Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Monday 07 January 2008 20:42, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 07 January 2008 17:31, Doug McGarrett wrote:
For those dual booting, or otherwise running Windows, I got this message on my Linux (only) machine: /snip/ Please clarify what you mean by "got this message," especially since you say the machine is "Linux (only)."
Are you talking about a phishing attack of some sort?
The message appeared before I even updated KMail. I erased it, so I can't go any further than this. Maybe the machine has been hacked, I don't know, but I hope not. There is no other operating system on this machine except SuSe 9.3, and there never has been, except SuSE 10.0, which I had to dump and regress to this. There is a Windows machine on the router, but it has been turned off for several days.
oh god... the rediculous animated display showed a bunch of typical windows file names. DO YOU HAVE WINDOWS SYSTEM FILES ON YOUR LINUX MACHINE???? Of course not. That's like having a gas-fueled water heater....and getting a post card that your electric water heater is being recalled, even though yours is gas... and getting all worried because it even listed the specific part of your ELECTRIC WATER HEATER that need to be replaced. Use some plain basic logic. Sheesh!
I don't know if this is a phishing attack, or some kind of deal to get some nasty software into the machine, which is what I really think it is. If there were a Windows list similar to this one, I would certainly post there also, but I don't know if there is.
As I said in the original post, I would certainly not snap on the URL in either OS, but I suspect it would not damage the Linux machine.
It's a rouse to steal your credit card information. You're beginning to make me wonder if you should even be allowed on the internet unsupervised. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org