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Ever since I switched to BellSoutht from my dial-up CompuServe, I have experienced many attacks on my system. I deflected most, but, once, two virus/spyware protection programs apparently got in each other's way and I got wiped out. It took a couple of weeks before I realized that I was not finding the right files to delete and replace, so I reloaded my computer. Compaq informed me that I can only load the disk twice, just to make sure that all those MS Word users wouldn't want to use my MS Works registration to downgrade their systems.
Someone would send me helpful hints from the Kim Kommando site and sent me one of hers where she recommended a Russian firewall as being extremely good. I loaded the trial version and noticed that, within two hours, my home page had been hijacked. I now had yapna.net and my folder to change home pages was inactive. I tricked it into changing my home page through clicking a "Make this your home page." It responded by taking my internet explorer as hostage.
I got a cold, which added to my usual sinus infections and sent me coughing until my throat was sore and I was too weak to stand. I have had to fight these most of my life and my experience with doctors was that they had no idea how bad they were, giving me way too weak an antibiotic, and needing about three tries before it works. That many visits and prescriptions is too much for one with such a tight financial situation and no medical insurance, so I jumped onto my regimen of extreme measures. (I will spare you readers the details of such... you may have just eaten or such.) Anyway, I just focused on being able to make it to work for quite a stretch and did not even turn on my computer for quite a while. I also did as little housekeeping as possible; the house is a wreck again.
Things are better enough to where I tackled the problem and have stuff working. Bugs still are in the system, but I should be able to clear them at this point.
Someone would send me helpful hints from the Kim Kommando site and sent me one of hers where she recommended a Russian firewall as being extremely good. I loaded the trial version and noticed that, within two hours, my home page had been hijacked. I now had yapna.net and my folder to change home pages was inactive. I tricked it into changing my home page through clicking a "Make this your home page." It responded by taking my internet explorer as hostage.
I got a cold, which added to my usual sinus infections and sent me coughing until my throat was sore and I was too weak to stand. I have had to fight these most of my life and my experience with doctors was that they had no idea how bad they were, giving me way too weak an antibiotic, and needing about three tries before it works. That many visits and prescriptions is too much for one with such a tight financial situation and no medical insurance, so I jumped onto my regimen of extreme measures. (I will spare you readers the details of such... you may have just eaten or such.) Anyway, I just focused on being able to make it to work for quite a stretch and did not even turn on my computer for quite a while. I also did as little housekeeping as possible; the house is a wreck again.
Things are better enough to where I tackled the problem and have stuff working. Bugs still are in the system, but I should be able to clear them at this point.
posted by Marion at 4:42 PM
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