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2015-10-15 03:12:10 pm

Club 27 Goals

my grandma managed to get one of the weirdest browser hijacks I've seen. She's very careful on the internet and everything, and double checks everything she enters and each site she goes to, and never clicks on weird links, so I'm not entirely sure how she managed to get this. She set up an amazon wish list, saved it, and the next day she tried to load up amazon through the windows 8 app it was a blank white page. In IE when she tried to go to amazon.com, the URL was still amazon.com, however the only thing it would load was a very ghetto looking login page, with no security certificate or anything. And every single link on that page like "recover password" or "careers" and shit just redirected to "amazon.com/verif.php"

Of course it's only in IE this is happening. Chrome and Firefox loads amazon perfectly fine. However going through her IE settings, extensions, and everything there's nothing out of the ordinary, so it's pretty damn bizarre. I've got some anti virus programs scanning and hopefully it'll catch it.

my grandma managed to get one of the weirdest browser hijacks I've seen. She's very careful on the internet and everything, and double checks everything she enters and each site she goes to, and never clicks on weird links, so I'm not entirely sure how she managed to get this. She set up an amazon wish list, saved it, and the next day she tried to load up amazon through the windows 8 app it was a blank white page. In IE when she tried to go to amazon.com, the URL was still amazon.com, however the only thing it would load was a very ghetto looking login page, with no security certificate or anything. And every single link on that page like "recover password" or "careers" and shit just redirected to "amazon.com/verif.php"

Of course it's only in IE this is happening. Chrome and Firefox loads amazon perfectly fine. However going through her IE settings, extensions, and everything there's nothing out of the ordinary, so it's pretty damn bizarre. I've got some anti virus programs scanning and hopefully it'll catch it.

arkarian

2015-10-15 03:13:21 pm

red chamber dream

oh wait haha i think i didn't get what you were asking. i moved because of both reasons—don't want to live near them and also the only programming jobs in maryland are government contractors, which really suck to work for. that's what i used to do until i moved out here

Poision Envy

2015-10-15 03:14:26 pm

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ohhh I figured it out. had to flush DNS and clear her cache/settings, still no idea how she managed to get this though. kids and their hacks these days

ryu

2015-10-15 04:02:25 pm

Quote from arkarian:

oh wait haha i think i didn't get what you were asking. i moved because of both reasons—don't want to live near them and also the only programming jobs in maryland are government contractors, which really suck to work for. that's what i used to do until i moved out here

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Of course I knew you weren't living with or near your parents anymore lol

DJGrenola

2015-10-15 04:55:58 pm

fun couple of days of suicidal thoughts

ryu

2015-10-15 05:02:39 pm

That's awful

DJGrenola

2015-10-15 05:03:54 pm

yeah, pretty common for me at the moment unfortunately :/

ryu

2015-10-15 05:09:09 pm

That's even worse :|

Opium

2015-10-15 05:14:55 pm

Stay away from any booze. *hugs*

DJGrenola

2015-10-15 05:16:06 pm

thanks, yeah, I basically quit drinking a good decade ago when I first started having mental health problems. shame I can't say the same about other things but hey I'm only human

Poision Envy

2015-10-16 05:11:33 am

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if it means anything to you, I just spent the last half hour crying over a video game.

Sad part is I got the perfect ending too, and it was the happiest ending, so I don't even know WHY it made me cry like a bitch.

Undertale is a really good game.

ryu

2015-10-16 07:08:52 am

Please don't try comparing the effects of a saddening story to mind-crushing depression

DJGrenola

2015-10-16 07:19:35 am

it's all right ryu, he's only trying to help

Poision Envy

2015-10-16 12:42:50 pm

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Yeah I kinda figured DJ knows what's up.hI haven't been in his spot exactly but I have enough compassion to know it's bad

ryu

2015-10-16 12:50:30 pm

I just tried to say in a nice way that that wasn't the best way to convey your sympathies. Sorry if you felt attacked or anything

Poision Envy

2015-10-16 12:54:24 pm

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And if there was anything I could help with, dj you know you can message me. I know though there's really nothing I can do but at the very least I'm putting that out there. I've got your back but I know too when it feels helpless other people willing to talk really doesn't help. Nothing I've gone through is comparable but for me it always seemed hard to make the choice of if I wanted to keep suffering for another four or five years and maybe be happy in the end or toss in the towel. I do hope you find things that make your time worthwhile, there's nothing I would suggest since that'd be like a fat little kid trying to tell a grown man what he should do for exercise. Just that its worth trying to find happiness and possibly succeeding than guarenteeing failure. There's nothing to lose sticking around, better to bet on 5% odds than turn it all in and make it 0, ya know? Or at least that's what kept my head in for a long time

Poision Envy

2015-10-16 12:58:05 pm

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Quote from ryu:

I just tried to say in a nice way that that wasn't the best way to convey your sympathies. Sorry if you felt attacked or anything

Oh nah don't worry, it wasn't a nice post I made, and since I was aware of that you could've gone off on it much more if you wabt.

Sympathies are for people that want to show pity, and pity sucks. I don't really want to show sympathy and pity, sympathy means nothing for someone who's hopeless. Or at least that's how it was in my case, everyone's different. I really don't think DJ cares to have a pitty party though

DJGrenola

2015-10-16 12:58:24 pm

thanks. i'm pushing 40 so I reckon even if I had a proper shrink they'd probably be a fat little kid compared to me these days.

ryu

Edit history:

ryu: 2015-10-16 01:07:10 pm

ryu: 2015-10-16 01:06:34 pm

2015-10-16 01:06:21 pm

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I don't really want to show sympathy and pity, sympathy means nothing for someone who's hopeless. Or at least that's how it was in my case, everyone's different.

Same for me, that's why I didn't say much.

I don't think to convey one's sympathies is to put off someone else as pitiable, or to show pity. It's what you do if you care about someone's circumstances but can't do anything to help.

Opium

2015-10-16 01:58:19 pm

I can't tell you anything that you haven't heard before, but I will any ways. I had some very dark years, three suicide attempts, one was very close and had me in a coma for a few days, hospital for 3 months. One thing I've learned is that things always get better. It might not be tomorrow or the next day, and things will never be perfect, but they do get better. Whoever said 'When you're at the bottom, up is the only way you can go' was right. And whoever said 'God doesn't give us more than we can handle' is full of shit. Life is truly overwhelming sometimes, but things change. Nearly every time I experience something amazing, I think about all the people I know who have died and I feel sad because they missed these amazing things. I don't want to miss anything. I'm going to stick around as long as I can for all of it. You should too!

arkarian

2015-10-16 03:14:18 pm

red chamber dream

pushing 40, damn that's being a little hard on yourself heh. you're 36 right?

DJGrenola

2015-10-16 03:33:24 pm

38 :(

DJGrenola

2015-10-16 03:40:02 pm

don't look it though at least lol

arkarian

2015-10-16 06:18:13 pm

red chamber dream

ah wow for some reason i thought you were 10 years older than me

darn, my system failed me

DJGrenola

2015-10-16 06:24:51 pm

THE SYSTEM FAILED ALL OF US