Adware
“BEEP!” screamed this laptop.
“Oh well,” I thought; “Nothing new — this thing is always beeping unknown sounds at me.”
I disregarded it, as I always do.
It went further. Something overtook my screen = a virus had been detected.
“I thought Macs never got viruses,” my doggy-daycare lady said. Viruses (“Viri;” whatever) are supposed to be “Windoze,” written by fired Microsoft programmers.
“Well I got one,” I said.
“So I’m currently without my favorite toy. TV; are you kidding? No Oprah for this kid!
Turned it over to MacShack and my ‘pyooter-guru there, to straighten out.”
We’re also gonna install Apple’s most recent operating-system, “El Capitan,” I think. Replacing what came on this computer. My laptop is seven years old = antediluvian in the ‘pyooter word. (I was running Snow-Leopard, geeks.)
Supposedly this new operating-system is better at keeping out website viruses, which is from where my virus must have come — since I never click anything.
No wonder it’s so slow. Even scrolling throws the spinning soccer-ball at me — Apple’s equivalent of Bill Gates’ hourglass.
MacShack has since called saying my rig is ready to pick up.
That was much earlier than expected. I was expecting to climb the walls for a week, chop that mountain of cardboard in my garage for recycling, maybe even open mail and reconcile my credit-card.
I’d rather sling words/fiddle photographs; but I need a computer to do so.
Now that I have my rig back, with its new operating system, various hairballs appeared.
-1) GG-1 #4896 is no longer my desktop picture. It’s that gigantic Yosemite rock-face. Back to 4896 some day.
-2) Some things are different. “Save-as” is apparently no longer a word-processor option. I thereby lost my entire “Railfan Overload” word-processor file. (At least it’s still up at BlogSpot.)
-3) No e-mail. It won’t download. (At least my iPhone does.)
-4) No idea how to access my picture files. “El Capitan” has some new photo-app, and I’m hoping it can preview all the piks on a chip, folder, whatever, like my old Adobe “Bridge.” “Bridge” and my ancient Quicken-2003 no longer work under El Capitan. That stupid Quicken folder is still on my desktop = there must be some way of opening it (engage guile-and-cunning).
• The virus was “adware.” An ad I could kill was appearing on websites. It was running a “script“ which slowed everything.
• Bill Gates was the founder of Microsoft.
“Oh well,” I thought; “Nothing new — this thing is always beeping unknown sounds at me.”
I disregarded it, as I always do.
It went further. Something overtook my screen = a virus had been detected.
“I thought Macs never got viruses,” my doggy-daycare lady said. Viruses (“Viri;” whatever) are supposed to be “Windoze,” written by fired Microsoft programmers.
“Well I got one,” I said.
“So I’m currently without my favorite toy. TV; are you kidding? No Oprah for this kid!
Turned it over to MacShack and my ‘pyooter-guru there, to straighten out.”
We’re also gonna install Apple’s most recent operating-system, “El Capitan,” I think. Replacing what came on this computer. My laptop is seven years old = antediluvian in the ‘pyooter word. (I was running Snow-Leopard, geeks.)
Supposedly this new operating-system is better at keeping out website viruses, which is from where my virus must have come — since I never click anything.
No wonder it’s so slow. Even scrolling throws the spinning soccer-ball at me — Apple’s equivalent of Bill Gates’ hourglass.
MacShack has since called saying my rig is ready to pick up.
That was much earlier than expected. I was expecting to climb the walls for a week, chop that mountain of cardboard in my garage for recycling, maybe even open mail and reconcile my credit-card.
I’d rather sling words/fiddle photographs; but I need a computer to do so.
Now that I have my rig back, with its new operating system, various hairballs appeared.
-1) GG-1 #4896 is no longer my desktop picture. It’s that gigantic Yosemite rock-face. Back to 4896 some day.
-2) Some things are different. “Save-as” is apparently no longer a word-processor option. I thereby lost my entire “Railfan Overload” word-processor file. (At least it’s still up at BlogSpot.)
-3) No e-mail. It won’t download. (At least my iPhone does.)
-4) No idea how to access my picture files. “El Capitan” has some new photo-app, and I’m hoping it can preview all the piks on a chip, folder, whatever, like my old Adobe “Bridge.” “Bridge” and my ancient Quicken-2003 no longer work under El Capitan. That stupid Quicken folder is still on my desktop = there must be some way of opening it (engage guile-and-cunning).
• The virus was “adware.” An ad I could kill was appearing on websites. It was running a “script“ which slowed everything.
• Bill Gates was the founder of Microsoft.
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