My email account got hacked during the night. Some louse from Canada sending out spam to every address in my address book using my email. Not sure where I picked up the hitchhiker, or what I can do about it. I try not to open questionable attachments or visit sites that might leave a worm. Yet, somehow, something got past my protection (Norton's and Webroot) to do its dirty deed in the wee hours of the morning.
I knew something was up when I had 67 emails this morning after having 0 at 11 PM last night. Lots were from MAILER-DEAMON saying they couldn't deliver the message. Others were auto responses from folks who will get to the message as soon as they return to work on Monday.
*sigh*
Heck of a way to start off my birthday.
If you were the recipient of one of those pieces of trash, I apologize.
Wasn't me. Really.
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
What the hey?
So the last couple of days I've gotten two or three comments posted by "Anonymous" that are identical to this one:
Except for a typo I made in the title of the post, this monstrosity is irrelevant and nonsensical. If not for comment moderation, I would have had to go into edit the post and remove this.
I don't mind if someone is posting anonymously IF they are on topic. I mean, Anonymous has written some of the best stuff out there. Just check any large volume quote compilation and you'll see what I mean. But this...What the heck does it mean? It reads like a machine translation...a bad machine translation at that. Notice, unlike the crap that promotes drugs or porn, there is no link. So what the heck is the point of posting comments like this?
I'm assuming there's a bot behind this in some nefarious evil spam commenter's basement server hard at work generating these things. No one would be stupid--or bored--enough to be doing them individually.
The world each makes the assumption that the airing of an typographical error is comparable with the discovery of actually - that the fluff and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on a particular boob, is usually fully another fault, and possibly one worse than the triumph one.
Except for a typo I made in the title of the post, this monstrosity is irrelevant and nonsensical. If not for comment moderation, I would have had to go into edit the post and remove this.
I don't mind if someone is posting anonymously IF they are on topic. I mean, Anonymous has written some of the best stuff out there. Just check any large volume quote compilation and you'll see what I mean. But this...What the heck does it mean? It reads like a machine translation...a bad machine translation at that. Notice, unlike the crap that promotes drugs or porn, there is no link. So what the heck is the point of posting comments like this?
I'm assuming there's a bot behind this in some nefarious evil spam commenter's basement server hard at work generating these things. No one would be stupid--or bored--enough to be doing them individually.
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