Don't you just hate it when it happens?
My computer is my best friend, think about it, all our friends live
in it. So when it is attacked you want to protect it. You
mourn the loss of daily interaction with the keyboard where your
fingers play sensitively upon those keys. Your life or day is not
the same.
This happened to me! At 9.17 pm precisely on Wednesday I clicked on this pop-up. I was not thinking. The pop-up told me that trojans and worms had attacked my friend and to click ' here' to remove them. This I did, wrong!
The 'security tool' disguised under a firefox persona was the virus .. damn .. it flew through programmes like a dose of salts rendering them impossible to open. Initially I was exposed to 40 trojans and numerous worms. By going into
add/remove I managed to reduce the quantities , then somehow the virus knew what I was doing and attacked. I could do nothing, wherever I went there they were. I could have cried.
Pulling out the internet access, I closed down and went to bed. Could I sleep? Could I heck, all I could see when I closed my eyes were worms slithering and trojans marching through my programmes and files.
This morning I took my friend to a man who knows about these things and explained my plight. He has now joined the ranks of best friend after spending six hours of his time taking care and restoring my computer back to health.
So there you have it - Don't you just hate it when that happens?
This happened to me! At 9.17 pm precisely on Wednesday I clicked on this pop-up. I was not thinking. The pop-up told me that trojans and worms had attacked my friend and to click ' here' to remove them. This I did, wrong!
The 'security tool' disguised under a firefox persona was the virus .. damn .. it flew through programmes like a dose of salts rendering them impossible to open. Initially I was exposed to 40 trojans and numerous worms. By going into
add/remove I managed to reduce the quantities , then somehow the virus knew what I was doing and attacked. I could do nothing, wherever I went there they were. I could have cried.
Pulling out the internet access, I closed down and went to bed. Could I sleep? Could I heck, all I could see when I closed my eyes were worms slithering and trojans marching through my programmes and files.
This morning I took my friend to a man who knows about these things and explained my plight. He has now joined the ranks of best friend after spending six hours of his time taking care and restoring my computer back to health.
So there you have it - Don't you just hate it when that happens?
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I think part of the problem is 'they've' glamourise hackers and we've given them great names, like trojans... we should have named them 'weasles' and 'donuts'... then when 'they' say 'you're being attacked by a load of weasles and donuts' the would feel a bit stupid and maybe find something better to do with their time...
heehe
minxie :]
"Hey, this ones trying to delete us"
"QUICK get to the 'c' drive, lets block it.
These hackers must get a kick out of destroying others work, but for the life of me I can't think how.
i wouldn't have a clue where to even start to hack? i tried to get into an ex's once (which i know is wrong) and used several different passwords that i thought would be right, but it wouldn't let me in, which showed what kind of a man he was if he couldn't use at least one of his kids names ! not that i was hell bent on destroying anything, i was simply trying to get closer to him by understanding what types of things he likes to do on the computer ;)
can you imagine if they were called weasles and donuts? i suspect they'd just refuse to carry on due to embarrassment - or be too scared to hack in incase norton was waiting on the other side... they'd probably just hang around a bit to make it look like they've REALLY tried then go back, absolutely warn out with stores of how this huge wall just kept getting bigger and they simply couldn't get in, but will try again tomorrow... :]
The first type, the original hackers are people who love to know how things work, tinker, hack together programs to do innovative things, stuff like that. The linux kernel is populated by "kernel hackers" who constantly improve it, fix bugs and add new features for example.
The OTHER type, the type original hackers prefer to call crackers (because they spend all their time cracking security and breaking things) were originally just what maryluv said, idiots who love to break in and go through your dirty laundry. Or just the street vandals who love to spraypaint SAID GIVES &*$% in large letters on your front wall.
But there's a new breed now. There's an enormous amount of money in cracking. Those viruses and trojans that infected your computer weren't just there to cause YOU problems, they were there to cause EVERYONE problems.
All that spam in your mailbox? That comes from infected machines.
Those attacks you read about that knock out websites? Botnets consisting of infected machines launching concerted attacks against other sites. Some botnets can have as many as 500,000 infected machines all working together, and when you control that much power, you can charge a lot of money for your illegal services.
Final point, why do we hurt our friends?
:)
Give your friend a lovely new present... try linux and wave your virussy days goodbye.
Weens, so sorry to hear that you are housebound, you have made a new friend here.
maryluv, I think they are creepy too, I suppose they have nothing better in their little lives.
Thanks for the information Spike, I think that generally we think of hackers as destructive and forget the good works all the research hackers do.
Wrathner, I love weasels honest I do.
Obviously it was a virus so I didnt click it but then it f*cked up my toolbar, start menu and my anti virus!
Got rid of it though :) My dream machine is A-ok x
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