Comments | laurie_bunter: the spambots strike again

laurie_bunter

the spambots strike again

Jan 18, 2009 21:48

Okay, I'm really disgusted right now. I cannot begin to explain how violated I feel.

Now, I haven't posted all week because I've been busy floating in my head doing stuff that's of no particular interest to anyone. I was going to post something remotely silly but no! LJ has given me something to rant about.

( rant against bots )

trouble, livejournal

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laurie_bunter January 19 2009, 03:43:40 UTC

Nope, they aren't harmless at all. :( I mean, I thought all would be okay just by banning them because it's so much trouble to report every single one but after this... sigh.

I hope I didn't offend you, by the way. I was really angry last night. I took a bubble bath to calm down, LOL. And I know you're not a spambot XD I know you comment here from time to time about fandom stuff! The spambots never give or receive comments, it's one of the things on my checklist for profiling bots.

naviji January 18 2009, 21:33:55 UTC

Thats so scary o.o I haven't had that happen yet, but thank you for the warning. >>'

laurie_bunter January 19 2009, 03:45:55 UTC

You're welcome. XD It's good to be forewarned. That's what pisses me off about lj, they've had this problem for months and never issued a warning to everyone. They only mentioned it on the support page -- and who the hell visits that unless something has already happened? Crazy.

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laurie_bunter January 20 2009, 14:17:03 UTC

You're right, of course. I was foolish to think I could do without major anti-virus protection. I used to have some but it expired and forgetful me did not renew it.

And yeah, my sister does love her Macs because of all the photoshopping she does for work. She's like, a photoshopping genius or something.

annieroo2 January 20 2009, 01:04:50 UTC

WOW! How come you're their favorite one to harass? I can't even how pissed you must be.

As for the Mac thing, that's a complete fallacy that Mac owners like to perpetrate. Macs simply don't get the level of hackers because they're aren't as many of them. So hackers aren't as interested in writing up special virus codes for them. Hackers like to do the most damage they can in one pop, so they choose PCs.

But the problem now is there are getting to be more Macs and people are still passing around the lie that Macs don't need anti-virus software. So that when a Mac does get a virus or other undesirable code it has free reign on the computer until it finally kills it completely.

I'm so sorry about the spybots. I don't know about Macs, but we have an external hard drive where we keep a back up of everything in case of a catastrophic crash.

*hugs*

laurie_bunter January 20 2009, 14:19:57 UTC

Yeah, they lurve me a lot. I wish they didn't! Hahaha.

You're right about the Mac fallacy. Sigh. I guess since the Mac is getting more popular, more hackers are making stuff for the system too.

Thanks for reminding me to back up my data. :D That's something to tack on to my to-do list...

evelynsgrave84 January 31 2009, 07:32:30 UTC

Well just color me WTF. I haven't been on livejournal for half a year, and it's getting invaded by a cyber Russian mob? I'm very sorry to hear about your situation. A shallow note, but I kinda like your icon.

laurie_bunter February 2 2009, 06:11:58 UTC

Hey! Nice to see you post a comment again. It's been ages, yeah. I hope you're okay.

Yeah, lj finally fixed the problem. I'm going to post about that in another entry. :D

Which icon do you like? The Shinji one or the Nell? *lulz* Me is curious.

evelynsgrave84 February 2 2009, 23:52:56 UTC

The Nell one is adorable. Her fuzziness is so apparent in the icon.