Growing up with parents who bred dogs and having personally owned nine members of the Canis Familiaris Genus Species, I've had my fair share of exposure and made some observations on their general behaviour.
A dog will never sh#t in another dog’s hole. Neither will they steal another dog’s bone then p#ss on it. They may eat it but they won’t deliberately make it so undesirable that no other dog will want a piece of it.
Not so in the human world.
As a relative newbie in the world of the Internet (read more on that…here ) it hasn’t taken me too long to figure out that there are more than a few nasty animals out there in the cyber-wilderness.
These are the family-room remote-controls for the telly.
These are the TV room remote-controls for the telly.
-If ‘Bruce Scotto Willis’ ever goes out of town I have to leave the telly running for the entire time as I have no fricking idea what any of those remotes are for!
This is my geek’s yoyo collection.
These are my geek's Pinball machine, Games machine and
So Yippie-Kai-Yay Mother F#%kers! Bring it ooooon!
My ingenious geek has installed Avast Anti-Virus on my laptop and any time those dunce-hat, computer subversives attempt to infect my laptop with their filthy malware, a siren blasts and an “Alert Alert Alert” message ( just like that robot from Lost in Space) blares shutting it down quicker than you can say ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’.
So in the words of Bruce Scotto Willis;
Not so in the human world.
As a relative newbie in the world of the Internet (read more on that…here ) it hasn’t taken me too long to figure out that there are more than a few nasty animals out there in the cyber-wilderness.
There are the indolent Sloth Bears who hijack your site with misleading links to porn sites or malware, eg; Broken Controllers.
Piranhas may swim below the surface of your computer stream in the form of viruses or worms.
Poison Dart Frogs send you email messages or tweets containing vicious barbs so that when you click on them you expose your computer to all kinds of evil malware.
I’ve even had sinister little spider monkeys (always a pretty girl with an innocent name and only one or two followers) favourite my Tweets in the hope that I will explore their link so that they can infiltrate my computer with malevolent Trojans.
Why do they do it? Because they can; also to spam you with advertisements for pornography, weight loss programs and Spanish holiday homes, or worse… to hijack your computer.
This is what Professor Mungleton warns could happen to you...
Upon arrival, there's something tempting like unlimited torrent downloads, promises to scan your computer for viruses, or pictures of stripping girlies or cats falling down, and you think "Oh, that looks fun" and you click on it and invite worms, trojans and viruses into your computer and suddenly your credit card has been used in Nigeria, you're on the Interpol watch list and your computer is part of a botnet attacking the US State Department. Not to mention the endless popup adverts and redirections you'll get.
Upon arrival, there's something tempting like unlimited torrent downloads, promises to scan your computer for viruses, or pictures of stripping girlies or cats falling down, and you think "Oh, that looks fun" and you click on it and invite worms, trojans and viruses into your computer and suddenly your credit card has been used in Nigeria, you're on the Interpol watch list and your computer is part of a botnet attacking the US State Department. Not to mention the endless popup adverts and redirections you'll get.
Oh yes my friends, it is a bloodied jungle out there.
But guess what? I am lucky to be married to my own “Bruce Scotto Willis”... a fully qualified, USB carrying, anti-virus warrior living right under my roof.
But guess what? I am lucky to be married to my own “Bruce Scotto Willis”... a fully qualified, USB carrying, anti-virus warrior living right under my roof.
How can I be sure he’s the right vigilante for the job?
Well folks, these are the bedroom remote-controls for the telly.
Well folks, these are the bedroom remote-controls for the telly.
These are the family-room remote-controls for the telly.
These are the TV room remote-controls for the telly.
-If ‘Bruce Scotto Willis’ ever goes out of town I have to leave the telly running for the entire time as I have no fricking idea what any of those remotes are for!
This is my geek’s yoyo collection.
This is just one of my geek’s three Deloreans.
These are my geek's Pinball machine, Games machine and
the computer all of which he BUILT ENTIRELY BY HIMSELF!
So Yippie-Kai-Yay Mother F#%kers! Bring it ooooon!
I'm married to the Emperor of Geeks!
My ingenious geek has installed Avast Anti-Virus on my laptop and any time those dunce-hat, computer subversives attempt to infect my laptop with their filthy malware, a siren blasts and an “Alert Alert Alert” message ( just like that robot from Lost in Space) blares shutting it down quicker than you can say ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’.
So in the words of Bruce Scotto Willis;
“Those hackers are just a fly in the ointment, Pinky. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.”
Please check out Professor Mungleton’s full post…here
