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On 16/05/13 18:53, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Lucas wrote: >> I am always surprised at where you are taken when just googling. > Yes - there's lots of stuff going on behind the scenes. It is > certainly interesting to see. > > To check whether something is amiss, I think this is only useful if > you have the knowledge and skills to understand what you're seeing. > Otherwise, I worry you'll easily conclude that there's an infection, > or that there are hackers, or some other bad thing is happening. > > Martijn. > Yeah, I remember one particular instance at a client's place where a bunch of the sales drone's laptops were suddenly displaying weird connectivity problems. One of the junior admins there had been playing with things he didn't understand, and somehow, from a complete misreading of something he googled, he'd been setting custom firewall rules to prevent the 'issue' of all this unsolicited traffic coming in and out on port 53... A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Right, now I'm off to set all my computers IPs to 127.0.0.1, I just read that it makes administration either. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq