Alien Contact Audio on coast2coast - World Exclusive!

[Mordac]

During the April 23rd c2c show, author Clifford Pickover suggested that, perhaps if they had a 2 second moment of radio silence, that aliens might take advatage of that situation, and insert a message into that blank space. I have been given exclusive access to the first known audio from extra-terrestrials. I forwarded the audio to the c2c staff, but amazingly, have not yet heard back from them.

You can listen to this world-wide history making audio by listening here:

http://mordac.johnson.googlepages.com/Mordac.mp3

 

[Lavarat]

 

[Aaron LeClair]

My moderating abilities went poof for some reason.

Anyway, I was going to take out the link to the file and request that a site with a link be given instead. I'm suspicious of this being a virus. I recommend not downloading it.

 

[Mordac]

Anyway, I was going to take out the link to the file and request that a site with a link be given instead. I'm suspicious of this being a virus. I recommend not downloading it.

With as much respect as I can muster at this time - you must not know much about computing and the way web sites, links and files are crafted. I gave out a direct link to an MP3 file (music/sound file for the uninformed). I wonder, if you could reason for me, how would placing an mp3 link on another site (which I could easily build, but there would be no point) be any less (or more) dangerous than posting that link here?

mp3 files, while sometimes not what you expect when you're downloading them through p2p netwworks, do not contain viruses. If you think they do, I invite you to show me the empirical evidence.

reference:

http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/mp3vir.shtml
http://www.hoaxkill.com/hoaxkill/viewhoaxcategory?hoaxid=1017&category=1&stylesheet=viewhoax.xsl

There exists an exploit and vulnerability in iPod’s embedded software, which lacks the level of anti-virus protection of large desktop operating systems. Playing an infected song causes iPod’s buffer overflow and malicious code sneaks into the iPod. When synchronized, the virus jumps into iTunes software client.

Please note this potential threat came from file-sharing p2p networks, and is specific to the iPod proprietary operating system. I presume most, if not all users of this forum are accessing it, not from their iPods, from from PC's or Mac's.

You can "Google 'till the cows some home," but you'll find that your concerns about malicious mp3s are baseless. If you still worry, after doing empirical-based research, and come to the same conclusion, may I suggest the Conspiracy Forum might be good place to start.

I hope our "rough start" doesn't damage any future 'realationship' - but I did want to set the record straight.

I joined here to have some fun about c2c and similar interests. To somehow be castagated as possibly spreading a virus through an mp3 sound file, is not quite the welcome I would have wished for, nor expected.

Mordac

Thanks for allowing me to vent under a less than ideal "first meeting."

 

[Mordac]

@ Lavarat

Thanks for the compliment - that means you downloaded and listened, and you actually understood my intentions! You got the point bubba! Wahoo!

 

[Mordac]

@ Paranormal Packrat

Live on the edge and listen to the file... who MAY actually crack a smile - WHICH IS THE POINT!

Cheers

Mordac

 

[Aaron LeClair]

I've got viruses off DLing files from forums before it seems. Just being safe is all. No, I don't know what all is involved since I don't send people viruses. Gene's the computer wiz.

 

[Mordac]

I've got viruses off DLing files from forums before it seems. Just being safe is all. No, I don't know what all is involved since I don't send people viruses. Gene's the computer wiz.

I really do appreciate your candor in admiting that you may not know all that is involved when it comes to viruses and how they're spread. It takes some gonads to say that, and I respect you for that. While it is true, of course, that some files can spread viruses, I can assure you, mp3's are not in that group and are safe to listen to. I can also assure you and others who may read this, that any other types of files I may post (though I can't, frankly, think of any others I might post here - but just in case I do!) are virus free - though one could always scan the file with your AV app... and, other than the Mac users here, I'm assuming no one here is dumb enough (I say that without ill-intentions... well, maybe on second thought I do) to still be using IE for routine browsing. Your first line of defense is your browser, and using IE of any flavor is foolhearty at best, to be using to view the web (with exceptions where you MUST use it, e.g. banking and other such sites). The best, of course is to use Opera, my exclusive browswer of choice. It's many native capabilities, put FF to shame, and it safe from IE exploits.

Enough from me about all that... let's enjoy the first actual contact from aliens, as first initiated by a guest on c2c with George Snoory a few nights back. Like they say, "Once you go Mordac, you'll never go back."

 

[cmbezln]

..............lol?

