It wasn't all in my head...

[lyssie]

So. I bit the bullet (hey, even *I* have trouble keeping 340 files straight), and started organizing my unfinished fic files...

And found that I don't remember what half of them are.

So, had to open some. And discovered I no longer have notepad. Normally, not a problem, since I use Yikes for everything anyway. But when I opened a few files in Yikes... I discovered some of them contained binary that hadn't been there before--and were missing pieces of themselves.

My brain clicked into action, and I prodded the redoubtable Foe. Who suggested the possibility of a virus.

Well, when I got this computer, it came with McAfee virus scan.

Which, apparently, sucked a lot of ass.

I now have AVG, and it's killed 7 viruses for me. I'm a happy person.

Especially happy, since the files are now no longer corrupted. And I still have all the text in them.

So, repeat after me: McAfee sucks ass.

MCAFEE SUCKS ASS.

Thank you.

In other news, I should probably sleep soon.

Comments

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

There's, apparently, a year-old virus running around which replaces it on the Start menu with something else. Notepad.exe was still on my machine, and seemed happy to be reconnected to its shortcut.

[abates.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhh! Fair enough :)