Aug 01, 2009 20:23
Ok, so i've had this horrid virus for the last 2 weeks. It's called the Vundo virus. I got the H-version for those in the "know." Vicious is all I can say to describe the fucker. After scanning in safe mode, before startup, and a number of other time-consuming modes I found that the little bugger had 14 copies of itself ready to re-install any of it's fallen comrades. Moved to cleaning my registry, my junk files, and updating my drivers. By day 12, my computer had every nook and cranny cleared of dirt that I could think of.
The obsession of beating this popup was driving me to insanity. Everywhere I looked I was thinking of new ways to try and beat this little shit at its own game. I figured out I could suspend running processes, and I could zap .dll files while not in safe mode and all this other crazy shit I would have never had learned had I not encountered this bug. All fine and dandy to learn new things, but I still couldn't stick it to vundo. Finally just had to give up and loaded a month old copy of my operating system I had on my external. The let-go was really relieving today. Especially because I took all the good information I learned from trying to satisfy my obsession and now my laptop works better then it did before I meet the virus.
I really wish I could take this example and transfer it to my last relationship. It's been roughly two months since the blow out with chris. Everytime I say "Ok, i'm over it," somehow my emotions reboot later on and then I'm right back to trying to hack into one of his accounts to mess with his life all over again. That urge to have the victory over him and show him I'm the best thing that ever happened to him is very strong, lulz. Comparing the virus and chris I'd say the virus probably did more literal damage but I'm so wrapped up in getting even I'm starting to get cross-eyed. Too bad there isn't a copy of my heart I could load, would make it a lot easier to let go.