Well, I have been unable to post for 5 days. My computer has been in disarray thanks to one of those wonderful people out in the blue skies of the internet that love to send out viruses.
Some lovely person sent out a lovely virus or Trojan that infiltrated my computer and damaged the operating system, not just create a minor nuisance. I spent two days attempting to rid the computer of the virus. The first day, I attempted to clean the drive while running off the machine, hoping it was only a superficial problem. The second day, I removed the hard drive from my computer, hooked it up as an external drive to another computer and attempted to clean it that way. The second day, I ran chkdsk on the external drive and it showed error. Further research showed that a file within the Windows directory had been damaged.
The effects of the damage were fascinating, in a sick way. The computer degenerated over a couple of days, before I was certain there was a problem. The first day, the computer virus detection did not find a problem, though it was clear there was a problem. Dr Web, AVG, Microsoft Security Essentials, and MalwareBytes all failed to see the problem, though the computer was having problems slowing down and locking up. The second day, All virus detection could find a problem, but, none could scan past the problem. Each version of the software that attempted to scan the disk would hang the computer (or at least the user interface). The third day, the computer would power up complete initialization and within 5 minutes, the keyboard and mouse were no longer field by the OS. It was not until that point.
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