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When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy
ancientribe writes "Phony AV scammers posing as Microsoft dialed the wrong number when they inadvertently phoned a security researcher at home. He lured them into a honeypot to study their actions, and posted the video online here. His main takeaway: they were 'Stone Age' when it came to their tech know-how."
So they're exactly like Norton, McAfee, and CA?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I got a similar call to the guy in the article. So I hung up.
They called back, and I hung up again except the phone didn't hang up. I even held down the "on hook" button but the call would not terminate. Any ideas how the scammers accomplished this?
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Scammers (and spammers) wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Even though these guys were idiots, they still manage to scam people. So what does that say about their victims? Ugh.
Where are the calls coming from? Probably India or some impoverished nation. Some of the people working in those call centers really need the $2.00 a day that they make so that they can feed their family.
I'd do some shady shit too if I had to in order to survive and so would you. So don't judge too harshly and don't yell or belittle the guy on the phone. Don't hate the player, hate the game...
Hardly surprising their tech know-how was stone-age. If they were actually competent, they wouldn't be running some lame over-the-phone scam like this. They would either be working a legitimate job or running a large-scale botnet somewhere. The vast majority of criminals are stupid, because smart people either don't get into crime or don't do low-level crap like this.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
Happened just the other day. They didn't claim to be from Microsoft, though. I asked the caller what OS was on my computer, and she said "Either XP or 7". I don't have any Windows systems in my house, and the call was interrupting something else I wanted to do, so I just said "Wrong!" and hung up.
When these guys will be out of business? Will humanity ever learn? Or are we too trusting of people on the other end of the phone line?
I say "Okay, hold on a moment please." I then leave the phone call active, put the phone on my desk or something and do something else until they get bored.
Reboot the PC. Just after POST (power on self test), tap the F8 key once a second to invoke Windows boot options. Choose "Safe Mode". Click the Start button and type in MSCONFIG. Select "Normal Startup" under the General tab. Reboot again and all should be well. Assuming you didn't provide CC info or let them install any other application.
I'd love to know what public IP they're hiding behind.
Life is not for the lazy.
These "Dave from Houston" fuckheads have called my house repeatedly. Unfortunately, I haven't been home to screw with them. Even my wife felt bad for these pitiful lamebrains when she told them none of our computers run Windows. And then these disorganized half-wits can't remember the FAILED on their previous calls, so they call back again.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I've been called by these morons five (yes, FIVE) times so far. Lately, they've taken to calling me at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. Now, getting a call from a scammer is annoying - getting a call from a scammer in the middle of the night when you're sound asleep makes you want to stab someone in the throat. Or maybe that's just me...
I hope these pricks die in a fire.
I had one of these guys on the line a while back. Coincidentally while I was fixing some issues with the PC at my computer-illiterate parents' house. Apparently they called a few times before but they only spoke english (with a very heavy indian accent) and my dad wouldn't even know how to order a beer in english, so their "conversations" ended without any harm done.
They directed me to try all different kinds of command line tools that would display long lists of errors (which is was supposed to do on a healthy system). I checked everything he told me to do by first searching on google and within a few minutes I got to a webpage detailing the phone script the scammers were using.
Oddly enough I told him that I was checking everything on Google first and even told him I found this website, but we still went on for nearly 15 minutes or so (he was paying for the phone bill, I could see no harm in making it expensive). I kept asking him questions and calling him out on his lies (literally calling it lies), but still he kept going. At some point it was all some morbid curiosity trip for me, eager to find out how far this could possibly go. He even kept talking after I told him I had enough fun and was going to hang up. I can't quite understand why he kept wasting so much of his time when I identified him as a scammer after the first two minutes and told him so.
I can understand how they could fool a less informed computer user though.
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Right, like the script kitties could tell they where dealing with a Mac much less have a workable scam for Mac they could talk the hapless Apple user though over the phone. If it ain't windows, they ain't getting anywhere cause they usually only know windows.
Before my ISP started blocking port 80,I ran an Apache web server on a stand alone Linux box in my DMZ that had nothing but a single HTML page on it. 99.99% of the access logs where exploits that only worked on Windows products and multiple break in attempts where from the same IP over and over. If they where too ignorant to look at the server type before they tried to break in, or if they somehow figured that what didn't work 15 seconds ago might work this time then it sure fits the view that they are pretty unsophisticated in their approaches when they are trying to break in.
