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Gunner Asch
Aug 4, 2013, 6:06:11 PM8/4/13
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http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
a gimp extension on a jpg file?
Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
security..but am not getting any warnings
Thanks!
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about sex, just about sex, dumb,dumb, money in politics,money in
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Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
a gimp extension on a jpg file?
Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
security..but am not getting any warnings
Thanks!
--
""Almost all liberal behavioral tropes track the impotent rage of small
children. Thus, for example, there is also the popular tactic of
repeating some stupid, meaningless phrase a billion times" Arms for
hostages, arms for hostages, arms for hostages, it's just about sex, just
about sex, just about sex, dumb,dumb, money in politics,money in
politics, Enron, Enron, Enron. Nothing repeated with mind-numbing
frequency in all major news outlets will not be believed by some members
of the populace. It is the permanence of evil; you can't stop it." (Ann
Coulter)
Jon Danniken
Aug 4, 2013, 6:49:33 PM8/4/13
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On 08/04/2013 03:06 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>
> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>
> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
> security..but am not getting any warnings
Links go to a site that purports to be the GIMP site, but isn't
> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>
> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>
> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
> security..but am not getting any warnings
(http://www.gimp.org/ is the real site).
That alone raises red flags for me.
Links also all include what looks like a referral code, the same
"128HWT" as given in the URL you provided.
Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's just a referral scam, maybe it's
something nasty, I don't know, but I as hell wouldn't install it on my
machine.
If it was me, I would ask the sender to send the .jpgs, stating that
these "don't work" on your computer.
If I was more curious, I might set up a virtual machine with virtualbox
(https://www.virtualbox.org/) and play around in there.
Jon
Jim Wilkins
Aug 4, 2013, 6:54:33 PM8/4/13
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"Jon Danniken" <jonSPAM...@yaSMPAhoo.com> wrote in message
news:ktmlpu$h9u$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
Do we have a Doppelgunner?
news:ktmlpu$h9u$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
> That alone raises red flags for me.
>
> Jon
>
Do we have a Doppelgunner?
Gunner Asch
Aug 4, 2013, 7:24:36 PM8/4/13
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On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:49:33 -0700, Jon Danniken
<jonSPAM...@yaSMPAhoo.com> wrote:
>On 08/04/2013 03:06 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
>> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>>
>> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
>> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>>
>> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
>> security..but am not getting any warnings
>
>Links go to a site that purports to be the GIMP site, but isn't
>(http://www.gimp.org/ is the real site).
>
>That alone raises red flags for me.
>
>Links also all include what looks like a referral code, the same
>"128HWT" as given in the URL you provided.
>
>Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's just a referral scam, maybe it's
>something nasty, I don't know, but I as hell wouldn't install it on my
>machine.
>
>If it was me, I would ask the sender to send the .jpgs, stating that
>these "don't work" on your computer.
I did. No response as of yet. I tried to download it to one of the
<jonSPAM...@yaSMPAhoo.com> wrote:
>On 08/04/2013 03:06 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
>> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>>
>> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
>> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>>
>> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
>> security..but am not getting any warnings
>
>Links go to a site that purports to be the GIMP site, but isn't
>(http://www.gimp.org/ is the real site).
>
>That alone raises red flags for me.
>
>Links also all include what looks like a referral code, the same
>"128HWT" as given in the URL you provided.
>
>Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's just a referral scam, maybe it's
>something nasty, I don't know, but I as hell wouldn't install it on my
>machine.
>
>If it was me, I would ask the sender to send the .jpgs, stating that
>these "don't work" on your computer.
Linux boxes..no luck..so I think its a virus spreader. Odd that it
came from a Craiglist posting though.
>
>If I was more curious, I might set up a virtual machine with virtualbox
>(https://www.virtualbox.org/) and play around in there.
>
>Jon
>If I was more curious, I might set up a virtual machine with virtualbox
>(https://www.virtualbox.org/) and play around in there.
>
>Jon
Jon Danniken
Aug 5, 2013, 12:37:51 AM8/5/13
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On 08/04/2013 04:24 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:49:33 -0700, Jon Danniken
> <jonSPAM...@yaSMPAhoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/2013 03:06 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
>>> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>>>
>>> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
>>> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>>>
>>> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
>>> security..but am not getting any warnings
>>
>> Links go to a site that purports to be the GIMP site, but isn't
>> (http://www.gimp.org/ is the real site).
>>
>> That alone raises red flags for me.
>>
>> Links also all include what looks like a referral code, the same
>> "128HWT" as given in the URL you provided.
>>
>> Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's just a referral scam, maybe it's
>> something nasty, I don't know, but I as hell wouldn't install it on my
>> machine.
>>
>> If it was me, I would ask the sender to send the .jpgs, stating that
>> these "don't work" on your computer.
>
> I did. No response as of yet. I tried to download it to one of the
> Linux boxes..no luck..so I think its a virus spreader. Odd that it
> came from a Craiglist posting though.
Actually that would be the first clue as to it being all the more
> On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:49:33 -0700, Jon Danniken
> <jonSPAM...@yaSMPAhoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/2013 03:06 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
>>> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>>>
>>> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
>>> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>>>
>>> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
>>> security..but am not getting any warnings
>>
>> Links go to a site that purports to be the GIMP site, but isn't
>> (http://www.gimp.org/ is the real site).
