So the other day I managed to infect my home computer with massive amounts of spyware and malware. I committed the cardinal sin of downloading an executable without running it through my antivirus program. I know, I know… what was I thinking? Have I no common sense? Have I learned nothing from the constant barage of Windows security updates? Anyway, after double clicking, I sat there staring at the screen for a good 10 seconds as my hard drive thrashed, wondering 1) if something would happen, and 2) what the hell I had just done.
The worst part is that as I was double clicking on the darn thing, it occurred to me that I really should have scanned it first because the site seemed a little suspicious. I did so, and low and behold, Norton’s bells and whistles went off, alerting me that the file was massively problematic. I suppose I deserved it.
Two days later, I’m still struggling to clean the sucker up. I’ve downloaded more programs than I can count to clean up all that junk, but I have to say, the damn thing is pretty resilient. Worse comes to worse I can always reformat (hey, it would give me a good reason to buy a rewritable DVD drive to backup all my stuff).
In other news, Boeing recently completed building its last 757. I’m really going to miss that bird. The great majority of flying I’ve done in my (short) life has been on the 757-200, and it is a shame to see such a steadfast plane pass into history. The first time I ever tuned into ATC was on a United 757, and the pilot, who was obviously as much of an aviation enthusiast as myself, gave a mini-lecture on the history of the 757. It was incredibly awesome.