Well, get a load of this crap. Whilst vacumming the 2 fans inside our computer, I couldn't help but notice that our motherboard has been replaced. It's kind of hard to miss that, you know? Now why on earth did those crooks at PC Qik choose to steal our perfectly good mobo and replace it with a different one? One can only surmise that replacing our motherboard has made it far easier for them to snoop on us, which they've been doing (and rather sloppily)for at least 2 months.
They have also stolen files right off our desktop, including the famous PDF I received from PC Qik in early October. A document of which I have multiple copies in multiple locations; ditto for those priceless emails I exchanged with the owner of Painesville's Original Crappy Computer business.
Of course, there's more to come on this subject.
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Now a word about the safety of the computers at Painesville's Morley library. Don't use them. Notice that anyone can peer at your keyboard or monitor to see what you're typing in(passwords, user names, etc)or to see which websites you visit. Also, kindly notice that clearing your browsing data takes two or three attempts.
You can't just click the button and hope it has wiped your browsing history out. Go check it out for yourself.
A good library has privacy screens or cubicles or some other physical barrier that minimizes snooping by others. And a good library has fully functional browser sweeping so that the person who uses the computer after you has no idea who you are or where you went.
Dec 8, 2010
Dec 6, 2010
A PC Qik review, part 2
More damage to report courtesy of the gang at PC Qik, Painesville.
We can no longer insert a camera's SD memory card into the appropriate slot on the computer; we are forced to use a USB cord from camera to computer. This is minor compared to the next bit of info.
The bastards at PC Qik either removed our perfectly good Network Interface Card(NIC) and replaced it with one of theirs OR they disabled it. This illegal removal of our NIC is why the router no longer worked as it did in August. The router's diagnostic log kept stating the following: NIC is not installed.
The NIC gives the computer its MAC address and allows any swine who knows the MAC address the ability to snoop on us, change our computer and its various setttings and basically, control our computer.
The greedy pigs at PC Qik have an external drive attached to our computer, as well as various readers and storage devices. They also have at least one subsystem on our Windows XP system, including one written in Linux.
Friday nite I attempted to install Kasperky Internet Suite because I knew the free Comodo firewall I downloaded the previous week was not functioning properly. But lo and behold, I kept getting all these weird errror messages and continual attempts to reboot. I am well aware that a virus or worm can also prevent normal operations but given the malice of the PC Qik boys, I suspect it was more than just a freaking virus.
Here's why: after downloading the latest update from Kaspersky and with the Kaspersky CD in the CD drive, the frigging computer did not install internet suite but instead immediately starts the damn rescue disk, even though I did not authorize it. And right before my eyes, comes the Linux files, which we have not put on our computer. So I somehow shut the effing thing down but then our internet didn't work anymore. Windows network diagnostic kept telling me that the winsock was damaged.
I also noticed a file named NWreboot or something similar; I am guessing this is NetWare. Well, who the eff put that on our humble desktop computer? Who but the g-damned crooks at PC Qik? They are supect numero uno.
So, we did a system recovery again on Saturday afternoon. I spent all morning on the phone with Time Warner road runner, our substandard ISP(they read our emails; let other people read our emails; fail to deliver some emails; fail to release and renew our IP addy and have tagged our desktop with a permanent I.D. of sorts, so that no matter where we go, the snoops at TWC know about it).
Sunday, I see their external devices are once again attached to our computer because of the NIC and MAC.
More info to follow.
We can no longer insert a camera's SD memory card into the appropriate slot on the computer; we are forced to use a USB cord from camera to computer. This is minor compared to the next bit of info.
The bastards at PC Qik either removed our perfectly good Network Interface Card(NIC) and replaced it with one of theirs OR they disabled it. This illegal removal of our NIC is why the router no longer worked as it did in August. The router's diagnostic log kept stating the following: NIC is not installed.
The NIC gives the computer its MAC address and allows any swine who knows the MAC address the ability to snoop on us, change our computer and its various setttings and basically, control our computer.
The greedy pigs at PC Qik have an external drive attached to our computer, as well as various readers and storage devices. They also have at least one subsystem on our Windows XP system, including one written in Linux.
Friday nite I attempted to install Kasperky Internet Suite because I knew the free Comodo firewall I downloaded the previous week was not functioning properly. But lo and behold, I kept getting all these weird errror messages and continual attempts to reboot. I am well aware that a virus or worm can also prevent normal operations but given the malice of the PC Qik boys, I suspect it was more than just a freaking virus.
Here's why: after downloading the latest update from Kaspersky and with the Kaspersky CD in the CD drive, the frigging computer did not install internet suite but instead immediately starts the damn rescue disk, even though I did not authorize it. And right before my eyes, comes the Linux files, which we have not put on our computer. So I somehow shut the effing thing down but then our internet didn't work anymore. Windows network diagnostic kept telling me that the winsock was damaged.
I also noticed a file named NWreboot or something similar; I am guessing this is NetWare. Well, who the eff put that on our humble desktop computer? Who but the g-damned crooks at PC Qik? They are supect numero uno.
So, we did a system recovery again on Saturday afternoon. I spent all morning on the phone with Time Warner road runner, our substandard ISP(they read our emails; let other people read our emails; fail to deliver some emails; fail to release and renew our IP addy and have tagged our desktop with a permanent I.D. of sorts, so that no matter where we go, the snoops at TWC know about it).
Sunday, I see their external devices are once again attached to our computer because of the NIC and MAC.
More info to follow.
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