What to do about Malware--- a Bedtime Story
(Why it has to be Joe Biden)
So, you just fired up your Windows 10 PC, and went into gmail to check your messages. Then you see something pop up on Messenger from a Facebook friend. It's a link to download an App, forwarded that's supposed to help you make money on the Stock Market called "Marketseer". So, you figure why not, its from a friend, and you click on it to open it up. Then it installs, you enter your personal info, and "Eureka" you have a new income building tool in your pocket.
You try it out, its helpful in pointing out stock picks, you go in on some buys, and lo and behold make some money.
Then you notice your PC is sluggish. It starts downloading updates, patches, and making system updates. Then, you get a freaked out phone call from your kid at college that her debit card doesn't work. You call your Bank to get a balance, and find that your account has been cleaned out. You get a call from your credit card company fraud section to ask if you've just made a purchase of $60,000 worth of Nigerian Ginko Oil, and you say no, and now you are realizing you've been hacked. Everywhere your finances are in carnage. You start getting DM's from your Facebook Friends and Twitter followers asking why you are sending them blog posts from the "Sons of the Aryan Death Regiment", which is odd, because they know you are a Talmudic Scholar, and this is unusual. One of your friends, no names, just called to ask why there are now deep fake videos captured from your Webcam playing on Pornhub of you getting it on with Roseanne Barr.
You try it out, its helpful in pointing out stock picks, you go in on some buys, and lo and behold make some money.
Then you notice your PC is sluggish. It starts downloading updates, patches, and making system updates. Then, you get a freaked out phone call from your kid at college that her debit card doesn't work. You call your Bank to get a balance, and find that your account has been cleaned out. You get a call from your credit card company fraud section to ask if you've just made a purchase of $60,000 worth of Nigerian Ginko Oil, and you say no, and now you are realizing you've been hacked. Everywhere your finances are in carnage. You start getting DM's from your Facebook Friends and Twitter followers asking why you are sending them blog posts from the "Sons of the Aryan Death Regiment", which is odd, because they know you are a Talmudic Scholar, and this is unusual. One of your friends, no names, just called to ask why there are now deep fake videos captured from your Webcam playing on Pornhub of you getting it on with Roseanne Barr.
Yep, your PC is infected with Malware. Its the nastiest one of all time, and its spread to your friends, your entire home network, your emails and your work computers, and is spreading throughout the Nation like wildfire. It's running hidden in Memory, taking over all of your apps, and completely corrupting your system and others. Its identified as Russian engineered, and it snuck in as a Bot attached and hidden by the Marketseer app. It has literally infected and disabled the entire US Information system, and creates a National crisis.
Amazingly, the people are divided over this. People who use MAC and didn't get hit with the Malware don't want the app interfered with, because they are making money on the Market with the app, and believe it doesn't affect them because only some people are vulnerable.
So, you are faced with some choices. One is to stop using computers, which is unacceptable. The other is to install Linux, which is a big loser. Then someone comes along and says wait. "We have to hang on until the engineers at Microsoft reverse engineer the Malware and develop a tool to remove it. It may take time.
In the meantime, here's an idea. Since it only can operate under Windows 10, why not download an old operating system (OS) like Windows 7, install it on your PC and run it as a Dual OS, and use that until the Microsoft guys come up with a tool and the patches to fix our computers.
In the meantime, here's an idea. Since it only can operate under Windows 10, why not download an old operating system (OS) like Windows 7, install it on your PC and run it as a Dual OS, and use that until the Microsoft guys come up with a tool and the patches to fix our computers.
And you say, "ahhhhhh , shit, I don't like Windows 7. It's old, its clunky, it's not compatible with all of the apps I use, I hate the Start up Menu, Microsoft no longer supports it, and it's a total waste of all of the memory, hard drive space, and processor speed my kid uses for gaming". "Do I have to"? "This really sucks",
Well, yeah, it does. I don't see another way. It's what we have to work with until the problem is fixed. Get the most out of your PC in the meantime. You should have never clicked on that link that you thought came from your friend. Suck it up.
So, that's our little bedtime story. You've probably already guessed it's an allegory. Your PC is the United States. Your Operating System Windows 10 is the US Presidency, the Russian Malware which corrupted it is Donald Trump, the MAC users are Trump supporters ( sorry, dramatic license) and the old clunky Windows 7 OS you have to use to get by is Joe Biden, as a temporary hack. Sometimes, we have to play the hand we are dealt.
And the ending is that we might all live happily ever after.
