Microsoft is harassing me

[fishcandrown]

I was able to figure out someone's password and now Microsoft has placed "things" on my computers both at home and at work.  I work as a paralegal doing securities litigation and am currently investigating one of their own, I feel like I have no privacy. They must be impressed with my work because they've been on my computers for a month now.  I was hoping that it was the government or the SEC, but it's them.  Did you know that Bill Gates' dad is a partner if the firm of Preston Gates in the Silicon Valley?  If you can't get a hold of Bill send an email to his dad.  I just don't know what to do.  I really do believe that the Internet is anarchy.  :confused:

[slave]

Switch to Linux, it's perfect for paranoids such as yourself.

[fishcandrown]

I'm not paranoid, yet.  I just want to know why every day there are "collected data" files with an .XML extension on my hard drive.  Actually I took my computer to Best Buy it was tagged as "dirty" and when I brought it home I found a new hard drive installed (which I wasn't charged for).  What do you think of that?  How do you switch to the other?  I've changed all of their access to adobe because I know that't not them.

[billy_gates]

Try a Mac, it may be a bit pricier, but Linux is very difficult if you've never used a Unix OS before.  I don't get 99% of it and I've been trying to figure it out for several years now.

[SpeeDFreaK]

First off, I also recommend doing what everyone else says here. Use linux or buy a mac. If neither of those are within your immediate reach, Tiny personal firewall 2.0 works well. Controls access for every program to the outside world. And if anything tries to get through that it doesn't know about, it alerts you and tells you what it is and where it wants to go (I think...). But if you do have the funds, go for both. Get a mac and install linux on it.  

[Calum]

i think it's stretching it a bit to claim that linux is difficult. still, if you can afford it, get a mac, if you don't want to use up much time learning how to work your new system (macOS is more similar to windows in terms of interface than a lot of the linux interfaces).

[Kintaro]

You dickheads, we could have a good article and you people are just going to scare him away with you get a mac bit, your all dickheads.

Anyway, can you email me some of the files so I can see if there actually harmfull?
[email protected]

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by fishcandrown:
I'm not paranoid, yet.  I just want to know why every day there are "collected data" files with an .XML extension on my hard drive.  Actually I took my computer to Best Buy it was tagged as "dirty" and when I brought it home I found a new hard drive installed (which I wasn't charged for).  What do you think of that?  How do you switch to the other?  I've changed all of their access to adobe because I know that't not them.

Thats very weird, it may be someone at best buy who put a trojan on your system or somthing. (A trojan is a program that runs without you knowing, allowing your system to be open to an internet attack.

Parhaps if I had your IP address I could do a portscan and see what is open.

If you want goto the "Command Prompt" and type "netstat" and post the results.

And nevermind those other people, they are dickheads as I said earlier, and I cant wait for some great balls of fire (as in people insulting me on the forum).

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
You dickheads, we could have a good article and you people are just going to scare him away with you get a mac bit, your all dickheads.

Anyway, can you email me some of the files so I can see if there actually harmfull?
[email protected]

that's pretty pathetic comment coming from you, x11.

i can't figure out if you are really trying to help this guy or if you just want his ip address and so on in order to trash his system.

(that'll make him paranoid now even if you are trying to be helpful!     ) still, it doesn't help your case much that you called everybody else dickheads.

edit: incidentally, this thread looks dead, and if i were being ruthless today i would have binned it.

[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: crusader for justice & peace ]

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by Calum: crusader for justice & peace:


that's pretty pathetic comment coming from you, x11.

i can't figure out if you are really trying to help this guy or if you just want his ip address and so on in order to trash his system.

(that'll make him paranoid now even if you are trying to be helpful!        ) still, it doesn't help your case much that you called everybody else dickheads.

edit: incidentally, this thread looks dead, and if i were being ruthless today i would have binned it.

[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: crusader for justice & peace ]

My god, CANT YOU SEE THIS, THIS COULD BE ON SLASHDOT, IM TRYING TO HELP HIM YOUR GOING TO SCARE HIM.

We could have found somthing in XP, and your going to dead thread it.

DICKHEAD.

[Calum]

i didn't dead thread it, it's just that people have been moaning a lot that i fail to dead thread a lot of topics, so i thought for a while i would post a note to all threads that i think should be dead threaded. that way if people continue moaning, then i really will start dead threading them all.

as for that stuff about slashdot, i don't understand why this particular case is getting under your skin! why don't you just pm or email him if you want more info?

[Kintaro]

Because thats why we have a forum, so we can "discuss" things, sadly Dickheads like you scared all the smart people away.

It might just be one less.

[Calum]

if they're so smart, they won't be scared simply by dickheads. i really am puzzled about why you have such a goana in your akubra about this particular thread!

[Maniaman]

X11 is the dickhead if you ask me  

[Calum]

i'm not saying a word!    

on an unrelated issue, are you aware that your signature reads:  

quote:my uptime: error

edit: on another unrelated note, is /usr/bin/Maniaman really a symlink to /usr/bin/maniaman?

[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: literally a dickhead ]