i was going to post yesterday. but a funny thing happened on my way to the dashboard. not funny – ha-ha. funny – insanely random.
it seems i picked up a virus attempting to find a fantastically biotchy graphic to tell you all merry christmas. it was apparently what is considered a drive-by infection. i had no idea that such a wildly popular site would give me a virus by simply looking at it and linking to it, so i did you all a favor and removed the graphic from my previous post. and i also refuse to type out the full name of the site, because now i’m hyper paranoid. but it was my hot comment dot com – in case you want to know what to avoid yourself. i suppose i never knew it was a problem before because i don’t have a myspace. i don’t have a facebook profile, either. or yahoo. or msn. or even livejournal or twitter. so stop looking for me.
needless to say, getting a virus really pissed me off. first of all, my laptop was pretty well useless to me these past couple of days. it infected weird, stupid stuff like not letting me open my printers folder and letting me run spybot search and destroy, but not actually running the program (it would show up in the processes of the task manager but there would be no gui). it managed to muck up symantec (which is little surprise, really – norton can do a decent job of keeping you virus free but once you have one, well…) to the point that a virus scan just arbitrarily stopped. froze up completely. fortunately, i do live with the most wonderful computer genius, so, once i was able to simmer down and occupy myself otherwise, he was able to get my laptop all cleaned up and running better than ever.
but what really pissed me off is my long-standing record of being virus-free was broken. this is one the boyfriend doesn’t entirely believe, but i assure you its true- over the course of some three jobs, five home addresses and at least a dozen computers in the past decade, no computer that has been entirely in my control has ever had a virus. ever. e.v.e.r. i $hit you not. and now i can’t say that anymore. because i got shot by a drive-by.
dammit.
total innoculation