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Of a breath of fresh air in the early '90s. >> the '90s was a time of conspiracies. and the internet was starting to spread beyond just hardcore computer users. so you could have message boards and usenet newsgroups. and everybody wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulder's sister and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. i would go to alt.tv.x-files and people were so nuts for this show. >> it's just pure science fiction. that's probably what i like most about it. >> it changed the way people watched television. >> you could sense the successful creators trying to see how...

Stick it to the man ethos. don't trust the government or big business or anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. it's a message that's somewhat dark and cynical, but was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early '90s. >> the '90s was a time of conspiracies. and the internet was starting to spread beyond just like hard-core computer users. so you could have message boards and use net news groups. and everybody wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulder's sister and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. >> to alt.tv/xfiles. and people were so nuts for this...

Lack of a better way to put it, it's stick-it-the-the-man ethos. don't trust the government or big business, don't trust anybody but yourself and your friend and family, i guess. it's a message that's somewhat dark and cynical, but it was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early '90s. >> the '90s was a time of conspiracies, and the internet was starting to spread beyond just hard-core computer users. so you could have message boards and use net news groups and everybody wanted to talk about black oil and the bees and mulder's sister and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. to at.tv/xfil...

Advantage of this situation for example they sometimes portray themselves as i.t. support staff and offer to help solve a computer problem all the user has to do is download some software but that software often contains mold where that allows the crooks to take over the computer . criminals also use phishing emails for example they contact online banking customers and ask them to authenticate their bank account details otherwise the account will be blocked those who provide this information are turning their accounts over to crooks. these scammers try to scare their victims and that's the key...

A pattern. these patterns include brute force attacks in which hackers try to crack a computer users passwords they simply track through vast quantities of character combinations until they find the right one that's why experts advise people to use passwords that are as complex as possible. another method involves using a digital form to automatically infect computers that are using outdated software some kinds of worms contain mall where that locks up the computer and orders the user to pay money to unlock it this sort of malware is known as ransomware.