Hi all and welcome to our newer members
. I'm Vibe-Feeler, or just Vibe if you want, I'm 24 and from South Africa (and as far as I know the only African member). I've been experiencing paranormal events around me since I was 10, and I'm particularly sensitive to presences, and I'm busy working on trying to better understand the paranormal. Favorite fields of interest I would say are hauntings and demonology. I'm always keen to help members out here with paranormal experiences where I can, I have my fair share of knowledge but I'm still learning a lot from the other members.
I'm big into computer gaming, use to play a lot online and even went on to play competitively for a while before starting university. But I also love to travel and explore, and enjoy going out with friends and occasionally family, love playing sports like field hockey, golf, pool/snooker and tennis. I'm also a huge animal lover and try help make my home as animal friendly as possible, which has attracted a lot of wildlife like hares, meerkat, exotic birds, snakes and unfortunately a wide variety of spiders lol.
My studies started off with a degree in I.T. and then got my honors in computer science, focusing mainly on cyber security. I currently work as an endpoint protection engineer and a malware researcher, so you will see when there's a massive outbreak (usually ransomware) I post a write-up of it on the News/Open Lines realm. While I just started working, I'm slowly being groomed to be a pen-tester which is basically a making a living of legally hacking companies and reporting on how I did it and how they can fix their vulnerabilities. But yea, I'm really into the cyber security world (recently created a fandom wiki website you can visit).
I also enjoy programming and writing scripts. I'm currently writing basic malware to try understand how they work so that I can determine how to prevent/combat the real threats out there. I have currently created a basic ransomware, some irritating viruses that spam the computer with applications that open continuously until the computer crashes, or floods the computer with thousands of text files, or disabled the mouse and keyboard functions, and a Trojan pretending to be an installation file from Adobe but when run puts the computer into sleep mode. It's fun to see people's reactions when they run these files though lol.
As for home, I live in the country side with my folks and girlfriend, we have 6 dogs, 2 or 3 stray cats, about 50 guinea fowl and 3 rogue rabbits. As we approach the summer this side, the risk of rinkhals is quite high, so that keeps things interesting lol. I know I have posted a picture or two of it on here somewhere. Often on weekends I enjoy having a braai (which is a South African version of a BBQ), or shooting bottles/cans with the air rifle/pistol. Hoping to add an air revolver to my collection soon
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So yea, that's me in a nutshell, I look forward to reading about those who post to this thread and enjoyed reading about those who have already posted
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