I am a technological ninja.
At least, today I am.
Last week, my tv in the bedroom went out, leading me to put DirecTV at the top of my naughty list. I kept meaning to call it sometime last week, to set up the appointment for this week, but never got around to it. This morning, I tried one more time to get it to come on. No luck. Pressed the reset button on the receiver and TA DA! It works. I am very happy about that.
Last night, all h-e-double-hockey-sticks broke loose on my computer.
It started when it notified me that it had finished downloading the program.
I'm sorry...what program?
It then immediately told me that I had about 37.4 viruses and bad bad things would happen if I didn't run the program.
And then it told me that again.
And again.
And again.
Then, when I tried to run a program, ya know...like the internet, it told me that the program was trying to send my credit card information and passwords somewhere. Yikes.
Every few seconds, it would ask me to run the program, and when I declined, it would ask me
"are you sure you want to continue unprotected?" In big red letters just like that. It tried to scare me.
I should also mention that it looked very official, just like Microsoft product alerts do, and at this point, I had an internal struggle as to whether I should just let it run or not.
When I went to open a Word document, it told me that the program was trying to send my passwords to bad bad people, and I knew something was up.
I decided to run my own bad bad virus protector program to see if it would fix the problem.
Bad bad virus said that program was trying to send my passwords to bad bad people. It wouldn't even let me run the program.
Well, I tricked it and showed it who's boss. I shut it down, and then booted back up, and before bad bad program could boot, I got the virus protection program to zap it away.
No more problems.
And, yes. I realize that I just wrote an entire post about my computer virus.
My life's THAT exciting lately.
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