Ubuntu my love !

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon May 16 17:11:23 UTC 2005


On 5/16/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> I was having a minor issue with X-Plane in Ubuntu. So I thought I would
> download the Windows version to compare things.
> Well, not only the issue was still there in Windows, but there were
> others as well ! But the big laugh was to happen only 2 minutes after
> taking off with my favorite Heli, as I was very concentrated on the
> flight.... suddenly.... something pops up :
> 
> http://www.007.org.uk/~vtrouilliez/temp/screenshot.png
> 
> Couldn't believe it ! This windows install is only a few months old, I
> have started only a handfull of times, total time maybe 2 hours max all
> in all, yet in this short time it managed to get this virus/mal/crap
> ware ! And it pops up every 5 minutes !

You haven't. It's a spam advertisement. They're trying to sucker you
into installing spyware.

Your machine is probably fine but you really should have a firewall on it.

Don't trust everything you read.

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