Computer Viruses and Malware go BOOM!

Man, I wish...

My laptop briefly went berserk today (hence this post is late). There were stretches of time when it seemed fine, then it would crash, then take forever to boot up. A couple of times the C: prompt screen came up and I was like "?????". When I tried to run an antivirus program, it froze.

Argh! I love technology...sometimes. I used to joke that there was a good reason why computer designers don't put legs on a computer. If you program it to walk off a cliff (like a lemming), it will. Yes, it makes our lives easier, it helps us stay connected with friends that we've never met in real life, and it enables us to get our thoughts across to a wide audience. When that technology goes down...that's when we panic.

Note to self: BACK EVERYTHING UP ON A SEPARATE HARD DRIVE!

Hubs took a look at it after the kids went to bed. He told me that if I could tell him when my computer began going nuts, he had a window in which to look for suspicious files in my laptop's hard drive. Malware won't install itself into a Windows Control Panel's Programs list, but one thing it can't hide is the date it was installed. Since my laptop went nuts today, it gave him a place to start looking.

Plus we ran the antivirus program to make sure there wasn't any bad virus lingering somewhere.

Now my laptop seems to have regained its sanity. I'm breathing a sigh of relief...but I'm still going to back up all my files, just in case my computer decides to go berserk again.


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Happy New Year 2011!

Happy New Year to everyone! *\O/* May 2011 be wonderful!

I conked out not long after the South Carolina/Florida State game, so I missed midnight, but I re-lived midnight through friends' blogs and photos from all over the world. ;-) It's gray and foggy out this first day of 2011, but we're all in here, watching the Wiggles' "Cold Spaghetti Western" (yeah, bad pun.).

I'm off to work on some art and writing in a bit...and Hubs has already run into a computer virus that prevented him from re-installing Google Chrome. I'm definitely watching the Virginia Tech/Stanford Orange Bowl tonight...it should be a good game.

I don't have any New Year's Resolutions, really. It's like trying to give up chocolate for Lent---if I state it in public, it ain't gonna happen. So...what's everyone doing today, January 1, 2011?

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