A good amount of money has been stolen from my bank account bypassing the double factor authentication.

[PMc]

How ?

How what?

As I said, electronic mail on the internet is something entirely different to the WWW aka HTML. One has nothing to do with the other, and e-mail did exist long before and independent from the WWW.

Now if people insist that they want to use a service that provides their e-mail on a web-page, that they want to use a service that can open within their browser some spreadsheets attached to an e-mail by just clicking on them, that they want to use a service that will open any URL inserted into an e-mail (or a spreadsheet) within their browser by simpliy clicking on it, then that is their business that equates their business.

BTW, the same goes for viruses. By design an OS cannot get viruses. There is only one thing that is malconstructed and poses as an OS, that can get viruses, and that is called microsoft windows. I do not understand why anyone in the world would use such. I for my part did dump MS-DOS in 1990, because already then it failed to properly function.

Now I cannot solve people's problems, because I do not even understand why they have these problems (or why they are doing what they are doing), in the first place. I can only state that I do not have these problems, and can explain what I am doing - but that does typically only yield me negative reputation.

 

[Phishfry]

Differently-branded browsers (like Konqueror and Firefox) are not a bad layer. Use one to check links, the other to log in - and stick to it, be disciplined. Takes a LOT of self-discipline to resist the temptation of convenience in this scenario.

What is very scary is this.

I used to build SeaMonkey from custom ports tree. I usually use packages for everything. I need no custom ports..
One time I was having issues with something SeaMonkey and did some dubugging. It was there I noticed that SeaMonkey was allowing some web thingy to access programs built into the ports tree.
I was blown away. I did not think a program could reach back into the ports tree to use some tool leftover from a build...

Scary thoughts.
Trick or Treat?

 

[eternal_noob]

As soon as it can process 0 and 1, it can be hacked.

 

[ZioMario]

TOR exit nodes are NSA infested shitholes. Not recommended.

What I like is the level of security / privacy offered by the TOR browser,but not to connect to the net using TOR.

 

[astyle]

What is very scary is this.

I used to build SeaMonkey from custom ports tree. I usually use packages for everything. I need no custom ports..
One time I was having issues with something SeaMonkey and did some dubugging. It was there I noticed that SeaMonkey was allowing some web thingy to access programs built into the ports tree.
I was blown away. I did not think a program could reach back into the ports tree to use some tool leftover from a build...

Scary thoughts.
Trick or Treat?

Don't spread FUD, buddy. SeaMonkey has dependencies for building and running, all of them in the Ports tree. That is called re-using components. And most of the time, people are simply reluctant to admit that they have been phished - this thread is a good example.

 

[ZioMario]

Don't spread FUD, buddy. SeaMonkey has dependencies for building and running, all of them in the Ports tree. That is called re-using components. And most of the time, people are simply reluctant to admit that they have been phished - this thread is a good example.

I have admitted that I have been phished as soon as I've seen clear evidences that's happened. Why this thread is a good example ?

 

[astyle]

I have admitted that I have been phished as soon as I've seen clear evidences that's happened. Why this thread is a good example ?

It took you 6 or 7 pages to admit to getting phished. Before that, you did try to pin the blame on software being insecure or out of date (which was not really the case).

 

[ZioMario]

It took you 6 or 7 pages to admit to getting phished. Before that, you did try to pin the blame on software being insecure or out of date (which was not really the case).

Slow and steady wins the race.

 

[astyle]

Slow and steady wins the race.

You would have been better off if you took less time to admit and own up to something uncomfortable. 'Slow and steady' applies to people who were trying to help you. Yeah, off-hand, quick suggestions are not always the ones that solve the actual problem.

 

[ZioMario]

You would have been better off if you took less time to admit and own up to something uncomfortable. 'Slow and steady' applies to people who were trying to help you. Yeah, off-hand, quick suggestions are not always the ones that solve the actual problem.

Bro,I didn't realize I'd clicked to the phishing email. If someone hadn't suggested that I might have done so, I wouldn't have figured it out for a long time, maybe never. The reason I checked was because I believed in your competence and experience.