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Global Internet Slows After 'Biggest Attack in History'

03/27/2013 11:07 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

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03/27/2013 11:11 AM

Quiet day Slacky old chap? ;) (bl**dy emoticons still not working :( )
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03/27/2013 11:18 AM

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

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03/27/2013 12:10 PM

A hard refresh will fix that. CTRL+R (The emoticons, not a quiet day!)
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03/27/2013 1:14 PM

woo hooDel

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Test

03/27/2013 8:54 PM

Ok working!

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Re: Global Internet Slows After 'Biggest Attack in History'

03/27/2013 12:08 PM

A little tidbit that happened to me.

I was on vacation in Texas, about 2 weeks ago. And my email (yahoo) was hi-jacked.

I soon received from yahoo that my account was trying to be accessed from Romania. (Trying, they started spewing emails to my contacts)

Well I changed password and such. (As well as all my other passwords in other accounts)

The interesting thing is, in my LinkedIN account. I saw who that someone looked at my profile, and low and behold, it was from Romania, coincident? I would say not.

I reported it, and now have to wait and see what happens.

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03/27/2013 12:41 PM

I hope your new password is something like this.

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03/27/2013 2:40 PM

HEY!, how did you get my password?......

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03/27/2013 9:16 PM

Ever had a cat watch you while typing? Well, some cats can't keep a secret!

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04/02/2013 10:50 AM

For some reason Yahoo accounts seem to be the most common ones to be hacked. I constantly get random emails from friends' Yahoo addresses with weird links that are obviously not legit. I seldom see the same from Gmail or other free email providers. You may want to switch.

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04/02/2013 12:21 PM

I actually have accounts in both.

Original intent was to have one for private and one public usage.

I contacted linkedin and they're looking into it....

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04/02/2013 12:52 PM

I also get similar mails on my yahoo a/c but I simply delete it. I never open links or attachments referred in such e-mails.

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03/28/2013 7:42 AM

Emotions not yet working in my lap top.I get message "Select Emotion". How you all solved this problem?.

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03/28/2013 7:43 AM

Hit CTRL+R while you're on the reply page. It does a hard refresh of your browser and they will show up again.
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03/28/2013 8:25 AM

Thanks Savy got it.

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Re: Global Internet Slows After 'Biggest Attack in History'

03/28/2013 7:44 AM

I'm glad you shared this! I've noticed that my new laptop has been incredibly slow while I'm online. I thought I got a lemon.

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