Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Infiltrated

My wife spent much of today hunting down a phantom. Our broadband provider shut down our internet service because we had two spamming incidents originating from our computer over the weekend. I have little interest in increased penis length, for me or the rest of the world, so I plead innocent. We aren't sure if our wireless was hijacked by a neighbor, or if we acquired some nasty bot-net virus, or something else entirely.

Massive virus scans have ensued, and much fretting. Nothing like a computer crisis to inject some marital discord into an otherwise nice day. We'd just as soon keep our computer, as it's only about a year and a half old. Old enough to be obsolete, but still nicely functional, much like myself.

7 comments:

  1. Good luck with the hunt.

    Do you have your wireless nicely secured? And turned off when not in use?

    As for your machine, you can always reinstall without replacing the machine. Just make sure you have you data backed up, and all install discs handy for when you do.

    Good luck in any case.

    Stace

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  2. I love my mac, what is a virus?

    Caroline xx

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  3. Good Luck honey, I've been pulling my hair out over some kind of malware as well. Just when I'm getting some nice length too. Seems there is a lot of 'puter virus going around. My own assessment is smart people are laid off and now spend their time infecting the fabric of our society (our computers) with a sickness (virus) in retribution.

    @Caroline; Mac is the way I'm going next time! This is ridiculous.

    Peace Out,
    <3 Tina

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  4. I love your last line! Obsolete but still functional!! I do believe I fall under that category too!!

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  5. @caroline Ditto! =)

    @leslie Sorry to hear about your tech problems. Sounds like a major nuisance. I hope you can get it all sorted out soon. *HUG*

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  6. 1, Make sure your wireless connection is password protected *and* that it does not broadcast its name to the world.
    2. Use a good firewall and anti virus program - don't trust your internet provider's anti virus alone.
    3. Turn off your wireless router and cable/dsl modem when your system is not in use - dead end the line when not in use/

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