Viruses and tweets
January 6, 2009 at 10:55 am 5 comments
The viruses my computer can’t shake are lebapide, mebozihi and pasugusa. I know this b/c every time I start or reboot the computer, it still tries to run them. I’ve now downloading Rising AV b/c it has an anti-root program. If this doesn’t work, I’ve heard good things about Avast. Failing that, I’ll have to take it to Geek Squad.
The main reason I’m so incredibly pissed off is that this is the computer with Holden’s dance video on it. And I specifically told Nina to be careful about the sites she visited if she went online in our house. So now our evidence is in danger. Luckily we backed up the hard drive when we found out that UMG might claim the computer as evidence. But in any case, I don’t think it was that difficult an instruction to follow: don’t visit junk sites (and do not go anywhere near those free music sites you use at home).
/rant
I don’t even know what to say about the Thordora situation. I will say what I told her via e-mail today. I was reading Mr Punch last night and I noticed the dedication. It was to Gaiman’s daughter “who is too big to throw out of the window” and McKean’s “who is.” Are Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean going to throw their children out the window? They wrote that in public. I wonder if anyone called the police.
I think India Knight put it quite well last month:
Presumably the gigantic success of social networking sites is to do with some previously inchoate longing to belong to a community, the bigger and more global, the better; equally, there are virtues in belonging, or in feeling as if you do, and Facebook, Twitter and their ilk do no harm: they may even do good.
What is new is the sense that nothing exists until you broadcast it; that anything subjective and experienced privately is of little worth. An unborn child’s kick, for instance, used to be a secret, a tiny communication between the mother and her baby; when I was pregnant, I hated people putting their hand on my stomach unasked. I know tweeting foetal movements isn’t the same as being groped by strangers, but it seems to me there is some overlap. We’ve all invaded our own privacy and gone too far to turn back: it’s only a matter of time before someone tweets the prelude to conception, blow by blow.
I’m 100% sure that kind of Twitterer exists. Now if I could only follow him…
Entry filed under: I Hate People. Tags: computer, twitter, viruses.
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tl | January 6, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Eeek, sorry about your pc. That really sucks.
We use Avast & Malwarebyte’s and they both work well. You can get a free download of each at cnet.com.
Don’t feel bad about banishing Nina from the pc. We had to do the same thing with our 15yo neice.
Anymore peoples lives revolve around their pc – online banking, shopping, etc. That info getting into the wrong hands could be catastrophic.
As for Thordora, all I can say is wow. I am just awestruck over the hoopla a twitter post could cause. I tell my hubby all time that I’m going to beat his ass like his mama should have. Does that mean I’m actually going to beat his ass? (Heck, he’d probably like it anyway! haha) Online I only friend people who I actually know in “real life” – the ones who know my dark sense of humor and can appreciate it.
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Eden | January 6, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Senses of humor are very hard to convey online. Like my husband has a very dark sense of humor, so dark that when he’s joking to someone’s face, about half the time they don’t get it. I “know” Thor from years of being blogfriends, which is why I didn’t think twice about that tweet (and really, who would?). Heck I even have her address. I *could* have sent cops to her house if I thought it necessary.
Oh and the viruses, luckily that computer had been offline for well over a year so it didn’t have updated info on it. We only got it back online within the month, which is probably why Nina liked the novelty of getting online in the playroom. It’s really not like her so I wonder if maybe she was showing off a little for her friend, as you do (especially when you’re 14). Nonetheless, I should tell Beta about Avast and Rising as well.
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Kristin | January 7, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Someone’s already on top of the tweeting-fetal-movements thing. Some guys hooked a whole bunch of stuff up to his wife & his computer, and somehow it transmits it all to twitter when the baby kicks.
I so, so wish I were shitting you. But here is the evidence that I am not (excuse my lack of html and linkiness): http://www.thegadgetblog.com/2008/12/13/kickbee-sends-baby-kick-updates-via-twitter/
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Eden | January 7, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Oh she mentioned it in her column. She was actually referring back to it in this pullquote
But I hadn’t seen that article.
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