Yes, thank you too Bruce, of course.  I just needed to know for sure that the threat was able to be removed and was gone.  Why wait for the one who posted it to be the one to remove it!   

To whomever said that Pauli was the only one attempting PEs...aren't you confusing Pauli with PauliEffect?  They are not the same person, right?

Again, thanks Bruce.  Thanks for keeping this site running safe for everyone. 

I noticed a couple weeks ago or so that there was a new member under the name of "Pauli", and I wondered if it was PauliEffect having created a new identity or was it a completely different person.  That name, "Pauli" is now gone from this site.

However, the username "PauliEffect" is still on the site.

Thanks Rondele.  I am not doubting what you're saying.  I'm glad this was caught and handled appropriately and fast.  I was just curious as to why the username "Pauli" is gone, which is who I thought was banned.  I thought being banned meant your username got deleted.  Which is why I wonder why "PauliEffect" is still here, not deleted. 

I'm just curious that's all. 

I haven't been following the threads you guys get all involved in.  I'm not interested in those same old Swedenberg conversations that continue and repeat.

But thanks for replying to me.

I personally hate and don't recommend Norton.  It has always bogged down my system.  I think Norton will slow you down even further if you have other AV software running.  I now have Kaspersky which I love.  I have been able to run Malwarebytes along with it, however when it comes time to remove the old version and download new, then Malwarebytes is in the way.  I have to delete Malwarebytes, take care of my AV, and then reinstall Malwarebytes.  Maybe that's just typical for any AV software.

Thank you for the responses. Fortunately, Norton doesn't slow down my computer.

It's been a few years ago, but I was running Norton and it was up to date and it didn't stop someone from connecting to my computer and making International phone calls that were billed to me.  Fortunately, I didn't have to pay for them... still, I'm just saying...

Every year I call the place where I have computer work done to ask what anti-virus software they recommend.  Apparently some are better than others some years.  This year they recommended McAfee or AVG plus a couple others that I don't recall the names of at the moment.  Actually for 3 years now both McAfee and AVG have been on their list.  McAfee tells you all the attempts made in the logs and also if you click on a potentially malicious site it will intervene with a warning and ask if you really want to go to that page.  You will have to click "yes" otherwise the page doesn't open.

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My computer at work uses McAffee and has gotten invaded in a way my home computer hasn't.  A tech said this is because my place of employment doesn't keep a recent enough browser version and this is needed for McAffee. I don't know if this is true.

One time a Tech installed Maloware on my work computer in order to deal with a virus, even though this isn't what techs are supposed to officially do.

There is a site I stay away from while at work because I know that my computer will get attacked.

Bobmonroe,

I for one never suggested that Pauli be banned - just so we are clear.  However, everytime you went on the Bin Laden thread, your computer port was attacked in such a covert way that only Malwarebytes picked it up but not AVG or other common antivirus programs.

I private messaged Pauli, and he did not respond.  Others found the same malware linked to his pictures. 

You seem to think that cultivating PUL means that you can never take action to do anything but accept any attack.  Morihei Ueshiba, commonly known as O'Sensei was the founder of aikido - the martial art which uses the attacker's energy to either throw him or immobilize and end the attack. 

O'sensei used to say that aikido was founded in love.  It was a very difficult concept, to see the attacker get thrown in a heap.  But for him, the correct application of technique to disarm an opponent could only be applied with love.  The love was the knowledge of the attack and the best response to end the situation quickly - his definition of love.

Love doesn't mean allowing anything to happen, no matter what the outcome.  You rage against people who aspire toward love banning others (implying that their love is just for show).  How self-righteous of you!.  You would never ban anyone, would you, Bob?  You simply would let the malware run through the computers of the hundreds of people who might go through the thread.  Right?  I mean hey, by your school of thought, if you are loving, truly loving, then you can not do anything which might cause discomfort toward anyone, for any reason?  (If you feel differently, let me know). 

If a person is being beaten in an alley, would you walk the other way?  I mean if you have the live-and-let live  attitude, perhaps the mugger was just exercising their free will, right?  No sense in defending the victim, right, because that would not be loving (since you would have to enter into a conflict). 

No one on this site is claiming to be JC.  But even JC had his moments, such as getting angry at the moneylenders, overturning their tables in the temple, and giving some negative sentences to towns and villages which had not recognized his ministry. 

To my way of thinking,  expressing love does not require passivity.  Acceptance of the situation, yes.  So if one tries to harm you, and you can not dissuade them, then defending yourself can be done with love.  Love is not (as i feel you assume) equated with inactivity or passivity.  You can genuinely love others, but act defensively (such as banning Pauli when he refuses to respond to the malware) when you are attacked.   

Tell me, Bob, how would you have handled the malware?  If Pauli refused to acknowledge or remove it.  What would your ideal solution, based in love, have been? 

I get where you are coming from.  You don't like elitism, or cliques.  You have a live-and-let live attitude.  You are particularly irritated by those who seem sanctimonious, and pious, but then appear to act in a selfish way.  I do respect that about you.  Even if you called me a man-boob


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