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7:52 p.m. - 2004-07-05 How I spent my 4th of July WeekendHm...Lets see, This should be a short one. I have been off from work for a total of 76 hours so far. I have another 12 to go before going back, 8 of which will be sleeping. In the last 76 hours. I have spent 24 hours sleeping, 5 to 6 hours preparing meals and eating, 2 hours showering, brushing teeth and stuff and dressing and undressing, 1 hour watching fire works, 1 hour sending and reading emails, 4 hours watching movies, One hour getting my hair colored and acrylic nail tips put on, and 38 to 39 hours with my ass glued to the pilot seat, at my innerspace vessel.....My computer, whom I would like to refer to now as HAL. Yes, HAL, the evil computer from 2001, A Space Oddessy. My computer must be his evil progeny, therefore I will now call him HAL Jr. Normally, I do spend a lot of time in this seat, having fun. This weekend though, HAL had his way with me, and I mean that in the most graphic of terms. A couple of weeks ago, HAL became infected with a Trojan....A little annoying piece of data that was initially just that, an annoyance. Now and then, when I would log into the system, I would find my opening page switched to a foreign page not of my choosing. I would have to run the ad-aware program and change the opening page back in my internet options and some time in the next few days, it would happen again. Norton couldn't detect it, two firewalls could not keep it out and Ad-aware could remove it, but was unable to remove every little piece of it and it would regenerate. At first I thought it was a virus, but it didn't behave like a virus. It behaved like a giant wooden horse that entered HAL innocently enough at first and then over the course of a few weeks dropped a thousand little "greeks" into various places in my system, corrupting them all. I found it in documents, I found it in the AutoCad program, I found it in my word processor. On line casinos and porography of the grossest kind were popping in on me with every click. Every time I thought that I had gotten it all, it would come back and like that kid on The Simpsons, it would go "HA HA". When I wasn't in this chair trying to wipe out the little army unleashed by the Trojan into HAL, I was thinking about it. I even dreamed all night long for 3 nights about running scans, deleting files and somehow a few nerds from high school made their way into the dream too. (my 30th reunion is coming up). I called my brother in law today, who gave me some extra ammo in the form of great advice and I think I have the Trojan licked....I think. Once I found a number of hiding places and deleted a number of infected documents and ran scan after scan afer scan, deleting anything the scans found, Norton anti virus finally detected something and told me it removed it, However, after that, a Casino page still popped up. I found and deleted that and so far so good tonight. Just for everyones information, the trojan is called "Trojan.startpage" which morphs into "Trojan.BookmarkerB" and "Trojan.BookmarkerC"..Be afraid...be very afraid!!! So, with that all said and done, I thought I would put up a post, before I put HAL down for the night and hopefully have a good nights sleep. I just have one question for Sasori Gal.....How in the hell do you go about normal activities with these long long nails....Typing is taking on a whole new meaning. P. I. Yarnsmith
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