Just running an OS other than Windows offers significant protection from the bulk of web based attacks. Not that it makes breaking in any harder mind you, it's just that most of the "hackers" out there don't know the difference between Red Hat, Ubuntu or Windows and usually cannot even understand what an IP address is much less a TCP port because they just run the tool somebody else wrote for them. These folks don't scare me.
Of course there are a FEW folks who don't fall into what I call "Script Kitties" class, and they are really the dangerous ones because they understand that it is not the breaking in, but the exploitation of getting access that matters. Most of these guys/gals are not going to call you on your phone unless they have reason to target you, and you can bet they won't resort to such low tech methods described in this article.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I was able to keep them on the line talking about random stuff, and not anywhere near a computer until some manager yelled at the poor phone dweeb.
Awesome. :)
Three months ago i got a similar call, recorded the conversation (me playing the silly user and him trying to scam me) and forgot to put it online.
So here it is slashdot, i created this page just for you:
http://barrystaes.nl/scambait/
(click the AMR file, its the original file my Android phone recorded and 10x smaller)
Hivemind harvest in progress..
I have a rule for dealing with telemarketers - if they admit they're telemarketing right away, I'll nicely tell them I'm not interested. If they lie, then anything goes. Here's what happened to someone that called me from a "security company:"
...
Her: Is the business owner there?
Me: Are you telemarketing?
Her: No.
Me: Ok, this is the owner, how can I help you?
Her: Are you aware of the security threats faced by businesses that use the internet?
Me: Oh, yes, I'm well aware of threats. There are all sorts of threats when you're in business.
Her: Does your business use PCs?
Me: Security is a big problem, lawsuits.
Her: Ok, well, we offer a comprehensive...
Me: Because you know, you can be sued for all sorts of things. Employers can be sued by their employees. Business owners have to be very careful.
Her: (Trying to get back to her script) Yes, I'm aware of that. Well anyway, if your business is one of the millions...
Me: For instance, sexual harassment lawsuits, those are a huge concern if you're in business.
Her: I don't think that's
Me: Do you realize that people can sue their employer for harassment just because they receive unwanted sexual advances while at work?
Her: No, I didn't, but...
Me: (whispering) So... what are you wearing?
I've had numerous calls like this. I've taken a number of different stances on dealing with it. On the last one I didn't really have the time or patience so it went like this:-
Them: "Sir, we are ringing you about the errors on your computer".
Me: "Oh, this scam again, trying to get money from people that don't know any better. I don't know how you get away with it, you should be ashamed or yourselves, ashamed!"
Them: "Brrrrrrr....".
Quickest hang up yet. Felt kinda sorry for the poor woman reading the script but if you're gonna work for 'Evil Inc.' then that's what you get.
Other good tactics:
"Oh, I'm out of work, actually could you lend me fifty quid?"
"This is GCHQ madam, the UK government security center - it is a criminal offence to have access to our secure servers. Are you a terrorist?"
"On mondays my papa sings my happy song, huh, huh, huh"
Since they have a script maybe we should make one for us, just to see how they like it :-)
Welcome to the party; they've been calling me, my family, my friends and everyone else for years.
I can recite the pitch opening from memory by now (it almost always begins, "I am from the Windows Technical Support Department", in a strong Indian accent). At first I was irritated ("Huh? Go away"), then angry ("Don't ever call me again!"), then amused ("Why yes! Which one of the seven completely different boxen are you referring to?"), then bored ("Computer? You mean my Google pad thing?"), then concerned ("Do you realise your supervisor is making you break the law?"), and now I just hang up mid-syllable.
And even then they sometimes ring right back, just in case I hung up by accident.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Most of them know better than to say actual company names so they usually start with something like:
"Hello, Sir, I am calling from Windows Computer..."
Which I usually state what's windows computer, never heard of em... etc. Some of the other posts do give me more ideas. :-D
"Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
Right, like the script kitties could tell they where dealing with a Mac...
I just had this adorable image in my head of a bunch of kittens (picture Royale commercials) gamboling around an iMac, batting the mouse around, laying on the top of the monitor and pawing at the screen, puzzled innocence in their wide blue eyes as they try to figure out where the food comes out. Awww... :)
I think the term is actually 'script kiddies', due to the (usual) youth of the wanna-be bad asses. It's simply the difference between the voiced alveolar stop 'd' and the voiceless alveolar stop 't', so it's easy to misinterpret in speech.
