[Weekend] Fly-By Update

Foo. Need to re-install McAfee. During the mass cleaning I did yesterday afternoon (Malware cleaning, CCleaner, McAfee, etc), I must have disabled it/got it wonky somehow. There's also the fact that a lot of things on my PC have been getting hung-app errors lately. Hmm.

Going to do some shopping at Target this morning, though, so I'll take care of that this afternoon, and will have a more detailed update after that.

Question, though: Why do computers only have about a three-year life cycle before things start crapping out? (And no, answering that with "Switch to a Mac" doesn't count, because I know at least five people whose Macs died horrible deaths within a few years as well. :p )

[PC] Grrr...

As said to both head58 and emmalyon, it's not so much that I have to contend with computer viruses and trojans (AGAIN), as much as it is the time wasted trying to fix the damn thing.

I find this actually quite amusing, considering the dawdling I do when I actually should be writing or doing something else. Maybe it's not so much the fact that time is wasted, as it is that I'm tied into doing something when I'd rather be distracted by something else. Which makes sense in a very weird, simple way. ;)

I have to say most annoying part of it is that this trojan kicked in AFTER I ran all my security programs last night. I did go online after that, but only to LJ, Daily Kos, Yahoo, and Facebook. Out of all of those, I know Facebook might have some security weirdness going on. FEH!

Anyway...looking at it positively. I'm utilizing this as a nice relaxing day in which I can do a bit of reading, shopping (we went to Target this morning), watching TV, and not much else, all while I'm waiting for a few of these programs to scan and find any problems.


Oh--and if anyone has any suggestions what to do when a virus and/or trojan keeps me from going to the McAfee website, the program doesn't pop up on the system tray, but everything else on the PC runs totally fine, please let me know. This is by far the weirdest and least annoying--and yet most troubling--system issue I've had yet. Thanks! :p