April fool's on you? Virus carnival!

[sincere]

I attempted to cheat and steal a paid version of a certain multimedia program, and it turned out to be loaded with viruses. My evening has been awesome. I guess cheaters really don't win. :(

So I've been in safe mode backing up for like four hours, and on attempting to restart, I discover that my computer does not start outside of safe mode. It can't go online in safe mode either, I have to start it in Safe Mode With Network Drivers.

Posted hiatuses at Marina and WL, the former being especially a shame since Lelouch needs to make a post and Sentience did just post lfkdjlg. Yeah. I'm debating between System Restore (because, fuck, easy is better) and downgrading to a less stupid version of Windows (because Vista is annoying me with all its administrator privilege BS).



Edit: Man, it seems like it uninstalled Windows Defender Checkpoint. That sounds bad!

Edit: Looks like System Restore worked. I was able to get out the virus and everything seems to be happy. Hooray. *passes out*

Comments

[amorphic.livejournal.com]

Oh, boo! Viruses suck and I hate having to try to fix my computer. At least everything worked out in the end =)

Vista annoys me with all the administrator crap, too, but I suppose it's their attempt to reduce the amount of spyware and viruses that can get in...

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and look at all the good it did. It didn't ask me if I wanted Backdoor.Vundo.whatever to uninstall Windows Defender Checkpoint and disable Windows Security, but apparently I did. Meanwhile, every fucking time Java has an update available, a giant window pops up over whatever I'm typing that dims my entire desktop (or, my favorite, when it doesn't actually pop up, just pops up in the background, so I don't even know it has kidnapped half my computer), and every time I want to run a program and don't think to right-click and Run As Administrator, it crashes. Excellent work, Microsoft.

Sob but at least it's working now.

[apathymoon.livejournal.com]

Good to hear everything's fine~! :D
Mine has a trojan and I can't open my task manager up until this very minute. ;A;

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Mine was a trojan too. :| Apparently it's gone now. I think I'm good, thank god, I'm way too lazy to actually ditch Vista.

[apathymoon.livejournal.com]

Vista is er.. A bit more unconvenient that XP, hehe. Hey, I want to rec something. If you ever decided to come back to XP goodness but still want the Visual Deliciouness of Vista, Search for Vista Transformation Pack and you can download it for free (virus-free o' course). :3 I have XP but my OS looks like a total Vista one. If you don't want all the Vista crap, I think you should try this out. :)

[apathymoon.livejournal.com]

ETA: Made typos at my previour comment AND here is the right one: :3
Vista is er.. A bit more unconvenient than XP, hehe. Hey, I want to rec something. If you ever decided to come back to XP goodness but still want the Visual Deliciousness of Vista, Search for Vista Transformation Pack and you can download it for free (virus-free o' course). :3 I have XP but my OS looks like a total Vista one. If you don't want all the Vista crap, I think you should try this out. :)

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Vista really is so pretty -- I like the menu and the sidebar and the search feature, but godDAMN is that "Run as administrator" thing poorly implemented and not even helpful. XD I'll look into that if I end up switching back~

[saave.livejournal.com]

Oh god that sounded like quite a night. D: