Yahoo! games

[supertle]

How many of you people out there are addicted to Yahoo! Games? I know I am... besides yahoo has started charging for some games which obviously means they have a lot of people playing!

My favourite was Pool till I discovered Dominos. Anyone find any other interesting game?

[Tammy]

I've been playing Backgammon and chess on there for years. Best game site on the web imho. :)

[Silmaril8n]

What plugins for the browser are required? I've always been skeptical of the online games from plugins like Wildtangent and other junk.

[Viper007Bond]

Wiltanget = spyware

And the games are Yahoo! are probably just flash I'd imagine.

[Silmaril8n]

Originally posted by Viper007Bond
Wiltanget = spyware

My point exactly. ;)

[Tammy]

I never had any problem with the yahoo games, and I'm pretty meticulous about spyware. You're right, though, that a lot of game sites are dangerous. Good to always be careful what you download, no matter how innocuous it seems, and run stuff like spybot and ad-aware regularly.

[Silmaril8n]

With a properly configured browser I haven't found a piece of spyware for months. Heck even IE can do it but I find it's easier with FireFox. Of course some of them Shockwave games are cool. I was hooked on Inklink for a while I remember -- until everyone kept on annyoing me with ASL, ASL?

[Viper007Bond]

Yeah, I never get spyware either and I use an IE based browser too! :D

Just gotta be smart when using the Internet. :)

[Ruben]

Maxthon...

[Silmaril8n]

Originally posted by Toyminator
Maxthon...

I keep hearing about that Maxthon browser. I may just try it out to see if my company can make use of it. Is it easily securable?

[Viper007Bond]

Originally posted by Silmaril8n
I keep hearing about that Maxthon browser. I may just try it out to see if my company can make use of it. Is it easily securable?
No, it's just IE with ad blockers and pop-up stoppers and stuff.

I like being able to have the things that IE supports that others don't. Plus I really didn't like Firefox personally.

However, have your company use Firefox. It's way more secure than any IE based browser.

[Silmaril8n]

I probably will. I found a great way using a proxy script to control which sites our stores are allowed to access. Very very nice to have.

[Viper007Bond]

Originally posted by Silmaril8n
I probably will. I found a great way using a proxy script to control which sites our stores are allowed to access. Very very nice to have.
Woah, indeed. :D

Make sure you exclude * minus some sites, else people can use proxies to get to blocked sites. ;)

[Ruben]

Huh Silmaril8n... is it YOUR company?

[Silmaril8n]

Well not MY company, but I work for them. They have no regard for website safety so I am reduced to putting up child-locks on their computers to protect them from themselves. It's sad but I spend more time cleaning spyware from our computers than anything else when I visit the our stores.

[Ruben]

Oh... so their like the rich people who can't do anything with comps but need help...

[Silmaril8n]

Originally posted by Toyminator
Oh... so their like the rich people who can't do anything with comps but need help...

No they are just middle-aged employees that are typically computer illiterate. They just don't know what contitutes a dangerous website and they don't understand how to use the software.

I'm testing out Norton Internet Security 2005 and considering deploying it in all of our stores. So far it's pretty easy to use and configure and does just about everything I could ask for.

[Ruben]

Hmmm k I understand :P

[Tammy]

People who are good enough with computers to get online, but don't know much of anything beyond that, are the most dangerous computer users - to themselves - that I can think of. Combine that false sense of anonymity with the temptations that lie everywhere online, and you get the possibility of disaster.

[Viper007Bond]

Originally posted by Tammy
People who are good enough with computers to get online, but don't know much of anything beyond that, are the most dangerous computer users - to themselves - that I can think of. Combine that false sense of anonymity with the temptations that lie everywhere online, and you get the possibility of disaster.
Yeah, people who know a little, but not enough are the worst, especially the ones that don't realize they're computer morons.

"Oh, look, someone I don't know sent me an attachment that's supposedly really important!"

:p

[Ruben]

Phew... for a minute I thought I was one of them... but then the attachment, yeah I trust in myself now :p

[Tammy]

Originally posted by Viper007Bond
Yeah, people who know a little, but not enough are the worst, especially the ones that don't realize they're computer morons.

"Oh, look, someone I don't know sent me an attachment that's supposedly really important!"

:p

Spammers and virus-writers play a numbers game. If only .00001% of all the people they send their stuff to actually do something with it, the spammer/virus writer wins. It only takes one naive computer user to open his/her box to a malicious e-mail bug and start a real problem for a lot of people.