I thought coffee-shops were meant for drug addicts. You're not telling me
you're checking the weather from these smoky place, are you?
Well if the smoke gets rid of the bugs, that's an idea I'll consider.
Anyway, good luck with your students - BTW have you recently checked their
marks/grades in your files? They might have improved since you last opened XL
;-)
Amities and fair weather
Philippe
Le 7 janv. 2016 à 17:24, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> I have a number of instances at the coffee shop where I'm certain that
> someone is trying to bust into my laptop, and this morning was exceptional.
> It got to the point where I couldn't do anything either online or offline.
> The wifi indicator showed constant activity but the task manager showed just
> the usual SERVICE activity. Then I noticed that MSIEXEC.EXE was being used
> fairly often, so I disconnected and waited for a while, taking the
> opportunity to unplug the external hard drive and put it in my pocket. Then
> I reconnected, updated the spyware and virus protection, and then left for
> the bike shop.
>
> MSIEXEC.EXE is a command line (meaning DOS) utility, part of the Windows
> installer. The local hacker must have been trying something new this time,
> using MSIEXEC.EXE to install a patch in the operating system. So, I have put
> MSIEXEC.EXE in a quarantine folder.
>
> We have a lot of students and professionals in the coffee shop at all
> hours of the day, and their laptops undoubtedly have a lot of valuable
> information. Myself, I'm working on a couple of small-signal electronic
> circuit designs that may prove to be patentable, and despite the low profile
> I keep there may be at least one hacker who has learned who I am and what I
> do. The only reason I need to have that external hard drive there is to
> store weather charts and occasional documents. From now on I'm going to
> leave it at home and just keep the weather chart folders on the internal
> drive.
>
> No amount of protection can completely keep hackers from busting into
> your machine, regardless of how much effort you go to. They just get better
> and the antivirus/malware people can only play catch=up.
>
> We are all doomed!
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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