All updates are delayed. Since February 14 when I had the capsule camera thing done I haven’t been feeling well because it aggravated the bowel syptoms – I’ve had two bad flare-ups, the second this weekend and culminating yesterday. And t0 make it all real fun, I’ve been battling the flu since about Thursday – which in my case means a sore throat and a cough from hell.

Needless to say, I’m not feeling like updating websites right now, and won’t be until I’m feeling half-way human again. So any and updates are delayed for now.

I’ll be on a semi-hiatus from November 24, 2011 (tomorrow) to December 8, 2011.

I won’t be home at all during that time, and while I will have my laptop with me… I’ll only have access to a slowish Internet connection. So I will handle site maintenance stuff such as script updates and server crises (if any) as normal. But I won’t have most of my files and other resources (they’re on external hard drives) so everything else, like screencaps/screencapping, will have to wait until I’m back home again.

RUDENESS ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING. ORDERS ACCOMPLISH NOTHING. Except make me want to keep a black list of people rudely demading things from me or outright giving me orders.

If you aren’t paying me, you don’t get to give me ORDERS. You don’t get to DEMAND anything.

If you want me to do something for you, be polite and ask. Sheesh, why is it so hard to get that??!!!!!!! It didn’t used to be like this until this last year or so. People on the internet are getting more and more rude :/

My laptop’s clean

Now, only external hard drives left to check. If all goes as planned, I can commence updating late tonight or tomorrow! I miss it!

I’ve been dealing with a persistant virus since last Thursday/Friday, and finally had to restore a system image from a few months ago. I believe the virus was eradicated from my laptop (quick scans don’t show anything anymore) by that, but I’m going to let two different antivirus programs as well as Malwarebytes Antimalware and maybe some other antimalware program do full scans of my my laptop and two external hard drives that were plugged when the virus happened before I use FTP or upload any files from my system to my sites. The two external hard drives are really big, so it’ll take several hours (at the very least, 11 hours) to complete one full antivirus/antimalware scan of my system.So it’ll be propably be another couple of days before I do any updates on any sites.

More about the virus: I’m actually unsure whether I had one or two viruses. But whatever, the difficult one was the one called ShortCut virus.What is does is infect USB drives: it hides the folders, creates shortcuts to them but those shortcuts actually lead to the apparently random-named EXE in a new folder called RECYCLER. Luckily I guess, the moment I saw the folders faded and all the shortcuts that shouldn’t be there plus one folder I had not created, so I never did click on any of the shortcuts or anything. Instead I knew I must’ve been hit by a virus and went googling.

No matter what antivirus or antimalware programs I tried to use to remove it, it always was right back after required restart although all the programs had claimed it had been successfully removed, both in Windows Safe Mode and normal mode. It must have resided in the memory or something and the programs didn’t detect all of it properly. In the end, yesterday, I decided to restore the system image I made in June and that seems to have worked because now I could clean up the two USB drives without problems. But like I said, I’m going to let a number of programs make full scans of my system and hard drives  just to be sure.