I'm not as think as people drunk I am
Nov. 3rd, 2004 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqMaybe this wasn't such a good idea on a work night, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pierrekrahn needed to return a beer keg from his weekend party and there was still beer left in it. atara and I are helpful sorts, so we went over there and helped him. Mmmm... free beer. The things we do to help out a friend in distress, eh?
Oh, and I got my ass handed to me in Mario Party, but I don't care because he was feeding me free beer the whole time. Free beer. Yum!
In other news, I got my flu shot today. My arm hurt like a bugger earlier, but now it doesn't bother me at all because it's been numbed by all the free beer. Yum!
In still other news, a friend brought his wife's computer in to work on Monday with a perplexing problem (beyond the obvious problem of being an eMachine running Windows ME I mean). After boot-up it would pop up a requestor saying something like, "Explorer has encountered an error <unknown>. Explorer will now exit and restart."
You could still do some things while that requestor was up (fortunately), but if you closed it then it would come back shortly thereafter, and if you tried to do something between when you closed it and it popped up again, you would get that error, or sometimes a Kernel32 error. It was odd, and for the most part random.
In spite of the fact that she was running a virus scanner, and had Spybot S&D installed, I had a hunch that it was either a virus, or some malware at work. Spybot S&D couldn't find anything, nor coud her virus scanner, so I just winged it and started uninstalling applications. If I knew that it was malware, I removed it. If I didn't know what it was, I looked it up on the net and then removed it because it was invariably malware.
After several rounds of this the problem had not cleared up. Finally I uninstalled Spybot S&D, and installed the latest version of that and Adaware, along with their latest file definitions. I should emphasize that I removed a LOT of stuff prior to this, but even so they found 300+ additional things to remove after all that. Blah. For some reason she got it in her head that she didn't need to run S&D or Adaware after she installed a virus scanner. I don't know who told her that, but I'd like to slap that person upside the head the next time we meet.
Anyway, at the end of all this the computer boots up and runs just fine now. I hadn't managed to make it crash before I left for home today, and I'll test it a bit more tomorrow after I get to work. If it's still functioning fine by lunch time then I'll call them to come and pick it up. Payment to be one case of beer of my choice.
Free beer - yum!
pierrekrahn needed to return a beer keg from his weekend party and there was still beer left in it. atara and I are helpful sorts, so we went over there and helped him. Mmmm... free beer. The things we do to help out a friend in distress, eh?Oh, and I got my ass handed to me in Mario Party, but I don't care because he was feeding me free beer the whole time. Free beer. Yum!
In other news, I got my flu shot today. My arm hurt like a bugger earlier, but now it doesn't bother me at all because it's been numbed by all the free beer. Yum!
In still other news, a friend brought his wife's computer in to work on Monday with a perplexing problem (beyond the obvious problem of being an eMachine running Windows ME I mean). After boot-up it would pop up a requestor saying something like, "Explorer has encountered an error <unknown>. Explorer will now exit and restart."
You could still do some things while that requestor was up (fortunately), but if you closed it then it would come back shortly thereafter, and if you tried to do something between when you closed it and it popped up again, you would get that error, or sometimes a Kernel32 error. It was odd, and for the most part random.
In spite of the fact that she was running a virus scanner, and had Spybot S&D installed, I had a hunch that it was either a virus, or some malware at work. Spybot S&D couldn't find anything, nor coud her virus scanner, so I just winged it and started uninstalling applications. If I knew that it was malware, I removed it. If I didn't know what it was, I looked it up on the net and then removed it because it was invariably malware.
After several rounds of this the problem had not cleared up. Finally I uninstalled Spybot S&D, and installed the latest version of that and Adaware, along with their latest file definitions. I should emphasize that I removed a LOT of stuff prior to this, but even so they found 300+ additional things to remove after all that. Blah. For some reason she got it in her head that she didn't need to run S&D or Adaware after she installed a virus scanner. I don't know who told her that, but I'd like to slap that person upside the head the next time we meet.
Anyway, at the end of all this the computer boots up and runs just fine now. I hadn't managed to make it crash before I left for home today, and I'll test it a bit more tomorrow after I get to work. If it's still functioning fine by lunch time then I'll call them to come and pick it up. Payment to be one case of beer of my choice.
Free beer - yum!
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Date: 2004-11-04 11:32 am (UTC)1,536 items. Of those, 829 files, 12 folders, something like 50 registry VALUES, and the rest keys.
That was scary.
BTW, I've discovered something... I'm going to use a WinXP machine and WinXP SP1 cd to make a BartPE disc. It'll have adaware on it and a script for getting the newest update online. Whoo.