--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > After spending over an hour responding to your responses last > > > > night I was attacked by a virus which has now eaten up 3 hours > > > > of my morning. It is a pernacious bastard that uses popups to > > > > pretend it is an aniti virus program that you must buy. No > > > > matter how I attack it it comes back. > > > > Still swinging. The advice on the internet is also dubious > > and often incomplete but I am learning stuff I didn't think > > I would have to know. So glad I can bang out short posts on > > the ipad. > > That one's a real stinker, apparently. The owner of a blog > I read got hit with it last week. Wrestled with it for > a whole weekend. Used StopZilla to get rid of it, I believe. > > Do you know about this? > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline > > http://tinyurl.com/6pmzfpy
I didn't so thanks. Now that I seem to be in the clear I will make a thumb drive restore from here. I have had very little trouble with viruses but did a stupid thing by searching a popular Mixed Martial Arts fight video from last week and watched it on an unknown site. Diabolically clever I'm sure they caught a lot of people. This malware makes it seem as if you have to buy their software to stop the madness since it hijacks everything. You can't run your malwarebytes program (get it if you don't have it. It is free and solves lots of problems.) Thanks for the resource for the future. > > I think you need to have access to a clean computer to > create the boot device necessary to use it, but it looks > like it would be a fairly quick, simple process you could > accomplish at a friend's house. See the FAQ link at right > for additional info. This has just recently been released, > I believe, and it sounds as though it's designed > specifically for evil crap like what hit you and this > blogger. > > The blogger's story scared me, because I use what she was > using, Microsoft Security Essentials, on my new Win7 > machine, and it didn't catch the little bastard. So I did > some quick research. > > One bit of advice I read: The instant the pop-up first > appears, DO NOT try to close it, but immediately hit > Ctrl-Alt-Delete to bring up Task Manager. If you kill > the process right away, it won't have time to download > and install itself. That makes sense...but how do you > know which process you need to kill?? What do you look > for? At least this had a mercenary purpose with someone getting paid through a cyber mugging. Somehow the purposeless ones seem worse, douchebaggery for its own sake by some sociopath with no payoff but your pain. > > > > > Judy ( among all the others who have your perspective on me) > > > > actually has the same enthusiasm to write endlessly about my > > > > lacks, taking each defense as an invitation to double down > > > > and attack in a different way to get her point across. > > > > > > So are you saying I should refrain from pointing it out > > > when you blatantly misrepresent your relationship with me? > > > E.g., "Our only interaction is in the environment arguing > > > about something she cherishes and I mock"? > > > > "In the environment" is the key to my intention. > > Don't understand this at all. "In the environment" as opposed > to...? Perhaps context would have been a better word choice. Any discussion in the context of this site has an adversarial bias, although this has gotten pretty worn thin over the years, especially since I often still meditate again and you have been pretty clear how far from the TB mindset you are. >
