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Damn hackers
Feb. 16th, 2011 07:00 amThe other night, I got my first taste of how easy it can be to get a virus on these newer versions of Windows. The only time it seemed to happen on Windows 95 was when I was looking for cracks for evaluation versions of various programs (I'm a bad girl). I'm using Sammie's laptop right now and it runs Windows XP. Sunday night, I got a virus just looking for pictures!
She does have an anti-virus program on here and honestly, I think it tried to warn me before I clicked on ahead anyway, but I wasn't familiar enough with the program to recognize the warning. ^_^;; I'm not at all used to picking up viruses by just looking at pictures linked from Google. O_o I got this malware virus called Antivira Av that tries to make you think it's a legitimate anti-virus program so you'll go "buy it" (a ploy just to get you to enter your credit card info). This thing was such a bitch! It disabled EVERYTHING. I couldn't look at any websites or open a single program! I used Sammie's desktop to look up a solution, and although the advice was good, I still needed her friend Adam's help to get the computer in safe mode. He had me reset the computer back to Friday and that wiped out the virus. Phew! Dealing with that virus set me back two to three hours!
I hate malicious hackers.
In other news, Sammie also has this great program that takes the audio from a YouTube video and turns it into an MP3. I've already found two rare songs on there and made them into lovely MP3's, just for me. ^_^
She does have an anti-virus program on here and honestly, I think it tried to warn me before I clicked on ahead anyway, but I wasn't familiar enough with the program to recognize the warning. ^_^;; I'm not at all used to picking up viruses by just looking at pictures linked from Google. O_o I got this malware virus called Antivira Av that tries to make you think it's a legitimate anti-virus program so you'll go "buy it" (a ploy just to get you to enter your credit card info). This thing was such a bitch! It disabled EVERYTHING. I couldn't look at any websites or open a single program! I used Sammie's desktop to look up a solution, and although the advice was good, I still needed her friend Adam's help to get the computer in safe mode. He had me reset the computer back to Friday and that wiped out the virus. Phew! Dealing with that virus set me back two to three hours!
I hate malicious hackers.
In other news, Sammie also has this great program that takes the audio from a YouTube video and turns it into an MP3. I've already found two rare songs on there and made them into lovely MP3's, just for me. ^_^
