Okay so that's stretching it, but you will at least win my undying admiration. Here's the puzzle: for a year and a half or more I was (and may currently still be) under constant relentless attack by unnamed hacker(s). Why? I have no clue... maybe it was a personal vendetta, maybe it was industrial sabotage, or maybe it was just sheer boredom. But the attacks were real, yet everyone around me thought I was losing it. People thought I was becoming Unabomber-paranoid, and almost everyone gently amused me but steered the conversation elsewhere should I ever bring it up in their presence (which was, like, constantly). I spent thousands of dollars on new computer equipment, every antivirus and anti-spyware application in existence (or so it seemed), new routers, a firewall.... yet these unseen menaces kept getting in my friggin' computer. Finally I heeded the advice of several people to "Go get a Mac". I thought things would be simple, that I'd finally be hacker-free.
The very first day I set up my Mac, it was hacked as well. Or so I claimed to everyone. I bitched out my friends who touted the almighty Mac as the holy grail to fix my problems. I'd spent $1800 on what -- a pretty MacBook just as or possibly even more susceptible to intentional hacking and malware. (Truth be told, however, I am now a Mac convert).
This begins the story, vague though this prologue is. Hopefully you guys out there will be able to help me figure out, Was I hacked... or just paranoid? I've kept many log files, screen captures, and a few notes in order to supplement my oh-so-fallible memory. I'll post my recollections, supplemented by these logs and screenprints, in no particular order, in the hope of raising awareness and, just maybe, catching the damn bastard that made my life hell for two years plus.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment