Yesterday, while I should have been wadding around in a bog, taking pictures and feeling like Frank Buck, I was fighting a bug, a dirty, nasty, despicable computer bug. No, I did not get it from going to one of those sites. In fact I didn’t get it at all, but I knew about it almost the second it happened, the long suffering wife emitted a stream of most unladylike words and a scream and by the time I made it in from where I was, up to my elbows in cat litter, (Hey, you have to dredge the boxes if you expect to live without the neighbors saying things about the “crazy” cat people.), the nasty was busily send out pop-ups telling the Spouse how her computer was infected.
Now it wasn’t and those pop-ups if activated will take your information and give it to identity thieves and pornographers and used car salesmen. So I washed off the cat litter and began a four hour fight to disinfect her computer.
In the end all was well, the bug gone and the computer restored to its well behaved, pop-up free self, but it was a battle.
Now I know this is a blog about art and I won’t go into all of the Dixie-whistling I did to restore the machine, but I will say one thing, Malwarebytes.
Malwarebytes is a free, that’s right, free program which anyone can download and run and will, if updated regularly beat the tar out of any bug you might innocently pick up.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Sure there’s always a version which you can pay for and the producer surely wants you to do so, but the free version will do all, but the most dastardly bugs to death.
If you use the Net, you should download and learn to use this product. It will keep your machine out of the shop, save you mucho dollars in repair bills, (The shop will just download and install Malwarebytes and run it until the infection is gone so why should you wait and pay them to do it?), and keep you up and running so that you can be creating more art.
It’s for the best and you should do it, but I don’t want to be a nudge so I won’t say, you should download and learn to use this program any more, but you should.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
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