Back for the minute at least.

[cold_nostalgia]

I got the print outs on how to manually rid myself of Antivirus pro 2009 and it didn't work.  I poked about my hard drive for hours on end, I could not see the files I was supposed to delete for love nor money.  After giving up the ghost, I then tried to do a system reboot, but much to my dismay my computer wasn't having that at all.  So after much wailing and tearing my hair out, I decided to go with the nuclear option of restoring factory settings...

And of course Antivirus Pro 2009 made damn sure that I couldn't back anything up before I did so...which is my own fault for not backing up files before this actually happened, but you know, hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Anyway, I nuked my computer, restarted it, went to re-install blueyonder - can't surf the net without it! - managed to do so after the tenth attempt, but here's the thing as soon I connected my USB to my computer, what looked a windows security update showed up on my taskbar. 

Not a big deal right? 

Wrong.  'Cause that's what happened the last time, not only that, the 'security' update  took waaaay longer than it usually does.  I hope I'm being really paranoid, but if I reboot this machine only to find Antifuckingvirus Pro 2009 back on system fucking everything up, not allowing me to do anything, I swear I'm going jump on a plane to Ukraine and beat the shit out of these bastards that created the most malicious piece of malware that I have ever come across. 

You know, it's bad enough that I've lost everything: Mp3 files, writing, etc - again, my fault for not being a bit quicker to back them up - it's bad enough that I have to go through the complete farce of re-installing everything, especially the most good-for-nothing program which I have had the misfortune to come across: Norton Systemworks.  But if I reboot this bastard and find out it was all for nothing I am going to be furious.

Ugh. What really gets me about this was that I wasn't even on a dodgy website, or downloading anything.  Grrrr.