You’ve Got Malware!
So I’m sitting at my desktop computer this morning, surfing the web and up pops this warning that my browser isn’t safe and that I need to click here to install some software to protect me. Ugh, I thought. This doesn’t look good. So I did a little research only to find out that it wasn’t from Microsoft or Mozilla, but in fact was malware.
Some child, who shall remain nameless, decided to download some software through a bit torrent and that let in the bad guys.
The clever little bug didn’t allow me to go to my virus protection website or install any kind of malware remover. It also wiped out the drive partions so I couldn’t do an restore from XP.
So here I am waiting for a low level format of my C: drive to complete before I restore everything. The computer is only three years old, but it was loaded with tons of stuff; it took hours to back it all up. I’m thankful for a laptop that I can hide in a drawer.
Now is the time I usually make some kind of connection to the Bible or something God said. But this week, I’ve got nothing. If you want, you can do your own connection like one devil leaves and 100 come back.
So happy Independence Day weekend (if you live in the States).
Tags: Christianity, Computers, Family, Kids, Life, Love, Malware, Marriage, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Virus
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July 4, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Ah yes, I am quite familiar with this type of problem. I gave the pc my son’s surfing infected, after of course paying to have it fixed. However, it’s quite interesting, (as I type from my laptop which is OFF limits to him) that now that the old pc “belongs” to him he takes much better care of it. What I don’t understand is that our kids, more than likely, know far more about computers than we’ll ever know … how does this happen?
Enjoy your Independence Day!
July 5, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Often we think we are doing something harmless… even enjoyable, only to find out later that it leads to strife or even (spiritual) death.