The city water company has an annoying habit of suspending water service without sending a cutoff notice first. Which, yes, is my fault for not paying the bill promptly, because I sometimes forget these things... but if they sent a notice, I would remember and go pay it, and it would save them the trouble of getting people out to turn off the water ( Read more... )

AV Security Suite is a fairly sophisticated little lump of evil. Don't think I've ever experienced ransomware before, especially one that blocks other antivirus software, internet access, AND Windows Task Manager! Managed to start Task Manager right on startup and stop the nasty process, but it screwed up my proxy settings (on everything but ( Read more... )