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Originally posted by MenthiX
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Originally posted by riahc4
But does a "decent virus scanner" protect from that "check who blocked you" namechaning virus?
If that's one where you need to download a file by either filetransfer or URL, sure. If that's one where you need to voluntarily give a random site your username and password, maybe if the site is on some kind of blocklist. But sites change quickly, it is impossible for any scanner to provide good protecting against phishing sites, Messenger Plus! is no exception to that.
Educating people to not be silly clowns and type in their password everywhere just because a stranger asks them nicely sounds like a better idea. Somehow it became acceptable to give other sites login details which don't belong to them... for example giving Facebook your Messenger password to import your contacts. You may be trusting Facebook, but any site where you login with your Messenger login details can do anything they like with your account. These aren't even viruses, you just handed over your private information and the site owner can use your account for whatever he wishes. Just because your password is hidden in a password field doesn't mean the site doesn't exactly know your password when you type it in. People need to start realizing that. There is no automated software protection against being ignorant.
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I completely disagree with you.
If your logic, then everyone is ignorant. You are ignorant because you are using Plus! when you could be taught how to program and make it yourself. Hell Patchou is ignorant because he is using Messenger when he could have made Messenger himself. The Messenger team is ignorant because they could have made Windows themselves.....
People want simple and easy things that works. Thats the world we live in. They don't want to be taught or anything. Thats one of the (sad) reasons that OSX is getting so much these days in terms of sales.
I still believe this would be something nice to study. The sites don't change THAT often. Besides, a software can hook and make sure that the input comes from the keyboard and not automated like those "Check who blocked you" automessage.
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