Virus
Oh great. I booted up my machine this morning, and found that at 9pm last night I’d become infected with the W32/Parite-B virus.
Fuck fuck fuckety fuck!
Now to spend half of the day cleaning up after the fucking thing. At least I can run the disinfection s/w in batch mode so that I can tart myself up and pop off to the pub later on and celebrate Gill’s birthday.
As if I didn’t have enough bloody computer problems recently.
On a not unrelated note, I’m now totally aware of how crap Windows is. Did you know that simply moving your mouse over an icon on your desktop or in an Explorer window forces Windows to make four (yes, four!) separate file accesses? No wonder virus spread so quickly! I managed to infect not only my browser (of choice - Firefox) and a few system services, but I also managed to infect some installers on my desktop without even fucking opening them!
The sooner I dump Windows altogether, the better.
I think I may have to run Gentoo with CrossOver sooner than I imagined.
P.S. I haven’t opened (or moused over!) my mail client (again, of choice - Thunderbird) so it won’t have been sent to anyone. Besides, I don’t use Outlook.