Reply to "Spoof gets smarter......"

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quote:
Originally posted by Mrs.M.:
I think someone posted that you should not even answer them at all as they can sometimes pick up things just from your typing.

Not true - there are viruses (viri?) around that record key strokes but you have to have the virus on your PC for that to work!

When I was on my Computer Science course in about 1980 I wrote a program that mimicked the log on 'screen' (it was on teletype but you know what I mean) and it recorded the next user's id and password into a file then logged off. I was then able to log on as them and steal their 'budget' (ie. time on the mainframe). Somehow I came top in my class! I guess this was an early example of phishing!

[_ONE OFF VIRUS CHECK_] <-- check for viruses here!

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11/29/0511:46 PM

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