- adapted from Douglas Adams
Gone but not forgotten
(or catharsis from the past)
and back into history...
Blogs that take my mind to better places
Adrift at SeaAeolian dissonance
A Rain of Frogs
Meanwhile across town
Lette's blog
The Pomo circus is in town
This is nothing, you should hear me play piano
Places that it is my pleasure to take you
MellaflusiaTiger's bites - a recipe site
Alberg 29's - sailing!
Spyware is evil! · 31 August 04
Well, last night turned into a bit of a crisis. I got home at 6pm and decided to quickly sort out the annoying little feature that my laptop had developed, which I had diagnosed as spyware. The spyware turned out to behave more like a virus though! It stopped me getting onto the internet through my wireless card, or running norton. I finally got onto the internet with my old LAN card, and downloaded spybot, which purged the system, but too late to save my OS! (Although I only discovered this after a lengthy hold/conversation with a nice man in india from Linksys.) So, I surfed the net for a bit, found out that office Depot were doing an XP upgrade for 100 bucks, and decided to just go and buy it then and there – we’re talking 8.30pm at this point. So I went and bought XP and installed it on my laptop – and it is working beautifully! Although this did take until 11 pm… The wireless card reinstalled no problem and the memory upgrade I bought a couple of years ago that never really kicked in is now streaming along. ‘Minor’ details are that I have to update some software, including the DVD decoder if I want to watch DVDs on my laptop – so I guess this is going to cost me in the region of 150 bucks. Still, it is running so shinily well at the moment that I can’t complain!