If we’re going to start letting nonviolent drug offenders out of jail, that opens space. I say hard time for email spammers. And that’s just for the ones who send you unsolicited advertising (and those who send unsolicited advertising through the snail-mail too; fuck junk mail, and pain to all junk-mailers; and don’t even think about hanging that thing on my doorknob). For malware/virus/phishing spammers, I demand some cruel and unusual punishment, even if we have to amend the Constitution. We should triple the budget of the FBI’s relevant department (assuming there is one) if that’s what it takes to hunt down every single last author/sender of these things.
Og, at work I have to clear the crap out of my inbox every effin’ day. (It all went into a spam folder once, no longer does, no idea why.) Once your email address gets on a list, it stays there forever. As I understand it, there does not even need to be anyone sending the emails, sometimes they just forward and reforward automatically. They could bounce around cyberspace until the collapse of civilization. Shouldn’t wonder if they played some role in causing it.
Your computer can get infected even if you never open your email. I still haven’t gotten that bastard fake-“Adobe Flash Player” virus out of my computer at home; apparently the only way to do is is to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows.
There’s a simpler way. As you know, Clorox Bleach can kill 99.99 percent of viruses upon contact. Just get some bleach and a handy screwdriver, remove your hard drive, use the screwdriver to scrape off any excess dust, and then leave the device fully submerged in bleach overnight. That should get rid of that remaining 0.01 percent.
I should note that you should probably use the color safe bleach unless you’re somehow still using a monochrome display.
I was recently hacked on my email account. Woke up to over 20 texts saying, “YOU’VE BEEN HACKED!!!” and I’m going, fuck, fuck, fuck. What’s fun is, the type of work I’m in, I use ridiculous passwords now, but never changed the email one. But it’s not like I’m walking around with my wallet hanging out, making me an easy target for petty theft. Hacking my email is not fucking petty theft. Way more major than taking my money at gunpoint, AFAIC. You’re taking money, info, SSNs, etc.
I remember a Law & Order episode where an old black guy who worked almost every day for over 50 years at a hotel and he retired and cleared all his debt, including owning his own house, sending a son to college, all that.
Someone got his info somehow, hacked his bank account, and his home is up for foreclosure. So the old man uses the old man charm and calls customer service to find the mailing address to the hacker that got him. He confronts him at his home, gun goes off, the hacker (father of three) is killed and the old guy is charged with murder.
All I could do was laugh my head off saying, “Let the old man go!” And why not? If someone tries to rob someone’s home and they get shot in the dark, no murder there. Then someone tries to steal someone’s life and a scuffle ensues ending in the robber (hacker) getting killed? What crime? Where?
Small-time hackers are the largest pussies in the world. I’m up for 20+ years for first offense. Stealing someone’s info for purposes of theft and fraud is way more than just “hacking”.
I did a search limiting results to the past month and there seem to be cures for this but I don’t want to link to anything since I’m not familiar with any of the sites.
I’ve already tried all those, thank you. The guy I talked to at the computer store told me that “these new viruses” can get into your system and, however thoroughly scrubbed, can lurk there for years and pop up again and again later. Wipe-and-reinstall is the only way to be sure.
And why not? If someone tries to rob someone’s home and they get shot in the dark, no murder there. Then someone tries to steal someone’s life and a scuffle ensues ending in the robber (hacker) getting killed? What crime? Where?