Monday, May 17, 2010

and i will try to fix you

during exams, chrome suddenly stopped working on joe. i was distraught, and not only because i realized just how i addicted i had gotten to this browser. i didnt have the time to really delve into the problem, though, so as a temporary fix i switched my non-school related stuff to firefox. (if you remember, i can't use one web browser for all of my things.) firefox is way too boxy and stuff for me to be creative in apparently, so it didnt really work out. and then, my security system stared telling me that it was stopping information from being sent to some weird ip address. great, i think, joe has been infected. again.

i swear this computer picks up more viruses than a (insert witty metaphor here).

suddenly, google is acting weird and i realize that i have the google redirect virus and some spyware, too. while my computer knew enough to stop the spyware from getting any information, it could not for the life of it find the spyware on the computer. i didnt have time to do anything so i turned off joe and started to just use junior. junior loved the attention, but joe was beginning to grow resentful of his newly assigned job as a shelf to hold grad gifts and other end of the school year related junk.

so today, since i finally had some free time, i set to work. after downloading three different malware detection things that couldnt find it, and going through the system files and dlls, i finally cured him without reformatting the stupid thing which i was two seconds away from doing. yay me.

this was a pointless post, i know, but i really had nothing else to write about. sorry people.

*Fix You - Coldplay

5 comments:

  1. Yey for fixing your computer... the number of times I've reset it to factory settings. Mind you, I do it every three months anyway, taking out my important files... If I remember

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  2. the worst thing about reformatting my computer is dealing with my itunes. every time i do it it thinks it's another computer i'm registering my account for. so far i've used up four out of the five allowed computers, and it's only on this one. i always say that i'll make a backup somewhere, but put it off because "what are the odds that i'll have to reformat again?" apparently, they are very high.

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  3. Ouch.. can't you contact Apple and get that sorted??
    I don't use iTunes.. download and copy and paste. EASY

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  4. i probably could, but i'm too lazyyy. and i used to download-copy-paste and still do sometimes but there are times when it's so much easier and faster to just use itunes.

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  5. YAAAY!! a new blog post!! hurray!!

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