Today with great sadness I have to announce the passing of my dear laptop computer, Toshiba. She was a tough computer and lived a short life full of memory files. Our family is in mourning. She lost her battle to the SysWOW64 virus and had gotten SEO poisioning. We unfortunately had to put her down....
In the basement, so I am not compelled to turn her on. Our whole operating system is ruined so if I turn on the computer it might link to our wifi and really jack stuff up. At least thats what my husband says, I am computer illiterate. I just know computer's are good for facebook and looking up stuff. How did I get this nasty virus?
No it wasn't from looking at porn sites. Geesh who do you think I am?
It was for looking at corn. Corn on the cob, to be specific. I just needed a good recipie for corn on the cob. I went to my trusty friend (ex-friend, friends don't give each other's computer a virus) Google. I looked up corn on the cob recipies and after looking at a couple I saw one that said "3 ways to cook corn on the cob."
All the other websites were only giving me one way so I thought I really hit the jackpot with this one. I hit the virus jackpot and it ruined my life. Okay, okay, my life is intact. I still have my kids and Hubby so its not all that bad. It is highly inconvenienced though. Now I have to type up this blog post from the blogger app on my tablet. I am typing this through a tiny keypad. No judgement on spelling or gramatical errors. This. Is. Hard. This is my second time typing this too because somehow the app deleted my first one.
How does this virus work? Well the makers of this horrible virus created it by making an infected URL and pushing it (by magic, probably) to the top of search results. You click on the link, thinking it is a search result, and your computer is toast.
We had a very assertive but polite lady start saying that our computer was infected by a virus. That was nice, at least they let us know. We also couldn't click out of the URL. Turning off our laptop did nothing. What type of evil genius thinks of this stuff. Seriously? If you are going to ruin my computer at least make it because I was being an idiot. Like opening a spam email and clicking on the link in there, or getting click happy on porn sites. It is wrong to use Google against us.
Now, I never want to make corn on the cob again.
Or get on the computer.
Or use a search engine.
From now on I am just going to go to the library and look up things the old fashioned way. It might take me until 9 at night to make dinner and what was a minute to look up something little takes hours but I think it is worth it. Books are reliable and don't give your computer a virus.
Peace and Love,
Jessica ( look I can't even get my name to look cool anymore. What type of world is this?!)
