New Toys

I had done the research. I had looked at all the options. I had weighed the pros and the cons. Today, I took the plunge and bought. I am now the proud owner of a Macbook and an iPod. I am having way too much fun playing with all the whistles and bells. I have figured out how to use the web cam and the Internet (obviously). I am charging the iPod and will figure out that next. I will post some pics of my new toys as soon as I add my camera software to this computer.

You might wonder what my favorite part of the new computer is....well, it is the fact that it has an 'm' key! ;)

Adios Vundo Trojan Horse

It took the vast majority of the night. I have uninstalled programs, researched how to delete the files that were causing so many problems, installed other programs, and followed specific instructions from Microsoft. All of that does appear to have solved my problem. McAfee is NOT reporting that "Vundo" is still present this morning. I am able to get on the Internet and McAfee is running. It looks like my problems are solved. I have had a couple of pop-up ads though, and I will investigate this a little more. I am obviously on the right track and seem to be doing much better.

Computer Woes...Continued

You may have thought that since I was able to post that my computer had been miraculously healed. I wish it were true. I did figure out that my inability to get on the Internet was actually caused by the newest version of McAfee that I had downloaded in an attempt to fix my problem. I can tell you that it diagnosed the problem, but it has not fixed it. I do apparently have a Vundo Trojan Horse file. It is classified as spyware and is not a virus. That is good news for all the people that I e-mail. However, I cannot get rid of it. I do have a couple of other options to try and remove these nasty files, but needed to be able to get on the Internet to do so. I have deleted McAfee and will continue my quest. If I am unsuccessful tonight, I will call in the experts.

Computer Problems

I have another post just about finished, but I decided to share my computer woes. If you saw my laptop you would could immediately see a couple of problems. You my think it would be the fact that I don't have an "m" key. Or the fact that it has a funky "f" and "r" key. However, those are not causing my woes this evening.

Since it is Saturday, I have been on the computer a good part of the day working on a couple of different things. During some part of my time on the Internet I have picked up some ad program. Basically all these advertisements keep popping up. I have also been working on a piece of furniture that needed a little TLC. Between cleaning and coats of tongue oil, I came back to my computer only to find over 20 different Internet Explorer windows that had opened. It is absolutely crazy.

My computer skills are probably better than average, so I have been trying to fix the problem(s) myself. I found two infected files that have been deleted. I have removed multiple programs that were downloaded today. I have run a virus scan twice, and deleted my cookies. The computer has been rebooted more times than I can count.

The problems are not completely gone, but they are better. I think one of the pop up advertisement files is still stowing away somewhere on my computer, but I will find it! If anyone has any ideas to what I have gotten myself into or how to fix it, I am all ears.

On a completely different note, does anyone have any feedback on my new layout?