Yayyyy!! It only took 5 years.

I hope this never happens to you...

It finally happened. Through either lack of vigilance, lazyness, or sheer bad luck, last friday I was the victim of a Trojan Horse Virus atack. A really really nasty one. It bypassed my AVG anti virus software, Windows Firewall, everything!

It was like this, one moment I was browsing through Listverse, the next there came a LOUD beep and I crashed to my desktop to see an obvious fake red box error message that claimed it was Windows and I had spyware on my system and urged me to click the red X on the lower taskbar to fix it. I didn't panic. Okay I panicked, a little. The pop-up messages kept coming every 20 seconds or so. Nothing I did could stop the crap storm. Restarting, running a new virsu scan, System Restore, trying Last Known Good Configuration, unplugging the pc at the power source, all useless. Also the resolution of my desktop was degraded.

Then soon afterwards, the dreaded BSOD came on, (at least 3 times) "A problem has been dectected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer... blah blah" It suggested a restart in safe mode, which, you guessed it, didn't help. The error code, which the Dell tech guy decoded was a major Trojan virus attack.

Right now I'm running a clean reinstall from the original recovery boot disk of Windows XP. Many many thanks to Dell online techs for walking me through the painful process of recovery. *sighs* I'm currently in the process of reinstalling EVERYTHING. I was maintaining a regular backup of my image files, so I didn't loose any but a few of the newest artworks. USB thumb drives are a godsend.

Getting back to full functionality may take a few weeks, I'm guessing. This makes the fifth day of recovery. I get the feeling I'll NEVER be back to where I was before the attack. Damm the hellspawn hackers!

This one wowed me. Take a peek at #5!! @.@

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The other 9 strange cases of sainthood are equally bizarre, grotesque and somewhat amusing.

This is what happens when an Iraqi driver panics and mistakes a radar gun for a real gun!

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No seat belts, locked doors, traction control or speed limits equals certain doom. Especially in a country like Iraq.

This is a rant against criminal stupidity, and it's full of foul language so feel free to skip this.

Guess I shouldn't watch CNN online because I saw this:

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Why the hell do cows like this even bother having babies when she is obviously so mindlessly FUCKING STUPID to pull this shit! STUPID MOTHERFUCKING BITCH!! FUCK FUCKING FUCK!!

I'm sorry folks but there can be NO possible excuse she can come up with for this crap. No I'm not naive
enough to think this hasn't happened before. You bet your ass it has, and it will undoubtedly and tragically happen again.

Another pointless and tragic death caused by brain dead zombies with their heads up their asses!!

*growls more profanities*