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Mixed bag of a day so far

TheCatWoman

The good thing was walking in the woods with Fearn and  passing a toddler who held out bith hands and said 'Look, pine cones!' I wish we cou.d all go back to the state of wonder that small children have.

The rest of the day's not being so good. Last night I leant my fried who I live with my pooter so as he could read his emails as both his pooters aren't working, instead of reading his emails and returning the pooter to me in the state he found it, he's managed to merge our firefox browsers and now all his stuff comes up as icons on my home page and when I come on here I'm getting a small red circle and exclaimation mark asking me if I want to do something or other, which I definately didn't and closed down as soon as possible, but I still can't get rid of.

 My "friend" now can't undo what he did to my pooter and told me to go on amazon and by a new one. I don't want to buy a new one, I wouldn't know what to buy for a start, so seeing as he's willing to pay for his mistake I will try and gett this one fixed. I'm also wary of doing anything that involves money when I've got this unidentified thing on it. 

I don't know if I'm more cross with myself for letting him use, knowing that he has a habit of fiddling with things, especially things he knows little about, or him for fiddling with it in the first place/

It feels so disrespectful to me and my stuff that he's left me in this position, he can have little notion of privacy at times too, accidently getting into my email instead of his and questioning me about what certain things are and who the people are that I communicate with regularly. I don't have anything to hide and it's not secret, but having someone read your mail and then question you on it is really invasive and rude.

So tomorrow I will go to Bangor to the shop I got this pooter from and ask them to fix it, if it can't be fixed then I wll get another one from them, reconditioned and set up ready of rme to use.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I still can't believe how badly he managed to mess up your machine in such a short amount of time.

    I think privacy badger might be doing a good thing, it might be showing up all the time as it sounds like your computer is full of malware (bad software that's got downloaded onto your machine). Like a smoke alarm keeps going off if there is smoke.

    Glad it's slowly getting fixed up anyway.

  • Well, it's mostly fixed, they had to delete two months worth of stuff from the memory as they couldn't work out what was done to make everything merge like it was.

    There's stuff I still need to recover, like my Mums email, which has totally disapeared and we don't know where too, hopefully I will be able to recover it fairly easily, I have her password somewhere.

    There's stuff, like an icon for channel 5 that dosen't seem to want to be removed, I never watch tv on my pooter so it's an import, it won't be dismissed or deleted and it dosen't seem to appear anywhere else, so that remains a mystery.

    I've still got this annoying red blob that turns into an exclaimation mark just above the reply button and it keeps freaking out when I ignore it, I want it gone, it's called privacy badger or something, I just wish it badger off!

  • Reading someone else’s emails without permission is rude. 

    I don’t share my devices but I protect all my email accounts with passwords anyway. I don’t want somebody going through my emails and files when my time on earth is up.

  • in reply to Roy

    Who or what is fiddlers dram?

    The saga continues, shop needs time to sort out my pooter, might be hours or days or maybe not at all and I will have to get another one, so still in not much of a better postion than I was earlier

  • Sorry you have had this happen, it’s very rude to have someone fiddle with your computer. Reading someone else’s emails without permission is similar to reading someone else’s diary. 
    Nobody asks to use my laptop, I’m still on Windows 7. It still does what I want and doesn’t have loads of functions that I will never use.

    When ever you mention Bangor, I immediately think of Fiddlers Dram.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I had to reread this several times to understand what a pooter was. I lock down everything no one is trustworthy except maybe my mum who has a spare door key. My ex almost wife used to read my emails. Are you Welsh?

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I wouldn't know how to do those things and theres no one I know who can do stuff like that round here, so it will be a trip to the shop. I think the antivirus stuff just runs away in the background, it pops up and tells me it's stopped something or theres nothing to find every now and again.

    I only really use my pooter to come on here, read the paper and my emails, I might go on amazon to look at books, but really my computer usage is so low, partly because I can rarely find anything I ask it to search for, still getting loads of romantic fiction and airfryers on amazon and loads of sponsered ads and one thing that vaguely matches what I've asked for, so I've more or less given up on the internet or finding things I want, it's to depressing and frustrating.

  • Urrgh that's really rude, to accidentally open your email, then proceed to read your messages than ask you questions about it further, is a complete invasion of privacy, and especially rude and nosy. It's like going through your clothes drawers.