theothercrash

It was a normal day like any other, starting with opening the mail program, sorting and discarding the spam, or so I thought.....and WHAAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Flashing lights, screen madness, and no way to stop it!!! Tried the old power off and on real quick, after Ctrl/Alt/Delete did nothing......still no operating system. Panic sets in....where the hell are all the files I was working on, the ones I hadn't gotten to backing up this week??? Can't find ANY files, nothing ias working, the mouse has gotten killed by a very vicious kitty cat indeed. The keyboard is just that, a board, it has no more function than a slab of plywood. Then I remember reading about this virus going around the cyberverse, it doesn't have a name, as there's more than one of them, many in fact that do the same thing, all catagorized as malware.

It's usually sent as attachments to spam, but can be written into the spam itself, so opening it isn't the necessary move that we need make to catch one. According to Sid Kirchheimer, author of "Scam-Proof Your Life", published by AARP Books/Sterling Press, and author of a report from which I quote in the Jan-Feb issue of the AARP Bulletin title "Conning The Curious". E-Mails have been circulating since September in poorly written English in the Title line, "We Have Kidnapped Your Baby" with an attachment saying "We has attached photo of your fume [family]." These are designed to unleash a virus that steals your passwords and gains access to bank accounts and other personal information. Others yet claim to be attachments of airline ticket confirmations, invoices, or onlinine banking forms from newly merged banks. It's usually sent a criminal in another country. But not only do they steal your info, they can destroy your computer!! Last year alone malware cost US consumers $7 Billion and forced 850,000 people to replace their computers, just as must do right now. I am writing today from a public access computer at the local library, and will not be publishing again until I can replace my "baby".

I loved that old dog of a computer. It was way obsolete, outdated, and slow, but so am I. It kept pace with me quite nicely. Now I'll get something that will be so freaking unbeleiveably fast that it's waiting impatiently for me to cartch up to IT. I'm looking the used route, but thats where I found my last four machines, and not one lasted more than a year. This last one I had for just about 11 months. A record. If it weren't for some fucker's greedy virus crashing it so bad that my repair guy just looked at me with a vacant stare, and said, "Sorry, nothing I can do."
See you again soon I hope.