Okay, phonetics info-break over, now back to your regularly scheduled discussion...
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
I used to get calls from scammers trying to sell me over-priced copy machine toner. They would claim to be my "copier company", then ask for the model number. So I'd make up a fake model number and see how long I could keep them on the phone.
Scammer: "We don't show a Nikon Z1000 on our list. Are you sure that's the model?" ....I don't have that one on my list either"
Me: " I'll check again. Can I put you on hold while I go to the second floor?"
(we start timing)
Me: "Ah, it's a Nikon Z2100. You know - one of those big ones. It really eats a lot of toner, you know. We sure buy a lot of it"
Scammer: "Really? We can make you a great price. But I still don't find that on our list. Are you sure about the model?"
Me: "Well I'll go down there and check again. Can you hold on a few minutes?
(Timer rings - I pickup the phone)
Me: "Yep - its a Canon KR600 all right."
Scammer: "Ah - you said Nikon before. Hmmm
Me: "You should have - your company sold it to us."
Scammer" Ah... yes.... Could you check that number again?
Me: "I might have written it down wrong. I'll check again. We run it non-stop so I know the boss will be excited that we can save on all that toner we buy. Can you hold?"
When I get tired of the game, I'd pass them on so someone else to play. 15 minutes was easy. Never broke the 1 hour mark, but not for lack of trying.
Place nail here >+
It's a culture of having the opportunity to save face when they're wrong.
If you get the chance to talk to one of them again, start telling them outright that what they are doing is wrong and that they need to study more. That'll upset personally more than anything else you can try.
My room-mate got the call once, lead them on for a while and then hung up. The woman (with a strong Indian accent) called back and yelled at him "fuck your mother!"
some of these are freaking priceless. I'm taking notes, and hope you don't mind if I utilize a few of these in the future.
I'll be sure to credit /. in general at the end of the call. Or maybe just pepper "slashdot" into my sentences at odd intervals.
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Pedantry only suits smart people.
I've gotten a few of these calls. Some idiot with a foreign accent claiming to be "from Windows" (seriously, those were their words).
... just the phone call ;)
My mom gotten them too; she immediately hangs up the phone. One of the scammers actually the gall to call her not two seconds later to scold her that hanging up the phone was rude!
I have a similar idea to this guy, except I'd make a little more fun, though I wasn't sure it would work until now. I'm delighted to see that they use a remote control program. My plan is to let them into a sandboxed VM where I'll have prepared a webpage that launches 500 goatse popups or something. I'll record my session, too, but, uh
I can't wait to get another one of these calls.
*rubs hands together with an evil grin*
I once got a similar call "I'm from Microsoft and your computer appears to have a virus." I faked call interference with some foil and eventually convinced him that the problem was on his end. The clown spent five minutes checking his headset and whatnot before he caught on and hung up.
I would have thought it impossible to disable the VMWare service from *within* a VM... that one would require a special tool that effectively runs outside of any VM to do it.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
If I recognize the voice speaking, I pick up the phone and answer the call. If I don't recognize it, I let it go to voice mail. Actually, most robo-diallers seem to recognize answering machines, so I don't too many telemarketing messages on the voicemail.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
These idiots called me one morning...heavy accents and all...claiming to be from u$oft telling me that my computer had messaged them that it had a virus. I flumoxed them when I told them that all my computers ran the linux operating system and it would be very strange if it had called them. Had I known how to turn it around on them, I would have. They are so stupid they deserve the Darwin award.
How can you be that knowledgeable about computers and exploits and still use the word "where" four times in two paragraphs when you should've used "were"? This is why they think they can get away with it, people - an enormous lack of linguistic awareness!
C:\Windows>Windows firewall subscription has expired.
with the written text about the firewall being typed MUCH slower than my 8 year old son types. Eventually I told the guy he was doing all of this in a VM, and he didn't think I was as smart as I said, so he asked a couple of obscure computer questions (about msconfig and northbridge/southbridge)... I then asked him if I could ask him a question... I asked, "Will you take me off of your call list?" I tried to guilt him out of doing what he was doing, but I figured I'd wasted enough time, so I hung up. I haven't had another call since then.
