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Tuesday, October 22, 2002

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.: tubleweed :.
........** whooooosh ** ...........:.:.:... :.

...k, so the barren landscape might be considered good? It's calm, no catastrophe's... no one crashing into fences.
I've had internet at home, and it's nice -- downloading music, getting news, streaming video. I also fall back into the rut of not cooking and not needing to leave the house or do much of anything.

My laptop contracted a virus? It might have been the result of too much tweaking... I saw a suspicious "rundll.exe blahblah.dll, gorunmecq.cvd" (but it's there again after a fresh install so it might not have really been a virus) I had a few trojan horses show up, cited by Norton. When I started up, the system would just be bogged down... I couldn't move the mouse more then an inch every 3 seconds. It was a pain, I got to taskman and there were 6 rundll.exe and 6 svchost.exe listings, a couple taking upwards of 10-20megs each, and eating my entire CPU (90-98%). I did an end task on the process and got functionality back, but there wasn't anything in the registry that looked recognizable and it appeared that the files that were running were legit windows files. After a defrag, update of virus definitions... still no good. The files in question had to do with the indexing service for XP, one of the only areas that Norton doesn't scan by default -- coincidence? I didn't know, I didn't want to take any chances, I backed up my MP3s and kissed my factory install of XP bye bye. I restored of the disk and am presently still cleaning up the mess and getting the system back to normal. It was certainly a pain, hope I don't run into anything like that again -- because if it was a virus, it never showed it's face... I never got a name... and it was certainly quite a mofo.

The blast in Bali is linked to Al Queen-ah, sniper's still at it...
I had some links I've been accumulating, but haven't been able to take 5 minutes to post them.
Lego Deth!
Where'd the Royal Swans Go?
WWJBHB?
What's got into that cat?
That pong pong pong pong pong...
apple.com/switch
[personal story to follow tomorrow]

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