threadwalker (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
threadwalker) wrote2008-05-27 09:09 am
threadwalker) wrote2008-05-27 09:09 am
Hexed and Vexed
My PC was virus-free on Friday.
The only website I visited this weekend was LJ, to do those posts. Now I have a virus that turns off my virus protection. I already used all my PC tools to de-hex myself and it hasn't worked.
I'm really pissed off.
Plus, every 20 seconds the Norton system keeps flashing a message at me, "Your auto-protect is off, please deal with it", which slows down my machine and gets me killed in my fav computer game.
Hubby recommends I contact customer support instead of "doing something drastic and irreversible on my own". (I was poking around in my files and commented, "how can you tell which ones are important? Can I delete everything that has a string of numbers and a "file" extension?")
The only website I visited this weekend was LJ, to do those posts. Now I have a virus that turns off my virus protection. I already used all my PC tools to de-hex myself and it hasn't worked.
I'm really pissed off.
Plus, every 20 seconds the Norton system keeps flashing a message at me, "Your auto-protect is off, please deal with it", which slows down my machine and gets me killed in my fav computer game.
Hubby recommends I contact customer support instead of "doing something drastic and irreversible on my own". (I was poking around in my files and commented, "how can you tell which ones are important? Can I delete everything that has a string of numbers and a "file" extension?")
Re: the inside track for Norton
Hey - a real job! Can you do it from home? that would be totally cool.
I've heard about the competing software thing. Although what I have right now (with both Cyberdefender and Norton) is faster than the virus-whammied PC from beforehand. Tons faster.
We have Norton/Symantec 2004. Probably not cutting edge whereas my Cyberdefender is shiney and new. I was thinking of unistalling Norton and then just reinstalling it monthly, doing a clean sweep, and then uninstalling it again.
But all I really do is periodically surf the web and play City of Heroes.
Awesome icon, by the way! And super-duper grats on legally tying the knot w/ Rick.