Consistently Wishing For the Same Unicorn

I don't believe in unicorns, but I somehow still believe that the a$$holes that write viruses and malware and other sh1t that takes over a PC should turn away from greed and being not nice and, instead, use their (obvious) talent for good, to improve the planet I share with them. That's the least they could do. I get it - making $ is nice and all, but my goodness, if my 78 year-old mother-in-law got the virus explained in the article below and she was told that she had to pay $ in order to see pictures that Alex and I assembled and backed up and created a backup CD for her, she'd probably want to pay it. She has no clue what a "bitcoin" is - I barely know - so there'd be chaos.

Read about it here: http://features.en.softonic.com/the-first-ransomware-of-the-year-reaches-a-new-level-of-threat

If it's not one, it's TWO

This AM, the kids' laptop caught the same thing that I had just finished cleaning on the PC in the den. FINALLY, just got it cleaned up. Special place in h@ll for these folks...

Solved

I was able to run a program that killed the programs that were running. I'm running MalAwareBytes (I think that's the name) to make sure that there is nothing resident but I was (gasp) able to open Internet Explorer. l will say this and it is not a new thought, but if the assholes that created viruses used their knowledge for good, instead of evil, life would be so much nicer on the Internet. I just hope someday, something like that happens. This getting stressed out about viruses is for the birds. And the birds don't use the Internet.

SICK OF IT!!!

The idiots that created the XP Home Security virus/malware that has infected the PC in the den had better hope I never run into them because I will not be responsible for what happens. There ought to be a special place in hell for these idiots.