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Lions and tigers, Facebook
and viruses...oh no!!!
Just
thought I'd do a short post today to talk (kvetch) about the recent computer
hell we've visited.
My laptop
has been acting progressively more persnickety and erratically for the last
week or so...perhaps longer. I thought it was user error.
However, I lost my Outlook account last
week. I also have been getting requests
to adopt a new version of Adobe Flash player for a long time. I just found out that is a common Facebook
virus. I found out when I got a
ridiculous message from the Face Book people (actually I'm not sure there are
peoples among the administrators, has anyone actually seen or talked to
one?)
I'm having trouble with crashing inexplicably. I can't access my blogs consistently. On Sunday and Monday this week, we spent
hours with the Geek Squad, those computer crime fighters, who informed us that
my laptop...not my PC evidently, (but I wonder), is loaded with viruses and
spyware. It took hours over two days to
get rid of them all.
How does that happen? I naively thought since we have Norton
Anti-Virus, and a whole Constant Guard protection package, that I was
safe. I don't open or click on links or
emails from people I don't know. I don't
invite strangers into my networks. I
know that a little bit too much knowledge and a trigger finger is dangerous in
the cyber world.
With anti-virus software, you get notified,
usually ---- of security threats. I
guess the proliferators of viruses, junk emails, spyware, and scams have nothing better to do
than spend time to come up with ever new stuffus interuptus to penetrate and
harm your computer - faster than these anti-virus commandos can keep up with
them. And, it can get pretty
bad...pretty fast.
I just got another ridiculous FACEBOOK
e-mail that wasn't accurate and tried to contact them to alert them. They may have nice little security pages and
lots of places to link to - but paralleling the proverbial stereotypical,
unsocial, isolated computer GEEKOID, they have no place at all to have an interactive
session, where you can actually communicate in any type of real time with any
of them. You land up in unending loops
leading nowhere, or back to where you started.
They do allow you press a button for
yes/no (is this helpful? is their question).
I'm not sure why they bother; because if you respond by hitting the no, it
sends you an onscreen response along the lines of Thank you...we will use your
information to improve. They don't let
you actually send them information on what you'd like or need to see
improved, to explain what your problem
is or to elaborate beyond no.. So, come
on, what could they improve without having any feedback from their
customer? Talk about a closed network.
Anyway, this is it, my short rant and
observations about ridiculous and annoying things for today. All this technology; it keeps getting bigger
and allegedly better, but nothing works on a dependable basis. It's like Detroit and the very early days in
the car industry.
People, there are not just glitches, there
are major, major problems and too many people creating and throwing things out
on the WWW before they know what the issues are. Clicker, searcher, web browser
user....beware. You are not alone.
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