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The ever virus-free laptop which had three virus cases in three months.

My laptop’s working full steam now. My ever virus-free laptop which had three cases of virus “infections” for the past three months. One month a virus, probably. The last case was regrettably my fault, since I downloaded some codec or whatever and I accidentally downloaded an “anti-virus” program suspiciously offered after my laptop got the virus - which of course is the culprit. I never thought that among a thousand, or probably a million viruses hanging around the Internet with all those hideous names, one is tricky enough to disguise itself into an anti-virus.

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Probably the coolest Windows Theme I got (courtesy of Alienware). Click to magnify.

I would like to thank Gian, that virus-buster friend of mine - a servicemate, our beloved Sports Writer (ah, the days of being a humble Layout Artist), recently-branded Valedictorian of his batch at my alma mater, now an Atenista in the making - for the impossible help and assistance. And for luring me to play Call of Duty again, of course.

Again, that’s a paid advertisement. After a thirty-minute restless argument we had about this advertising thing (since I practically want a kilo of rice than twenty pesos) - I finally agreed a twenty-peso deal to blog about him. LOL. What’s with rice prices these days?

I am very much excited to blog about the two books I finished yesterday (Haruki Murakami’s “After Dark” and John Le Carre’s “The Constant Gardener“) but due to my clumsiness, the three-page book review got lost after I accidentally deleted it inside my flash disk. And, just so you know, my flash disk - though it has a free McAfee Anti-Virus software (not bad), a Sudoku and a Mahjong game to flaunt - it still didn’t have its own recycle bin. And I didn’t have a copy of it in my laptop.

How cool is that? I thought about that book review for two days - made it as thought-provoking as it could be, even quoted remarkable quotes delivered by the Takahashi or by Justin Quayle, and edited the entire review to perfection!

Maybe at the back of my mind, I intentionally erased the file. But as far as I can recall, I haven’t thought of that.

Anyway, after a while I slightly promised to my laptop not to cause harm towards it ever again. I would not allow project-making, flash-disk overloading third parties who would infect my laptop! Not now. Even if I installed it with a Spybot Search and Destroy, a Crap Cleaner, a Avira AntiVirus, and a Norton AntiVirus 2003, I would not - despite the tight security - allow anyone to infiltrate unscanned softwares and hardwares in my laptop.

That’s why I’m not subscribing to any Internet service for now. I’m writing this in a Notepad, save this in my flash disk/drive, go to the nearest computer shop and post this, and then I make way for DoTA mode. Heh. Better grab the opportunity while I’m still on vacation!

May 31, 2008 at 8:05 pm, filed under IRLs, Photos, Stress ball narratives and tagged , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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