Topic: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed

[Clive]

LINK

[Simon]

That could be anywhere in the desert.  How do we know it's Area 51?

[Clive]

Oh come on Simon.  These are official government documents.   

[Rik]

Intriguing stuff.

[Simon]

The truth is out there... 

[Rik]

Or is it... 

[daveeb]

Well there's certainly a virus out there, "fake alert fab" or something like that. Got it when i clicked on the national geographic link. It hides all your icons, hijacks and changes the desktop and brings up lots of hard drive failure alerts.
I suspect the crummy AV we have at work has something to do with it. Anyhow the IT boys changed my profile and that sorted it, trouble is i've lost lots of shortcuts, favourites and such. 
Could have been worse tho' 

[Clive]

How strange.  I've has no problems with the link and I haven't had any virus alerts from F-Secure.  I wonder if anyone else has had a problem with it?   

[daveeb]

Like i said Clive i suspect it's the cheapo (McAfee) bulk license software that we use at work, I certainly wouldn't use it at home.

[Clive]

McAfee always seems to be pre-installed on new computers and the first thing I do is to remove it.  I remember having bad experiences with it when I had my Win 95 machine.   

[Simon]

I'm with F-Secure too, and it didn't give me any problems. 

[daveeb]

At work we also use IE for browsing so i guess it was only a matter of time. 

[sam]

McAfee always seems to be pre-installed on new computers and the first thing I do is to remove it.  I remember having bad experiences with it when I had my Win 95 machine.   

I can't believe they get away with installing all the s**te they do.

[GillE]

I can.  They pay the computer manufacturer/retailer money to let them do it.

[sam]

yeah, I understand why they do it. I'm surprising the government haven't banned it in the way they tried to f*** up microshaft.