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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Malware Hell In A Very Small Place 

...several days locked in "Death Match" head-to-head combat with a particularly nasty little piece of malware called "Internet Security 2010"...

Countless hours, including the better of nine hours just today...

Installation of a new anti-virus program (downloading the newest definitions, under the circumstances, made the days of 58k modems seem like the Good Old Days); researching the culprit on another computer, digging deeper into the bowels of Windows registries than any helpless, hapless computer duffer like me has any right or reason to dig; killing files and registry entries with the peculiar wild abandoned of a desperate, hopeless victim who can clearly see an imminent future where this faithful old laptop is soaked with snow blower gas and set on fire in the driveway...

It has been a far less than fruitful weekend spent solely in the effort to kill this ugly little bug that cropped up suddenly - out of nowhere - yesterday (my elitist Firefox smugness has taken a serious hit over this), and it is only by the grace of a loving, forgiving God that I am even typing these words right now. At that, I'm not all that confident that every single keystroke I type isn't being funneled into some dark hacker lair for later exploitative analysis. Not that I was looking for such a distraction, but this episode has certainly taken my mind off of my concerns about switching my comment system from Haloscan to something else after receiving their 'end of service' notification on Friday...

Tomorrow is a Monday that is looking better than usual, for some reason...
Posted by: Jack K. / 8:44 PM 0 comments

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