//TODO: create a signature
I feel bad for people there who have to pay bribes to buy a train ticket (which is everyone), and I feel worse when they come here and think they have to do the same .
There are a lot of issues with India, but buying train tickets is not one of them.
Indian Railway runs irctc.co.in - the portal for buying tickets. It is as good or bad as any system anywhere in the world. I have been using the portal for buying tickets for the last 12 years, as recently as May 22, 2012. I do not know how or where one has to pay a bribe.
If you do not have online access/credit/debit cards, you can go to a booking center and book a ticket. There are touts or middlemen who will book your ticket for a fee if you do not want to stand in the queue, but thats not corruption.
Please verify before you make blanket statements. If you met Indians from India who paid a bribe in buying a train ticket, I sympathize with them. They have been taken for a ride...apparently not a train ride.
Tat Tvam Asi
Not for the scammers, but for the rest of us, and especially everyone who thinks that "intuitive" --the idea that people should be using computers without any training whatsoever-- is a good idea. Exactly because of this. The scammers are "stone age" because they don't need to be any more sophisticated.
Think about that for a minute.
I lead them along, then thank them profusely, then tell them god has a special place picked out for them, then ask if they believe in god (interestingly, 100% of them feel unable to duck this question and willingly admit they believe), then I tell them they're a bad, bad person and that god will send them to hell. To hell, I say.
Free entertainment.
I went through this a couple of months ago. I went through the whole spiel asking lots of annoying questions, and was amazed at how well the caller held his line. Then he passed me on to his supervisor, who lost it within 30 seconds when I started pointing out that the competitive environment in the scam industry meant that they really should update their business model and approach.
Then I checked out the website they were selling their package from - http://www.teche4pc.com/ - and was again amazed at how sophisticed an online front they had built to their scam. I've had scam websites shut down before by contacting their hosting company, but to my dismay, this lot own their own hosting company. I then contated VeriSign India to try rattle them about a scam wearing their label, but they are totally not interested in investigating stuff like that.
I know a few people that have been ripped off via scams. My elderly father fell for one of these tech support calls and handed over his credit card number (which we cancelled within 5 minutes so the damage was a lesson learned and a bit of embarrassment.
(Posting as AC as my handle is not that anonymous.)
When you get a call like this, do *not* hang up. Tell them that they need to speak to your dad, and you'll just get him.
Put the phone down on the sideboard and go back to watching TV. Every few minutes pick it up and say "Sorry, he's just coming". See how long you can keep them on the line.
These schemes only succeed by volume; if they call enough people *someone* will fall for it. Every second you can keep them on the phone for is a second that they aren't earning...
I didn't think to video it but one day when I was working from home I got a call from 'Microsoft' wanting to 'fix' my PC. oh boy, I was literally rubbing my hands together with glee as I fired up my test VM and let them in. The caller put me through to a 'technical' guy. They setup a remote session but then I pretended that they lost 5 years of email they put the phone down! Can't wait for them to call back. he he.
I believe it was "script kiddies", but even the EFF has been having fun with the play on words recently: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150800474706946&set=a.406154656945.190921.97703891945&type=3
http://youtu.be/nLnIaNFGViw
So, is this legit, or is it a scammer trying to promote SOURCEfire?
They've managed a neat trick in calling me recently, CallerID shows up as a row of 0s. It has also enabled me to set a silent ringtone to the number so I don't hear them call either.
He knew right away what it was. As soon as he asked which computer it was, his Linux or Mac box they hung up.
Personally I just let the answering machine handle it. I screen my calls anyway so it's no big deal.
The local dollar store sells air horns. They don't last very long but for a few bursts they are perfect. I can still be pleasantly surprised by stopping in dollar stores on just what they will sell.
Your post looked VERY informative and I REALLY wanted to read it, but they way you capitalize EVERY adverb and verb is really FREAKING annoying. Just STOP doing that, just STOP. You WORKED SO HARD on your comment, but it ONLY ended up making you look REALLY stupid.
I checked everything he told me to do by first searching on google and within a few minutes I got to a webpage detailing the phone script the scammers were using.
For our amusement, may we have a link or search terms please?
One of my users got a call from these cons, but was smart enough to only play along a little to see what they were up to. She actually got the guy to give her his phone number, even though caller ID came back blocked. Now, every now and again, I call him back and mess with him. I play along with his script until I feel like turning it around and belittle him in various ways. If anyone else would like to join in on the fun, while the number is still active, it's 209-965-7943. They harass us and our users, now its our turn!
