Tuesday, July 22, 2008

RE: “kozenec”

I open my MyWay e-mail today (Tuesday, July 22, 2008).
A video is in my bulk-mail; something about “Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency.”
I click on the link, and it wants me to install some video-player I’ve never heard of.
“Wait a minute!” I think to myself. “This was in my bulk-mail, from an unknown sender.
I ain’t installin’ any such thing.”
Curiouser and curiouser. My “FoxFire” demands I install the video-player — a message from “kozenec.”
NOTHING DOING! It ain’t even giving me the option of getting out. Click to install, or pull the plug.
This is beginning to look like some hidden executable that will eat my hard-drive.
“For heaven sake,” I say, as I pull the plug.
I have to pull the plug (back to square-one) to delete the e-mail.

  • “FoxFire” is the Internet-browser FireFox. My siblings think it’s deplorable, so they mispronounce it as “FoxFire.” They all noisily insist I should be using Microsoft Internet-Explorer, the one they use. But I’ve found that Internet-Explorer is inferior to FireFox.
  • RE: “Pull the plug......” —Is just that; cut the power to the computer to disable it, so I can reboot.

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