Computer Virus @ MindSay

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Ach, it's been too long.
Indeed, I shall now explain the reason of the massive gap of blogs - and the reason I now don't really feel motivated to continue my blog... (Although, I will try.)

My PC contacted a BEASTY virus.
The type of virus that:

• Brought up constant porn sites
• Brought up links to www.viagra.com  when I wasn't even ON the internet
• Destroyed my system restore points
• Stopped my antivirus from working
• Continually brought up the offer of a fake antivirus
  
• Continually brought up adverts and fake scans of the goddamned System Pro Plus
• Ate my boot up files
• Ate them again after I re-installed them with the Windows XP disc

The list is fucking endless really.
The only way to solve it was indeed, to format my PC.

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I had to go over a week without my internet.
Serious withdrawl symptoms set in - because you don't realise what you've got until it's not there anymore.

This was bad timing - I'd recently started playing Super Mario Galaxy and Paper Mario - games that I would need the odd bit of help from GameFAQs.
I'd also re-opened my account on Facebook - and gotten slightly buzzed on it and its many wonderful features.
I also continued getting the urge to play Guitar Hero - and I refuse to play it solo if my scores won't send to the Community. (Of course, I had no Wi-Fi connection)
I had no contact with Ashleigh - and that's weird, because she's actually started coming on MSN more often.

And naturally, I couldn't update my blog.
I declined the offer that Shelly offered - for her to post blank blogs.
I felt too depressed to be bothered updating them afterwards.
Nothing at all worth mentioning has happened the past week anyway.

Either way - Shelly was round at my house four times in one week.
It was a lot of Shelly. :D

She tried for endless hours to fix my PC - trying numerous re-installs and booting from discs, but nothing seemed to work.
Apparently she was stressing out over it so much, it disturbed her sleep patterns.

Dad rang up Dell, and they sent us some discs in the post, a week later.
This was a day that Shelly had been round, and when dad managed to get the internet working within a few seconds - trying something Shelly hadn't thought of - she was more than a little bit devvoed. :)

But in effect, the format of my PC is both a good thing and a bad thing...

- I need to re-do my iTunes...
- I've lost a lot of videos that I hadn't backed up...
- All of mam's photos from her digital camera have gone...
- I've lost all of my wavs and most of my wav mixes...

But...

- My PC runs a lot faster...
- It boots up a lot faster...
- It's an excuse to re-do my iTunes and sort the gaps before they appear...
- I've gotten rid of the beasty virus...
- I've gotten rid of a lot of old shite that I didn't need...
- I've gotten rid of all the other problems that occured...
- It was an excuse to install some shiny new software...

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I just need to get myself back motivated to update this blog every day. Hmmm...
Now I've finished this, I feel just like I'd never lost the internet.

Fucking weird.

I have the XP 2008 Antivirus Virus.

This is a nasty one too folks -- It tries to make you purchase their virus removal software. I still haven't got it removed. The pic may not even upload..

Anyway there is a process where several files have to be removed from the registry and it is very complicated.

But my computer assistant can't help me until tomorrow. ugh!

By the way I got the virus looking for a congratulations comment for a friend who just became a grandma.

        

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. READ AND HEED. 
 
        
just verified this with Snopes and it is REAL. (May 7, 2007)
 
PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE
 
Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that

you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!
 
 
If you get an email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden Captured"
or "Osama Hanged"don't open the attachment.This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel . 
 
Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.
 
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:
 
 
You should be alert during the next days:
Do not open any message with an attached filed called
"Invitation" regardless of who sent it.
 
 
It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which "burns" the whole hard
disc C of your computer.
 
 
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. 

 
It is better to

receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.  

If you receive an e-mail called "invitation", though sent by a friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.
 
 
This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by
Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.

 
This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.
 
This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
 
 
SEND TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW  

    I copied and pasted from an email recieved today

Aww man just when im ready to get hungry for drawing my dad pulls a stupid stunt and updating his computer without giving a care to the concequences. He loaded up Windows ME or whatever its called and now hes practicually stuck! He has a virus and its a virus triggered whenever he loaded up this new programing stuff.

I swear my dad isnt all their at times. Today he was just in hulk anger mode. I swear he thinks anger is the best method/therepy to a problem. My brother was about to tell him fuck off And now sadly from this untill this bug gets worked out i can only borrow my bros computer. Unfortunatly i have no way to talk to people or even imput my info stuff because my bro

wants nothing to do with chat rooms..(in a ways can i blame him? after all its a good chance to catch a virus !

:( )

 

I truly wish i could talk to some of my friends and let em know im trying to get back into the act. Man it feels good but at the same time fustrating when i draw somthing wrong.

