Spyware Strike Continues to Plague me

Having fought it off once it has now transmogrified to another spy ware- spyguard which loads itself as a www.security (Bastards- this is not in the web address) precaution.net/ web page. Do not go there. If you get infected with this new one it appears in your temporary files as file EKE610 with a picture of a dog. Go to the file, change its name and then restart and delete it in safe mode. Fiel DF95B6 should also be deleted if you can find it....

Idiot Blog Merchants

There is a park ranger blogger out there (Oh yeah, trustworthy type of guy uh-huh!) who has had some tips on the stock market to do with self regenerating trees (Oh Yeah! Cool and Environmentally freindly and linked to those oh so trusty park rangers) and is sending links to his blog (Wow) Which, without too much promotion, (Slick) Inadvertently let you know what the stock tip is and ask for your opinion.... presumably so that you disengage your brain (jibber jibber) spend your hard earned (kerching) on his useless and no doubt self created and worthless stock tip, pushing up the price of some crappy paper stock (whoa!) in some long forgotten company in some long derided market place, lose your shirt while embroidering his. Nice touch. Good ol' bloggers, beware Mr Ranger or is it "Juicy Fruiter" I am coming to get you.

The God of Love

Today I am having a vaguely religeous experience. The phrase "the God Of Love" has inserted itself into my psyche and I cannot think of a trigger. It has just been ringing through my head since seeing my bank manager (strange stuff huh). She could not be described as the god of love on any level and yet?

The descripition could hardly be put to me, either, so it must be a spiritual reference but why today- have I seen it written somewhere (I was thinking about graffiti earlier but his would be a strange tag (or not ...) or have I heard the hymn.. "the god of love my shepherd is..." or could it be some groovy summer of love throwback being subliminally broadcast across London to catch those open minds and change the world.

Whatever it has put me in excellent spirits and given me a very positive world view today... a mantra repeating .."the god of Love" is going around and around my head and I may summon it back on more bleak days (Mondays anyone?) So, such a simple thing can change your day (even after a visit to the bank manager) and I thank whoever drove this string into my head today. It is working and I will now go and do my Friday Random Act of Kindness..

Spread the word .. the god of love.. a simple phrase to change your day, no specific god, it could even be solipsism but whatever, if it helps use it.

Spyware Strike Killed outright and for free.

Well to update. Run ewido free down load software. This just leaves the mssearch file in Windows system 32 folder (and poss netwrap.dll in Windows System 32). Thesse need to be deleted. Ewido cannot do this and gets stuck on this one. To delete restart computer in Safe mode (F8 before login) then go to directory and delete the files from c/windows/system32. Then run ewido free download again on System 32 file and 4 more files should be picked up and deleted.

Bingo spyware strike dead as a dodo. Computer cleaned. Don't forget to empty the bin....

Get Rid of spyware strike....b*stds.

Spyware Strike is a pernicious little git that infects your machinery takes over your browser and gets you to buy uneccessary "spyware" security software (that incidentally just adds another virus to your PC). I have had an outbreak for two days but with Ewido, Spyware Doctor and Microspoft Spyware Beta test version I have managed to restrict it to an iritating little flashing icon at the bottom of the screen. Hopefully in the next few days some gorky type genius will develop a way of getting rid of this crap forever and I will be grateful for his wasted adolescence.

Right then - who does this? which mind warped sucker develops these worms and trojans to annoy or for profit. This one is for profit as it is trying to sell protection against you guessed it Spyware. So people must be buying it right- and if they do the money must be traceable right? And if the money is traceable then the bas.. people behind it must be receiving the money right and it must be traceable and we can then go and stomp on their heads right? Wrong- violence against the individual is.... no sorry violence in this instance is entirely justified it is just that the financial institutions and internet providers etc will take forever to act and no one will do anything- who hosts Spyware Strike's Website (Dont go there - its a sure way to pick up the infections). Is it only the Chinese Government who can get access to these things and act against them? Come on team collaborate and get rid.

Its back again and winking at me (Ewido didn't quite fix it altogether obviously).

Dear Mr Kenyon

Mr P Kenyon
General Manager
Chelsea Football Club
Stamford Bridge
Fulham
London

Dear Sir

I write to complain bitterly about the way in which this club treats its genuine ordinary fans. This is not a one off complaint but the result of a seasons worth of disappointments. Not with the team, not with the performances, not even with the prices but with the ticketing, some of the awful seats we have been sold at full value and the way in which the website is run and operated. More to the point the way it treats us as fans generally. We are nothing special just ordinary fans from an ordinary family who want to go to the football on a Saturday.

