Virus alert - sort of
Sep. 11th, 2009 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichSo, having little energy but still unable to resign myself to sleeping again, I decided to use Google-images to find pictures of 9-11... the first thing that popped up was a link starting with "the-truth-about-online-busines.../ or "xtrecist.com". I didn't really notice the name of the site as I was just looking at what seemed to be an incredible picture of a pilot in his cockpit with the burning pentagon beyond him. So I clicked -
Right into a virus that nearly locked up my computer. Oh, my firewall stopped it from harming the computer, but I couldn't get my Internet page to disconnect. And if I weren't as familiar with MicroSoft terminology, I would have believed that fake thing to have been real and followed it's directions. Or hit 'decline' and still maybe had a problem.
Arn said I ought to contact Google and tell them about it, today being what it is. But you know what? I can't find any way to do that. Guess I'm not smart enough. Or something.
Right into a virus that nearly locked up my computer. Oh, my firewall stopped it from harming the computer, but I couldn't get my Internet page to disconnect. And if I weren't as familiar with MicroSoft terminology, I would have believed that fake thing to have been real and followed it's directions. Or hit 'decline' and still maybe had a problem.
Arn said I ought to contact Google and tell them about it, today being what it is. But you know what? I can't find any way to do that. Guess I'm not smart enough. Or something.
