To Do or Not To Do?

I started one day last week with a to do list -- a simple list of quilts to be finished on the longarm, some baby quilts to be pieced for the Guild Kids' Quilts project, and a few computer items that would take only a few minutes to finish. Six hours later, I turned off my laptop and went home. I had contracted the "Antivirus360" virus on my computer which is a nuisance virus that continually tries to convince you that your computer is about to crash and that all of your personal information is being broadcast onto the net. If one ignores the first popup and simply closes it, it goes away. But gullible me, I clicked on it to see what was wrong with my laptop and the virus went everywhere.


I contacted my protection provider after trying for two hours unsuccessfully to get rid of it myself. After chatting with "Aslam" for about fifteen minutes, I admitted defeat and agreed to pay to have him de-virus my laptop and turned it over to him via remote control. Fascinated, I watched my computer screen, as Aslam cleared the virus -- often going into areas of my computer that I would never attempt to enter because I would just make it worse. It took Aslam, the real expert, approximately a half hour to fix my laptop and then he gave me some advice on how to avoid this type of problem. He helped me print it and it's sort of like "protection for dummies." Basically, the biggest thing is "Don't click on any pop-up." That made sense to me as I have a program that supposedly stops all pop-ups so any that make it through must be malware (Aslam's word).

Needless to say, my to do list is still not finished, but my computer is running top-notch!