcestershire sauce is a better combo.

 

[roscoe erf]

WTF?! Everyone knows tommy k and Worcestershire sauce is a better combo.

pah