Ew virus
So Sunday night I got fragged by a computer virus that called itself the skynet worm, all while browsing DeviantArt. I had AVG+firewall running and it was updated to the previous day, and the sonuvabitch let this thing through the door anyway--while TELLING ME it was doing so. Before I could finish saying "WTF" I was infected.
It was a huge chore to get rid of that bastard, since even attempting to load Windows in safe mode generated a slew of errors. Eventually I went into system recovery and set things back to... July, which is weird because I figured I had a more recent backup than that. Now the virus is gone, but some of my applications won't function straight--like, AVG deleted half of itself and Outlook Express's address book won't load.
But it's all cool, I reckon, since for a while I feared scrapping my harddrive altogether.
Anyway, screw AVG. I got avast! instead. Also screw you, DeviantArt, for selling out to the Russian mob. Like hell if I'm going to pay you protection money for an account with no exploit-ridden ads.
(fight The Man, fight it, rawr rawr rawr)
P.S: I need a new mood theme or somethin'... somethin' not generic.
It was a huge chore to get rid of that bastard, since even attempting to load Windows in safe mode generated a slew of errors. Eventually I went into system recovery and set things back to... July, which is weird because I figured I had a more recent backup than that. Now the virus is gone, but some of my applications won't function straight--like, AVG deleted half of itself and Outlook Express's address book won't load.
But it's all cool, I reckon, since for a while I feared scrapping my harddrive altogether.
Anyway, screw AVG. I got avast! instead. Also screw you, DeviantArt, for selling out to the Russian mob. Like hell if I'm going to pay you protection money for an account with no exploit-ridden ads.
(fight The Man, fight it, rawr rawr rawr)
P.S: I need a new mood theme or somethin'... somethin' not generic.