cookies!
Saturday night while talking to my bro about GPS systems I watched my PC spring to life and start installing a horde of random crap. I was alive and full of something.. i had no clue what was happening. I immediately went to work counter attacking everything that was happening, deleting files etc, running spy bot, virus checkers you name it. What was it? Honestly I don't still other than sometime later in that evening i picked up a nasty file somewhere. I keep thinking it was cause of some site i visited in Korea that had odd DHTML pages to show various Lineage 2 screenshots etc.
Anyways Spybot blew away a bunch of nasties, virus checker came up clean yet I kept seeing more oddness. Thats when I took an axe to cookies. All 5000+ of them BOOM gone. BYE! I want to surf annonymously more and more these days. I spend alot of time on japanese websites cultivating art and news etc. I kept the basic cookies like amazon and what not but no more sitetracking i say, no more ad trackers, coookies bad! No more! Problem resolved? Yes for the most part. Still a few odd files I need to kill and i'll get around to that this week but i think the worst is over.
Probably need to upgrade really. I need a 3.4gig with a gig a ram these days.. ya know to surf the web and stuff.
Sometimes i wonder these worms and viruses, is Symantec secretly just paying the critters out there to make them? I mean we have dozens and dozens of viruses these days. I could see the board room of execs sitting there with this big time line to 2006, ok here we are and this month we release W32.FKFOFLLCE.a and then next up is W32.KOFLOO.b etc.. seems like they have a release schedule out there somewhere.
One of the gals here at work just opened a bad email on her machine.. and booom.. mass infection! Yeahness. Luckily she was off the network.