Now my laptop is ill. Yesterday afternoon I was in the middle of my turn in a Scrabble game on Facebook when several bright red windows popped up announcing all kinds of dangerous scenarios. I don’t comprehend the jargon so I ran from the room and curled up on the couch until Tech Support came home, as he was away at his other job. Tim worked with the patient for I-don’t-know-how-long last night, but the laptop is still sick this morning. Something got past the anti-virus program. So I am on Tim’s computer now with no access to my word or picture files, but I managed to get on Facebook from here and take my turns and I’m hoping to get to my email account and visit some blogs in a bit. This has never happened to me before!!!
You are being very brave! Hope the patient is better soon; it’s in good hands.
Thanks, Janet! If Tim can’t get to the bottom of it no one can…
Sorry to hear that! There was something going on with the internet yesterday, facebook, wordpress, where all sluggish, so I am not sure what was going on. seems ok today. Glad you have your own Tech support! and another computer.
Good to see it has not kept you down for too long!
Jeff
Thanks, Jeff! Where there’s a will there’s a way… It’s ironic, I saw your status about the problem you were having on Facebook and intended to comment on it, saying I wasn’t having any problems, after I was done with my Scrabble turn. Never got the chance to say it! I’m spending today online because if Tim winds up working from home most of the weekend he won’t have time to work on mine or let me use his. š It could be a long weekend, but I’ll just have to make the best of it and work on non-computer projects…
Barbara, I am so sorry. That is no fun. I was having problems on WordPress yesterday…couldn’t always get the admin pages to load (dashboard, stats.) I sure hope Tech Support gets your computer up and running soon!
Thanks, Kathy. I guess Thursday was a buggy day!
Kathy, I almost forgot to tell you, Saturday morning Tim & I went out to do errands and were sitting in our car, who is named Blueberry, in the drive-through line at the coffee shop. I sighed and said to Tim, “Kathy named her computer Ms. Ellie. What kind of terrible person am I to not appreciate my poor hard-working laptop enough to even give it a name?”
“Your laptop has a name,” he stated matter-of-factually.
“It does?” I asked incredulously.
“Yes, Sheba,” came the off-hand reply.
“Sheba? Who named her?” The gears in my brain were spinning, was it me? Couldn’t be, could it?
“May I take your order?” interrupted the voice from the menu board. Life went on and I never did get the answer…
I #1 love the name of your car. My current car does not have an official name. Barry calls our cars Thing One and Thing Two (from the Dr. Seuss books) but that sounds oddly unfriendly to me. As for the name “Sheba” I LOVE IT! That is a wonderful name for a laptop. Say hello to Ms. Sheba for me, will you? Tell her I like her baptismal name.
LOL – Larisa and her friend were Thing One and Thing Two last Halloween! Sheba says she is happy you like her name and is so grateful for a little special attention for a change! š (Poor Tim is slaving away over there on his computer, but I hope I remember, when he’s got this project behind him, to ask him how Sheba got her name and if he knows why I have no recollection of it!)
My sympathies. I had a similar problem recently, unfortunately I’m the ‘tech support’ in this household! I discovered that it had been a trojan that had almost certainly come on board from a link clicked in Facebook, but it’s anybody’s guess when it happened as I’m no longer a member and Bruce rarely uses it. Something biding its time, maybe.
I’m pretty wary of those Facebook applications… But I love Scrabble too much to quit and the virus didn’t get any of the others I play with…
Tim put the laptop into a “coma” until he could research the virus, which turned out to be a Trojan, “XP Antivirus 2011.” Apparently it is self-repairing and modified the laptop’s registry. It blocks any fix from downloading from the internet, so Tim downloaded the fix onto his computer and transferred it by some other means to my laptop. I have only a rudimentary understanding of what that means! The living room became the waiting room Saturday morning as I waited for Tim to perform his magic without me breathing down his neck. The operation was successful and I seem to be back in business! My hero! (Not all heroes wear tights and a cape!)
I’m so sorry. I know how that is. I recently had a similar problem and I was fortunate in that my tech support was home when it happened, and he was able to figure it out pretty quickly.
Facebook, especially the games, are notorious for viruses. It’s one of the reasons I took a LONG time signing up (and only did it because of an invite from my sister who would have taken it as a huge personal insult if I had declined the way I declined all of my friends who understood… such is family).
I hope you get everything repaired soon.
Thanks, Robin! I’m happy to know that your tech support was there to save the day!
I have to laugh, I tried to get my sister on Facebook and she took hours reading all the fine print and then decided no, it wasn’t for her! Sister or not…
I have to admit, I’ve been pretty smug up to now, keeping our anti-virus program up to date, and never having any virus problems. There are updates to the anti-virus software to install daily, sometimes even several a day. But I guess the lesson to be learned here is that no “vaccination” can be guaranteed to be 100% effective!