{"id":923,"date":"2004-03-10T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I encountered the worst computer virus ever…in my life. After nearly a full two years of playing tech support, I sometimes want to quit. I don\\’t know why I applied for a summer internship at Mann Consulting<\/a>, a tech support firm…for the \\”stars\\”. The job is fun when I can figure out how to resolve problems. However, when it becomes frusturating and almost unsolvable, it causes me too much undue stress. Maybe it\\’s because I take these problems to heart. I sympathize too easily with the residents\\’ pain of not having Internet or losing their files (You\\’re reading the blog of someone who cried when her hard drive was erased of 2 years…of DRAMAH.)<\/p>\n

And this virus (hopefully the Gaobot<\/a>) caused me to sit at a resident\\’s computer for 2 hours…confused. I opened the registry editor to delete inserted values that caused virus programs to start up. But after approximately 30 seconds of the registry being open, it would suddenly close. If I opened it up again, it would keep closing. Safe mode, anyone? Worse yet, when I deleted a file…it would disappear (or did it?). It wouldn\\’t appear in the recycle bin. Actually, the recycle bin wasn\\’t really a recycle bin. I couldn\\’t drag files into the bin. When I tried installing an antivirus program, it would halt the installation.<\/p>\n

I am so definitely going to get a Mac for my next computer. It\\’s not that there aren\\’t enough Macs around that there aren\\’t any Mac viruses around. Rather, the MacOsX is secure enough on its own. Surely, a virus writer would take the opportunity to write something that takes advantage of a system that hasn\\’t been broken in before! It\\’s funny how all the PC users complain about the lack of two buttons on a mouse. Bad interface!<\/i>, they say. But a novice user wouldn\\’t understand why a mouse has two buttons. A one button mouse is much more intuitive! Indeed, when I first used a Windows machine (my first computer was a Mac), I was shocked at a mouse having two buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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