Yesterday I got the blue screen of death. You know the one that says you have to restart your computer because of problems. Then, it happened again this morning. This was not unexpected. Well, mostly. You see, a few months ago, I opened up a blank e-mail and caught a crazy virus. Spyware. Something. I don't know the difference between spyware and a virus, as we have McAffee anti-virus and it couldn't catch it.
We would type something into google and the search results would pop up, but when you clicked on a link, it would send you to a different search engine. We ended up just copying and paste the page into the browser.
Then the computer started getting slow and you could just tell it was working on something. I tried downloading some anti-spyware. Nothing. Josh wisely suggested we get a back up drive, as we hadn't backed up anything for the past five years. Not very smart, right?
Well, we bought an external hard drive two weeks ago and backed up everything. We were about to clear the hard drive and reload all our programs but we were waiting on a few things. And, I didn't want to do it! Then, the trip to New York happened and we were going to do it Monday night. Now, we definitely have to do it. I'm so glad that we backed everything up!
Josh will be busy with work all Wednesday and Thursday, so I'm hoping that by next Monday, we'll have our baby cleaned, cleared and ready for take off. Meanwhile, I'll be taking a blogging break. Maybe this is a good thing. I can get some painting projects taken care of, as well as read up on some books that I've been meaning to. Oh, well.
See you soon, M
p.s. Our next computer will be a Mac. Mini. Pink. Yes, they are expensive. But, that's okay.
We would type something into google and the search results would pop up, but when you clicked on a link, it would send you to a different search engine. We ended up just copying and paste the page into the browser.
Then the computer started getting slow and you could just tell it was working on something. I tried downloading some anti-spyware. Nothing. Josh wisely suggested we get a back up drive, as we hadn't backed up anything for the past five years. Not very smart, right?
Well, we bought an external hard drive two weeks ago and backed up everything. We were about to clear the hard drive and reload all our programs but we were waiting on a few things. And, I didn't want to do it! Then, the trip to New York happened and we were going to do it Monday night. Now, we definitely have to do it. I'm so glad that we backed everything up!
Josh will be busy with work all Wednesday and Thursday, so I'm hoping that by next Monday, we'll have our baby cleaned, cleared and ready for take off. Meanwhile, I'll be taking a blogging break. Maybe this is a good thing. I can get some painting projects taken care of, as well as read up on some books that I've been meaning to. Oh, well.
See you soon, M
p.s. Our next computer will be a Mac. Mini. Pink. Yes, they are expensive. But, that's okay.
Comments
I'm not sure that Mac's are immune to viruses, just that there are fewer gaping code holes to exploit and fewer people have Macs so it hasn't been worth the trouble for hackers to really work at it.