Question for the techies

[QUOTE=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 1104919, member: 686”]You can only order direct from them and you can currently only order on a Tuesday.

They don’t deliver direct to Ireland. If you are ordering from their UK site you can use parcel motel. You’ll need to set up an account with parcel motel… very handy service.

I would also look at ordering through their German site as you might get it a bit cheaper. You can set up an account with these guys http://mailboxde.com/ to arrange delivery.

Its a great phone for the price. The equivalent S5 or Iphone is alot more expensive buying without a SIM.
A lot of roaster buffoons think they are getting a cheap phone when they renew a contract. So they’ll tie themselves into a 24 month contract and pay 60 a month for example. They dont realise that 30 euro of this monthly payment is effectively paying back the phone. So a new S5 ends up costing the bones of 700 euro over 24 months.[/QUOTE]
They do deliver to Ireland now and it works out cheaper buying from Irish site.

https://oneplus.net/ie

I was on emobile. Now on three.
http://www.three.ie/eshop/sim-only-plans/bill-pay-sim-only/
Rolling contract, unlimited 4G. €20pm base plan. My bill hasn’t gone over €30

[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 1105369, member: 258”]I was on emobile. Now on three.
http://www.three.ie/eshop/sim-only-plans/bill-pay-sim-only/
Rolling contract, unlimited 4G. €20pm base plan. My bill hasn’t gone over €30[/QUOTE]

24 a month with emobile. 5gb. Rolling contract.

Yeah I think that’s what I was on. Not 4G though? Or at least they had no plans to move to that had 4G.
So I politely invited them to shove their contract up their hole.

[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 1105380, member: 258”]Yeah I think that’s what I was on. Not 4G though? Or at least they had no plans to move to that had 4G.
So I politely invited them to shove their contract up their hole.[/QUOTE]

Yeah its 3g. Plenty good for now.

Has anyone ever got a pop up message claiming to be from the Interpol Association National Security Agency, or some very similiar variation of that? It’s very similar to the one in the removal video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NWb3CQ_WU

Basically i clicked on the home page of a very well known blue video clips site earlier tonight, and without even clicking a video it hijacked the page. It’s asking you to deposit €100 to unblock it (basically bribe them from what i can see) or face prosecution, up to three years jail and that sort of thing. The fuckers even had my IP address which it correctly showed on the screen and claimed to be watching me. They give you this seemingly easy option to transfer them funds!

Anyway i couldn’t manouever out of the page onto a new page so ended up restarting the computer. I was reading a bit about it on my phone while it was restarting and expected to be in a bit of bother when i opened google chrome again but alas there has been no trace or warning of this thing since. I have ran an AVG scan and it came up fine. Surely it’s more complicated than that? Has anyone seen this before and is it likely lurking elsewhere? Computer performance and everything has seemed normal since. I opened processes in task manager though and have about eight Chrome.exe *32, despite having only two tabs open and generally a lot of processes i’m not sure what are further down. Is that normal, the large list of processes and the eight instances of Chrome.exe *32?

[QUOTE=“Tess Tickle, post: 1116805, member: 2269”]Has anyone ever got a pop up message claiming to be from the Interpol Association National Security Agency, or some very similiar variation of that? It’s very similar to the one in the removal video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NWb3CQ_WU

Basically i clicked on the home page of a very well known blue video clips site earlier tonight, and without even clicking a video it hijacked the page. It’s asking you to deposit €100 to unblock it (basically bribe them from what i can see) or face prosecution, up to three years jail and that sort of thing. The fuckers even had my IP address which it correctly showed on the screen and claimed to be watching me. They give you this seemingly easy option to transfer them funds!

Anyway i couldn’t manouever out of the page onto a new page so ended up restarting the computer. I was reading a bit about it on my phone while it was restarting and expected to be in a bit of bother when i opened google chrome again but alas there has been no trace or warning of this thing since. I have ran an AVG scan and it came up fine. Surely it’s more complicated than that? Has anyone seen this before and is it likely lurking elsewhere? Computer performance and everything has seemed normal since. I opened processes in task manager though and have about eight Chrome.exe *32, despite having only two tabs open and generally a lot of processes i’m not sure what are further down. Is that normal, the large list of processes and the eight instances of Chrome.exe *32?[/QUOTE]

Not sure about the chrome thing. Google are probably harvesting everything on your machine anyway.

You’re very lucky if you got away with it. There are some horrible pieces of malware out there.
I’ve seen ones that do what you describe and take over the computer so even if you restart it pops up again.
The only solution in that case is to reinstall the OS.

Another beauty of a one is called Cryptolocker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker
A program gets on your machine and encrypts all your files. All your docs and photos etc. And you have to pay a fee[€300 I think] to unlock them.
Make sure you have backups of everything. You don’t want to be left in a situation where your only copy of pictures of little Billy as a baby have been encrypted.
Because giving these lads your credit card is not a good idea.

These are typically Trojan malware. So never install something if you’re not sure what it is or where It came from. Especially from email attachments.
But dodgy sites that barrage you with popups are also dangerous. Use Chrome with Adblocker for sites that are popup happy…

[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 1116886, member: 258”]Not sure about the chrome thing. Google are probably harvesting everything on your machine anyway.

You’re very lucky if you got away with it. There are some horrible pieces of malware out there.
I’ve seen ones that do what you describe and take over the computer so even if you restart it pops up again.
The only solution in that case is to reinstall the OS.

Another beauty of a one is called Cryptolocker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker
A program gets on your machine and encrypts all your files. All your docs and photos etc. And you have to pay a fee[€300 I think] to unlock them.
Make sure you have backups of everything. You don’t want to be left in a situation where your only copy of pictures of little Billy as a baby have been encrypted.
Because giving these lads your credit card is not a good idea.

These are typically Trojan malware. So never install something if you’re not sure what it is or where It came from. Especially from email attachments.
But dodgy sites that barrage you with popups are also dangerous. Use Chrome with Adblocker for sites that are popup happy…[/QUOTE]

regards the IP address…could that not be something as simple as an automated powershell script or the like to retrieve the IP address when he first goes to that webpage, just to freak him out and look like they are watching him? …

That’s all it is. Unless you are running a proxy, you surrender your public IP to every website you visit.

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PowerShell is brilliant for AD…once you initially get the groups and rules for groups set up it runs itself…after that its just add and remove the users…

It wouldn’t necessarily by a powershell script. More likely a bit of Java Script.

Do tech savvy people run a proxy as a matter of course?
Should we all be running a proxy?

would it not be mad to use a java script for that considering how often they update the versions and make old ones absolete?.. :confused:

ie, should we all be running a proxy?

Not necessarily. Unless you’ve something to hide.

Are you thinking of the Java Applications as opposed to Javascript?

Yes, you’re right …I have to package apps in SCCM and the java apps are fuckin nightmare… every few months a new version realised and a deadline for making old one obsolete…

Does Ken Early run a proxy when he logs in here?

Ken assures us he hates the place. Much like Miguel.