Posted by deirdrehbrt on May 1, 2006, at 21:38:37
I have my computer in my room, and a few nights ago, I heard this maniacal laugh at about 2:00AM. I awoke the next morning to find that no matter what, web pages kept popping up until I ran out of memory.
Fortunately, I was able to thwart this behavior somewhat by disconnecting the network cable, and I managed to retrieve most of my important files. Then I reformatted my main hard drive and started again mostly from scratch.
So that took a few days, and I wasn't able to read my usual boards. I'm trying to catch up now. My first reaction was to try to trace the IP address of the offending party, look up a physical address and do nasty homicidal things to the person. I managed to calm down though, and increased the security on my machine.
Basically, I was p*ss*d and wanted to k*ll someone. Reason and religion prevailed though and life went on without me having to worry about jail.
Anyway, that's been the past few days for me. I'm still re-installing software, but survived.
--Dee
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