This must mean...
That the number of MAC users has become significant...
But... Apple is 1) Doomed, 2) Irrelevant 3) Evil/Satan
Everyone runs Windows right or is this fnally the year of the Linux Desktop?
Support scammers who have been targeting Windows users for years and, more recently, users of Apple’s mobile devices and Android tablets and smartphones, have moved on to targeting desktop Macs more aggressively than ever before. The basic set-up is the same: fraudsters seek to badger users into paying for useless remote …
Yes. Well done! It was a very clever trick, back in the 1990s —showing you knew how to set up a sub-domain and it made your spare bed-room-based website look like a big mega-corporation, with all departments and everything.
But sub-domains are a needless pain in the arse for navigation and leave your site wide open to address spoofing. So just don't. OK?
[i'm also looking at you here, El Reg!]
> ara.apple.com isn't a subdomain. It's a host address
*Ding* *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* (clang).
I've taked myself blue in the face (as well as shirt) trying to explain the difference to the meeja types here.. Especially when they log calls saying "can we have a new DNS subdomain" (which confuses our ISP) when they actually want a new hostname..
I look forward to the day one of these guys calls my house. I can fire up any number of versions of OSX. I'm pretty sure there is still an old 10.2.8 installation on a Clamshell iBook somewhere that I can't get AppleRremoteDesktop to connect...
Then I give the phone to my 5yr old ;-}
I've recently had some success in enticing SEO spammers into an exchange of emails but as I've no website to offer them I've not succeeded in wasting too much of their time so far. I'm tempted to work out some complex phraseology that means "don't click this" when analysed carefully but at first glance seems to say the opposite and then drop in a link from whatever phishing scam has turned up recently.
Ah - if they would only run Explorer. As far as I know there is no other browser that allows "window.showModalDialog()" instructions that you could use to drop 500 modal windows on their screen that ALL need acknowledgement before the browser will react to anything else.
I am toying with keeping an airhorn around, start talking softer and softer so they'll have to amp up, and then blast their ear drums.
No, I don't like these people much, why? Does it show?
Because this is the year of the linux desktop, apparently.
Next year it will be the year of the smartwatch,
followed by the year of
- the home laminating machine
- the mainframe
- the android
- the iThing
- the DOS and it's spawn
- the Big Blue Thing
- the Babel Fish
- the machine code
- the AI breakthrough
- the shared printer
And then it all starts over again.
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> lack of respect for the BSD
Oooh! I knew I forgot one from my list of machines earlier. I have a FreeBSD box too. Was going to replace my linux box doing webby-servery stuff with it but ran into a whole set of Can'tBeBothereds[1] trying to duplicate the functionality I have in Apache in nginx on the BSD box.
At some point I'll probably just migrate over the apache websites to apache on *BSD and finally deep-six the web box (Ubuntu that has migrated versions multiple times - its first incarnation was about 13 years ago..)
[1] Both from developers and me..
@Lost all faith...
I have 2 winboxen, one hp with a linux install and some (too many) macs, they are all second hand and donated to me. I don't own anything super new, I leave that to my employer to provide, which they do.
I think the linux guys are the salesmen for a free product. ?
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but the Windows ones are fun.
Them - Hi, I'm from Microsoft, and we have detected a problem with your Windows computer ...
Me - I don't have a Windows computer (lie)
Then - Oh. But we have detected an infection on your computer. If you click on the start menu ...
Me. I don't have a start menu. I don't have a Windows computer.
Them - Oh. But we have received reports of your IP address being used ...
Me - Really? What IP address is that, then?
Them - Erm.
Me - Goodbye.
The Mac ones would be even more fun. What's my name? What's my Apple ID? Which version of OSX am I running? Etc. I guess I'm not their target.
I could just sit here feeling smug, but I know people who have fallen for these scare tactics and it makes me mad.
I know a guy in his 70s who fell for it, and the only thing that saved him from computer doom was not knowing his Apple password.
What's most annoying is that I'm around to fix all his technology problems. So why the hell he'd talk random bastards he doesn't know who want paying to fix problems I'll do for a cup of tea or some fish and chips...
He lives a street away from an excellent chippy. My tech support is always available for people with those kinds of advantages.
A surfing teenager of one of my friends suddenly got a message about a porn virus on her screen, as far as I can see probably via malvertising as it came up as https://storage/googleapis.com, in which she was told she had a "porn virus" that was trying to steal passwords, and she should immediately call the "network and Security department" at an 0800 number I won't repeat here because its against forum rules.
I haven't been there yet to secure that computer so I don't know what vector was used, but thankfully the kid was smart enough to alert her parents, who were straight on the phone to me. I'll have to clean up that box, but these things can be made a lot less effective by awareness. This is the sort of stuff where all the scare campaigns about Internet threats to flog people security products actually play right into the hands of the criminals.
In a previous post somewhere, I winged about editorial bias.
Now this is not very scientific but, Google searches on the register results in
mac fanbois About 1,810 results (0.81 seconds)
windows fanbois About 157 results (0.54 seconds)
linux fanbois About 611 results (0.78 seconds)
Hum
The problem is your search for "fanboi", the iSpelling being relevant to Apple Cultists.
"Linux fanboys" might return more results and Windows doesn't really have any fanboys in the same way that toothbrushes don't. You use it to do a job, you move on. No emotional attachment required.
Ok good point
Mac Fanbois About 2,150 results (0.74 seconds)
Mac Fanboys About 707 results (0.56 seconds)
Apple Fanbois About 1,540 results (0.43 seconds)
Apple Fanboys About 1,800 results (0.57 seconds)
Linux Fanboys About 387 results (0.51 seconds)
Windows Fanboys About 126 results (0.52 seconds)
Toothbrush About 792 results (0.55 seconds)
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Registrars and hosting sites should immediately ban whomever registered or requested server space. The registrars and hosting sites should also notify others.
That said, shouldn't GoDaddy notice something was suspicious just with the domain name? It's like registering the web site Microssoft.com
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...it was obvious they weren't genuine Apple Support people, given they seem to have been offering to actually fix things, rather than spouting inane 'feel-your-pain' ineffectualities:
"Wait a minute, I have to boot it up. It takes a long time, so stay on the line." Put phone down.
5 minutes later: "It's still booting. Must have a virus, like you said."
Go to loo with phone, hold near bowl whilst you micturate and/or defectate. "Still booting.... OK what do I do now?"
"Wait a minute while I get my credit card."
5 minutes later: "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I run Linux."
"Yes, well, let me know when your software supports Linux. Have a nice rest of the day. I hope other people don't waste so much of your valuable time."
The key item here is that the more time you keep them on the line, the less innocent suckers will be rung up.