Oh yeah!
That's what we were talking about! Solaris reminded me when she commented:
"..hmmm I wonder.... what was the reason your puter was screwed up in the first place...hmmm I wonder, no really... ROTFLOL..."
When we first got my old computer, it worked great, for about 2 weeks. Then, it started slowing down, screwing up and just plain booting me off. All I could think of was the stupid programs that Rick had downloaded to "protect" the puter. No one in the house was dumb enough to open email from a stranger, no one did anythig particularly stupid, as far as I knew. All it could have been was the anti-virus crap...right? Well, apparently not.
It seems as though a mutual buddy of mine and Solaris's bought a new computer and her boyfriend quickly trashed it by going to porn sites. I didn't know that was an option. If I had, I would have realized the problem immediately.
Although Rick denied that he ever did such things, there are 2 things going against him here. First, he's a big, fat liar. Second, I once left the house to go to the store and when I got to my car, I realized that I had forgotten something. I went back to the house (I hadn't been gone for more than 3 minutes.) and when I walked into the bedroom, I found Rick in there whacking off to the half ass reception of a cable porn channel that we didn't get. Twisted, slanted, snowy women with moans interspersed with the staticy sound that you get on those channels had enchanted my husband so much that he just couldn't help himself. I guess he was just waitinhg for me to leave the house so that he could run into the room to "meet" his dates for the afternoon, Francis Fuckme and Brenda Blowjob. If I were him, I would have watched until he drove away instead of plopping his ass down in the middle of our room with his back to the door. I watched for a moment dumbfounded while I took in the amazing sight.
I did catch a few porn sites on the OTHER computer and Rick had promised (LOLOLOLOLOL) that he wouldn't do that anymore.
So, that is my evidence, members of the jury. Yes, that man of mine was trashing the computers with his wild and crazy "almost" women. I think I'll put a sign up on my desk reminding everyone that this is a porn-free computer. I'll hook up the old one for all the horny bastards that can't seem to get real women and leave it in the back bedroom. MY computer is perfect and it's going to STAY that way!
OK...I have to get ready for work now...see you all in the morning! And remember, JUST SAY NO TO PORN....online or on some fucked up sex channel that you don't get!
See ya!
Meg
That's what we were talking about! Solaris reminded me when she commented:
"..hmmm I wonder.... what was the reason your puter was screwed up in the first place...hmmm I wonder, no really... ROTFLOL..."
When we first got my old computer, it worked great, for about 2 weeks. Then, it started slowing down, screwing up and just plain booting me off. All I could think of was the stupid programs that Rick had downloaded to "protect" the puter. No one in the house was dumb enough to open email from a stranger, no one did anythig particularly stupid, as far as I knew. All it could have been was the anti-virus crap...right? Well, apparently not.
It seems as though a mutual buddy of mine and Solaris's bought a new computer and her boyfriend quickly trashed it by going to porn sites. I didn't know that was an option. If I had, I would have realized the problem immediately.
Although Rick denied that he ever did such things, there are 2 things going against him here. First, he's a big, fat liar. Second, I once left the house to go to the store and when I got to my car, I realized that I had forgotten something. I went back to the house (I hadn't been gone for more than 3 minutes.) and when I walked into the bedroom, I found Rick in there whacking off to the half ass reception of a cable porn channel that we didn't get. Twisted, slanted, snowy women with moans interspersed with the staticy sound that you get on those channels had enchanted my husband so much that he just couldn't help himself. I guess he was just waitinhg for me to leave the house so that he could run into the room to "meet" his dates for the afternoon, Francis Fuckme and Brenda Blowjob. If I were him, I would have watched until he drove away instead of plopping his ass down in the middle of our room with his back to the door. I watched for a moment dumbfounded while I took in the amazing sight.
I did catch a few porn sites on the OTHER computer and Rick had promised (LOLOLOLOLOL) that he wouldn't do that anymore.
So, that is my evidence, members of the jury. Yes, that man of mine was trashing the computers with his wild and crazy "almost" women. I think I'll put a sign up on my desk reminding everyone that this is a porn-free computer. I'll hook up the old one for all the horny bastards that can't seem to get real women and leave it in the back bedroom. MY computer is perfect and it's going to STAY that way!
OK...I have to get ready for work now...see you all in the morning! And remember, JUST SAY NO TO PORN....online or on some fucked up sex channel that you don't get!
See ya!
Meg
posted by Meg Kelso | 2:04 PM
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Meg, it's common knowledge that porn sites are full of spyware, which will make your puter crash constantly. Even without the porn sites being watched, it is good to have a spy sweeper. I use Webroot, it is well worth the money! Lots of sites actually have spyware attached to them! Even sites you would never think would. I hate spyware! Your story about Rick watching that damn site just cracks me up, that is so pathetic!!!!
Not sure how long ago that happened, but these days (as I posted) your computer is attacked literally minutes after connecting to the internet.
I did a new installation and was amazed at how quick the attacks came in, I quickly turned on the XP firewall (turned off by default until SP2) and still the attacks came. Not until I installed 3 security tools did it stop. The 4th tool is cool, it lets you counterattack the hacker.
What sites did I visit? My ISP, my email (has several apam defenses, and I didn't even open any, just connected), and some financial institutions for my litigation. Not to pornographic.
