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Originally Posted by davethejag
Hi All, Many thanks again for all the hard work you are all putting in to this fight! Slightly off topic I am a bit worried about when I clicked on the link to the video of the Phorm meeting the other day. I am not too computer literate but my AVG free edition picked up a virus which I put in the Virus Vault and I then cleared it, I also cleared my temporary internet files. The next day when AVG did a scan it picked a "HTML/Framer" as a threat, I think that this was in the temporary internet files again and I cleared them again. AVG has never found anything before and it seems ok now?. I do not undrestand the Russian hacking business and I would be very pleased if one of you brainier ones could put my mind at rest! Thanks again to all of you for the tremendous effort that you are all putting in to this fight.
davethejag.
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Hi Dave,
I can't give you comfort words but I can at least give it you straight. Russia is run by two factions, the guberment and the mafia. Russia is quite unstable really, they have the authoritarian state terror machine who will ruthlessly surpress genuine progress towards a stable democracy and then they have a twisted form of capitalism run by gangsters, crooks and the mafia. Russia does not abide by international treaties or global laws so they have become a safe haven for cyber-criminals and malicious hackers. There is a lot of money to be made by the criminal elements in Russia by exploiting the rest of the world through the interconnected wires. They know they will never get prosecuted and so they have no incentive to stop until the Russian guberment sorts itself out and abides by international norms. (USA, FBI has managed a few high profile arrests of Russian cyber-criminals but that is unlikely to happen over here as the UK government is inept)
Kent Ertugrul the criminal entrepreneur picked Russia as a base because he knew his kind of business operations (deception/theft/trespass) would only work from the rotten core of deprived immoral like minded bandits that he likes to associate with. (Hi Stratis!).
As you have gathered from reading this forum, the UK was not the easy pushover that Kent the criminal was counting on in order to setup his despicable parasitic business. In order to find some comfort from the Russian attacks you will have to continue to read forums like this to keep abreast of events and news as it happens, pickup good technical advice, and share our siege mentality and comradery.
Good luck, keep your head down.
