“It seems you’re having some trouble. In dealing with these changes. Living with these changes. Oh no, the world is a scary place…Get up, come on get down with the sickness.” ~ from “Down with the Sickness” by Disturbed
This week, my laptop was heckled and hacked by a virus. Here is the disturbing timeline:
- It started Monday night as I was doing my usual computer multitasking while watching The Voice. Woosh. A flash of pop-up screens invaded, wiped out what I was working on and blacked out my desktop. From a “security center,” they gave dire warnings of a series of errors that had and were occurring on my system and pretended to be scanning it. Several more messages filled with poor English grammar and it was directing me to insert a credit card number to upgrade to a full version of software from a trial version I’d never downloaded. System fail. Continue reading
Barbara McDowell 