Kent and his ""real world friend Mike""

I have it on good authority that on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:47:35 -0800
(PST), Greegor wrote:

Your ""mutual real world friend named Mike"" is pulling your leg.

It's possible.
He could be flat out lying too. Your employment status isn't
something I worry about.
You could be the CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, or bankrupt,
living in your parent's den, or something in between. It's really
none of my business.


Long ago somebody in the hyena pack came up
with some kind of record about a guy with the
same first and last name as mine who worked at
Best Buy in this area and had a liquor problem.


I wasn't told of any drinking problems. Only that you work
for Best Buy.

But it wasn't me.
I have never worked at Best Buy in my life.
I never liked liquor and never had a drinking problem.


Since no mention was made of alcohol, I didn't presume you
did.

Last year Firemonkey falsely accused me of
infecting her computer with two different virus's
something like 6 months apart. Supposedly
one of them said "Best Buy" somewhere
inside of it. I think this is the one that was
set up to report to a Canadian cable internet
address.

I didn't know a virus included an IP.

One of the two virii she claimed I had
"arranged" was supposedly transmitted by
way of a JPEG file I had linked to at an
address something like photobucket.


That would be a good trick. Getting an JPG file to transmit a
virus.

Both of the virii mentioned were old and
well documented. One of them is only
able to infect Windows XP SP0 or SP1
and no other operating system.

Apparently Firemonkey was surfing the internet
withOUT a valid updated and active antivirus
program, and withOUT any Firewall program.


ACK!

Note to EVERYONE: Get a firewall (hardware preferred, but
even Zone Alarm is better than nothing) and a virus scanner. There
are many free ones that work as well as the commercial programs. And
update your OS patches!

Despite abyssmally poor technical knowledge,
Firemonkey strongly asserted my guilt.

I questioned the accusations on the grounds
that a person genuinely attempting to infect
somebody else's computer would not use
such old and well known virii. I explained that
basically EVERY program would
recognize old ones like those.


Every scanner would. If she wasn't using one, then she would
be vulnerable.

I ridiculed Firemonkey for being so stupid
as to surf the internet without the most
basic security precautions, yet blaming me
specifically, and with no logical proof.

One of the two virii is documented as commonly
contracted from PORN SITES.

I also ridiculed her for accusing me of spying on
her using a virus that reports to a CANADIAN
cable internet address!

The virus may have originated from a programmer in Canada, but
I know of no virus that contains the originating IP.


Then as she was new to Firewall's and watching
closely, she had the usual amazement about all
of the background pings that any internet user receives.

Every computer on-line gets a lot of background stuff sent to
them. The first time I got Zone Alarm with my Win Me machine, I was a
bit curious and nervous.
I thought everyone on-line must be trying to get into my
computer. That was the nervous part.
Why would anyone care enough about me to want access to my
machine? That was the curious part.

She complained that I was pinging her a lot.

It took her MONTHS to accept that pings can
actually fake the origin IP address.


If the IPs always traced to you, it would be far more probable
that it was you. You aren't important enough to clone.

At one point she accused me of pinging her
from my address but was not aware that my
dynamic IP address had CHANGED due to a
big lightning strike and 6 hour power outage.

Whoever was putting out the fake pings
(if anybody!) failed to take that into account.

Firemonkey posted my address and phone number
publicly in the newsgroups and incited people
to "visit me" or call me up to complain.

Shortly an "anonymous poster" with a familiar style made
other threats involving my address and phone number.

A very stupid thing to do.
Unless it's being done to prove something specific that
requires posting it, there is NO reason to do it. Ever.


Isn't it just a little bit obvious that your
""real world friend Mike"" was just another
tactic in your little fishing expedition?

What fishing expedition? I pointed out it's none of my
business. I also stated I wanted you to feel perfectly comfortable
NOT telling me either way, as was your right.
I was curious, as I also pointed out, but that's all.


This new discovery of yours about Best Buy is more like old fish!

It's not my discovery. It's something I was told by someone
we both know. And his real life name is Mike. Actually Michael, but
you get the idea.


--
"It's attached to a thing called a "WIFE" Betty."
Kenneth Robert Pangborn showing how he views his wife
as an object and NOT a human being.
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