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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:51:45 +0000, Mark
wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? That is the LAST option, no? Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very careful. Of course. The backup/install would be contaminated. I'd shut down the system, then make a Kaspersky Rescue Disk on a "safe" computer. Boot the suspected computer with it and scan. NEVER run a backup if you suspect ransomware. The Mr Man Pang Wang guy is a psychotic off his meds. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:52:49 -0200, Shadow wrote:
Of course. The backup/install would be contaminated. I'd shut down the system, then make a Kaspersky Rescue Disk on a "safe" computer. Boot the suspected computer with it and scan. NEVER run a backup if you suspect ransomware. The Mr Man Pang Wang guy is a psychotic off his meds. Backups are multi ... common is the TOH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme Hence, the Tower of Hanoi is French, and whereas Kaspersky is Russian. Three "tiers of Hanoi" is comfortable for me, although probability, being a branch of statistical means and measures, as they say, is for 'Liars, damn liars, horseshoes and hand-grenades.' To be is to not be connected to the WWW when backing-up is another. As is, to lessor degree, common sense;- someone with skills, another extensive exposure, presumably common sense may mean something entirely different than, say, to Chang Man-wai Mr. A-Man-wai would appear to have reversed Canton for given and surnames into Western romanization conventions. I suspect any extensive exposure to Russian-Chinese Sin Wenz and Pinyin studies might tend to do that. |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On 11/22/2018 2:48 AM, Paul wrote:
But you install for any possible reason. If the sun goes behind the clouds outside, you reinstall your OS. If a black cat crosses your trail, you reinstall twice. Which makes no sense, as you well know. I Repair Install here, as part of experiments, but I hardly ever Clean Install on a main OS. It would take too much work to whip into shape. I agree it needs time. But it's the easiest way out when you just couldn't figure out what's going on inside Window$. We are not Micro$oft engineers and programmers. Anyway, I agree that clean install is the last resort. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On 11/22/2018 9:05 PM, Yrrah wrote:
Bill : Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? That is the LAST option, no? Ditching Windoze is the best option imho ;-) Suggest this to the big companies worldwide!!! Micro$oft is definitely serving their interests only. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:39:48 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: But it's the easiest way out when you just couldn't figure out what's going on inside Window$. We are not Micro$oft engineers and programmers. We are, besides an age of programmers and engineers, the easiest way out, but we are also an age of armies of entrenched legality in defense of fees derived from patent and governmental lobbying interests. It's precisely what figures in an alternative *NIX platforms, which delays and stump further technological development. The easy way then to continue to ensure that what you believe they're selling is best of all, ipse dixit, because they own and control it all. |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On 11/25/2018 12:48 AM, Flasherly wrote:
We are, besides an age of programmers and engineers, the easiest way out, but we are also an age of armies of entrenched legality in defense of fees derived from patent and governmental lobbying interests. It's precisely what figures in an alternative *NIX platforms, which delays and stump further technological development. The easy way then to continue to ensure that what you believe they're selling is best of all, ipse dixit, because they own and control it all. I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business. So I will just take and recommend the easy exit: do a clean-install after data backup. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business. Neither do I. I was reading an article about a freeware *nix derivative, difficulties involved with having to push the development of the OS through Microsoft copyrights. It was probably an *nix OS for concentrating on running programs written for Microsoft, just not written by Microsoft, nor otherwise owned and affiliated and controlled. If for some reason Microsoft cannot help any longer -- I consider that within backup plans: Having to move along into a *nix project. Backups within installation strategies could be more or less a different OS bridge to build to cross. |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On 11/26/2018 2:43 AM, Flasherly wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote: I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business. Neither do I. I was reading an article about a freeware *nix derivative, difficulties involved with having to push the development of the OS through Microsoft copyrights. It was probably an *nix OS ..... I don't get paid to solve Unix and Linux problems as well. Window$ is a common OS for the world. So we just cannot avoid it. And most importantly, it runs Micro$oft Office, Photoshop, .... that are needed by the business world!!! -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:48:56 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: I don't get paid to solve Unix and Linux problems as well. Window$ is a common OS for the world. So we just cannot avoid it. And most importantly, it runs Micro$oft Office, Photoshop, .... that are needed by the business world!!! Pay is neither an exclusive *nix criteria for what business means to Office and Photoshop, nor would how uncommon it might seem, to actually be in need of avoidance, matter to what nonetheless runs behind a greater infrastructure to freely provide the Western approach what is the World Wide Web. What business means to that freedom, of course, has evolved for what business layers can be placed, on top of the *NIX infrastructure, from the earliest dial-up fees to access ISPs by telephone companies, from two-dollars to now two-hundred dollars monthly, within the United States, to exclusive rules of connectivity to clouds, VPNs, to whole countries surrounding themselves with rules to filter information by firewalls, to promote themselves to other countries, or interests, to curtail and contain a business of what, indeed, it may mean to assume freedoms of a uncommon political agenda or persuasion. A computer is and never has been a Wide Business World. A computer does not intrinsically contain instruction sets, a logical capacity capable to embody an entity such as greedy and vain. At least no more than it can be said a computer is importantly, above all, the guidance systems behind surreptitiously avoiding, or detecting, warhead ordnance delivery methodology. |
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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: On 11/25/2018 12:48 AM, Flasherly wrote: We are, besides an age of programmers and engineers, the easiest way out, but we are also an age of armies of entrenched legality in defense of fees derived from patent and governmental lobbying interests. It's precisely what figures in an alternative *NIX platforms, which delays and stump further technological development. The easy way then to continue to ensure that what you believe they're selling is best of all, ipse dixit, because they own and control it all. I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business. No, you are currently unemployed. Something about psychosis. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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