...and then I killed them all with my brain.

[teenygozer]

On November 11 at 1:15AM, my 'puter picked up a particularly insidious computer virus/malware/trojan-fucking-horse/rootkit/A.I. scurvy*/whatever the kids are calling computer cooties these days. I wish I'd realized it right off -- I could have used Firefox's History to see where I picked it up! Unfortunately, by the time I figured it out (I noted

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[chelseagirl]

My old sony vaio got virused last year because I was using my memory stick to save reports on a computer at work, and then finish/print them out at home.

Which is why I am the proud owner of an Acer Aspire One, a netbook and "good enough" computer that cost $350. And *sniffle* no "real" laptop anymore, 'cause my Vaio got taken out.

Though I've been happy enough with the Acer that we just bought one for M., since his desktop is 8 years old and getting very sloooooooow. (Sharing a computer would lead us to divorce. I take mine places, and I have Important Teaching and Research Files. He downloads things. Divorce or murder.)

[teenygozer]

Question: is there a reason you why didn't have the harddrive re-formatted and start from scratch? Is there a virus that can destroy a harddrive to the point where it's unsalvageable???

::IS AFRAID!::

[chelseagirl]

My computer was five years old and they said it wasn't worth it. But I had already received the Acer (a Christmas present) so I had another option. The Geek Squad people said the Vaio was fixable but not worth it, but I also get the sense that these are people who wouldn't dream of not getting the new! best! computer every couple of years so that might have factored into their advice.

They did get all the information off it, so I lost very little.

[teenygozer]

...and I'm BACK!

The IT guy used his own recovery disks instead of the ones HP had me make, and his recovery disks do not seem to have had the same extraneous extra crap that my own did, like "subscribe to AOL" software and the like. It was a clean recovery for the most part: I ran ESET immediately and found two unwanted applications on my H drive (my recovery drive), but it looks like ESET deleted them. Fingers crossed. A google search reveals them to be "mild malware". Like "jumbo shrimp", it seems to me that those two words do not go together!

TOO MUCH STRESS!

[chelseagirl]

Hope this all clears up now!

So, what's the progress on the move?

There have been many interesting steampunk moments, including being a supporting player in a stage show at Webster Hall, with some of the people who ran the event we went to in Salem. All the pics and etc are up on Facebook;