Twitter fractal posted link in may add Windows commands to your registry
Albrecht sent me a personal email saying: -"In the forum David published a link from -twitter. Watch out ! -It is malware - after erroneously clicking on it -I checked the registry and there were more then 200 (!!!) -entries named twitter, mostly *windows commands*." I happened to not click on the link myself, but I did a search for "twitter" in my registry anyway. I'd forgotten that I have a Twitter account that I don't use, but the number of Twitter entries in my registry was eye-opening. There are so many entries that I'm not able to tell whether I have accumulated any malevolent Twitter entries over time in addition to my account's entries. Albrecht said that he was able to use a utility named "JV tools" to remove his registry's "Twitter Windows Command" entries. I'd be interested to learn whether anyone who: - has *no* Twitter account, and - *did* click on the link David found and posted here has any "Twitter Windows Commands" in their Windows registry. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ########################
I have a twitter account so I wouldn't be able to tell. I also use visit it daily so I really wouldn't be able to tell. I think if twitter was malware there would be a huge public outcry and it would be banned from iOS and Android. Government officials would be prohibited from using it etc. On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 7:06 AM Harold Lane <hallane@earthlink.net> wrote:
Albrecht sent me a personal email saying:
-"In the forum David published a link from -twitter. Watch out ! -It is malware - after erroneously clicking on it -I checked the registry and there were more then 200 (!!!) -entries named twitter, mostly *windows commands*."
-- Mike Frazier www.fracton.org
Based on previous experiences with Albrecht's "understanding" of technology, I think he doesn't know what he's talking about. But whatever. Here's the text of another with the shortcut link: 0.14568950332326472 + -0.5800089453130025i at zoom 1.4121577662e+05. jit:20190731200001 https://t.co/SBxCZanUh5 Click the link if you're not paranoid, or calculate the image for yourself. On September 14, 2019 3:35:40 AM HST, Mike Frazier <fractonorg@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a twitter account so I wouldn't be able to tell. I also use visit it daily so I really wouldn't be able to tell. I think if twitter was malware there would be a huge public outcry and it would be banned from iOS and Android. Government officials would be prohibited from using it etc.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 7:06 AM Harold Lane <hallane@earthlink.net> wrote:
Albrecht sent me a personal email saying:
-"In the forum David published a link from -twitter. Watch out ! -It is malware - after erroneously clicking on it -I checked the registry and there were more then 200 (!!!) -entries named twitter, mostly *windows commands*."
-- Mike Frazier www.fracton.org _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint
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