It Just Gets More Surrealistic

We copied Hatton-the-Computer-Expert's report to one of our networked hard drives so Marjorie and I could both review the files he'd copied from our hard drive in January, and apparently took back to his home in Wolverhampton.

I left Hatton's CD-ROM, received by us from the Worcestershire County Council last Thursday, in my computer.

My Kaspersky anti-virus software ran overnight and, to my amazement, identified a virus on Hatton's CD-ROM:

So the Worcestershire County Council --- the folks we trust to stop the sale of illegal DVD's and software programmes --- have apparently sent us a CD-ROM that contains a virus.

"Not so fast," I hear you say.

I have tried to find out more about Backdoor.Win32.ProRat.cbw -- and, in particular, what it does and if Kaspersky can come up with a false positive. When I know more, I'll post it here. I sent an e-mail to the Worcestershire County Council and asked for their comments on this, but (surprise) received no reply.

Marjorie and I received the first draft this afternoon of our solicitor's letter-before-action concerning the alleged trespass into our home. All I can say is that I wouldn't like to receive the letter.

At our solicitor's request, I've clarified the names and titles of the "Malvern 12." I was amazed that the Malvern Hills District Council actually brought Christine Thomas along on the raid. Why am I amazed? According to the MHDC contact centre, Ms. Thomas is a "Car Parks Officer."

Still no word from Tom Wells, our District and County Councillor. His silence is strange. Could he have been the one who pushed the two Councils to overreact? Pure speculation on our part, and we may never know. Perhaps our Freedom of Information and data disclosure requests will turn up something.

I'm quite pleased with the banner I "designed" for the new Tom Wells forum --- at www.tom-wells.info

Please stop by the forum, register, and blow Tom a kiss.