“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

Quoted Stephen Hawking~

Emergency! Emergency!

This is not a drill people!

ARGH!!!!!!

Thats right. You guessed it. My darned computer has been... Infected.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO!

And not just infected. Noooo... It is totally over run and in threat of dying...(Okay I may be exagerrating but still, this is very serious!)

I discovered this sad revelation after dinner... Woe is me!

So. I went on an all out OFFENSIVE! I tore out my AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spyware Doctor, CCleaner, Spybot - Search and Destroy and SpyBlaster to ATTACK!!! The evil vermin sneaking in my system! Each one discovered various problems which I deleted and took care of until finally, only my trusty Spyware Doctor seemed to be capable of detecting and removing any more evil infections!

While all this orderly chaos ran amok on my screen, I decided now was as good a time as any to rid my PC of software I have intended to delete for months and rearrange everything to its rightful hard drive and folders.

*click*

DELETE.

*click*

DELETE.

*click*

DELETE.

*click*

DELETE.

*click*

DELETE.

*click*

DELETE.

WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE!

It was rather fun. O.O

Luckily, it seems I caused no permanent or negative damage to my system. The only problem I encountered was when I attempted to play my Pride & Prejudice (BBC edition) an error message kept popping up.

O_O Let me tell you now. I am an amatuer Techie (at best) so this SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO freaked me out! For a full 5 minutes I was certain I had destroyed my system. The message went :

ERROR! xvidcore.dll not detected! (multiple times!)

I hyperventilated on the floor close to tears until logic kicked in. Or rather Kicked me in the head. Ouch! Since my FireFox showed no signs of trouble, I went online and googled xvidcore.dll and what do you know? It was as my logic suspected-a codec. There was a lovely site that offered the download for free with simple and exact instructions ( the only kind I can follow ><" ) of how to install it and WALA! My Pride and Prejudice is back in business! Yay!

Then... I went on explorer (which I am 99.9% CERTAIN was where the evil things came from!) to see whether there were anymore signs of infection lurking after all my efforts of killing it...

Then LO AND BEHOLD! [link] to the rescue!

According to [link] (check it out! cool website! Despite the stupid software they suggest to use that only scans-not removes-the viruses and spyware! ARGH!) My poor innocent sweet (much like myself) computer is :

Attention! Your system is under control of remote computer with IP address 227.4.167.118. The remote computer has access to the following folders on your PC:
- \WINDOWS\System32
- \Program Files\Internet Explorer
- \My Documents
- Drive C:\ files
Click here to download official anti-spyware software

Your private info is collected by W32.Sinnaka.A@mm
Your IP address: [link]
Your Country: xx, xxxxxxxx
They know you're using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Operation System: OS Windows
Risk status for futher investigation: VERY HIGH RISK
Time of investigation: Sun Apr 30 11:15:02 PDT 2006

So I proceeded to do what any other amatuer techie would do...

Burst into tears!

I downloaded and used the software (PestTrap & MalwareWipe) suggested by the site BUT its freeware only SCANS! Not remove or protect!

Not cool.

Pest Trap actually claims to detect a total of 140 viruses+spyware in my comp!!! NOOOOO! What am I supposed to do if I cant remove it you useless software!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!

I am now seriously weighing my options of what to do.

1) Continue to struggle against the evil forces of these viruses and spyware with the freeware I download off the net?
2) Bring my baby to the computer experts to clean up?
3) Buy a couple of system cleaners/anti-virus (PestTrap?) to do the job myself?

I may actually end up doing all of the above just to be safe. I have lost my hard drive and ALL my information (manga, anime, bookmarks of websites) to these evil beasts before and I doubt I can go through the same thing again without throwing this damn thing out the balcony so...

Yeah.

I have just spent the last 6 hours fighting some man made computer virus intended to drive me mad for their evil amusement. Earlier, my day was so-so and boring.

How was yours?