Sunday, January 27, 2008

Hello, I'm a Mac...

And I'm a piece of shit virus infected computer otherwise known as PC.

This is why I have been pushing Apple computers to all family members. There are still a few "hold outs", but I'm not going to stop until this whole damn family is using a Mac. Since I seem to be the techie of the family, I end up with this virus cleaning bullshit job. Eventually, I will have to say "No more". I quit. Get a Mac and let's make some forward progress here.

This one is bad. Not "oh I'm going to get you, he he" type of bad. Nooo... this is "I'm going to rip off your head, tear out your eye, and screw you in the eye socket" type of bad. I can not do anything in normal mode.

So here I go making a bootable cd with an anti-virus software on it to scan the system. It was going really well for the first three hours. I found 30 variations of viruses so far. It had scanned over 425,000 files so far. You read that right. Four hundred and twenty-five THOUSAND files "so far".

And then while I was watching it scan.. "poof". Yeah. Anything that goes "poof" is not good. Not good at all. The whole program just performed a Houdini act. The program just disappeared. No "This program has caused an error and must be shutdown" type of message. No error message. Nothing. Just fucking disappeared.

So, here I go again. Starting the scan over. I swear to God if this thing does it again, I'm going to just format every fucking thing. No saving files, no backup... nothing. I'm going to make everything go fucking "poof" once and for all. I've had it with these damn viruses and I'll just blame it all on the virus.

Teach these mofo's to quit passing around these internet gimmicks and clicking on every damn thing on the Internet. "Oh it's flashing and shiny and best of all it's free". You know what isn't free. My time.

1 comment:

Fried Lemon Pie said...

I will clean viruses from someone's laptop once, but the second time it comes back to me, I make two accounts...one for me, which is administrator, and one for them, which is a poweruser.

Then the only complaint I hear is they can't install free games from the internet, or the latest free music download program.