Dear friends, family, and the curious,
A few weeks ago (August 28th to be precise- I know- I checked) I was browsing song lyrics to make sure they were Kosher for my Playlist and badda-bing, badda-boom, we're infected. Since then, we have been seeing this popup (courtesy of Buritos.exe, Karina.exe, Braviax.exe, etc) and for the record, do not click on it if you see it- it's a ruse to infiltrate further. I noticed that they spelled prevent "pervent", and thought it was just another quirk from Microsoft. *sigh* -ANYWAY!
We had let our Norton lapse some months ago since we've known we needed a serious system overhaul in the near future for a while and most of our files have been backed up for months (luckily). We haven't had our Router hooked up for some time either since we had problems browsing with it. AND we use IE which, I'm finding out, bites. SO. I have tried all the tricks of trade to get this thing off and it is going nowhere. Add to that the random mechanical clicking that our hard drive has been entertaining us with since the beginning of the year and you get where we're at- a new hard drive. THEREFORE, Doug and I spent our date night and Saturday morning at geeky stores like Best Buy and Fry's buying new internal and external hard drives and talking about PCI adapter cards.
And in case you have a Dell and find yourself in a similar situation AND after searching through all your system restore discs you find you have NO OS RESTORE DISC!!! Dell will ship you one overnight for free. Yipee. Why they don't just give it to you to start with I don't know. I guess Rasheem (whom I had to ask to repeat every sentence) needs job security... Are you sensing the satire? No? -I'll go on.
I should probably note here that trying to install Norton to do it's job AFTER you have a virus is not recommended as it refuses to install and instead tells you to "remove Trojan and then install." Hello! That's your job- to remove the virus! If I could do it myself, I would not need you!!
In case you were wondering why we have not posted adorable pictures of our cute baby or our two precocious toddlers- that is why. I refuse to upload any pictures to my computer to simply necessitate backing them up immediately. So until we get squared away, this will have to keep y'all satisfied for a while.
Peace out,
"Thwarted in Trojanville"
2 comments:
I hate viruses, why do the hackers have to be so mean. Your solution is probably better than mine, I would feel like purchasing a new computer. Maybe Dell themselves do this so I will buy another computer?
Good Luck,
I'm afraid I'm going to have to replace my laptop very soon; its problems are age-related rather than virus-related, but I'm not sure how much longer it will be able to limp along. I can't reinstall everything, either, because I managed to accidentally fracture one of my OS discs in a drawer several years ago--one that Dell says they can't send me! Sigh.
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