>>
>> That alone raises red flags for me.
>>
>> Links also all include what looks like a referral code, the same
>> "128HWT" as given in the URL you provided.
>>
>> Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's just a referral scam, maybe it's
>> something nasty, I don't know, but I as hell wouldn't install it on my
>> machine.
>>
>> If it was me, I would ask the sender to send the .jpgs, stating that
>> these "don't work" on your computer.
>
> I did. No response as of yet. I tried to download it to one of the
> Linux boxes..no luck..so I think its a virus spreader. Odd that it
> came from a Craiglist posting though.
suspicious; lots of scammers troll CL looking for people to foist there
scams on, especially in the personals and help wanted categories.
Jon
DoN. Nichols
Aug 5, 2013, 11:13:40 PM8/5/13
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On 2013-08-04, Gunner Asch <gunne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>
> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>
> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
> security..but am not getting any warnings
Weird! I use gimp frequently -- but I've never had it installed
> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>
> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>
> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
> security..but am not getting any warnings
as a plugin in my browser -- and would *not* do so. If they don't allow
me to download the photos and view them outside the browser, I'm not
going to play. :-) I don't think that I would trust the plugin, and I'll
bet that it demands to be installed on a system with Windows, not any
flavor of unix/linux/BSD.
While gimp has a private extension (and it is *not* ".gimp", but
some thing else, and it is good to save an image with that if you are
going to do more work on it later, I normally use the GIMP to read in
tiff files, manipulate them, and save them as jpeg files (keeping the
original tiff ones) for sending to others on CD or DVD ROMs.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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Gunner Asch
Aug 6, 2013, 6:21:12 AM8/6/13
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On 6 Aug 2013 03:13:40 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnic...@d-and-d.com>
wrote:
>On 2013-08-04, Gunner Asch <gunne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>>
>> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
>> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>>
>> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
>> security..but am not getting any warnings
>
> Weird! I use gimp frequently -- but I've never had it installed
>as a plugin in my browser -- and would *not* do so. If they don't allow
>me to download the photos and view them outside the browser, I'm not
>going to play. :-) I don't think that I would trust the plugin, and I'll
>bet that it demands to be installed on a system with Windows, not any
>flavor of unix/linux/BSD.
>
> While gimp has a private extension (and it is *not* ".gimp", but
>some thing else, and it is good to save an image with that if you are
>going to do more work on it later, I normally use the GIMP to read in
>tiff files, manipulate them, and save them as jpeg files (keeping the
>original tiff ones) for sending to others on CD or DVD ROMs.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
I belong to a yahoo group that finds free or cheap sailboats ....and
that message was concerning a boat...or it implied a cheap/free boat.
was being offered. Ive only been subscribed to it for about a
week...so it came right out of the blue. Fortunately..I tend to be a
bit paranoid about security..Ive had a number of computer attacks by
actual people over the years..typically leftwingers (all unsucessful)
so I keep my security a bit tighter than most folks do.
Gunner
wrote:
>On 2013-08-04, Gunner Asch <gunne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://pic-send.com/?photo=128HWT
>>
>> Got a message to look at the pictures (supposedly of a sailboat)...but
>> a gimp extension on a jpg file?
>>
>> Ive got Gimp on the computer...but I cant open them..Ive got very good
>> security..but am not getting any warnings
>
> Weird! I use gimp frequently -- but I've never had it installed
>as a plugin in my browser -- and would *not* do so. If they don't allow
>me to download the photos and view them outside the browser, I'm not
>going to play. :-) I don't think that I would trust the plugin, and I'll
>bet that it demands to be installed on a system with Windows, not any
>flavor of unix/linux/BSD.
>
> While gimp has a private extension (and it is *not* ".gimp", but
>some thing else, and it is good to save an image with that if you are
>going to do more work on it later, I normally use the GIMP to read in
>tiff files, manipulate them, and save them as jpeg files (keeping the
>original tiff ones) for sending to others on CD or DVD ROMs.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
that message was concerning a boat...or it implied a cheap/free boat.
was being offered. Ive only been subscribed to it for about a
week...so it came right out of the blue. Fortunately..I tend to be a
bit paranoid about security..Ive had a number of computer attacks by
actual people over the years..typically leftwingers (all unsucessful)
so I keep my security a bit tighter than most folks do.
Gunner
John B.
Aug 6, 2013, 8:19:36 AM8/6/13
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On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:21:12 -0700, Gunner Asch <gunne...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I have gimp installed on my computer and the site you reference tells
me that I am missing a "gimp photo viewer" and do I want to download
it?
I did a search for "gimp photo viewer" and yes., there is a place to
download one but it seems to have nothing to do with gimp the Gnu
Image Manipulation Program, which, by the way, uses a filename
extension of "xcf", not "gmp".
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Cheers,
John B.
wrote:
me that I am missing a "gimp photo viewer" and do I want to download
it?
I did a search for "gimp photo viewer" and yes., there is a place to
download one but it seems to have nothing to do with gimp the Gnu
Image Manipulation Program, which, by the way, uses a filename
extension of "xcf", not "gmp".
--
Cheers,
John B.
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