[ILUG] "Virus" scanning on Linux

[Cian Davis]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> But now I google for it I see it is in common use
> among ILUG-like people for what oldsters like me call "con artists".
>   

And the people taken in by most of it are "retards"

> I was wondering only today when I got a request for my password 
> from supportz at eircom.net why "social engineers" are so often illiterate.
> But now I am told the engineering connection ..

It's so the people on the other end more that are most predisposed to 
falling for it feel more at ease because it's a language they understand.

On a serious note, I worked IT support during summers in secondary 
school. Despite the pride the management held the security of the 
network, I always figured I could ring up anyone in the company months 
after I left and say something like "Hi, I'm Dave from IT. We're having 
some problems with logons in your building. Could you give me your 
username and password so I can solve the problem?" Never tried it but I 
doubt there would ever be a problem.

I've also had some smart people come to me about some scams. They tend 
to be some unscrupulous company abusing people's ignorance on how 
hosting, DNS and the likes works - such as Domain Registry of America 
claiming you need to renew your domain with them. I suppose you could 
claim they earned the smart tag by asking someone who knew about it 
instead of blindly handing over their credit card info...