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A couple of days ago I was attacked by a nasty RogueWare called AV Security Suite. There was some indication that it entered through the port I had open for XFire. I have closed that port and left it that way. It was on my main system that still runs XP, it got through some of my best protection. Fortunately I knew what happened the minute it did. I immediately shut my internet connection off when I realized it was trying to get out. I couldn’t get to anything, it shut off all my access to system tools and spy/virus wares. Got my lap top out and searched for information once I found it I took action. First thing I did was go in under safe mode to search out any registry stuff, decided to do a system restore, I could only get to it in safe mode, went back a month and restored. I then was able to access my real system tools and immediatly updated my SuperAntiSpyware then ran a full system scan. It found 42 spywares 21 flash spys, and two trojans. Cleaned them out, rebooted and did another registry scan, I found no trace of the rogue. Then I did a full virus ware scan, clean, So far so good, I’m now in the process of reinstalling the most recent stuff I did, IE… new CEP for NWN and the newest games I installed. I’ll know for sure how things went after being online for a while. I highly suggest you double check your systems every day for this stuff. Every site where I found information about these rogues ( there are about six or seven variations) say the same thing. These things need no sites or even active interaction with them to find and destroy your system. This has to be the worst thing I’ve ever seen so far and I’ve had to rebuld several computers over the years because of trojans and viruses. If you get hit remember first thing to do is shut off your internet access. If they get to the parent site it’s all over, you are set up for extortion the only thing these things do is get you to a site where you are extorted for money (read this article)!! This is no game!!!It’s sudden death for your system. I highly recommend you read every site that has informaiton about these things. So far SuperAntiSpyware (I highly recommend it) and a few other wares are effective in removing them but with a lot of hassle. Nothing seems to prevent them from intruding. I hope no one gets hit but if you do don’t think just act fast!!!

I want to start with saying in the past couple of years, it has been great reconnecting with old friends and making new ones on the social sites that I’m on. Now let me get on with the gist of this post. Over the years I have done many things in many areas of life, I have always been somewhat of a political activist ever since the Viet Nam war and have a very strong opinion about injustice and carelesness. For the most part I’ve always kept my personal life and politics apart as much as possible. With the advent of social sites, I have walked a careful path and occasionally voiced an opinion here and ther but recently the events of our world and the advent of many natural and man made disasters has brought out much of my strong feelings against injustice. We as a people, I think, like to find happiness and frolic in the flowers so to speak, but with the state of the world as it is I personally find that difficult. So my feelings have been more blatant and outspoken. and it is reflected on my social site profiles.

Soo, what are social sites for? The reconnecting of old friends, the voicing of opinons, the promoting of our buisness’s and art, music etc… As friends come and go and I become more myself on these sites I find that many people just don’t want to hear it or know about the truth. Are we destined to play among the daisies and frolic in the flowers of socil sites, as our world collapses around us?? I for one look to the future for my children, I want a better world for them and in that I know that it’s up to me to make one. If I can’t fight the good fight for justice and truth, then in my world I fail them. If I sit back and watch the greedy destroy our planet and maintain a system of poor and rich, then I fail the world. If I can’t point out the ludicrous behaviour of my fellow humans who tend to lead us astray from a good life then I fail my self.

Social sites are wonderful things and the internet is a treasure trove of information. Sharing that info is something I love to do. Yes much like the TV you can’t believe everything you see on the internet, but common sense and a little research can always prevail.

I will continue to voice my feelings and share my opinion. people may not always agree with it, but that’s the beauty of our freedom. If we let that be taken away out of fear, in other words what someone else may think or the policing of the internet then we have failed our country and the world. Don’t let the illusion of the internet or social sites water down who you really are, my friends are who they are and no matter what you may believe or think, what we have shared and what we can share will always be first and foremost. Life is not a social site, and social sites are not life, what I share on them is my life and being able to see the lives of others I have known over the years is a wonderful thing.