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It was bound to happen.
Update to the story below on the NYB Virus.
May 21, 1998.
NYB won. I cannot remove that virus. In this instance, there is too little memory and power to overcome this Devil. I would have to replace the Hard drive and the memory in order to remove the Virus. I am instead going to get a more up to date Computer. First thing I am going to do is get a Clean Boot up Disk Available and keep it in a Safe place. Lesson Learned!
As I have stated in here repeatedly,
this place is like the Wild West. Think of youself as a new gun slinger that's innocently
walked into town. You come face to face with one of the nastiest, meanest hombres in town
and you left your six shooter in the motel room.
Trouble is, before you meet and he draws his guns on you, you don't even you who the sucker is or what he looks like, much less where he is hiding with guns drawn and
just waiting for you to show your face.
I had an updated Norton with me (Norton Anti-Virus), and I use it religously. Anything and everything new to my Beast
(Affectionate term for my 200 mghz. Pentium Pro Micron Millienium) is scanned and sometimes rescanned.
Then a friends mother turns me on to a 8 mghz Tandy IBM Clone. A 286. Ancient, but it is still working OK.
What the heck. I let my teenage son Learn about DOS on it and proceed to down load some games for him to use on the DOS
operating system that it houses.
Damn mean hombre waiting for me.
NYB is his name.
512 bytes long. A runt. A peon. Hell, I have webpages bigger than he is. Don't matter.
My web pages are not designed to enter some stange computer and remove the first sector of data on the hard drive
and replace it with some garbage I have created. Then move the correct data to the third sector. Then go hide in the
memory of this computer.
When some unsuspecting disk is inserted in the Floppy drive, I then don't have my webpage jump on that disk and replace
the first sector on that disk and move the good data to the seventeenth sector.
Then when that disk is
inserted into another computer ... you gussed it. It jumps off and infects that computer, or at least tries to. Luckly,
Norton was back in gear and caught that stinking Hombre before he could harm another unarmed computer. But, the damage is
being done. This poor weak Tandy is fully infected and I don't have a clean Boot up disk to work with. NYB is
having a field day and growing stronger. I finally
give the fine folks at Dr. Solomons a call and get some technical advice for free on what to do and proceed to follow the
Instructions.
Unfortuneatly, It is in the late stages of the game and NYB has a good foothold. I can't get a c:\
Prompt or even an A:\ prompt when booting up from a clean boot disk. And this is all with in 24 hours.
NYB don't mess around when it gets going. Luckily,
it isn't doing physical harm to the Tandy (I don't think and the experts haven't mentioned any harm to be done).
I just can't get rid of the damn thing and I am for now leaving the computer on and trying not to reboot. I will
eventually kick this sucker butt. When I do, you'll read it first right here.
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Expert advice on avoiding scams
Family Circle Magazine November 19,1996 (pg. 106)
Granted, this is written for the eldsters in our listening
audience, but how many of you are up on these precautions, humm?
I thought so.
- Don't invest in anything over the telephone with a person you don't know.
- Bank examiners never ask for a customers help in catching a thief.
Contact the Police if contacted with such a scam. Never withdraw
money from your bank account for anyone but yourself.
- Do not pay a fee to secure a prize in a contest or sweepstakes.
(And there are a ton of these on the Internet.)
Only make purchases on the phone when the call
is initiated by you. Buy from companies that you Know and
trust.
- For any work being done on your house, never pay cash
for a job up front. Do business with only reputable merchants in
your area. Please get estimates from different contracters before
signing on with someone before doing any extensive repairs. This
Could save you hundreds or thousands of dollars.
"It's Incedibly easy to con
a senior out of everything" These lovely pearls of wisdom
were stated in the November 19,1996 Family Circle Magazine
(pg.108) by Edward Bruce Gould Jr., a former con man. This
dude made almost $2,000,000 in six months with a most lucrative
scam operation. This young man, 30, pleaded guilty to a 51 count
indicment involving money laundeing, racketeering, and wire
fraud. Early in 1996, he was sentenced to six years in a Federal
Prison. Sad thing is, none of his victims got any of their money
back. "We (sucessful con men) know how to read people over the
telephone and gear the pitch to the personalized pshycological
needs on the other end. If the targets live alone or come across
as being lonley or vulnerable in any way , we spend extra time to
establish a facade of being caring and capable of long-lasting
friendship. The dream continues as long as they agree to buy what
ever dream we are selling." He continues "Most of us felt that
we were, in essence, providing the attention to old folks that
their own children didn't have time for. We thought that whatever
they had belonged to us. We teach our children never to talk to
strangers, but fortunately for us
our grandparents-especially the widowed or the lonely-will
usually talk to anyone" In March of 1996 Gould sat before the
Special Commitee on aging and that was a part of his
testimony. Scary stuff indeed.
You may reach
Brent "Beamer" at beam_er at Yahoo.com
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