Pwned by The Seattle Times..
An ongoing saga of a worm? other named-beast which commences to eat (as much as 18 GB seen..)
Unaccustomed as I (happily thus far..) am re escaping Windoze-grade repeated fixings, still I had earlier acquainted self with the lovely Activity Monitor
(but not to the extent of finding how to lengthen the horizontal-display Name-section beyond “www.seattletimes..” as its specificity could be a useful clue/or not.)
That was enough clue for moi to nuke the sucker, also the stub? left [0 bytes] of same/similar incomplete-ID.
These deletions restored normalcy, sometimes for hours. I phoned The Rag, imagining that I may not be the first/or only recipient of some bad packet (and also realize that they may not have incorporated the Cause in their scripts, but out in the wild Evul got attached by some other malevolent process.) ie no ‘accusations’—just an effort to find out if They Knew etc.
Alas I ran into two obtuse minions, incapable of comprehending that I wasn’t [Yet..] asking anything of them but could explain my observations in 3-5 minutes to a competent—preferably IT Supervisor. These two likely had no idea of modrin Cookies and the kinds of nefarious schemes they hope to employ to frustrate those who might breach their Paywall … wasted breath, as they were stuck in Bizness-Duh-mindset bereft of any useful IT-knowledge. They wanted moi to send screen shots etc. I had enough of their fecklessness at that point, mentioning how little time, verbally was needed for me to get across a message possibly useful to us both, and the fact that I have no intention of doing n-hours more of their work for them.
Apparently (they have my fone#) the proles there have no info yet, that The Times is chasing any problems of this kind as I’ve not heard back since yesterday. I shall have to schlep this box to Tim (a nearby local fixer with already demonstrated chops re Beastware or OS-X, whom I am fortunate to have found.) OR: possibly pick a suitable diagnostic App (shades-of-M/Soft/ugh). Am I naive? it seems to moi that even a Rag like Seattletimes wouldn’t intentionally loose a memory-assasination thing, even in defense of all-that-free- Paywall-$$$. But then nobody knoze just how far the Dumbth has permeated, esp. in biznessmen. Flip coin.
Any suggestions of the better options out there? Maybe it’s true that OS-X shall henceforth need the overhead of 24/7 Malware Detection—anyone here surrendered that far, yet? If there’s an obvious ‘best’ diagnostic, like the Ferenghi: I’m All Ears.
My guess-attempts included nuking also a couple processes whose URL hinted at The Cloud, (never seen previously) but was an incomprehensible ~code-?-URL-name. There were 2, 3 of these with “0 bytes” as a beacon; these have not recurred always, but a few times is too-many. I quite realize the foolhardiness of nuking-unKnowns, thus was ready to use the Magic-button-behind: to force-quit the mess, if A.M. showing any sign of slouching towards —> Colonel Panic and like that. As I type this I have A.M. above and it’s happily untroubled..
It’s Nice when an iggerant-stab seems to have worked … but this mess Is Recurrent, so there I are. Still.. I am not unappreciative of the fact that, since the 20” iMac arrived from ePay in Jan. ’09 my only similar inconvenience was that bug -in Java was it?- way-back. 10 fussless-YEARS! w/ two iMacs. So this is more of an adventure than cause for unkind epithets re $$Apple. At least I had already played with A. M. sufficiently to recognize that THIS is exactly where one starts, should the sucker start emulating Win-3.0-beta on a ‘90s clone—unless the whole enchilada has already gone daft.
[ PS and fond recall of the missing-Greg :-/ ]
who admonished moi not-to go looking around in Console etc. “It just works, damn it!” I riposted that, ~ if’n I don’t have Some.. idea of what is “normal" there? h.t.f. Could I notice some incipient or perhaps Ugly-gravitational-shift in the OS-X cosmos, eh? But Greg WAS ~99.8% Right, eh? ;^> So glad that we had ~an hour ranging discussion at the time I was sending along that Tek scope; he was fully conversant across electronics and related, as well as IT (about which I concluded that he’d likely forgotten more now-obsolete-stuff than many a modrin IT-person would ever have acquired). Pity.. that his social chops were ..well, you know. I miss him, still. ’Twas such fun to show-off my fledgling Ashto-knoppix chops/pseudo- as they were.. DAMN.)
