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Re: You can protect your Mac from malware by following three simple rules!

From "David B." <"David B."@invalid.org>
Newsgroups alt.computer.workshop, uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: You can protect your Mac from malware by following three simple rules!
Date 2026-05-22 13:36 +0100
Organization Retired
Message-ID <n7b0tgF72kvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 21/05/2026 23:33, Gremlin wrote:
> "David B." <"David B."@invalid.org> news:n77unfFmrb9U1@mid.individual.net
> Thu, 21 May 2026 08:40:15 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:
> 
>> On 21/05/2026 01:51, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>> Which it might use for historic reasons or whatever. I can agree it
>>> should let the user know, but this is really making a mountain out of a
>>> mole hill.
>>
>> All I'm asking is WHY they are stored there!
> 
> Why does it matter? You are making a big deal out of nothing.

It matters because he lies about it!
>> Even Dustin Cook, who has claimed that he is frequent contact with John
>> Daniel, cannot explain.
> 
> Now you're just being dishonest (as usual) as you continue to name drop.

Yo told us that you had sent him all the emails which you and I had once 
shared. Surely you haven't forgotten?
>> Maybe you have forgotten, but it was just after you helped me experiment
>> with EtreCheck that your hard drive failed. How certain are you that the
>> two things were not connected?
> 
> You are a complete tech idiot, David. The questions you ask confirm that you
> really do not have any working knowledge or understanding of how these
> machines work. Despite your military training and experience. Along with
> countless individuals who have all explained various technical things to you.
> All for it to simply go in one ear and right back out the other one.

It is quite OK for you to /think/ that - but you might be wrong!
>> He's probably forgotten more than you will ever know about computer
>> hardware! 😉
> 
> Software too. <G>

Apple software? No, I don't believe that.
>>> Right: you are honest. Carroll and Gremlin are not.
>>
>> I am! ✅. They can, and should, change their ways!
> 
> He and you really need to stop projecting the known issues with the two of
> you onto other people. it doesn't work. it isn't helping either of you out
> in a positive manner.
> 
>> I'm uncertain just HOW Dustin found out so much about you.
> 
> When I shared the information the first time around, I was quite clear in
> explaining it was a compilation of data from some paid sites and others you
> can't pay for access because you aren't supposed to be using them. I was
> also very clear in stating that I took no part in the purchasing and had
> previously advised against going that route, but, the individuals who shared
> with me are grown ass adults with their own money. I can't very well demand
> they do/don't do this or that.
> 
> I was clear about that when I shared it the first time. Snit doesn't share
> those details. Instead, he lies his ass off again by making up another story
> that I paid for information from people finder sites. I've yet to part ways
> with my money for things I can find on my own and have better access to. I
> didn't use paid sites for your former friends, dumbarse. I did it the same
> way I did snit.
> 
> Your friend is so well known that finding information on him was very simple.
> Many people before me had already done most of the legwork and shared it. I
> and others came across the information and compiled it. Then we shared it.

Thank you for explaining matters.
>> I prefer to ask questions and receive honest answers. I don't think you
>> have tried to mislead me.
> 
> When he claims I told various bs stories about the papers I have, while
> ignoring the responses I provided then and continued to provide, he's
> misleading you (and trying hard to mislead others). When he claims that I
> paid for information concerning him; after I wrote I didn't when I shared
> the information, he's misleading you. When he claims to want peace, he's
> misleading you. When he claims that he didn't write a lie when he accused me
> of having a copy of the floodbot (but doesn't and won't! share the post in
> full context that he lifts two paragraphs from to support his story); he's
> misleading you.

Whenever I ask him straight-forward question he always provides 
satisfactory answers.
> When he claims that Carroll and myself are the dishonest ones (We don't have
> a website or usenet history going back decades full of people who have shown
> that we are dishonest people) and he's the innocent victim, he's attempting
> to mislead you.

Perhaps *HE* is teasing you too, eh?!!
> Are you just stupid, or is it a combination of dishonesty with a side
> helping of stupidity?

You'll never know, lad! 😛

> I'm not convinced that you're actually buying any of his claims towards
> anyone else. I think it's just you doing what you do.

Hehe!  😂

-- 
David

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