I guess my email was a little ambiguous in parts and may have given some
the wrong impression. It was really posted to the unknown individual
"boy" who recently posted a rar file which contained an avi and then in
a p/w protected rar inside, an exe file which I am guessing is a virus.
He also posted the same file to several different but similar
newsgroups so my post was pointing out that this is an automatic reason
you should be suspicious. Most posters would post to their group of
choice and not across several different ones like this.
I also made mention of a sandbox - one comes free with the paid for
version of Avast anti-virus but if you search around on the web there
are other sandboxing applications to be found some of which are free or
low cost. Essentially what they do is give you the option of running any
process you are not sure of in a protected area which cannot damage your
system. If the item turns out to be a virus then you just close the
sandbox or in some cases reboot and your system is restored to normal.
If it turns out to be a safe file then you will usually have to repeat
the process outside the sandbox, though some allow you a way to
unsandbox things. It's a little extra time but nothing like the time
and inconvenience that a virus can cause.
I also keep an image of my now fairly small C:drive and have this
updated every day using a back up programme. This means that in the
event of a virus infection I can restore my system completely to the
last time it was uninfected within about 30-40 minutes. I achieve this
by having a small 120 gb drive as my system and programme drive - with
all data stored on another larger drive (along with some larger
programmes like games)
I have learned that you cannot even trust "regular" posters because it
is all too easy for a malicious person to impersonate a user on a news
group.
Lastly I make all posts like this using an anonymous remailer - the one
provided by Ultimate Anonymity is good but it does involve a one off
payment. I imagine there are others out there if you research.
I have always believed that nudity and even sex within the limits that
the individual is happy with are OK. Children today are taught to
believe that every adult who takes an interest is a potential abuser and
this has a significant impact on their later attitude in life.
In my youth it was not at all uncommon for boys in particlar to
interact with older boys or even adults in ways that did no harm to
anyone. I cant speak for the experience of girls. Again speaking for
myself I was sexually oriented from an early age without any external
influences - indeed it was me that sought out such influences as I got
older.
I do know that some children ARE sexually abused (frequently by someone
they know or trust rather than stranger danger) but that does not mean
that every child with sexual experience was abused. Many of us were
happy about what we did, are still happy about it on reflection as an
adult, and again in my case, wish I had done more.
Which was the abuser the kind 30 year old who gave me treats, let me see
his porn and sucked me off (which I adored) or the teacher that quite
legally caned me leaving my hands bruised for days? When I was 12-13 I
was old enough to make decisions about what I did with my own body. I
know there will many who disagree, no doubt veerhmantly, but I strongly
suspect that there is a much bigger silent majority who feel as I do.
Sexual abuse is in my view is doing something that the person does not
want to happen or which you know they are not physically able to do
without damage or pain. To classify most of the people who I met, who
always respected my limits and who gave me a really good time along with
people who forcibly rape a 10 year old screaming for them to stop is a
flagrant distortion of the truth.
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