Ant wrote:
> "~BD~" wrote:
>> Tell me, then, about the expertise and 'qualifications' of Mr
>> Lipman. I suspect that he's a 'professional' but seems reluctant to say
>> so. You talk as if you *know* him!
>
> How do you get the impression I know him from my previous post when I
> never mentioned or referred to him?

I had a son who was a computer guru - he's an angel now. He guides me!

> As it happens, both he and I are long-time contributors to acv and
> acav, he offers advice to help people clean their machines and
> provides a useful tool to do that in the form of Multi-AV. So yes,
> I know him on usenet and from a private forum of researchers and
> anti-malware people and have corresponded with him in email. I don't
> know what he does for a living or what qualifications he has and
> neither do I care because the advice he gives is sound. All
> indications are that he has a wide knowledge of computer security,
> viruses and other malware.

Thank you. What you say holds no surprises!

> As for my expertise, I've previously mentioned I'm a long-time
> programmer with a particular interest in reverse engineering
> malicious code. I know about the capabilities of most currently
> circulating malware and popular exploits as you may have noticed from
> other posts I've made to these groups. Of course, in this field it's
> a constant learning experience as computer systems and software evolve
> and the bay guys try out new methods.
>
> I tend not to dispense advice about security or AV software because
> that's not my area of interest or expertise and I don't use such
> applications. If I have to clean infected systems I use my low-level
> system knowledge and basic or specialist tools.

You sound much like the cyber-friend I made on the Kaspersky forums!

P2U is/was Dutch, Married to a Russian woman and lives(d) in Moscow. I
'met' him on the Kaspersky forums after I had bought KAV7 a few years
ago. Amongst other things he specialised in computer forensics and was
trying to help me investigate how 'bad guys' do things.


Here is a past PM conversation:

QUOTE (by me! BD)

If I type http://www.annex.com into IE7, my AOL browser or Firefox - it
works as expected (or should I say as I might expect?).
I wouldn't be surprised if you told me something was not quite right,
even at first base!

REPLY

I understand that googlesyndication and google-analytics are there
asking to execute scripts and to drop cookies, but what the **** are
live.com and msn.com doing there?!?
OK. I'll register later today as p2u. I have to go and see a student
right now. I'll be back in an hour or three.

Paul

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Regrettably, little further progress ensued. Here's the reason why.

Message from Paul, 27.09.2008 05:50

Hi, Dave!

Yes, I owe you an explanation, but I couldn't find the strength to write
you about it. At the end of last year, I was diagnosed with a swelling
in the pancreatic area. I've been through hell all this time. Life
expectancy is not much; at most 2 years. The problem is that the
swelling was benign, but is turning into a malignant one. An operation
means almost certain death. I'm not afraid of dying, not for myself - I
just wonder how my little son is going to take this.
I hope you understand, that in such a state of mind I'm not eager at all
to communicate with anyone. This is nothing personal. I hope you
understand that. That's also the reason why I rarely appear on this
forum - the 'how-are-you' stuff scares me. I don't know how I am and why
this is happening to me...

Kind regards,

Paul
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There is more information here should you be mildly interested.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&cr=&sloc=&p=1

Or http://snurl.com/vy6sc

It is basically an extract of posts I 'stored' on Jenn's BB but folk
would have to register to read same there. http://pqlr.org/bbs/

If I'm wasting your time, forgive me. My only ambition is to help, in
any small way, to ruffle the feathers of the bad guys to which you
refer. I seek only the truth.

--
Dave