October 17 – it was a typical busy day for me. Just another work day with my trusty laptop. I am a very organized person in a very disorganized way – I know where everything is as long as nobody touches my files. That is why instead of having a resident desktop at the office, I opted to bring a laptop to work everyday. My laptop was equipped with the latest anti-virus and anti-spyware, I scan it every day and yet I got infected.
I tried every fix I could find in the web and have been fighting this thing for over 24 hours straight! With no sleep and close to trashing my laptop, I finally admitted defeat. Sorted out my files in safe mode because nobody in their right minds could work with all those annoying pop-ups popping up every 5 seconds or so, top it up with a blood red desktop that takes you to stupid spyware sites everytime you clicked on any part of it. After sorting out my files which amounted to almost 20Gb of space, I have no choice but to delete all those downloaded movies and albums that I have spent countless hours, days and even weeks waiting for. It finally went down to 7Gb of doc and pdf files.
I then tried another fix that I have found online and for about 3 hours or so, I was in heaven. I thought my problem was finally solved and I do not have to resort to a fresh, clean install of windows xp. I finally made a backup of my files even though I thought I was not going to reinstall my OS. Lucky for me I did because after three hours of bliss, the annoying pop-ups are at it again and I have no choice. I reinstalled my OS and here I am now, still at it, trying to find my CS3 Suite installer. I do hope I find it soon or I’m toast.