 

[digigeek]

I've got viruses off DLing files from forums before it seems. Just being safe is all. No, I don't know what all is involved since I don't send people viruses. Gene's the computer wiz.

I really do appreciate your candor in admiting that you may not know all that is involved when it comes to viruses and how they're spread. It takes some gonads to say that, and I respect you for that. While it is true, of course, that some files can spread viruses, I can assure you, mp3's are not in that group and are safe to listen to. I can also assure you and others who may read this, that any other types of files I may post (though I can't, frankly, think of any others I might post here - but just in case I do!) are virus free - though one could always scan the file with your AV app... and, other than the Mac users here, I'm assuming no one here is dumb enough (I say that without ill-intentions... well, maybe on second thought I do) to still be using IE for routine browsing. Your first line of defense is your browser, and using IE of any flavor is foolhearty at best, to be using to view the web (with exceptions where you MUST use it, e.g. banking and other such sites). The best, of course is to use Opera, my exclusive browswer of choice. It's many native capabilities, put FF to shame, and it safe from IE exploits.

Enough from me about all that... let's enjoy the first actual contact from aliens, as first initiated by a guest on c2c with George Snoory a few nights back. Like they say, "Once you go Mordac, you'll never go back."

Mordac, not that this is in any way related to the actual topic of the post, but that's long since gone out the window, it seems, but you don't seem to know a thing about computer virus transmittal.

File types are irrelevant. I can take any computer file and change the extension or, better yet, pre-pend a file type header (MP3, etc.) to it and make it seem legitimate.

There are two main ways in which the viral code will transmit to the new computer:

1) The virus code is embedded in a proper executable file, an .exe, and is run by the user. Examples: EXE email attachments posing as messages sent by friends, infected warez downloads (games, etc.)

2) The virus code is hiding within a file posing as some popular file type, especially when "players" for those types have known exploitable problems that can allow the hidden viral code to execute. One simple example of this would be viral MS Word macros. a more elaborate example would be a file POSING as an MP3 file, which takes advantage of a "hole" in some well-known player to execute embedded viral code and infect the target system.

3) Internet Explorer has no more holes than any other browser. The more widely-used software application or operating system will ALWAYS be more targeted and scrutinized than those less popular. That's just simple common sense and not particularly hard to understand. If you are looking for holes to exploit then you look in the most widely-used applications, not the ones with less than 2% of the others' user base - that makes no sense.

Any and all data entering your computer is potentially dangerous and should be treated as hostile until scanned. Anyone who is not using real-time security scanning on their PC or Mac nowadays is a complete fool.

Posting links to common media types should not be discouraged. A poster should fully expect that anyone trying to view the media will do so using a protected computer, which will not allow any infected crud to attack it. This is all silly.

 

[Gil Bavel]

"You can "Google 'till the cows some home," but you'll find that your concerns about malicious mp3s are baseless. If you still worry, after doing empirical-based research, and come to the same conclusion, may I suggest the Conspiracy Forum might be good place to start."

I actually did Google "till the cows some home" and it assured me that I meant, "till the cows COME home".

I told it, no I didn't, and I found some really amazing stuff.

I'll leave it to y'all to engage your sense of discovery.

 

[Ron Collins]

Not even CNN can escape the typo.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

There aren't any Mac OS X viruses in the wild despite sales growth that's almost off the charts.

There is Mac security software, but no reason, yet, to use it.

 

[Gil Bavel]

There aren't any Mac OS X viruses in the wild despite sales growth that's almost off the charts.

There is Mac security software, but no reason, yet, to use it.

Another reason why Mac is the smart choice.

When I interviewed Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga, Inc., in 2001, he said that Mac was 5% of the PC market.

I'm sure the numbers have changed since then--and I'm sure you would know by how much--but if your plan is to infect as many computers as possible, you're not going to program a virus to infect Macs.

And certainly not Amigas--although, back in the day, we had anitvirus software for those, too.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Sorry, was just paranoid. It was a new poster and around the time the Bigfoot Forums I frequent got hacked into, so was just being cautious. Although many people love Gene and David, they have a few enemies, and wouldn't surprise me if someone did something malicious.

I use Windows and did indeed have a terrible virus off of a forum once. I didn't keep my pc updated back then. Lesson learned.

 

[Gil Bavel]

Sounds nasty. Off of a forum? Really?

Sounds dodgy.

I'm sure the masters of the paranormal and Tech Night Owl Live will keep us save and give their servers a good washing down during backup sessions.