Reddwarf

[Still]

Most of the discussions that we have in this forum are "anavastha". It's all turtles all the way down.

Not to be confused with "anathema" which means flat earth all the way accross.

[Still]

Still, I used to play along with phone calls like that. Now I promptly give them two words and hang up.

Later I thought of better things to say like, "I pay $10 a month for full coverage. If you can save me a dollar a month I'll give you my social security number now". 

[Steve]

Yeah I used to play with them a bit. Like when they called pretending to be Microsoft Support telling me about how to fix a problem on my PC. It was fun to a degree. But in the end I just wasted my own time. If they called at the right time when I had spare time, and was bored, I'd be happy to play along again.

[Still]

Yeah I used to play with them a bit. Like when they called pretending to be Microsoft Support telling me about how to fix a problem on my PC. It was fun to a degree. But in the end I just wasted my own time. If they called at the right time when I had spare time, and was bored, I'd be happy to play along again.

Once, a friend's computer was taken over and reverted to factory specs or something.  He uses it for business, engineering, and all his files are locked up.  I helped him search the Internet for solutions and found a tech site that promised to take care of it.  My friend paid $100 up front, from a credit card, and gave them control of his computer through remote desktop.  We watched the guy work. But he worked so fast could not see what he's doing.  Few  minutes later,  and a reboot,  he's done and computer back to normal.  They tried to up sell him on something else but he decided to quit while he was lucky.  Yes, very lucky indeed.  I always wondered how these guys knew how to fix it so fast...wondered if they were both arsons and firefighters.  Seems they positioned themselves to come up on a Google search when specific error messages or symptoms were searched.


Something else, I never had this issue till I set Chrome browser to always open the same pages when it closes.  This allows hackers to lock up the browser with an unethical kind of page that won't let it free until you call a number and pay something.  I figured out you can get out of it by Control-Alt-Delete to the Task Manager, and close the last Chrome page to open.

[Steve]

Sounds like you have a browser redirect virus. It's a hack to a particular file that's not too hard to fix.

Also your friend probably had "ransomware": link:s://:.microsoft.com/en-us/security/portal/mmpc/shared/ransomware.aspx - Its when they encrypt files in directories like photos and documents, and you need to pay a random for them to decrypt them. In any case you should never have anything too sensitive on a pc connected to the internet unless essential. All my important files are on multiple hard encrypted hard disks.

[Steve]

Also anti virus software doesnt give 100% protection. Nowhere near it. In fact for months I had a virus on my pc that disguised itself as Bitdefender anti-virus (supposedly the best protection). For months I saw what I thought the anti virus software was running and protecting me. Then using alternate softwarr to run scans, I found it was actually a keylogger getting my passwords and who knows what else. When looking into the application that run, I found there was no record of it anywhere on the Internet. So it was a custom hack that nobody else on the internet had reported. Was there any use of stolen passwords by someone trying to steal money? Nope. So why would they run a keylogger on my pc for months then not take financial advantage of it?

I don't know for sure, but I suspect it was not an ordinary hacker. At the time i was conversing a lot with the US Department of Energy regarding the Searl effect generator, and sharing a lot of information with energy technology developers. One of my roles was arranging funding for projects with an associate in Singapore. But I was also in possession of a Rover vehicle converted to run on a form of near-free energy. Basically I suspect it was an element of the government like ASIO spying on me. Really its not paranoia, considering what I was involved with and the fact that it was clearly a custom hack.

There is no real privacy unless you go completely off the grid. But then you'd be homeless and living an eve harder life.

[falkor2k15]

Remote controlled planes and 911 government conspiracy predicted 6 months before 911!

Learn this technique first re: 911 then you can check all the movies and cartoons about the flat earth...

[RouletteGhost]

due to the CURVATURE of the GLOBE earth, the skyline of Torono Canada from NY can only be half seen

[praline]

Somebody like stars and others just beer

Beer

Yes my dear
It makes you fly

Its a bliss its clear
sailing in that high

takes away all your fear
u wont lie

you are not here
you wanna reach the sky

you will not drop a tear
because you dont want to cry

you wanna just cheer
for this wonderful thing sigh

when it is near
you feel the third eye

it is sincere
until you die

Oh yes its the BEER
oh my my my

[praline]

Btw. Is there anybody who is working for the VMware? I heard they are producing the greatest beer in the whole los angeles