viruses contained

[ritaxis]

I'm offline since last Tuesday, when I was home with influenza and watched a virus take over my computer. It was out of my league, though at least I did recognize the thing almost immediately for what it was, and pulled the DSL cable right away do as not to infect anyone else. I've removed viruses before, but as I say, this one was out of my league. Any command the computer attempted to execute the virus would cancel, throwing up an error message that purported to come from Windows (but which was not in the style my Windows error messages come in-- does that mean the stupid virus wastes code on formatting the error messages itself?), saying that some program or process was infected and do I want to "activate my anti-virus software now?" and it attempts to connect to a website called Anti-virus Soft.

Anyway, I took the computer in, snagging a passing young man, and tonight Emma's taking me to pick it up.

But it's weird that we both have viruses, the computer and I.

My virus is dead now, but now my immune system is reluctant to stand down, and I cough all the time unless I'm drugged to the gills.

Comments

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

Hope you get better soon.

[carbonel]

I had much the same computer experience a few months ago, except that I shut the computer down instead of yanking the DSL cable. And then I couldn't get it to start up again -- I got the BSOD every time.

It cost me around $150 to get it fixed. It would have been an additional $100 for 9-1-1 service, but they forfeited that because it wasn't ready in 24 hours.

All because I stupidly clicked on the wrong button on a website that I should have been suspicious of. Bleah.

I hope you and your computer are both soon well.