| something is phishy about this? No i don't think if i was redirected to an odd website, id fall for it. i think i know the sites i deal with pretty well, and they have not been real quick to change formate. and i am not the guy who changes that stuff so if admin is there admin it says. My garage door code is still 1234! BUT>>>>
the strangest thing happened on the way to the internet a week ago. plodding along in my way my router stopped working. its a 3com and new so i figure the Verizon dsl is down, so I call. After the common twelve minute wait i got the operator that asked my needs. "Ping my modem." i blurted to her. she asked why i wanted my modem pinged, "because something just went pair shaped and i good reason to that my modem is bad" she then instructed me to unplug my router and connect directly to the modem and took me to a screen and explained to be how to ping my own modem. It was fine.
Here is the Phishey part. during the time while she retrieved the information on how to teach me her job, she stated "Verizon offers in home routers for your computer, would you be interested in the details?" and i declined. I thought it odd that they had routers on sale. just out of the blue, offering some special on in home routers and desided to have the tech support crew start pimping these things between explaining how to plug the modem into the wall and witch side up the CD should be placed,- you know, just then when my router went down. kinda felt she may have known i was coming.
so please let me get this strait and i request corrections if i don't have what i read correct. PLEASE.
They can send a little java thorn down the line, pop in and run, and reset the modem so that it... say.... didnt want to work with a verizon provided modem. Then sit back and wait for the calls from folks like me that, on a fluke, got it running the first time. passably except for one tiny little clunk. i was under the impression that Java don't run in Firefox. i use Firefox all the time except for this one day. i wanted to download a file from "rapidshare" and the only prog that works for me to do that is IE. and that leaves myself open for the Java train.
don't that sound Phishy?
Oh i know, its a bit "conspiracy-ee fiction" but if symantic can send a little bug that will infect mcafee so we all switch to Norton then mcafee sends out a little sticker and we all switch back, well i could see the possibilities here. Please let me know if its workable because me and routers don't mix.
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