A friend called and said his PC caught a cold. His daughters' boy friend techy guy was going to come over and reload XP but hadn't had time to. I said I'd come over and take a look. After all, what the hell else do I have to do being retired and all? So I go to Bob's house. He says is this going to take long? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Have a seat Bob.
So what's he got? The 'antivir' virus. This is one that pops up on your screen and says - You have a virus. Click here and we'll fix it. Somebody clicked here and then the fun began. When this thing takes over your machine it won't let any window stay open. You can see a window pop up but it's gone just as fast. Even Task Manager won't stay open.
So over the course of time I'm trying all sorts of things to beat this. Antivir keeps popping up asking do you want to buy it so it can fix the problem. If you click yes, IE will come up but it takes you only to the Antivir site and asks for your credit card. I'm not biting on that.
So it's boot, reboot, boot, reboot, (WAKE UP BOB!!!) boot, reboot .... looking for a way in. Finally I'm thinking what if I can open task manager BEFORE antivir loads? So I reboot and start hitting ctl alt del as XP is loading. Up pops task manager and it stays up!! Ah HA! Now I have access to the processes and can shut things down.
I see a svchost that seems to be running to much and zap it. There was also a file name that didn't look familure so I zapped it too. I click on IE and TADA! It's open. Now all it takes is downloading a shareware antivir zapper and a good copy of AVG and he's back in business. Nothing missing or messed up on his hard drive.
Bob's talking about buying a new computer. One of those Mac thingys. We know how reliable those are don't we Bilbo? But I'm glad Macs are around. It keeps PC prices lower.
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Did you ever know that you're my hero?
Well...Bob's hero anyway!
I didn't understand a word you wrote. Cheers Mike!!
You sound GOOD!
Have you heard of the Antimaleware Doctor virus thingi? I got that on the weekend and had to ring the McAfee people to clean it up. Now, my download quota is still at its maximum because I am too worried about getting that thing again....
Uncanny, if you reverse the PC virus you get the CP virus. Chicken Pox! Yikes! You better go get that prescript filled, for now you too have been exposed. (for readers that don't read my blog, you will not get this comment, just wanted you all to know I'm not crazy.)Not officially anyway.
And once again, Matt-Man is hilarious!
J - Now all I need is a song written about my adventures to complete the hero package.
MM - But they were real words! I promise. Maybe.
A - There's is so much crap out there it's mind numbing. Just yesterday McAfee caught a virus when I clicked on what looked like a normal site.
RW - It's now official.
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