Unpleasantness

[vvvexation]

Today doesn't seem to be a great day in terms of people being happy with me. My roommates suspect that I somehow managed to break their computer, based on the fact that I was using it right before they discovered their browser had crashed in some weird and apparently unfixable way (a way that also seems to involve spyware having been installed). This despite the fact that all I did was try to use the browser and find that it had already crashed or frozen or whatever the hell it was up to. It might indeed have crashed at that very moment, but I don't see how my using it could have caused that if it wasn't about to happen anyway. But given that they're a hell of a lot less computer-literate than I am (and that's saying something), they still seem dubious.

*grumble grumble*

(by the way, "injury to insult" is the bit that wouldn't fit in the Current Music field)

Comments

[urbanbard.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I'm looking forward to seeing you at DHP tonight.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

You'll be there? Excellent. Missed you at Amy's.

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

oh, that sucks. But you managed to crack me up with your current music. =)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Right as I was posting--it was just silly. I've never heard an ice cream truck play that before, either.

[imnotbob.livejournal.com]

Hm, if spyware is on their computer, its their fault for not protecting it sufficiently.
So there.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yep. But they don't know anything about that stuff.

[imnotbob.livejournal.com]

Seems they learn the hard way. Too bad they blame you though.

Um...

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

..what urbanbard said. It'll be good to see you.

Re: Um...

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's good to know one's presence is looked forward too.

[ex-eleazar.livejournal.com]

I can state unequivocally that I am not at all unhappy with you. Nor do I believe you have done anything that I ought to be upset about.

So there.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yay! I haven't managed yet to get people I haven't met upset!

Wow, that was an unintentional multiple rhyme.

[kilted-assassin.livejournal.com]

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
They can download a free spyware and adware removing program there.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

So I've told them, and so they've done, and it seems not to have worked. *shrugs*

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

This is what you need. It's browser-specific rather than a general spyware scanner, but is much more effective within its domain.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

That sounds a little too complicated for them. They're not the least bit computer-geeky, and I am not running it for them.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Ah - yes, I don't blame you for that!

[kilted-assassin.livejournal.com]

Then it's not spyware, it's a worm or virus, have them try http://housecall.trendmicro.com/, it's free too