Golfgar4
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- Joined
- Feb 21, 2002
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- Janesville, Wisconsin
- Tractor
- None -yet. Until then FunBuggy (EZ-Go) will have to do!
WOW! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif We just got through fixing our computer after getting hit with the Klez(sp?)virus! All you computer Guru's out there probably know all about this thing, but this hacker (hey, that's a golf term too! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif) didn't know a thing about it, and obviously didn't know that our computer wasn't protected! /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif
Last week, around Wednesday, my wife says that a really strange thing happened. She got a reply from one of our friends that her message she sent was not deliverable. /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif Well, I sent this guy an e-mail the day before, but how come the reply came to her e-mail address rather than mine? Maybe we'll get do some Sherlock Holming!! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Nothing like a good mystery!
The next day, I get home from work and the wife says that she's getting all these e-mails from someone called MAILER-DAEMON. I ask her how many she received. She says 95 and they're still coming! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
Oh, Oh! No more Sherlock Holming! The jig is up. We been <font color=red>VIRUSED!!</font color=red>
So we start talking about what we should do. I tell her that I'm going to hide out for awhile, 'cause yesterday I sent an e-mail with attachments to every Church Council member, both PAstors, and the church secretary. I've probably infected every last one of them. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif O.K. So I'll talk with the guys in IT tomorrow and get some guidance (hopefully the FREE kind! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif)
Well, I can't get a hold of any of them, so I figure I'll swing by the Office Max and look at some of the anti-virus software. On the way, I have to drop off some furniture at a local lawn & garden center that had been borrowed for the Parade of Homes. Well, well, one of the fellows I sent the e-mails to is working there part-time. He sees me walking in, and when he sees me he gets this look in his eyes like a bull seeing the red cape! after I calm him down a little, I expalin that I got infected too, and I didn't know that it had happened until after I'd sent the e-mail. Well, I sure am glad he believes in turning the other cheek, cause he did as he stomped away from me! /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif
So, I find out later that evening that sure enough, everybody I sent the e-mail to has gotten infected. I'm feeling pretty low about it when it finally dawns on me! These people are no smarter than me, cause they didn't keep their virus protection up to date either!! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Wow, I feel a whole lot better now.....well, as better as I could feel with my computer infected.
On Saturday I go and pick-up Norton SystemWorks and come home to start the process of cleaning things up. I run the disk like the manual says, without downloading the software, and it runs for 7 hours!! At the end, it says it didn't find any viruses!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I DON'T THINK SO!! So, I call the tech. support number. This guys answers and I explain t my problem. he asks me if I've registered. I say no, I can't register until I load in the software, and I can't load the software because it'll get infected. He says, "Then I can't help you. If you're not registered, I can't do anything for you." /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I say, no you don't understand, I WANT to pay you guys money, but I don't want to corrupt your software. He says Sorry, and hangs up! /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif
So I say the H_ _ _ with it and load in the software. Once that's done, I go out to their website and download all of their updates, which downloaded successfully - according to their software. Now I go to run the virus check, and a message pops up telling me that there is no virus software, and oh, by the way, the rest of the Norton software is corrupted! Have A Nice Day! I said F _ _ _ this S _ _ _ and went and played golf!
The next day, my wife tells me she went to the Norton website and found a FREE download that would find viruses and tell you how to get rid of them. She downloaded it, and found that we had 78 files infected. She cleaned the files, downloaded the Norton Software again, and voila - it all works! /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif/w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif
I'm going to play MORE golf!! /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
Last week, around Wednesday, my wife says that a really strange thing happened. She got a reply from one of our friends that her message she sent was not deliverable. /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif Well, I sent this guy an e-mail the day before, but how come the reply came to her e-mail address rather than mine? Maybe we'll get do some Sherlock Holming!! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Nothing like a good mystery!
The next day, I get home from work and the wife says that she's getting all these e-mails from someone called MAILER-DAEMON. I ask her how many she received. She says 95 and they're still coming! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
Oh, Oh! No more Sherlock Holming! The jig is up. We been <font color=red>VIRUSED!!</font color=red>
So we start talking about what we should do. I tell her that I'm going to hide out for awhile, 'cause yesterday I sent an e-mail with attachments to every Church Council member, both PAstors, and the church secretary. I've probably infected every last one of them. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif O.K. So I'll talk with the guys in IT tomorrow and get some guidance (hopefully the FREE kind! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif)
Well, I can't get a hold of any of them, so I figure I'll swing by the Office Max and look at some of the anti-virus software. On the way, I have to drop off some furniture at a local lawn & garden center that had been borrowed for the Parade of Homes. Well, well, one of the fellows I sent the e-mails to is working there part-time. He sees me walking in, and when he sees me he gets this look in his eyes like a bull seeing the red cape! after I calm him down a little, I expalin that I got infected too, and I didn't know that it had happened until after I'd sent the e-mail. Well, I sure am glad he believes in turning the other cheek, cause he did as he stomped away from me! /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif
So, I find out later that evening that sure enough, everybody I sent the e-mail to has gotten infected. I'm feeling pretty low about it when it finally dawns on me! These people are no smarter than me, cause they didn't keep their virus protection up to date either!! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Wow, I feel a whole lot better now.....well, as better as I could feel with my computer infected.
On Saturday I go and pick-up Norton SystemWorks and come home to start the process of cleaning things up. I run the disk like the manual says, without downloading the software, and it runs for 7 hours!! At the end, it says it didn't find any viruses!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I DON'T THINK SO!! So, I call the tech. support number. This guys answers and I explain t my problem. he asks me if I've registered. I say no, I can't register until I load in the software, and I can't load the software because it'll get infected. He says, "Then I can't help you. If you're not registered, I can't do anything for you." /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I say, no you don't understand, I WANT to pay you guys money, but I don't want to corrupt your software. He says Sorry, and hangs up! /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif
So I say the H_ _ _ with it and load in the software. Once that's done, I go out to their website and download all of their updates, which downloaded successfully - according to their software. Now I go to run the virus check, and a message pops up telling me that there is no virus software, and oh, by the way, the rest of the Norton software is corrupted! Have A Nice Day! I said F _ _ _ this S _ _ _ and went and played golf!
The next day, my wife tells me she went to the Norton website and found a FREE download that would find viruses and tell you how to get rid of them. She downloaded it, and found that we had 78 files infected. She cleaned the files, downloaded the Norton Software again, and voila - it all works! /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif/w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif
I'm going to play MORE golf!! /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif