Of Lemons and Lemonade?
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on September 29th, 2010 at 10:15 pm Finally I was able to spend some time making a dent in the backlog of images and email I have accumulated. It’s rough to keep up this site when you have a job that doesn’t allow you to work on personal stuff during work hours! One email address is down to about 600 emails, the other still has more.
Then disaster hit yesterday evening. A friend of mine sent me a link to an interesting story on an known European news website. It appears that site was compromised and my computer was soon infected with some nasty bits of malware. After working on it for over 24 hours now, the computer is almost clean.
It was a few nasty pieces that had weaseled their way past my various defenses and were resiting attempts to remove them. At one point I would have consider surrendering, either wiping the drive and reinstalling the OS or even ditch the computer — after recovering all those emails! — but that doesn’t seem to be the case. “Victory is mine!”
In the midst of this, my CDROM drive may have also failed. That may be unrelated to the malware attacks.
Luckily for me I have a laptop and a smart phone so I didn’t completely lose my online access.
The upside of this is that I am now giving real thought to getting myself a new computer. The desktop, like this site’s former server, is aging. Maybe I should consider this a hint that it is time to get a new computer.
On another note, it appears this blog may be under attack in a manner of speaking. There has been a concerted effort to “comment spam” this blog. Some probably have seen some of the comments that have made it past my filters and been posted, before I deleted them. Possibly as a result, the mySQL server goes down from time to time. If you see that it is down, please don’t assume I know: tell me.
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