As been my practise, I switched on our home PC on Friday while having dinner. It’s my prep for use later on. When I logged in after 9pm, it was so slow. I kicked off my “trio” of protection: AVG 8, AdAware and SpyBot. It’s midnight , they were still chugging along.

Saturday morning BSD greeted me with scorn. My Windows firewall was disabled and the options to enable them are greyed out. regedit wasn’t working, I am locked out of my registry keys!!!

I pulled up my sleeves knowing I’m in for a slog, I’m infected and for the first time in sooo mmaaannyy years I have to deal with it myself. I switched off my router for fear I might catch more virus HIV.

Close to dinner time, I was near tears and I needed a shower, my hair wants a comb and I prepared DVD backups of the family pictures. I know the worse thing has happened, my beloved PC will have to be flushed.

I was thanking my lucky stars I backed up my files early this year, or was it December? I forget now, I just know I have stacks of DVD I need to find.

At the same time I was mentally kicking myself for not setting up my new external hard drive when I received it. I’ve been so tired at work, I’ve been putting off personal “work” since our Dubai holiday. I just copied my sisters’ Dubai shots from the flash drive two weekends ago!

I was copying files til midnight, burning DVDs. At the same time I was using my crackberry to find more information on Win32 Heur. The bloody thing hijacked everything and it kept on replicating itself. I scan, clean, restart and it’s there again. By 3am Sunday, I gave up the idea I was going to do this and not pay someone to reinstall my OS.

I have all the CDs but at 4am I’ve lost the will to live and I wasn’t happy anymore. I could barely see and my brain was so fuzzy I think it’s covered with molds.

The repair guy didn’t arrive until 1630hrs GMT. I have my emails imported by 7pm, AVG and spybot are back online. But that’s the most I could do. Gaadd the software I need to reinstall, the CDs I got to download! They’ll have to wait.

Then I log in here and this greeted me:

“In-depth view. Like it very much. I will follow these tips provided herein to examine its specific outcome after putting into use in real cases. Thanks from me.”

A comment left on my post regarding racial discrimination.

I’ve got web-rage.

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