Today I got a machine from one of M’s workmates in my room, and we needed to troubleshoot it to see why it was unable to access the internet. So I sat down with it in my room, connected the home phone line and did a netstat -a in a dos prompt before dialing up, and saw the usual ports pop up. After the dialup had connected, I did another netstat -a and was horrified to see thousands of ports pop up and scroll for about a minute, all sending out syn packets.

Ok - so now we find out why she she has been complaining about her computer being slow, which resulted in her buying a newer faster computer, and then it was still slow, and she continued to blame M. For three whole weeks she’s been bitching about it. When I took the machine to her place and logged on, her virus updater popped up, but she said “don’t worry about that, I haven’t updated for ages” and now we know WHY she picked up what looks like the SVHOST.exe file used in lovely DDos programs. Her lack of regard for internet security resulted with her machine becoming a zombie.

I even question the guy living next door to her, he’s given her a CD full of programs, how do we know that it’s not something he’s not added? So now I am going to re-format the machine, however, I am going to play with it first and dig out all the viruses she had on that computer, and write them down, and then show her the list. EAT THAT! That will teach you for bitching about M when it was your fucking fault in the first place!!

OK i am over it.

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