Grumpiness in New, Seasonal Flavours

[The Jade Knight]

Did you do an actual honeymoon?

No chance; Med School Orientation was 2 days after the wedding.

[little wilson]

So. Earlier today, I turned on my laptop. I was on for barely five minutes (maybe), and I wasn't even really doing anything, and all of a sudden, this antivirus thing pops up saying my computer is infected with a bunch of Trojans, and I try to exit out of it, but it won't let me. So I go to the Control Panel, thinking that if I remove the program, that will solve my problem. But I get this error telling me that I don't have access to the control panel. So I try SuperAntiSpyware, which again comes up with the same error....

Well. I'm more than minorly frustrated at this point, so I call my dad (it's lovely to have a computer programmer as my father...) who tells me to shut my computer off and he'll look at it when he comes home. Which he does (and as a funny little side-note, when he turned it back on, it wouldn't let me open ANYTHING. Not even Spider Solitaire...), and he fixed it. Eight Trojans. Argh. My computer just won't stay uninfected for more than three months.

The stupid thing is that even though it's uninfected now, it still pops up with that error, telling me that I can't access whatever program I'm trying to run, but the program will still run. Even though the error says it won't....Stupid computer. I hate you....

[ryos]

This one's for you, Wilson: Ars Technica Guide to Malware and How to Avoid It.

My sister's computer is a virus magnet. My dad's computer never picks up viruses. I strongly suspect the difference is not in the computers.

(Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm trying to be helpful here.)

[little wilson]

Oh, I know. It's my fault this problem started. I shouldn't have gone to certain sites to watch some of the movies and tv shows I did. I know that's how I picked it up in the first place. The thing that gets me is that my dad cleaned my computer (this was last November). He cleaned it GOOD. There was nothing wrong with it for about three months, and then it got reinfected. Again because of my stupidity....

But at this point, I'm going solely to site that I know are safe. I'm not clicking links, I'm not opening junk mail. As far as I know, I'm doing everything I should be, yet somehow my computer keeps picking these things up.

Anyway. Thanks for the link. Reading it right now.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

If you get a suspicious popup, only close it by right-clicking the taskbar button and selecting Close. Buttons on the popup itself might be fake.

[Miyabi]

I . . . . really really want to play WoW again. . . . but I've been clean for over a year.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Darnit! I ordered the wrong type of memory and didn't realize it until I opened the box. At least I didn't open the packaging and they'll take it back with no restocking fee... Sigh.

EDIT: Not only that, but the wireless card I got for Karen does not fit her computer. I suck.

[Silk]

While we're on the subject of computer woes...

I think it may be time for a new monitor. This one keeps going pink.

[little wilson]

This one keeps going pink.

...I don't think it's supposed to do that.

Mine keeps blacking out on me when it's running on batteries. Only sometimes it's not blacked out. Sometimes it's a bright green. Or some other unnatural color....Odd.

[Silk]

...I don't think it's supposed to do that.

[sortitus]

Raethe, if it's a CRT, you may just have some weird wires in the cord shorting if that's any comfort. No matter what kind of monitor it is, if it has a replaceable cord, you could do what the name says to it.

Sounds like yours is a connection issue as well, wilson. Does the tilt affect the badness?

I created some awkward by conversing with a totally gorgeous model who is my friend-from-high-school-who-is-a-girl's second cousin. Where do I go wrong? Can't I just harass random beautiful women on the internet without them being [that one religion]? And a relative of a friend? It's a good bet that the Empire knows we're here my friend now knows that I totally chatted up her cousin.

P.S. It's not quite as bad as I make it sound, but still.
P.P.S. I don't do this on a regular basis. This is the only time I've done this, in fact.

[little wilson]

Sounds like yours is a connection issue as well, wilson. Does the tilt affect the badness?

No. It doesn't do it all the time either. Just about half the time I'm running on batteries, and only when I've been off the AC for over an hour...The screen goes a solid color (could be pretty much anything. I've seen charcoal, green, light gray, white...and a few others. Mostly charcoal), and I have to restart the computer to get it back to normal. Not even closing the laptop--which normally puts it into hibernation--does anything. I hit the button that should put it into hibernation and the screen goes black, and then I take my finger off it, and it goes back to whatever color it was before....Stupid.

I really just need to have it taken apart. My brother's best friend is insanely good with laptops and computers--he's built more than his fair share--and he'd probably be able to figure out what's wrong with it....But hey--at least mine isn't randomly freezing up, like my sister's. She reboots it and sometimes it freezes again within 5-10 minutes of the reboot.

[Silk]

Ugh. Was going to go out to karaoke tonight at a favourite haunt... and it turns out they're not having karaoke. (Which we discovered five minutes before phoning ahead - as we phone ahead because it's a bit of a drive.) Now I'm disappointed.

Now my mother's phoning other places to see if THEY have karaoke (in Kelowna, which is even more of a drive). Meh. If we're not going to the Saxon I'd really rather stay home and work. =(

Edit: Also, the writing  in my first draft is embarassingly bad. I want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon now.

[The Jade Knight]

So, Joe Sparks (of Radiskull fame) came up to Reno for the weekend & we went out to get smoothies at a local Vietnamese place... only to find out that they closed half an hour before we got there.  Bleh.

[Silk]

I have such short stubby fingers. Playing even moderately difficult chords can be a pain. Usually literally.