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[katharos]

My netbook appears to be working again! *prods it very cautiously*

It's taken about... two, three months? It was infested with a nest of really nasty stubborn viruses including a search results redirect and the need to restart about ten times everytime I wanted to use it before it would connect to the internet. Multiple anti-virus tries, finally avira has (hopefully) removed it but mangled a bunch of system files in the process. One reboot from disc and frantic begging and borrowing of an external dvd drive later I THINK it is clear. *prayers fervently*

On the plus side a now know a lot more about the insides of my system than I did before! This is good. *pets control panel*

Comments

[senmut]

Kind of makes you wish you knew someone like Ratchet....

[katharos]

I did get to pick the brains of my sister's friend who's taking taking computer science. But I'm afraid I got a bit grumpy at him when he tried to take over the fixing part. I want to be an independant woman of technology!

[swordage]

Isn't it such a good feeling to fix your machine? :3

[katharos]

Yes! I'm afraid I got grumpy at a few people over the course of this when their help started shading into 'let me fix this for you...' *cough* And I feel almost like I cheated because I did go for the system restore in the end but by that time I knew what was wrong with it, and reboot from disk seemed the best way to fix it. And I'm ridiculously pleased with the knowledge level up I've gained!