Friday evening, as I was surfing around my be-loved internet with my new toy, FireFox web browser, I must have com across a sight that hit me with a spy-ware java assault of great magnitude. It was my fault, I wasn't reading, just clicking like some kind of mouse clicking junky. When I clicked on 'something' asking some kind of double-negative yes or no question, that something installed a 'tool-bar' program onto my Internet Explorer, which I had been having errors on lately (explaining why I was using Firefox to surf).
This tool-bar helper installed a series of malicious, benign and maligned sub programs that were creating desktop icons for places and things I never heard of ... nor wanted, like when was I ever interested in off track betting, I don't have any gambling genetic code wired into me, I don't even see the draw to lottery tickets.
So, the system came a screeching halt Friday night, into pretty much all day Saturday. Then it occurred to me ... The web was out to get me, no longer the naive internet optimistic. I was going to throw some more cyber-prophylactics up. Which my computer pessimist answered with a resounding ... 'ugh - owe - I'm rebelling'. Poor thing.
Still . . . The computer was Slow ... So I tore the thing apart, it was filthy! It sucked every dust particle in the world into it. Even the CPU was caked with dust. I replaced the CPU fan with a water cooling system - works like a charm.
computers....
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