"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 05/03/2021 12:38, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 03/03/2021 16:34, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:
what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says
"your computer is running slowly"

(i) mostly unintelligent people
(ii) or supposedly intelligent people who haven't a clue how
*anything* works *at all* (C.f. 'Art Students').

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or
something?

Don't need that. traffic analysis can give you a clue actually.

but that's a fault within their network

No.
If you car is travelling slow as evinced by e.g. a GPS signal phoning
home, it might be the car or it might be the traffic.

or it could be that I am just driving slower



That would be 'the car'

yes

but that's a user choice not something wrong with the car

that's my point

just because you see little activity on the network from me, doesn't mean
that my computer is misbehaving

it could simply be that I am not using it very much