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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: scottws on Monday, October 23, 2006, 02:01:39 PM
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My remote desktop has been extremely slow today. Usually this is because my brother is doing P2P stuff. So I filtered out his MAC address. Normally, this makes it so fast it's like I'm sitting there.
But this time, it was still super-slow. So I rebooted. Still slow. So I check my event viewer in case my computer is having some sort of problem. I start with the Applications section and see nothing of note, then go to the Security section. There are hundreds of login failures on account Administrator from 10/14. They are all like a millisecond or two apart.
So it was kind of scary, but at the same time not a big deal because you can't even log in to my Administrator account from Remote Desktop. I have it disabled. So someone wasted a bunch of time, basically. Even if it wasn't disabled, I have a password that even a computer would take forever to guess, and I allow only 3 login failures before a 20 minute lockout. It would have taken centuries to get in.
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I've adapted a new password since everyone knows my old one. This one is absolutely impossible to guess, and I doubt even a computer could get it unless it cycled through all the possible random letters and numbers allowed in a 16 character password since it's not a word or anything.
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Something is wrong with my computer. After the reboot, I got one of those "Windows recovered from a serious error" thingies. Then not long after, I lost the connection and now I can't reconnect.
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Someone tried to hack me
:-[
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Dammit Ghandi! I know you're pissed that the Panthers lost, but that's just uncalled for.
Turns out nothing is wrong with the computer. The Internet is just f-ed up. Have to call Cincy Bell.
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Man, does anyone else remember those idiotic "Switch" commercials? The ones that sort of made it sound like getting a Mac was analogous to changing sexual orientations?
Stretching this analogy, Windows is an STD-ridden crack whore. I guess that makes OS X a stuck-up bitch, but damn she's hot (plus you don't need a condom (guys should assume she's on the pill)).