This story begins on a Friday afternoon. Last Friday afternoon. I got home from work and my husband says something like “Your computer is doing something weird.” I sat down to look at it and yes, it was doing something weird. Avast kept deleting the same file over and over and over. I began to have a very bad feeling because that most likely indicated that there was something nasty recreating that file that the antivirus program wasn’t catching. Spoiler warning: I was right and things got even worse.
My computer has finally come home. I’m a little late posting this because I’ve been busy getting everything I need off of my laptop such as my nearly 4GB of pictures I’ve taken. I’ve also spent a bit of time just staring in awe of my 22″ monitor that has sat unused behind my laptop [...]
I have no updates on my desktop to speak of. Last Monday (August 11) I was told that the power supply was the source of all my problems. A replacement was supposed to have been ordered but that’s all I know. Oh, regarding the missing fan mount. Apparently the case for my computer was basically [...]
Who doesn’t remember the “Your momma’s so skinny…” and the “Your momma’s so fat…” jokes from grade school? Some of them were funny, some of them not so much. (I’m pretty sure there might be some political correctness issues here but indulge me.) I’ve been thinking of one of them in particular as of late: [...]
On July 13th I found out that my replacement motherboard was faulty. Yes, the one that was sent as a replacement for the first one. While my other computer is ‘in the shop’ I’ve been trying to work on my laptop some. I really want to avoid formatting it because that just seems like too [...]
