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teaches you to always look at your extensions and have them turned on so you can see the entire file name that way you wont see just mpg and asume the file is a video (the icon not being a video file icon and being a program icon shoulda been the dead givaway) you will see mpg.exe and know hey wow exe well its either

1. a program that i shouldnt open

2. a harmless bink video which is a selfplaying video (seriously doubtable)

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you don't get it they said they will terminate it in 3 days but they won't notify me exactly when. So I just cancelled my service and signed on with another isp.

:huh:

ummm.. they *did* tell you when they intended to cancel your internet access account.

And actually telling you that much counts as notice.

They said they would terminate in 3 days.

What, did you want a specific hour too? Get real. :hmmm:

btw "nerdinside" (talk about an oxy-moron) consider that "fatcat" is just as much as a n00b!e as you are. As such, there's no way to know exactly WHY his account got cancelled. Even IF he got the same message on his PC, I highly doubt is ability to link that to his ISP as the primary reason they decided to terminate said internet access account.

Logic. It?s a lost art form.

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I think you are gonna be just fine. Someone is just trying to scare people away from P2P networks.

P.S. If you want the REAL file your looking for, PM me. :whistle:

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FK?

i don't think so

BTW, my homepage is now "http://neowin.net". I set it back and ran the proggy again and it is back to neowin!!

Hmmm...

Ok, here's my question. Is there any good way to determine what exactly this program does? Other than set my homepage to neowin (still can't figure this one out??) it doesn't seem to have done much else.

Any help would be apprechiated.

Hmm... did any of you catch that? He says that the program sets his homepage to Neowin.net. :blink:

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it's fake.

1) the RIAA targets you for music. who else files lawsuits for P2P other than the RIAA?

2) the error message is too casual and incoherent. would a multi-million dollar organisation use that as a warning? they trace your IP down, contact your ISP <now is where you should get a cease and desist warning>, POSSIBLY take your ISP to court to fight for your details, then file a lawsuit.

3) that does not even look like a subpoena/legal warning. a popup in an exe?

4) the RIAA doesn't issue *.exes. the most they do to files is corrupt them with static, as we have experienced with MP3s.

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It looks like one of those programs to scare people who have little computer knowledge.

I downloaded a file with just exe extension and it was actually an avi recently... :/

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it's fake.

1) the RIAA targets you for music. who else files lawsuits for P2P other than the RIAA?

:rolleyes: Can you say, MPAA ?

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/....idg/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/...suit/index.html

http://www.mpaa.org/jack/2003/2003_03_13A.htm

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/14/1330...1&tid=97&tid=98

"The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is issuing 'takedown' notices to ISP's to alert them that customers are using their internet service to transmit or post copyrighted movies. The ISP's in turn send a letter to the customers threatening to disable their internet connection unless the offending material is removed. The MPAA is using software that 'cruises file-swapping networks like Gnutella to find copyrighted materials, hunts down the IP address of the poster, then discovers which Internet service provider is being used."

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get zone alarm if the other guy got booted by his isp it is likely due to someone puting a backdoor on his machine and using it as a proxy to cause more problems. zone alarm will detect incoming requests.... good luck

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This all depends on the ISP. What the program could of done is send your IP somewhere. Then that company contacted your ISP and now they can terminate your account. As I said it depends on the ISP and the steps they will take. Some ISP's will just warn you or suspend your account, some will terminate it.

I'm guessing that you downloaded the file witout knowing that it had an exe extension. If you're using Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you might have hide file extensions for known file types enabled. Disable that, and don't download any executable files from a place you can't trust.

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dude, don't download porn, letting files f**k up your commy, and files are easily traceable. instead, use firebird to go on free porn sites, ok, maybe it's not as good but at least you're safe and it's sooo easy to get rid of the evidence.

Subscription to ISP: ?29.99

Phone bill after downloading a dialer: ?99.99

Getting pwned by a "mpg.exe" pr0n movie: PRICELESS


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