Nov 28
My desktop has been hijacked by a sinister trojan of some kind that seems to love nothing more than to launch popups (my particular flavor is called firstadsolution). I have spent a few hours over the past two days trying to find and destroy it, going to more elaborate means than I care to describe. The problem remains unsolved, but I continue to fight the good fight. I wonder how long we will have to wait before the people in power are at a sufficiently young age that they grew up with computers and understand their more technical facets. At what point can we expect laws to punish the people and companies responsible for the ubiquitous nuisance of SPAM and the far more evil and obviously immoral (if not illegal) spyware and adware? That a legitimate company can secretly install software on your private machine seems ludicrous to me.
Anyway, until I get this sorted out I don’t expect to invest much time in writing a Thanksgiving recap.