okay. no apes in the house, but, Beri's been clawing at me every hour on the hour - she wanted food. she wanted to go out. she wanted me to just wake up.
arrrrrgh.
i have a big day today attempting to fix gigglemom's pc because there was a virus on it (Virtumonde.dll and a lovely trojan virus, Troj/Virtum-gen ) and the other night i ran spysweeper on it. the quarantine failed.
then i ran ad-aware. no help.
i ran my security task manager... tried to remove the stuff.
ran HiJack This! nope.
i ran vundofix - nada.
then i ran SpyBot - Search & Destroy and it killed the virus! yay!!
BUT... it also killed GM's bookmarks on firefox ----- not to mention (but i will) it apparently told her machine to NOT ALLOW any websites that have advertising robots.
so now it's not even allowing her to view the local paper (app.com) or myspace or about a thousand other sites
she can't view them on firefox OR on IE. she can however get to them via aol, but that's not good.
maybe i'll sleep for another hour and then try to figure out what the hell is going on. (i wish i could just buy a new machine. hah.)
Whatchoosayin'?? (2 yapped)
Was relieved to discover that the title of this post had nothing to do with the blind date last night ;^p
Good luck with GM's computer!
Posted by dana michelle | April 6, 2008 12:03 PM
You might have turned on a security feature in SpyBot that prevents it from happening. I don't always let it inoculate (or whatever that one calls it) when I install. I make that decision based on what I believe the user is likely to be capable of dealing with.
Posted by Rick O | April 7, 2008 12:45 PM