LFPF - malware provider?

[Sal Santamaura]

Perhaps your company reached that conclusion by evaluating the "malness" of what some abrasive posters have been adding to threads lately.

...Rick "wondering if some of those posts that need reporting could be considered malware" Denney

Great minds think alike!

[Preston]

Sunday, June 9, 2013...

It appears that whatever was causing the malware warning on my work computer has been fixed.

Now, I can read all the latest at LFPF and not get any work done. :-)

How cool is that!

--P

[Tin Can]

I recently joined and quit http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CarbronTransfer as I got daily porn messages from that direction. Since I quit, they have stopped.

[BrianShaw]

Very cool, Preston! I'm hoping to find the same improvement on Monday.

[photobymike]

Yesterday my company's webserver started denying acceess to this site, claiming that it has been "proven" to be a malware provider. I'm upset. I have never gotten any free malware. Where's mine? I work for a stodgy, suspicious, and apparently represive company that is denying my civil rights by restricting access to this fine forum. I hope whatever set off their naughty-site detector will soon be resolved. In the meantime, I'll be scarce.

It was decided when computers started in roads into mainstream business that restricting access would be at the companies prerogative. Usually companies issue an except-able use policy. Basically a company determines exactly where you go and what you do on the internet and intranet on their network, and their computers. This was decided quite legal long ago. The IT department sees everything... where you go and what you do.... in a corporate environment there are no secrets from the IT guys

sorry brian ...unless you have some juice at where you work, or am friends with the IT guy, they can do what ever they want.

i use iPhone and iPad apps to keep up with this forum. If i was still working for this "semi large" i would use my personal iPad .... the app works really well

Am retired Net supervisor for a "semi large" company.

[Tin Can]

I was never given Internet access at my former employer, but it was easy to hack, as one guy used his license plate for the password. I also used dialup for sometime, until they warned me off 3 hour phone calls.

IT had closed off most of the web, but my favorite trick, was to challenge a co-worker to use a google image search for 'breasts', was he shocked at what he thought was blocked.

The whole engineering dept was on the web all day, doing non-work activity. I actually wanted it for work activity...

I really enjoy all the FB activity that is obviously done during work hours, especially by public service employees.

Ah, productivity!

It was decided when computers started in roads into mainstream business that restricting access would be at the companies prerogative. Usually companies issue an except-able use policy. Basically a company determines exactly where you go and what you do on the internet and intranet on their network, and their computers. This was decided quite legal long ago. The IT department sees everything... where you go and what you do.... in a corporate environment there are no secrets from the IT guys

sorry brian ...unless you have some juice at where you work, or am friends with the IT guy, they can do what ever they want.

i use iPhone and iPad apps to keep up with this forum. If i was still working for this "semi large" i would use my personal iPad .... the app works really well

Am retired Net supervisor for a "semi large" company.

[BrianShaw]

sorry brian ...unless you have some juice at where you work, or am friends with the IT guy, they can do what ever they want.

Yes, I realize that. The policy on web access, web surfing, and time fraud is abundantly clear and well enforced. At the same time they are trusting of us as professionals and dedicated employees and don't treat us like children. My company specifically blocks certain kinds of site due to content, but not many.

I've seen this "malware" blocking done before, once with LF forum and again with Photo.net. It came and went... both times. If it stays I/we just need to live with it. We can petition for access to sites required to conduct business and htey are quire responsive. But petitioning for LF Forum wouldn't get any sympathy at all.

[photobymike]

Well LF is mostly grumpy old men ...mostly lol

[BrianShaw]

Interestingly, Mike, I had problems with my blackberry and sat with one of the techs while he fixed it (over a two-day period). WOW... was I surprised at how much information he has about the routine coming-and-going of messages. I thought he just saw metatdata bu then a friend of mine told me of the time when one of hte IT techs commented on the content of a specfiic email message. Knowing that I'm always cautious and not surprised by any "super human power" that the IT folks have... whether real of imagined.

[photobymike]

The telephone providers provide data on sexting also.... do it across state lines with under age and its a federal crime......