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#20, June 25
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Damn
you WIN32/PARITE
Kolyn
Mikalson (Aja)
In this situation, theres really only a
few things I can say. GARRR, ARGHH, GAHHHH. Don't you just
hate it when your computer gets all virused up, and you have
to erase the entire hard drive, and you were only able to
save 1.35 MB of your 200+ MB of stuff? I'm guessing most of
you haven't this happen to you, but I unfortunately did.
My good friend, the virus which goes
by the unimaginative name of "WIN32/PARITE",
somehow downloaded itself onto my computer at some point. It
then proceeded to infect as many programs as possible with
its pathetic insturctions.
All this stupid virus does, is copy
itself. That is the full extent of its code. I mean, if i
were maing a virus, I'd mae it do something more
interesting, like delete any files with the letter
"r" in their filename. I dunno, something
CREATIVE, not just "Go forth, and duplicate
thyself". So very pathetic.
So we do the viruscan and discover
that we have 420 copies of the virus on this computer. 420
out of some 12000 odd files, not bad its only 3.5% no
problem right? WRONG. It just so happens that these
particular 420 files are the programs required to run the
computer properly, I roll my eyes and mutter the familiar
"happiness and joy" to myself in an exasperated
tone. The entire damn thing has to be wiped, I can save some
files but i have the grand total of a single 3.5 inch floppy
at my disposal (afterwards I found 6 more), and I have over
200 MB of crap that I would like to be able to save. So i
start grabbing things, not many images, to large; I need the
midis, those can't be replaced; whew, the website is all
online; damnit, outa space.
I managed to get 1.35 MB. I know i
shouldbe happy that I could save that, my brother's computer
was infected too and all he could save was his 1.38 GB of
MP3's. But I saved my song lyrics and stuff, so I'm
semi-happy. Got my icons that I spent a good day (I mean 24
hours) making and never finished.
I just really wish these people would
not make the bloody viruses in the first place. I'd like to
see one of these virus-makers get himself infected and
(strong bad moment) DELETED! They bloody well deserve it.
But, until I can find them and kill them, I'll just sit
here, become uber-paranoid, and petition the GRAND IMP to
protect my system.
"The darkness has come. No, wait,
my eyes were closed."
