My Computer Got Infected

I feel like I have been away for a long time online. The reason: my main computer got infected with some spyware and who knows what else I got there. So now I can't use my main computer and I am using my husband's laptop (thank goodness he has a laptop, although it's really dragging right now because we loaded WinXP on it.. yeah I know.. what are we thinking.)

And I think I got the spyware on one of those blogs that I visited when I was dropping EC plus I also updated my browser (Firefox) so that may have change my security settings as well, then I re-downloaded IE. It's the first time that I used the drop inbox of EC to see the people who dropped EC on my techie blog and I think I got it from one of the site. I usually just drop whenever I browse and read blogs. So right now, I can open one browser window at a time, if I open two, I can still browse but more than 2 I am really pushing it.

Our main computer right now is pretty much just a hardware, I can still use it but since it has the spyware and probably some trojans I don't want to take chances. I posted some information about it on my other blog and will post more entry about it later on once my computer is fix. So far we have used Ad-aware and Spyboot Seek and Destroy to try to remove the spyware but we have no luck.

So we just decided to wipe out the hard drive and reinstall the Operating System and the software that we need. I know, lot's of work. We were going to do that yesterday but since I have a lot of graphics, photos and files that I need to save we have to wait until we move it to another disk drive. So we got us another drive(clapping!!) to store our files. That's the good part of this one though we got us a 320 Gig. Lot and lots of storage.

For those who tagged me, I won't be able to grab them for a while, but I will later in the week. That's a promised. And for the announcement of the Lil Hoot contest, I will be posting it later this week also.

But just a heads up, be careful when your dropping your EC. And make sure to check your Internet settings and AntiVirus Software to make sure you are protected.

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