Sue’s Weblog

No, this isn’t an advertising campaigne against drugs, altho I highly recommend against recreational drug use, myself.  This is more of a bashing of computer virus progenitors and all their misbegotten ilk.  After I’ve finished ranting, I’ll mention the next Half Off Massage day for March.  If you manage to read thru this entire diatribe, then you definitely deserve to be able to plan your March massage.
This last time that I infected my computer with some fatherless hacker’s brain-child was just last week, and I haven’t been able to use my computer again, until Today, so please feel free to pass on my compliments to anyone that you know who should see this post.
I’m not terribly computer savvy on my own account so my hubby had to nurse my computer back to health, and it cost him several days of wringing his hands, pulling his hair, and not a few frowns in my direction.
My point tho, is this:  Viruses sometimes disguise themselves as this one did.  A message pops up telling you that there is something wrong with your computer, or it is simply slower that it used to be, but it can all be fixed with one click.  All you have to do is click on yes, and the cure for all your computer woes will be downloaded.  This nuisance which promises to do you so much good, is actually a slew of viruses, and once you click on ANYTHING in the box, (not just yes) you have irreperrably destroyed your ability to net surf, and you have also made your vital information public for all hackers and I.D. theives to see.
Such is the description of a lay person (myself) who by her own account is not too net savvy. 
The creator of this monstrous thing that was disguised as such benificence came bearing a symbol that I thought that I recognized as McAfee Security.  It looked similar, so I clicked something just to make the pop- up hurry up and disperse itself, so that I could go on with my work.
Now a message for those who think that creating this kind of grief for people is funny:  In this day and age of cut-backs, lay-offs and many jobs out-sourced, what you’re doing makes even less sense for you than it does for your intended victims.  Your intended victims of any identity theft scheme that you may have in mind, have already been robbed of almost everything by their government, so that they have little if anything left in their bank accounts for you to steal, and all you are doing is perpetuating this problem.
I’ll spell it out for you, in another way: The more you do to create an unsafe virtual working environment, the less people will feel free to transact business on-line, which is where a lot of business gets done, these days.  If you take away peoples’ ability to do this business, then they’re not making the money that you’re planning to steal. 
This makes you hackers and identity theives look pretty stupid.  We already knew that hacker was just another name for slacker.  If it wasn’t you would be willing to do honest work for honest pay. 
To my civilized readers (as opposed to creators of computer viruses, and the like):  I make no apologies for this outburst, and outburst it was, but I did warn you, and as this is MY site, I tend to feel free to say what I want, and can only hope that people who know me and my work, will not stop coming to me, because I occassionally take the liberty of climbing atop a soap box.
This is where this post gets good, because this is where you will find the date of that half price massage that I mentioned.  My March Half Off Day will be on the 26th.  Always best to get it while you can. 
I can do up to 5 massages per day, and I only do them by appointment.  A half off massage is only $35. and I’m doing one Half Off day each month this year, so the trick is to call before all 5 of my massage time slots are gone.
Best of luck on that.  Hope to see you.

Sue.