Today I have tried for over two hours to buy tickets for the forthcoming Liverpool game at home. Initially (from 7 am until 9.30) the website indicated that tickets were available to non-members and did not appear in the members ticket sales area until 9.30. Before 9.30 it was impossible to get logged into the site and a repeater screen saying try again later kept appearing every time I attempted to go in to the buy online site. No doubt caused by the 1000s of scousers trying to buy tickets as non-members.

Having got through to the actual purchase screen four or five times the website then failed and dropped my connection in a variety of places (seat selection, payment, seat selection and rejection when, because I try to buy for me and my two children, there are no child tickets left anywhere in the ground).

So now I accept that it will cost me over £150 for us to go to this game at full adult price each. Something I am willing to do as long as I do not end up with the tickets in certain sections of the Mathew Harding Lower where you can only see 70% of the actual pitch- our first visit to Chelsea this year against Sunderland was rather spoiled when at £48 per seat we couldn’t see most of the far end of the pitch. Watching only half of a game of football, for £150 seemed a bit of a rip but we can live with that.

Only we have again lost the link to the website and can no longer get in to get any tickets again. After two hours of trying to get tickets for Chelsea Liverpool, and having got so pissed off with this website we try phoning the box office- pointless really but it was worth a short try.

Whilst we are prepared to suffer a little for our team we cannot go through this all season every time there is an important game. We have been to every home game we can get to whether it be Liverpool or Sunderland or Charlton in the league cup. The crap service we have received has now become something of an issue and I am no longer prepared to just take it. Thus the letter.

No doubt we will not get any sort of response or maybe just a "we were very busy that day and apologise". I can tell you now that this will be insufficient to placate me. Perhaps I should spend my merchandising and ticket money (over £1000 already this year) on someone more deserving.

Perhaps you could put in your letter of response an explanation to Harvey and Joe (10 and 8 respectively) why they easilly get tickets for the rubbish games all season but they can't go to the Liverpool game.

While I am writing what happened to season ticket sales this year? We tried to get them as well but right up until the start of the season there was no information and then as soon as the season started there were no tickets for sale at-all. Nice touch. The club doesn't even have a waiting list so no one can even put themselves forward to get them for the next year. How, if there are to be any season ticket sales next year will the club decide to allocate them? Sorry, I get it, the club makes more money out of individual seat sales than season tickets so there won't be any Season Ticket sales for a couple of years right?

So the best football team in the premiership treats its fans with contempt and assumes that they will just keep on coming and keep on paying. Thanks once more.

Oh and one more thing- why does a bottle of Coke cost £1.80? Beats me everytime, must be the cost of taking the top off.

The whole thing is a mess, the website cannot cope with the pressure, the child seats are almost non-existent and there is apparently no prospect of getting season tickets to avoid this rubbish next year. If this is the Chelsea experience then there is another club in Fulham...

Cheap Flights! Thieves ?

Well here we go another day another rant. OK Cheap flight merchants like Ryanair are good and have revolutionised flying in Europe making it cheaper and making the rest of the industry price more reasonably. They could also be accused of being thieving gits who use every trick in the book to conceal the real cost of their own flights so that they can get good headline prices whilst charging you far more. But that's not "fare" is it!

The latest wheeze they are doing is rather ironic. As an internet only booking service one would expect every purchaser to be using a credit card. Astonishing really but there you go. So one would think that the airlines concerned (and I won't mention Ryanair by name as they might sue) would be aware of this and would not charge extra for this priveledge.

Wrong again! Ryanair- Silly me, a non-descript Irish discount air operator, ( in all reasonableness?) charge a flat rate per person for booking with a credit card.

Why you ask a flat rate per person when they are charged by the transaction? Because this way they get more of course! But no it does not stop there. It is not one charge per transaction per person, it is one charge per flight per person, so if you are booking return flights you pay the fee on each flight as well- how very reasonable I hear you all shout, not charging unreasonably per transaction like the credit card companies might do but charging per flight, per person, a much more equitable and appropriate way of doing things obviously. They are not thieves they are clearly saints and we should just stop bleating about it and pay with a smile in our hearts....

Elsewhere credit card charges, if charges at all, are often added at between 1% and 5% per transaction.

The charges I have just paid (without realising until after the event) equate to 10% of the ticket price (after of course all of the taxes have been added!) or for my £174.90 worth of flights I have paid £17.50 in credit card charges and a further £45 in "taxes fees and charges." Wouldn't the description "taxes fees and charges" normally cover this?

Deep deep joy.... does the office of FairTrading have nothing better to do?