This just isn't my month

[Atrocities]

Well boys and girls my beloved PC did it too me again. Thanks to McAfee and a small bug, a virus was able to get in and infect my registry. Thank god for back ups. Oh, wait, back ups that work.

After 5 hours, I am finally back on line, virus system is working fine, and all appears to be well.

I still don't know what virus it was, got it from a file off of Kaaza. When I opened it, all hell broke loose. The Virus alarm went off. I deleted the pest, and then the computer spontaniously rebooted.

System32 error and no reboot.

Well a call into MS and about an hour later I was working off of a repaired system config file. The Puter boots back up, reinstalled all my drivers, and went to run a scan for viruses. ERRORS like you would not blieve. Seems that the virus deleted the many of the Virus scanner's DLL files.

And too top it off, I could not go on line.

A call into AT&T and another 30 minutes yeilded me a simple solution. It worked. Unistall the nework card and reboot. How simple. It worked.

Back on line, and right to McAfee tech support Chat. The tech said that I had to purge my Registry of all McAfee files. Then do a complete reinstall of the program. That they are aware of the virus and are working on a solution. No other info given but to say its an exploit to do with Explorer and MS and how Anti Virus Software works. New to me.

Anywhoo, mission accomplished.

God I hate virus creators, MS, McAfee, and AT&T. They all conspire to do this in order to get the money for tech support. (No I did not pay.)