No computer for past 2 days.

[Chuck]

Received a text from Telstra about 1030pm on Wednesday stating that my email acct had been compromised & was temporarily suspended.

Next morning I contacted the appropriate help line & ended up speaking to an Indian lady..... & after getting her to repeat numerous times in a bid to understand her accent, she stated something along the lines of ... your account will be reactivated in about 4 hours.

WTPHU..

I asked, rather heatedly, why I had to wait 4 hours & her reply was ... coz that's the way we do it here!

After taking a deep breath I asked for her name & advised I would be taking it further.

Further turned out to be this morning when I rang a different number - this time I got a male of Indian extraction who was a lot easier to understand... no male/female thingy intended... & they hooked into my computer & found that I'd been visited by some unknown person at some time in the past 4 days... numerous Microsoft standard settings had either been cancelled or removed.

Two hours later after a thorough cleansing the pooter was back up & running better than previously. They had added a few extra thingies runing in the background to prevent this happening again.

Amazing how you feels helpless when your pooter is no longer just yours... makes a long day seem bloody endless/

All good now.

[Dot]

I hate these machines, is your visitor there yet?

[T1 Terry]

Something Margaret discovered when still working for CSC when the upper levels of management outsources a lot of the real workers jobs to India. It doesn't matter how much the Indians screw things up, under the law over there you can not sack them or even drop them to a lower level that the one they have climbed to, a job for life unless they commit a serious crime in the eyes of the Indian court system. The thousands they saved by out sourcing the work cost them millions within 12mths.

[Mrcoolabah1au]

[native pepper]

Every time I read about these problems, which seem to be very often, thank my lucky stars made the decision a couple of decades ago to never deal with major providers and never ever use my providers email account. All my email accounts are 3rd party and our provider is an independent provider of nbn and less than half the price of telstra, optus or any of the big rip offs. Unlimited downloads for $60, is fine by me. Can watch all the footy games and not pay telstra or foxtel, no dropouts and no slowdowns.

One day we may get a government that makes these rip offs accountable for their pathetic service, but won't die hoping for it to happen. Can't see the political parties or system ever become accountable and serving the people and not exclusively multinationals.

[Chuck]

I hate these machines, is your visitor there yet?

End of the week Dot.

[Greynomad]

I hate these machines, is your visitor there yet?

I hate this damned machine.
I wish the boss would sell it.
It won't do what I want,
But only what I tell it!