Yahoo Scare: Hidden dangers in visiting porn sites

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

And what exactly were we supposed to do? Call the porn police? Gonzo is busy, so who's left?

I also didn't chase down the guys from Enron, (because I bought electric,) or Martha Stewart (cause I don't think she should have been prosecuted AND I bought stock too....,) So, which ones was I supposed to take care of?

I didn't get the memo.

GonZo has gotten help.

I had a chance to meet some of the folks at Verisign while in LA.
Knowledge is power.

Check out Shellee Hale's Pornafia how you can get informed on this and fight back...

http://www.pornafia.org/showthread.php?p=87#post87

[miz_wright]

Check it out: actual information about this story.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by LizAEBN

Check it out: actual information about this story.

Here's a good part:

I paid but I still receive invoices.
When you paid, a "member number" or '”access code" was listed which should have been listed on your payment. If your payment was recently sent, you need to allow approximately one week for processing. If you believe enough time has passed, you may contact the company directly using the customer service support number or e-mail. It is also possible that a partial payment was made and a balance is still due. Please check your records to assure that the amount was paid in full.


TOS You gotta love this:

12.5 If You choose to ignore the payment reminders and do not pay the Membership Fee, You hereby understand and acknowledge that the prompt reminders may become more frequent and that You may lose the ability to use Your computer until You have submitted payment. The payment reminders will be active while your computer is online or offline.

These jackasses use a computer extortion method of collecting payment. They should be smashed, drummed out of the industry.

[EmporerEJ]

As much as I hate to wave the flag.......




I would point out this is a british company.....and oh, BTW? The billing company and the actual company seem to be one in the same.

[KevinG]

Purdy reported that SexxxPassport's three-day trial requires downloading and executing "Authenticator" software

Although I agree with everyone and think that these guys are total assholes giving the rest of us a bad name, anyone that joins a site that requires some special software be downloaded is a freakin' idiot. (My opinion does not apply to "normal" software, like if you need to install Quicktime to watch a movie.)

Once again, I say the stupid people deserve what they get and don't need to be saved from themselves, even though these guys are assholes for preying on them.

Does anyone know where I can get some free cookies?

[Hammer]

[RawAlex]

What I found most interesting about this story was that the day it came out, of course Drudge ran with it (with a headline like "Visiting porn sites breaks your PC security" or some nonsense). However, on that same day, one of Drudge's advertisers was using the flash vunerability to redirect people to a fake virus scan site, to install a "virus blocker" that is nothing more thana total back door that turns your system into a botnet zombie.

Idiots.