Corrine - 8000 posts and counting!

Wow! Thanks, softwaremaniac. I hadn't even noticed.

Not that you couldn't handle the malware threads, Brian, but you do have your hands full helping in the WU forum and instructing new analysts.
 
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A bit off-topic, but I hope I may ask: Which malware removal academy did you graduate from, Corrine? :)
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I guess you could say I had private tutoring. A bit of a story but you asked so here goes:

In 2003, I began helping with Ad-Aware on the old Lavasoft forums (prior to the current forums), picked it up fairly quickly and soon was promoted to LavaXPert (
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Anyway, it was because of what I had done at the old Lavasoft forums that I was accepted as a security analyst/expert/whatever title at the various security forums. I served as Secretary, ASAP Admin Council and am a member of the UNITE Teachers group.
 
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Congratulations Corrine :)

Also, thanks for the little backstory about how your training, I love reading stuff from the pre/early/old days of UNITE, ASAP and such :)
 
Congratz Corrine :thumbsup2:

Interesting story, I too was wondering how you became a security analyst :smile9:
 
Congratulations! I liked reading your abbreviated background history. Thank goodness there was a replacement forum. Too many times sites go down and you lose interaction with people.
 
I liked reading your abbreviated background history.
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It was more like a very brief, condensed, extremely modest synopsis of an abbreviated outline of her background! And I can personally attest to the fact that she has been fighting the bad guys, mentoring the good guys, and helping the little guys (like me) well before 2003 for I am quite we "met" prior to 2003 at what was then ComputerCops (later CastleCops). In fact, I am not sure I can think of any Internet "friend" I've known longer who has been a constant presence from the beginning to current day.

She became a security analyst because she was one of the founding fathers... err founding mothers... err pioneers/visionaries in the field. Can you say the "Grace Hopper" of personal computer "malware removal"? I can.

8,000 posts is but a tiny but significant accomplishment among many. Well done, Corrine! :thumbsup2: :hug: :beerchug2:
 
Thank you everyone!

How about grandmother, Bill? :D

Yup, long-time virtual friends and when I've needed an expert on hardware, I haven't hesitated to contact you. ComputerCops > Castle Cops where we watched when RubbeR DuckY/Marcin Kleczynski and nosirrah/Bruce Harrison left to devote full time to developing MBAM.
8,000 posts is but a tiny but significant accomplishment among many.
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I met plodr at Freedomlist, circa 2000 but gone since June, 2016. We were both admins there. No idea how many posts I had there but it was well over the 14018 mark I provided for 2014 MVP renewal stats. Almost 18K at LandzDown and, come to think of it, I had over 10K in the short time at Lavasoft. There have been many other forums that have come & gone over the years.
 
where we watched when RubbeR DuckY/Marcin Kleczynski and nosirrah/Bruce Harrison left to devote full time to developing MBAM.
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Yeah, I really regret not investing in that company. I didn't have the expertise, but did have a few extra $$$ I could have tossed in. Oh well. When I win the lottery... . ;)
 

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