Now I will say that visiting porn will get you attacked 100 times worse, but you literally just connect and the trouble starts.
High speed, always on. Better be protected, or you'll be a vegetable overnight.
Why? Script kiddies, port scanners, advanced hacking tools, requiring little more than basic windows knowledge and access to a warez site.
If we're talking about the same mutual friend, in my town? Has anybody heard from her? If she's still letting AK play on that machine, she'll be ready to buy another new one soon. I posted, my offer stands, I'll lock her system down for her, no lectures.
What do you do with a system screwed up by dubious access. Depends how bad. Fix it or reinstall.
Fixing it requires several tools in each class to catch it all and virus is not the only class anymore, there's spyware, trogans, backdoors, firewall, and rootkits. The advantage of fixing it is your stuff should all be there.
Reinstall is guaranteed, but its some work. First an image backup with file level restore ability. Sample restore to make sure it works. Then format and reinstall. If you don't have disks, that sucks, by a harddrive at a licensed dealer to qualify you for an OS OEM license. After the install, then reinstall all software, then reconnect your data (not always easy for XP or later).
After XP, software stores things in system hidden folders under "C:\Documents and Settings\[userid]\Application Data\[vendor]\[pgm]\" in Vista this has moved to C"\USERS\[userid]\APPDATA\[Mode]\[Vendor]\[pgm]\".
See no matter what crap software came through, the hardware didn't really break, crap software got installed and it's consuming resources.
In fact windows is so fragile that even installing lots of legit programs, which vendors do before you even get it, can cause it to run like a dog.
So Rick might not be guilty, or maybe he was. Only the hard drive knows for sure. Oh and what a treasure trove of data windows leaves behind.
It takes more than delete or reformat or fdisk (disk admin) to get rid of data. Give me a disk that was just reformatted, and I'll show you a half dozen ways to get it all back.
You need a multipass shredding program. The entire disk must be overwritten multiple times with random data patterns.
Actually Meg...it's not just porn sites that infect your computer with spyware, malware, and other such wonderful goodies. There are a large number of mainstream (non-porn) sites out there that load all sorts of crap into your computer as well. Many are very large, well known, frequently traveled sites. Browsers such as Internet Explorer let them in and turn a blind eye when things are snooping where they don't belong. The second you go online using IE, you WILL have crap finding it's way into your computer. I understand Mozilla browsers (Firefox and SeaMonkey) are much less likely to allow anything in, definitely not intentionally.
As someone who creates sites in many parts of the web (even the seediest of neighborhoods)...your problem isn't porn, it's also popular shopping sites, anything that offers something for free, anything downloaded or visited from any number of countries and a billion other possible entry points that I've not seen because I don't hang out with the people who do that. I do, however, work with a lot of porn webmasters at a design and programming level and it's not all the porn. It's the FREE porn sites, which are made by the same mainstream lowlifes who make FREE wallpaper sites, FREE ringtones, FREE games, (you get the point now) etc.
So, if something is free...keep it as far away from your computer as possible. That is how this crap has become so widespread, most people see FREE and feel compelled to click.
So, how do you protect yourself? Not with the "popular" solutions. Norton and McAffee are total hijackers, and anything new MS comes up with can't be trusted either.
All the webmasters I know use TrendMicro's Housecall, SpyBot, and AdAware. There could be other things out there but I don't need protection for my computer, so I don't pay too much attention.
Oh, and run all those before you go anywhere on the net, especially to Microsoft's update sight ;) You'll be glad you wrapped that rascal before touching their site.
And if you are concerned about your PC being slow...you got Vista, right? That could be the major problem right there. The laptop that hubby got has Vista on it. It's a bogged down, incomplete operating system and I'm about to delete it all and install XP Pro on it. I have to use the laptop to do some remote work with a client once a week. It takes 3x as long as it should because of Vista's lag and the wonderful "security" it supposedly has. I do like the ability to go back and restore the operating system to a certain date, but so far...that's all it's got going for it. LOL
Sorry for the book. Just thought I'd share some knowledge.
And I didn't include links so this wouldn't end up in the spam box. If you want links, I can send them to you.
Take care!!
:)
I wouldn't have spammed those links...I just lose the links people send in to harrass you guys. Anyway, I WOULD like you to send them to me. at MegKelsoBroderick@gmail.com.
Thanks girl!
Good points mylifeatfullspeed, a great feature of mozilla thunderbird email (I'd never open up outlook) is that it detects embedded graphic links back to the sender and if the sender isn't in your address book it suppresses the link. Otherwise you simply view the mail, while the graphic is rendering, you've linked back to them and identified yourself as a valid target.
Windows firewall is turned off in XP SP1, is on in XP SP2 but is inbound only, in Vista it has some outbound but isn't robust, so a third party firewall is advisable even on Vista.
If you're trying to run Vista Premium with 512M or low graphics it could be Aero. Could try the classic theme.
Also a good third party firewall should take over and turn off Microsoft's which should reduce that annoying "Cancel or Allow".
And ready for this, the geek squad offered to clear off all the crap that they pre-load on the new computer to make it run 20% faster. I said let me get this straight for $70 you'll make my new computer run like new? Thanks for the tip, I'll do it myself.
Better scoop up those OEM licenses fast, Microsoft will be yanking them from the channel.
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