Unaccustomed as I (happily thus far..) am re escaping Windoze-grade repeated fixings, still I had earlier acquainted self with the lovely Activity Monitor
(but not to the extent of finding how to lengthen the horizontal-display Name-section beyond “www.seattletimes..” as its specificity could be a useful clue/or not.)
That was enough clue for moi to nuke the sucker, also the stub? left [0 bytes] of same/similar incomplete-ID.
These deletions restored normalcy, sometimes for hours. I phoned The Rag, imagining that I may not be the first/or only recipient of some bad packet (and also realize that they may not have incorporated the Cause in their scripts, but out in the wild Evul got attached by some other malevolent process.) ie no ‘accusations’—just an effort to find out if They Knew etc.
Alas I ran into two obtuse minions, incapable of comprehending that I wasn’t [Yet..] asking anything of them but could explain my observations in 3-5 minutes to a competent—preferably IT Supervisor. These two likely had no idea of modrin Cookies and the kinds of nefarious schemes they hope to employ to frustrate those who might breach their Paywall … wasted breath, as they were stuck in Bizness-Duh-mindset bereft of any useful IT-knowledge. They wanted moi to send screen shots etc. I had enough of their fecklessness at that point, mentioning how little time, verbally was needed for me to get across a message possibly useful to us both, and the fact that I have no intention of doing n-hours more of their work for them.
Apparently (they have my fone#) the proles there have no info yet, that The Times is chasing any problems of this kind as I’ve not heard back since yesterday. I shall have to schlep this box to Tim (a nearby local fixer with already demonstrated chops re Beastware or OS-X, whom I am fortunate to have found.) OR: possibly pick a suitable diagnostic App (shades-of-M/Soft/ugh). Am I naive? it seems to moi that even a Rag like Seattletimes wouldn’t intentionally loose a memory-assasination thing, even in defense of all-that-free- Paywall-$$$. But then nobody knoze just how far the Dumbth has permeated, esp. in biznessmen. Flip coin.
Any suggestions of the better options out there? Maybe it’s true that OS-X shall henceforth need the overhead of 24/7 Malware Detection—anyone here surrendered that far, yet? If there’s an obvious ‘best’ diagnostic, like the Ferenghi: I’m All Ears.
My guess-attempts included nuking also a couple processes whose URL hinted at The Cloud, (never seen previously) but was an incomprehensible ~code-?-URL-name. There were 2, 3 of these with “0 bytes” as a beacon; these have not recurred always, but a few times is too-many. I quite realize the foolhardiness of nuking-unKnowns, thus was ready to use the Magic-button-behind: to force-quit the mess, if A.M. showing any sign of slouching towards —> Colonel Panic and like that. As I type this I have A.M. above and it’s happily untroubled..
It’s Nice when an iggerant-stab seems to have worked … but this mess Is Recurrent, so there I are. Still.. I am not unappreciative of the fact that, since the 20” iMac arrived from ePay in Jan. ’09 my only similar inconvenience was that bug -in Java was it?- way-back. 10 fussless-YEARS! w/ two iMacs. So this is more of an adventure than cause for unkind epithets re $$Apple. At least I had already played with A. M. sufficiently to recognize that THIS is exactly where one starts, should the sucker start emulating Win-3.0-beta on a ‘90s clone—unless the whole enchilada has already gone daft.
[ PS and fond recall of the missing-Greg :-/ ]
who admonished moi not-to go looking around in Console etc. “It just works, damn it!” I riposted that, ~ if’n I don’t have Some.. idea of what is “normal" there? h.t.f. Could I notice some incipient or perhaps Ugly-gravitational-shift in the OS-X cosmos, eh? But Greg WAS ~99.8% Right, eh? ;^> So glad that we had ~an hour ranging discussion at the time I was sending along that Tek scope; he was fully conversant across electronics and related, as well as IT (about which I concluded that he’d likely forgotten more now-obsolete-stuff than many a modrin IT-person would ever have acquired). Pity.. that his social chops were ..well, you know. I miss him, still. ’Twas such fun to show-off my fledgling Ashto-knoppix chops/pseudo- as they were.. DAMN.)
