August 3, 2006
Let me tell you about how crappy and annoying the past couple of days have been:
1. Corrupt Database
--------> For a while, I had noticed that my celphone was doing strange things. The first thing I noticed was that these blank lines appeared in the ID Caller Window. They go from one side to the other making the icons, clock, caller name, etc look like dashes. The second thing that went wrong was with the phone book. During my last DC trip I tried to add someone to my phone and I got an error. A big red circle with an "X" in the middle came up. I didn't really know what that was. So I tried deleting someone and it wouldn't let me. Then it went crazy changing numbers around and there were all these blank spaces that weren't there before. Also, some people disappeared without me doing anything. So I left it alone. I decided to take it to the Sprint store a couple of days ago. The Sprint dude tells me that it's going to be $15 to check it out and if it can be fixed, it would cost around $35-55. No problem. I come back a couple of hours later and the dude tells me that my phone just doesn't work anymore. I was like "What does that mean?" He just said that it doesn't work anymore and that they'd give me a new phone for $35. Ok. I look at the phone they wanted to give me and it was CRAP. I didn't really understand why they just give that crap phone since there were others that were better and cheaper. So I was pissed off at the whole thing and decided that it wasn't worth it. I took my damaged phone back since it still receives and makes calls & text messages fine. I'll just use it until it dies or I switch companies...which is what I'm looking to do anyway. But like Chris said in DC, "your database is corrupt".
If you remember, this isn't the first time I've had phone issues. Please refer to: http://suzy.dabu.com/1/1698-Mysterious-Moisture and http://suzy.dabu.com/1/1707-Update-No-Phone-For-You
2. Computer Problems
--------------> When it comes to computers, when it rains, it pours! Man...if it's not one thing it's another. A few days ago, my computer was automatically restarting. Then it would beep at me. WTF! So I thought something must be wrong with the hard drive. I openned it up and realized that it was over-heating. This is not a problem it had before, but I did look up some info and the power supply shouldn't be so high up so its not sucking the hot air out well. So I just left the case open. Just in case I ran error-check to see if there were any problems with the drive and it came up fine. About two days after that, an extra icon appears on my desktop: Poker.com - The King of Online Poker. Seriously, WTF!!!! I checked out the icon's path and it was an webpage shortcut. Of course I didn't click on it. I deleted it, restarted and of course, it came back. I searched my computer and the only thing that would come up with poker was that icon. So I looked around the folders and found another icon in the Common Files folder. Just as a precaution I always disconnected from the internet while trying to get rid of this thing. I have no idea where it came from and my system is up-to-date. I ran Norton, Ad-Aware, Spybot and Windows Defender...none of them detected anything wrong. I did this in safe mode also...nothing. I sat there in start up with the Task Manager open to see the Processes that would pop-up and run. They all checked out fine. So I called up some friends. Tom was about to help me when I had to hang up on him....sorry. I was up till 3am looking up info on how to get rid of this ridiculous crap. So the next day, Rob calls me and gives me some advice. Since Norton wasn't detecting it, I went to Mcafee's site and ran their free scan. HELLO! It found 3 malware items on my computer.
---------->The f#cked up thing is that these viruses are old news to the anti-virus companies. For whatever reason, the different AV companies give the same virus different names. It just makes things harder when you search Symantec for a virus Mcafee found. Your search will more likely come up with nothing. Same virus...different name! Retarded. Even more f#cked up is the fact that if these viruses are old, that implies that the old virus definitions should protect you from them hence blocking their entrance into your computer. Wow, that sounds logical, eh? Guess that doesn't matter. So in the end, I was able to get rid of the trash. I scanned it two more times online at different points of the night and it came up clean, so my computer frustration is gone.....for now. I hate computers.