The art of blowing up a computer
Well, I made a New Year's resolution to post more. And I was going to follow it, however, the TechnoGods had other ideas.It was a Friday afternoon a couple of weeks back as I wanted to "borrow" a song. As I was trying to connect to my "borrowing" program, a pop-up window exploded, saying that I was infected with a virus. Now as I was looking at this and not paying close attention, I did notice that the pop-up window was in the same color scheme as my anti-virus program, AVG. I clicked the accept on a different pop-up.
Oops.
What I promptly clicked on was the "virusremover 2008" which promptly installed this program on my computer. Slapping my head hard on the desk, I realized I screwed up. Googling like a madman, I found how to remove this "program" as it was funneling pop-ups left and right onto my machine. I did what they said, but still had pop-ups erupting on my screen. Silently cussing, I ran my virus scanner again and dashed off to call a couple of games on the radio. When I got home, I noticed I still had freaking pop-ups. I decided to drop some Spybot Search and Destroy on this crap and kill it off, but I needed to update Spybot.
Oops Two.
In the update process, it said I needed to restart the computer. No problem I said. I restarted it and went to click Spybot to finish the update process when the computer restarted itself. Odd, I thought. Once again, I went through the start up process, and again, it restarted. After an hour and a half of that, I nearly ripped it from the desk. I called Jeremy for computer help and he said "Bring it over because it was computer triage weekend."
He spent the weekend working on it, finding another virus hidden deep that wiped out key software components. This virus screwed everything up so bad, Jer yanked my hard drive out and built me a new machine. After a week of not having my comp, I have a new, quicker machine that is stable.
What a saga.
posted by Rusty @ 2:12 PM
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