APK, your story sounds odd. There was probably a reason for MSSE running slow, possibly an infection or some other problem with something the computer was doing.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Is anyone surprised that these guys that are attempting to exploit the human element aren't that good at the technical element?
My boyfriend received one of these kinds of calls a few weeks ago and I just couldn't help but giggle in the background. He's like, a master linux sys admin and he decided to play with them a little bit as well.
The phone conversation (not verbatim):
Scammer: "We have been informed that you have malware on your computer and you need our software!"
Boyfriend: "O rly? How do you know this?"
Sc: "We are monitoring your computer and see that you have a lot of malware. You need to purchase our product to get rid of the malware!"
BF: "How are you monitoring my computer?"
Sc: "You have malware! We have your IP address!"
BF: "Well, can you tell me what my IP address is?"
Sc: "192.168.0.1 - you have malware!"
BF: *starts laughing uncontrollably*
Sc: "S-s-sir, you have malware! You need to purchase our product to save your computer! We are monitoring--"
BF: *continues laughing*
Sc: "Bu-but malware--"
BF: *hangs up phone*
If what or who you're hunting has limited intelligence and defenses (typical target of AV spammers) then spears and rocks work just fine.
Why was this happening from an otherwise excellent program? Single Core CPU trying to run multithreaded code I suspect (yes, multithreaded code actually SLOWS DOWN due to overheads it has, on 1 core systems).
It's simple: Microsoft makes money on every non-Apple computer sold. If they can slow your old box down enough to frustrate you, you'll buy a new computer and they've sold another copy of Windows.
I suspect this is why Windows runs slower and slower as the machine ages. I suspect it's engineered to, just to make you buy a new PC!
Back when I upgraded from 98 to XP, I'd just done a wipe and reinstall of 98 a week before installing XP (got XP because I stupidly forgot to check to see if I had driver disks for hardware and none of the drivers were available on the internet for 98, only XP). One of the installation screens bragged that XP was faster than 98. Well, it was faster than 98 was before I reinstalled 98, but actually a little slower than the freshly installed 98.
The best free AV is Linux.
Free Martian Whores!
I got them to give me a url they said was an online cleanup (which was NOT "legit", nor on ANY custom hosts file OR DNSBL yet)
STOP! Hammertime.
Anyone who thinks that a custom hosts file is a viable defense from malicious URLs is an idiot. (This means you, APK.)
Indeed and that is the origin of the phrase "please hold the line" - it was entirely within the control of the Caller to keep the line open - hence the basic receptionist training of "I'm putting you through now - please hold the line"
Hey APK, there is actually an easy fix for the MSE bug, I've run into that one myself quite a few times. if MSE gets a bad update instead of doing the smart thing and dumping it and starting over it will often load a bad update which will cause the thing to crap itself. Dumb i know, but that's what it does. Use Revo to uninstall it in moderate mode so it can clear out the leftover files and reg entries than just go to ninite.com and use their automated installer for MSE. it fixes it right up.
Although more and more often I'm just giving them Comodo when they have a problem with MSE because while MSE works great on downloaded files it don't do jack shit about drive bys as it does not do a "scan before load" on web pages. You have to remember that MSE was NOT an antivirus, it was originally Giant antispy that MSFT just bought. It is the lowest resource but it also does the least, so its a trade off. And yes Comodo will occasionally flag a small dev program falsely but honestly? I'd rather they make little mistakes than like AVG flagging critical system files make big ones. the Comodo guys are pretty good about getting a false positive unflagged and they update every 4 hours so it propagates through the system pretty quickly.
So just do that little trick, you can download revo from ninite so it won't take but a couple of minutes and his MSE will be right as rain. Its stupid, you shouldn't have to do that, but welcome to MSE, where dumbshit happens.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I happened to be testing Windows 8 when I received one of these calls (this would have been a couple of days after the preview was released, so it was unlikely they were familiar with it). They kept insisting I press the start button in the lower left corner to "run something to show how infected my computer was". I managed to string them along for about 10 minutes before revealing I didn't have a start button any more because I was using Windows 8 and asked them would that make a difference to what they were asking. They didn't have a clue how to handle it. I have to say it was very satisfying...
