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What's with the security check?

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What's with the security check?
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 2:04 pm
Maybe someone needs to break out the Voight-Kampff test and settle it once and for all.
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm
Sounds like Malware to me. Probably should do a scan on your computer.
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 3:45 pm
(August 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Sounds like Malware to me. Probably should do a scan on your computer.

As I already mentioned, it's not a PC, it's a smartphone with Windows 8.1 and since it's not open source there are no viruses or malware for it.
I can't provide a screenshot because I'm 3 miles away from the nearest cell and uploading fails 90% of the time. But I can tell you it's that kinda check which requires choosing 3 or 4 images with street signs or buses or rivers. Once I do that and proceed, the forum says "can't upload file; too big for PHP" and I have to go back twice and hit "post reply" for the whole thing to work.
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 3:50 pm
(August 12, 2016 at 3:45 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote:
(August 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Sounds like Malware to me. Probably should do a scan on your computer.

As I already mentioned, it's not a PC, it's a smartphone with Windows 8.1 and since it's not open source there are no viruses or malware for it.

Closed source software isn't immune to massage, and neither is Windows Phone.

https://securityintelligence.com/news/wh...0-percent/
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 3:52 pm
I have been an admin here and we never had such a thing. Mabe Tibs can help you out.

And what's the deal with
Quote:As I already mentioned, it's not a PC, it's a smartphone with Windows 8.1 and since it's not open source there are no viruses or malware for it.

Windows really? The OS is one of the more prone to getting viruses. Being open source or not means nothing.
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 3:52 pm
*malware

(Fucking new phone and auto-correct.)
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 4:39 pm
(August 12, 2016 at 3:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: *malware

(Fucking new phone and auto-correct.)

Massage, malware...it's all the same, huh?
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 5:10 pm
I found a way to finally upload a screenshot without falling. This is what I see when I scroll down to the bottom of the security check page:

http://www2.pic-upload.de/img/31445125/w...3_0001.png
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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 5:34 pm
I was once asked to prove that I'm human, but the cops made me clean it up.

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RE: What's with the security check?
August 12, 2016 at 5:43 pm
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