the web night mare we live in

The Web nightmare we live in

By David Verveer

This letter should be seen as a complaint, the problem is, I do not know to whom to address it, who is the sick mind and Internet bandit, that makes my and many other's life a hell, and who causes that I sit until midnight to try to get rid of an other attempt to infect my computers. Who is the person that in actual fact enjoys it that suckers like me desperately looking for help, knowing that there is nobody out there, and every one is fighting for him self.

When in the fifties I got infected by "Cyberitus" a contagious disease which is incurable and has many side effects, which I will not discuss here, as I will not give the enemy their satisfaction of having succeeded in pestering me, day and night.

Of course, there also times, the disease is in a lull (a calm and inactive period), the computers are working without any problems, telling me that all antivirus, registering and security programs are up to date, and my compute is working satisfactory. I know, that is just before a new attack of hackers, of spyware and viruses thought out by young freaks that do this for the fun of it.

Who, in his sound mind, writes Trojan virus software, which has only one target, ruining our computers? Do they do it in order to increase the sale of ineffective antivirus software, or are they at war with the civilization, showing that they are capable to cause enormous damage to anybody courageous enough to operate computers. Or could it be that the antivirus software manufactures write there own viruses, which can be removed only by their own particular antivirus programs, but no, that wouldn't be nice, people do not on purpose harm people in order to make a buck, don't be funny, we do not live in a free for all society, there are responsible people who control fair business, or am I mistaken to think nobody makes malware on purpose.

I am not worried about big companies, which can afford to take in account software damage to their computer systems, this is an item which can be taken in account in the yearly budget, and they always have sufficient backups and computer experts who know what and how to deal with an attack. But what about the private man, using the computer as his main connector to the world, already for ages he did not use the postal services, or go to the bank to check his account, he stopped with expensive abroad phone calls, using Skype or similar VOIP programs. He has taken his office home, his source for information, is reference material, and even, how to make a cake. The computer is an essential equipment in a normal household, which when it breaks down, has tremendous effect on the sanity of the users.

The antivirus software companies are blood suckers, which require continuous renewal (updating) and at least a yearly payment, but don't think you solved the problem, after installing an antivirus program, you need as well anti adware, a driver checker (drivers are software that operate hardware but don't do anything for cookware), register controller (as software registers itself on your operation system, and not always work nicely together with other software registering, so called conflicting with each other. So let us assume you agreed in your desperation to install a program that promises to deal with all your expected and un expected failures in operating your computer, and you agree paying yearly their fees, 2 days after installing the anti-everything program, your computer tells you something like, you do not have sufficient ram, or simply gives up and does not work anymore, and your technician or lab will tell you a story which you can not check if true, so he will reformate your hard disk, put in new parts, and your lovely computer is reduced to an old model, ready to be replaced with a newer model computer who does everything much better, much faster, has a memory of x mega -/ no chica bites, which you can use also for making coffee and also for operating the washing machine and can be operated with remote control or with your mobile, the only thing you need is money.

What, don't you have a mobile, are you from the Stone Age? School kids take a mobile to school, and the elementary school teachers request the children to present their homework with the help of a computer. I remember, in my time in school, we were not allowed to use a ball pen, only a crown pen, which you had to dip in the inkpot, or a sharpened pencil (which was checked by the teacher).

I know, I need now a closing argument, a point making the entire writing relevant, but to tell you the truth, I really don't see a solution, the world is for the youngsters, I don't have the patience to fight with it anymore, mister virus producer, you won, but I hope that you will invent a virus that will explode in your bloody, (excuse me for my vile language) own face.