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Holy. Balls.
I just had simultaneously the best and worst week ever.
Thanksgiving was spent with Sam and Dylan and their family. They're a really nice group of people, and any time spent with the twins is inevitably awesome. It was stress free, and I did not worry I wasn't doing my homework.
Then I came home. Apparently, I'd left my computer on all weekend, and it stopped working. Naturally, my first thought was that it'd fried itself to death. Upon multiple reboots, I kept getting the blue screen of holy shit death, and was convinced I'd lost everything on here. Coupled with the fact my external drive broke earlier in the week (which has/had all my schoolwork for the quarter on it: I need to scramble the next two weeks to get everything done). I worried myself crazy for two days, then Captain N came over.
He looked at my blue screen of death, told me it was a memory error, and switched around my memory sticks after blowing all the dust off them. Lo and behold: it started up. With about three billion viruses on it's hull. Well, 147, but still: mystery of why my computer was dead solved, folks. Avast got rid of the really nasty ones (I'm looking at you, autorun.inf), and I'm currently living with some minorly irritating spyware that's turned my amazing Steven Colbert wallpaper into an ad telling me I need to get some anti spyware shit, preferably from the link it's helpfully provided, which is in all likelihood more trojans and spyware. My mouse/keyboard is also getting interrupted by background programs I can't see become one of the 147 viruses disabled both my Registry editor (fixed) and my Task Manager. The first was an easy fix by means of a VBS, but the tricky bastards have physically hidden any means of re-enabling my Task Manager. Once I find the correct procedure, I'm regediting the fuck out of it.
I also need to get some good anti-spyware stuff. I love love love Kapersky, but I'm not sure if a second trial will work. It's saved me once, I may be willing to pay to have it do so again.
I just had simultaneously the best and worst week ever.
Thanksgiving was spent with Sam and Dylan and their family. They're a really nice group of people, and any time spent with the twins is inevitably awesome. It was stress free, and I did not worry I wasn't doing my homework.
Then I came home. Apparently, I'd left my computer on all weekend, and it stopped working. Naturally, my first thought was that it'd fried itself to death. Upon multiple reboots, I kept getting the blue screen of holy shit death, and was convinced I'd lost everything on here. Coupled with the fact my external drive broke earlier in the week (which has/had all my schoolwork for the quarter on it: I need to scramble the next two weeks to get everything done). I worried myself crazy for two days, then Captain N came over.
He looked at my blue screen of death, told me it was a memory error, and switched around my memory sticks after blowing all the dust off them. Lo and behold: it started up. With about three billion viruses on it's hull. Well, 147, but still: mystery of why my computer was dead solved, folks. Avast got rid of the really nasty ones (I'm looking at you, autorun.inf), and I'm currently living with some minorly irritating spyware that's turned my amazing Steven Colbert wallpaper into an ad telling me I need to get some anti spyware shit, preferably from the link it's helpfully provided, which is in all likelihood more trojans and spyware. My mouse/keyboard is also getting interrupted by background programs I can't see become one of the 147 viruses disabled both my Registry editor (fixed) and my Task Manager. The first was an easy fix by means of a VBS, but the tricky bastards have physically hidden any means of re-enabling my Task Manager. Once I find the correct procedure, I'm regediting the fuck out of it.
I also need to get some good anti-spyware stuff. I love love love Kapersky, but I'm not sure if a second trial will work. It's saved me once, I may be willing to pay to have it do so again.