Den 19/02/2006 kl. 20.19 skrev paul&heidi:

"there is nothing dodgy here ive downloaded it and they work fine whats
your
phobia?"

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I just got this in an email directly to me. I'm a bit worried by being
spammed. On the other hand, I have their IP now.

So here it goes (including my response).

If there's nothing dodgy, why do you have to download something in
order to view a simple pdf? Not to mention, use IE, and WIndows. That
in itself is dodgy.

It's not a phobia, and I have to say I don't like the tone of that. If
it is indeed something, it could be called a very well founded
paranoia.

You downloading it, claiming nothing has happened, doesn't really
matter much. Spyware doesn't really tell you that it has installed
itself.

Can I ask, why wasn't this posted to the thread instead of sending this
directly to me?


Let me repeat myself:


Hmm, this seems suspicuos, not to mention bad form. First of all, they
(you?), demand that one uses IE, a browser reknowned for being a
security breach in itself, next you want people to download a 173kb
file in order to view a PDF!?

WHY the hell would that be needed, and it smells like spyware or worse.
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Let me add, to this group, and P&H, that it is in itself shows the
dodgyness that you're so defensive when I/we question the validity of
this. I think you should give it a good long thought as to why some
people are paranoid. We are that for a reason, and as far as this PDF
goes, there's no reason that anyone should have to install anything.
That is not paranoia, that is common sense. Even if it where password
protected there would be no need to download anything.