Hexed and Vexed

[threadwalker]

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?")

Comments

I know you know this, but...

[beanolc.livejournal.com]

Viruses come in emails, too.

Re: I know you know this, but...

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

hahaha! Despite my "live under a rock" approach to PCs, I did know this. I get devilish amusement at work when someone opens an e-mail that eats their computer. By and large, if I don't recognize the sender, it gets deleted. And unless I specifically asked for the attachment or knew it was coming, I don't open stuff either.

However, I didn't even check my mail last weekend. Truly, only site visited was LJ-land. Now there's a virus. :-(

Very annoyed.