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I am interrupting this usual broadcast to bring you news of my nightmare!
Well, maybe I don't have a usual broadcast (except that I need to update you on my article submission) and I don't know that I should qualify this as a nightmare. BUT, what an extreme inconvenience!
If this is a good warning for those of you who work at home on your computers or otherwise depend on your computers - it will serve its purpose.
I spent last week and a good amount of money ridding my computer of a nasty virus.
Oh, wouldn't it be nice just to be able to take 2 aspirin and slide them into the disc drive and call it an evening. Not a chance!
Call it naivete, call it ignorance, or just plain stupidity. Whatever you want - I feel all of those! I was ignoring the signs and had this nice, false sense of security from my to-be-unnamed-"large-name"- antivirus/spyware-suite.
It began as a problem with streaming video. Then I couldn't get on the internet intermittently. My computer became slow and then started doing some strange things. I couldn't pull up certain sites (thought it was their server), Internet Explorer started requiring a password (but mine wouldn't work!), and that darn video would start and stop (I was doing training that required it!). Then, it began locking up and finally, wouldn't allow me on the internet at all.
It got my attention!
Here's what I learned. You can get virus' anywhere! They are created to go around the big-named suites first. Because these companies are required to give their code as public knowledge!! This is like giving the blueprint of the bank to George Clooney. Are you kidding me!?!
So, these very smart, but relationally challenged virus creators go after them and their viruses are designed to disable them and sneak into your inner workings. Ugh!
If you have a big-name antivirus program, and you spend a lot of time on the internet, please consider looking into something else. Look on my Resource page for a start. But then contact a computer company you trust in your area and ask them what combination of resources they use and recommend to protect themselves.
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