Americans don't differentiate between t and d in the middle of words. Come to England i fyou really want to hear the difference
I take it that its a REALLY old laptop then? Might want to tell him to keep an eye out on this site and grab him a cheap return because the celery is frankly a dog of a chip which i'm sure you know. I got myself one of those EEE-PC E350 netbooks and I can tell ya it stomped the Pentium mobile I had before it, really sweet and even does 1080p over HDMI.
But that little trick i told you will fix him right up, hell i had to do that trick myself a couple of days ago because MSE crapped itself by trying to update while WU was trying to update MSE and boned itself. one of these days i'll have to toss it for Comodo but since that machine is mainly gaming and transcoding its not like its really in any danger of bugs and Comodo takes about 3 days to train.
BTW if you give your roomie a hand be sure to point him towards ninite as that will take care of most of the "must have" software without any toolbars or 'clicky clicky next next next" bullshit. its the closest thing to a Windows repo I've ever found, you can even check the boxes for stuff you already have and it'll only install if there is a new version, just a great little resource. peace.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Let ya in on a little secret...old barb has been doing that one for years. the funny part is for a Linux user i have never heard anyone bitch about the broken crap as much as her and in fact last i heard she had said she had wiped her SUSE and replaced it with....WinXP! Anyway she's part of Noyes roundtable on Linux Insider (along with me as the "token Windows guy") and spends most of her time over there bitching but if you see her "Tom" UID she be trolling. hell I think the whole "Tom" handle stand for Trolling On...something, damned if I can remember.
And you can tell your roomie i know what that is like, PC repair can be feast or famine and I have some customers on disability, that's a rough life. Tell him to keep an eye out on Craigslist, that is what I did for one of my disabled customers and I managed to snag him a less than 8 month old mint shape Dell mini Atom netbook for $80. compared to that POS old Pentium 4 Mobile (no shit, a P4 jammed in a laptop case! Talk about a lap burner) that Atom runs rings around it while giving him nearly 8 hours on a battery. I did some tweaking on it, cleaned out the extra Dell crap, turned off the services he'd never use, the usual, and now Win 7 starter shows he has nearly 600Mb free out of 1Gb on first boot and the thing is snappy as hell. Not as nice as my E350 but I wouldn't have any problem using it as a day to day machine.
Nice choice on CPU BTW, those i7s are damned nice chips, little too rich for my blood. I got a couple of teen boys who also game so if I was rocking something THAT nice while they were sucking hind tit I'd never hear the end LOL! So me and the boys went AMD, the youngest has a Deneb quad while me and the oldest are rocking Thubans. You'd be surprised how much headroom those 1035Ts have, just for shits and giggles since my board has a killer OCing tool I decided to see what she would do and managed to go from 2.6Ghz to nearly 3.1Ghz without bumping the volts but in the end I figured...why bother? As you know with the i7 once you have that many cores it blows through any job like crap through a goose so now I just run stock, Turbo shoots it up to 3Ghz anyway when I just have 3 cores being hit so it isn't like it is dragging ass or anything.
But you have yourself a great memorial day weekend APK,and just remember there really ain't no point in arguing against groupthink on THIS site, you may as well be pissing in the wind for all the good it'll do. I mean there is Barb running WinXP and STILL defending Linux, when the damned thing wouldn't even work for her without crapping all over itself on update LOL! That is why I have any FOSS articles just blocked, no point in wasting your breath on the close minded ya know? Peace.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
So, KEEP BLOWING THOSE MODPOINTS of yours trolls! You'll run dry of them
Admins have unlimited modpoints, and I've not been "blowing" anything but a few clicks of the mouse to send every single one of your useless spammy posts their direction so they can nuke you to -1 where you belong.
Barbie used to be a man, so I'll let you guess where "Tom" comes from. Although for a while she'd cleverly (re?)defined it as "The Online Me".
Rage harder, faggot.
I haven't used a modpoint on you in... oh, weeks, months probably.
You wish. Lose some weight, fatass, you might be able to finally find your dick and discover a more entertaining pastime than spamming Slashdot.
wanker
(proved):
So when you get the call, make a holy show of not being able to install the software. Just sort of randomly offer your public IP, and when they jump on your dick for it, give it to them and let 'em rip:
"One two seven dot zero dot zero dot one."
Operation Guillotine is in effect.