What's on your mind?

[Harrison]

Sometimes it is better to sever ties with a friend, no matter how long you have known them, or how close you were to them in the past. Last year I decided to do that with one of my best friends I'd known since School.

He had started to mix with some really rough people over the last few years, via his workplace. He is someone who was always easily led by others, and these people were some of the lowest, roughest people you could hope to avoid. Out every night of the week getting very drunk and smoking like chimneys (he didn't smoke till he met them).

Within 2 years of hanging around with them he had been caught drink driving and lost his license for a year. And his attitude to life and pther people had degenerated significantly. His view of women had also degenerated, viewing them as objects, and he had slept with a number of prostitutes on his work related visited to Belgium.

He had a best mate he worked with who I'd also known for a few years. He was quite a nice bloke and was married with three young children. However suddenly his marriage broke down and his wife kicked him out! I later found out this friend had been sleeping with his wife... a few months before their marriage had broken up... so he was obviously one of the main causes! Although his mate still doesn't know he slept with his wife!

Oh, and he also joined the BNP which I definitely didn't agree with.

And the final straw? As he was my oldest friend I asked him to be my best man, and he refused. So that was it. The end.

Sometimes you do just have to give up on some people as they can not be helped.

[Teho]

Back then I didn't just give up on him, I left that entire gang of friends behind. I still consider many of them friends, people I'd love to be in touch with again if they ever straightened up. I've not seen most of them since then though, and the few I have seen I've only met on a couple of occasions. Oh heck, I'd better start at the beginning and that'll make this a long story. I'll make a separate topic. Might take a while to write up though.

[Demon Cleaner]

Sad to hear Teho

At the moment I still have a good friend of mine in my mind, he died January 12th due to cancer. His name is Thierry van Werveke, he was the most known actor here in Luxembourg and also lived in my hometown. I'm pretty sure nobody of you guys know him, because he only played in luxembourgish and german movies. He also was a singer in a band called Nazz Nazz, then later Tabula Rasa.

Here's an IMDb link if someone's interested in his profile.

R.I.P.

[woody.cool]

I've not got anything major on my mind .... except for the fact that from tomorrow evening till monday morning, I'm on emergency tech support duty (part of my job) so I'll get bombarded with calls from idiots who don't know how to 'double-click' or how to type in their own name and password!

Great stuff

[Ghost]

I know what I am facing is not as big as yours Teho, but right now I feel like yelling loud.

My new computer 'broke down' this Wednesday due to a bug called Fake Alert that invited in several other viruses to have a party on my hard disc (if I ever get my hands on the people who wrote these damn things the descriptions of what I did to them will even made the most cold blooded SOB puke his guts out)

The computer is still in repairs and I will likely not see it until the end of tomorrow's afternoon.

Then there is the continuing ****ing disappointments with Fallout 3 and its retarded DLCs and the crap I get to hear about the coming Star Trek movie.

I feel I can not relax anymore.

[Harrison]

The Fake Alert Trojan is itself harmless. It just throws up a false alert box from the taskbar telling you one of many messages such as a security risk or a virus infection has been detected. It then asks you to click and download a piece of software. It is this that actually infects the system.

Best thing to do, is get to know your system security. Always have a good up to date virus checker active and running at all times, plus do malware scans weekly on your system and have a firewall running at all times as well. Also make sure the virus chacker or firewall also has pre-emptive security scanning built in as this prevents things like the Fack Alert Trojan in the first place.

One question. What is your computer in for repairs? I hope that isn't costing you anything. It just requires an update and running of your virus software to remove the infection from the system, or if you didn't have any virus scanning software installed, tools specifically designed to remove the Fack Alert Trojan can be downloaded and run.

Regarding Fallout 3 and Star Trek. You have to learn that such things are not really that important in the great scheme of things. Not enough that they can frustrate and annoy quite so much.

While it is nice for a gaming series to keep seeing new releases that are true to the series, it isn't the end of the world if they are not. There are so many great games released every year that there are easily enough to play and enjoy. As for Star Trek, I'm a huge ST fan and am really looking forward to the new film. I'm not reading preview and guess work about the new film that has been posted online. I'm instead waiting to pass judgement on the finished film when I go to see it.

[Ghost]

@ Harrison,

Yes, I learned about the nature of Fake Alert later but by then the damage unfortunately was already done.
I think the Fake Alert spyware got on my PC through a torrent I downloaded.

I actually do use a good anti virus program; AVG but somehow this managed to sneak through as its not a virus as you mentioned, and I had serious difficulty with removing it through AVG.

Unfortunate I could not find the right removal program for Fake Alert either, only leading to more frustration.
None of the links I got through Google were particular useful.

I find it so difficult to talk about the other things, I can't find the right words to describe how I feel about it.