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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Yes - by "Asan" I guess you mean "oriental". That's a question the Police asked me. My dad had a call like this too. They were snotty to him too.
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm
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doubt they know where you live, wish this happaned to me so it gives me an excuse to test out my "toys" if anyone breaks in etc
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pcernie
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It seemed to be more of an Indian/Pakistan thing going on with the people I mentioned - I actually got frustrated with the people telling me about it cos they're from Belfast and couldn't understand the accent to answer some of the questions  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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What good will your Crash Test Dummy collection be in that eventuality? Apart from offering an amusing diversion?
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pcernie
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Hey, some of those things would fly up to 3cm  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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They do - they told me my address.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Not ex-directory then?
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saspro
Site Admin
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Location: location, location
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Event Viewer. Triangles and error crosses are perfectly normal for some services and apps.
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Yes we are. Phone numbers and addresses seem to leak anyway.
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trigen_killer
Doesn't have much of a life
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If I get told that my system is riddled with viruses, I'll just ask them, which one? It is a bit scary that they declare that they know where "you" live, but in reality, I can't see what they are going to do about it. Certainly, through their behaviour, they've just proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are not from Microsoft. I guess it's easy for me to say, but I wouldn't worry about it. Well done on telephoning the police, though. Many people probably wouldn't bother and then they would have no idea of the scale of the problem. Now, they can produce statistics, which will really please someone! _________________My lowest spec operational system- AT desktop case, 200W AT PSU, Jetway TX98B Socket 7, Intel Pentium 75Mhz, 2x16MB EDO RAM, 270MB Quantum Maverick HDD, ATI Rage II+ graphics, Soundblaster 16 CT2230, MS-DOS/Win 3.11 My Flickr
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Invite them round, saying the dogs could do with a new attack dummy.
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ShockWaffle
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I don't know, I can imagine Steve Ballmer doing that on his afternoon off.
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paulzolo
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  | | | | trigen_killer wrote: If I get told that my system is riddled with viruses, I'll just ask them, which one? It is a bit scary that they declare that they know where "you" live, but in reality, I can't see what they are going to do about it. Certainly, through their behaviour, they've just proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are not from Microsoft. I guess it's easy for me to say, but I wouldn't worry about it. Well done on telephoning the police, though. Many people probably wouldn't bother and then they would have no idea of the scale of the problem. Now, they can produce statistics, which will really please someone! | | | | |
Yes. Don't expect them to do anything more, and I'm certainly not losing any sleep over it. If it helps provides meaningful data about the problem, then good. As I said, my parents got ansimialr call last week, so it's quite a problem. I guess enough people sign on to their "product" to make it worth while. If I get another call, I'll try the "which one" tack. I dunno why I didn't think of that yesterday.
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jonlumb
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As I have it set up on one of my machines, I'd be tempted to load up a VM and let them play around with it and see if they notice.
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Try booting from a Puppy Linux live cd and see how they get on. _________________Jim
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