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Somehow I picked up a bunch of malware and Spybot basically wimped out on deleting it. Now the desktop is so clogged it's almost unuseable, so I'm posting from Ruby Red.
Will prayers help? A live chicken sacrificed on the keyboard? Getting a new computer? Screaming hysterically? Bueller? Bueller?
ADDENDUM:
I restored my system to the weekend, and then took![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wishwords' advice. Right now Malwarebytes is flushing out the spyware, of which there is a lot more than I'd realized. I"ll have to leave the box on after I go to bed, but God willing I'll have a clean computer tomorrow morning.
And yes, I bought the thing - I plan to have a CD of the program around in case the laptop is ever infected (*avert!*). I had to restore my system in safe mode while getting instructions over Ruby, and I really don't want to go through that again...
Will prayers help? A live chicken sacrificed on the keyboard? Getting a new computer? Screaming hysterically? Bueller? Bueller?
ADDENDUM:
I restored my system to the weekend, and then took
wishwords' advice. Right now Malwarebytes is flushing out the spyware, of which there is a lot more than I'd realized. I"ll have to leave the box on after I go to bed, but God willing I'll have a clean computer tomorrow morning.And yes, I bought the thing - I plan to have a CD of the program around in case the laptop is ever infected (*avert!*). I had to restore my system in safe mode while getting instructions over Ruby, and I really don't want to go through that again...
