I Think I Got Them!
11.12.04
The last three days I’ve felt so unproductive. I don’t know how… This never happens to me, but I somehow got my computer hijacked by a bunch of adware on Tuesday. One of them even hijacked my browser so that when I searched for something on google.com I got their ads instead of the actual results. Well anyway, these were no ordinary infections. Even my best ad/spy programs couldn’t get rid of them. I couldn’t get any work done. All of the pop-ups were causing my computer to lock up. When I tried to add something to my website one of the crazy programs actually inserted it’s ads into the code I was writing. But with my even crazier brain power I finally finished eliminating them all today. I had to edit my registry and system volume information; things I didn’t even know were there. That’s right, I’m really not a computer geek at heart. I just do this cause it’s a good way to cheaply communicate with massive amounts of people. At least I came out with a little more computer knowledge.
Man, spyware and adware belongs on the same list of things that pedophiles, zits, cockroaches and over-protective mothers go on. BAAAAAD!
There was something on my computer just today that was slowing my browser down, and it was annonying as heck because I was working on my new blog template. I finally got rid of it, I think – boy am I grateful I didn’t catch what you got! I don’t know what I would do if my computer got sick like that… sleep maybe? Oh my goodness. I don’t remember the last time I did something crazy like that! = )