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Goin' Viral!
Apr. 13th, 2011 12:47 pmMe, do I mean, or my computer?
Answer: yes:(
I awoke all throaty-scratchy and feeling warm, despite the fact that the bottom has, yet again, dropped out of the damned outdoor thermometer around here. So far it's gotten neither better nor worse, so I'm hanging in with it.
The laptop, on the other hand, took a bit more doing to get to the hanging-in stage. Last night, while surfing one of my political-junkie websites, AVG suddenly popped a wheelie and said, "Danger! Danger! Malware detected! Send to virus vault!" The culprit, it said, was something called YVH.EXE. Yeeps- good thing I caught it, huh.
Firefox, meanwhile, had crashed during the detection and removal process, so I went to reopen it- and discovered that my computer could no longer open the firefox.exe file. I did figure out that I could open it in administrator mode, so I did so, and then made the only unfixable mistake of the process: I upgraded to Firefox 4.0.
I do not like its interface;
It's dark and gray and picked a place
That's new for all- this, I abhor-
None of it where it was before.
"Refresh" and "home" and menu bar
Have reappeared, and very far
From where my fingers would expect-
And every time that I connect
With anything, a pop-up foreign
Appears down in the left-side corner
Distracting me- it's so unfair
I do not want to see that there!
I clicky-clacked the option thing-
Dear God, I might just switch to Bing!-
Since I can't change these changes all,
I might just have to uninstall:P
The upgrade, however, didn't fix the problem; even 4.0 refused to open except in Admin mode. Then, I discovered, other things were similarly disabled: my bankruptcy software, Semagic, and worst of all my billing program. The latter is a 2006 XP-based edition that I barely got to run on this machine, and it hung up when I tried to run it as administrator.
Fortunately, I had one card left to play, and good old Malwarebytes came through for me again. It found a couple of beasties, killed them all off, and after a clean boot, all my proggies opened and played well with one another again.
ETA Death to Firefox 4! Back on 3.6! Mozilla Akbar! Obsolete download is great!
Oh, and Emily emailed me in the middle of all that: Cameron's computer is also misbehaving and may also have a virus. Go us.
----
We will be going, actually. The BPO is basically sponsoring a bake sale for the county culturals at Kleinhans Music Hall tonight- a benefit to replace the hundreds of thousands summarily cut from the budget by our draconian county executive (who still has no problem setting aside even larger hundreds of K's for the Buffalo Bills, even if the season is canceled). The orchestra will be conducted by our regular church organist, and at least one or two choir members will be soloing, as will my trainer's sister.
----
What did any of that have to do with the icon? Just this: it's voiced by the actor who plays Oliver-
Cue the bleatlejuices!
Answer: yes:(
I awoke all throaty-scratchy and feeling warm, despite the fact that the bottom has, yet again, dropped out of the damned outdoor thermometer around here. So far it's gotten neither better nor worse, so I'm hanging in with it.
The laptop, on the other hand, took a bit more doing to get to the hanging-in stage. Last night, while surfing one of my political-junkie websites, AVG suddenly popped a wheelie and said, "Danger! Danger! Malware detected! Send to virus vault!" The culprit, it said, was something called YVH.EXE. Yeeps- good thing I caught it, huh.
Firefox, meanwhile, had crashed during the detection and removal process, so I went to reopen it- and discovered that my computer could no longer open the firefox.exe file. I did figure out that I could open it in administrator mode, so I did so, and then made the only unfixable mistake of the process: I upgraded to Firefox 4.0.
I do not like its interface;
It's dark and gray and picked a place
That's new for all- this, I abhor-
None of it where it was before.
"Refresh" and "home" and menu bar
Have reappeared, and very far
From where my fingers would expect-
And every time that I connect
With anything, a pop-up foreign
Appears down in the left-side corner
Distracting me- it's so unfair
I do not want to see that there!
I clicky-clacked the option thing-
Dear God, I might just switch to Bing!-
Since I can't change these changes all,
I might just have to uninstall:P
The upgrade, however, didn't fix the problem; even 4.0 refused to open except in Admin mode. Then, I discovered, other things were similarly disabled: my bankruptcy software, Semagic, and worst of all my billing program. The latter is a 2006 XP-based edition that I barely got to run on this machine, and it hung up when I tried to run it as administrator.
Fortunately, I had one card left to play, and good old Malwarebytes came through for me again. It found a couple of beasties, killed them all off, and after a clean boot, all my proggies opened and played well with one another again.
ETA Death to Firefox 4! Back on 3.6! Mozilla Akbar! Obsolete download is great!
Oh, and Emily emailed me in the middle of all that: Cameron's computer is also misbehaving and may also have a virus. Go us.
----
We will be going, actually. The BPO is basically sponsoring a bake sale for the county culturals at Kleinhans Music Hall tonight- a benefit to replace the hundreds of thousands summarily cut from the budget by our draconian county executive (who still has no problem setting aside even larger hundreds of K's for the Buffalo Bills, even if the season is canceled). The orchestra will be conducted by our regular church organist, and at least one or two choir members will be soloing, as will my trainer's sister.
----
What did any of that have to do with the icon? Just this: it's voiced by the actor who plays Oliver-
Cue the bleatlejuices!