This time i want to do it right even if it may not be for a living. Find ways to expand my creative mind and even find real help. I really let fear get to me and even failer..but when you feel soo alone at times or at least how i feel in my mind..it can do somthing sad you know.

 

One thing i shouldnt feel is being lonly or even one track minded about certain things.

 

I did have a friend in the past who helped me out. She and a few of her friends made me feel great about myself.

 

I was in a time of my life where i had self doubts about my art..then my friend Rebekah gave me an opertunity to express my creativity. It turned out to be one of the best feelings in my life even had some of her friends try to pull me in a encouraging direction.

 

Well then i had a friend of hers sincerly try to help me out with sneak peeking my mature series(thats right the rated higher then R type thing ;) )

For a while it seemed like it was going great she enjoyed my rough drafts(they werent perfect but just trying to get the story there) but then this same friend just comes plain out saying she didnt like it at all before i even get into the middle of this series. 

You know what ok, thats cool you dont like the way the story is going..She told me that if i continued with it i would fail and i would never have a chance in the manga field.

Anyways some how after it was all said in done and i meen i was nice to her the whole time we chated..she baicly blew me off and that was the end of it.

I wont lie it really hurt me. Never underestimate the human emotion.

 

A few months later i happen to catch her again. I felt like at the time maybee it was a chance to let by gones be by gones and maybee things changed..nothing changed in fact she was like a totally differnt person from the first day i met her.

I explained why i at the time bestowed her the honor of previewing my fan made already based of a show hentai.. Becauise i trusted her. I knew she wouldnt be one to steal it or give to someone else. After i told her how much i trusted her..she laughed at me. She baiscally said i need to get a life, i'm paranoid and should be getting my drawings and ideas out to other people.

 

Now hold on that would be all nice and good but lets get one thing clear everyone. This is the internet! With just a point and click your idea, anything can be stolen or worse in hands of someone of a certain age you dont need veiwing a material not subjected to them! Also people can claim to have done your work!

How would you feel if something you spent hours/days/months of hard work thinking of only to be used for somone else's greedy gain. It would suck wouldn't it? Even if it isnt for the money..an idea is an idea and to me that is worth more then any profit gain itself.

 

Well one idea i now have in mind per episode to perhapes..bring a more fun and influence to my series ...

Sex education. Thats right i intend to add a small sigment from my female herione talking about certain serious situations.

Think of it like a GI Joe knowing is half the battle segment.

 

One thing i truly lost passion in doing with my work was having fun.  So worried and wishing i could draw like this person.. I forget the true reason of doing this manga work. To have FUN!! To express my own stuff!

I made a promise that i would finish this. Now is the time!! I have 3 and a 1/2 episodes that ive put back for far too long.. I'm going to try and get some books and programs to improve my art more!

( and to some of my friends that know this series guess what.....i have plains on working on a more steamy sequal series ;) )

 

And although i may never have a true shot in the real world( a heard the odds arent too promising in Japan)...

I still hope to perhapes one day find a way to show ideas/works that can influnce the manga/anime world.

 

Wow this truly is a good start i feel much better now.

 

Well g2g everyone this sucks got to work for the woman next street again and hopfully get something out of it.

 

I dont intend to let a snake bite me in the butt.(if you get what i meen from last blog.)

 

Take care and like always..

 

thanks for reading a  part of my life.

ok maybe thats a lie, but still... i did it to myself i guess... its called a trojan... you know... big pretty horse full of blood thirsty enemy soldiers ready to rip your city apart from the inside... in my case its my computer... i was trying to be a pirate and get a CD key for a game that was ATIM... silly me lost the key that came with the game, and i heard rumors of a "CD key generator" that would make a valid code for me... so then maybe i could get some use out of the game... so after Googling a few times i found a site that had one of these... downloaded it and what happened? the fucking program vanished... "damn, i'm infected..." i said as i pressed ctrl-alt-del and looked at the processes on my computer... indeed the list was flooded with random unknown processes... twas too late... i canceled most of them, but they just kept coming... i found the supposed sources in my files and attempted deletion but windows refused to delete saying the "access was denied." damn it all, then i restart the computer, and of course random ads and bullshit pop up...

now see this was not supposed to happen... i BOUGHT a anti-virus/spyware thing a long time ago, but now it says that it expired and wants me to buy a new one... what the hell? its was supposed to be one of the best services availble!??!? damn it all...

after enough work, i think my computer is going to be ok... i did the spyware scan that still works and blocked the program that won't delete, so maybe its quarentined... if ANY ONE THAT READS THIS KNOWS A NICE, FREE, ANTI-VIRUS THINGY WON'T YOU HELP A BROTHER IN NEED???

yeah thats that...