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nice screenshot...damn compulsory titles 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 17:36 GMT

nice screenshot...

Better to say... 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 18:54 GMT

ASPX is a method to do remote processing of and responding to web browser requests.

I'm surprised 

By Repo
Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 01:03 GMT

That eBay did anything at all given their recent round of "improvements" which made life for the con-artist even easier.

ASPX is... 

By Karim Bourouba
Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 12:34 GMT

not just an HTML file format to create webforms.

Instead, how about using the words, "part of a web application framework"?

Not 1 but 2 tool bars! 

By dave
Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 12:59 GMT
Paris Hilton

Le Reg are supposed to be experts in IT yet the screenshot is taken with not 1 but 2 web toolbars, here's guessing that the 75% complete download for a screensaver pack was just out of shot!

Paris, does she work at the register now?

More nice screenshots 

By Graham Cluley
Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 14:10 GMT
Black Helicopters

If you liked The Reg's screenshots of this incident you can check out more on the Sophos blog here: http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/03/1199.html

(no toolbars present :) ) We also show some evidence that this isn't the first time the bad guys have tried this kind of scam.

Graham Cluley, Sophos

Who says... 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 03:14 GMT
IT Angle

...the screenshot was from a Reg Hacks computer?

Re: Toolbars 

By Snert Lee
Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 14:53 GMT

The screenshot also shows Wikipedia as the default search engine in the widget to the right of the address bar.

@snert lee 

By Demian Phillips
Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 19:36 GMT
Joke

That just means it's Andrews desktop. You have got to keep up with the enemy and know what they are about.

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