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Worries and Woes
Dec. 6th, 2012 07:09 pmI have nowhere else really to post this, so...going ahead to say this here.
I had a virus on this computer. Now, as far as I & the person helping me can tell, it's been gotten. However, a lot of my space is missing - I think it's from the system restores made before I figured out it was a virus, since none of my scanners picked up anything, even Malwarebytes - but I've never made this many in this short a time before, so it's hard to tell.
I've managed to clear out most of the space I lost, but now I keep waiting for the next shoe to drop. I have this feeling that something else is going to happen, and it won't go away. It's rather miserable. I keep watching everything like a hawk, especially firefox - it would go to 100% CPU usage within five minutes of being opened, which is how we figured out it was a virus - and I get worried each time it does. Thing is, before this all happened, it would sometimes go to 100% and need shut down anyway.
This whole thing has thrown off my plans - I was going to work on putting up decorations and start doing my prompts again, but now I'm scared to. Oh, and my DVD burner isn't working anymore for me to make my backups, so I'm stuck with a flash drive and hope that we get a new computer around here so I can transfer my stuff to it and burn it.
Just needed to get that off my chest, and this seemed the place to do it.
I had a virus on this computer. Now, as far as I & the person helping me can tell, it's been gotten. However, a lot of my space is missing - I think it's from the system restores made before I figured out it was a virus, since none of my scanners picked up anything, even Malwarebytes - but I've never made this many in this short a time before, so it's hard to tell.
I've managed to clear out most of the space I lost, but now I keep waiting for the next shoe to drop. I have this feeling that something else is going to happen, and it won't go away. It's rather miserable. I keep watching everything like a hawk, especially firefox - it would go to 100% CPU usage within five minutes of being opened, which is how we figured out it was a virus - and I get worried each time it does. Thing is, before this all happened, it would sometimes go to 100% and need shut down anyway.
This whole thing has thrown off my plans - I was going to work on putting up decorations and start doing my prompts again, but now I'm scared to. Oh, and my DVD burner isn't working anymore for me to make my backups, so I'm stuck with a flash drive and hope that we get a new computer around here so I can transfer my stuff to it and burn it.
Just needed to get that off my chest, and this seemed the place to do it.
