Monday, July 17, 2006

Only Not Me

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The message advising 'CPU fan failure' (on startup) has returned, and I am attributing this to the software I recently installed. The new printer/scanner is an Hewlett-Packard device (HP Photosmart). I am more than pleased with the device! What a piece of equipment! But I discovered that during the installation of the software another 'user' had been created. I deleted the son-of-a-bitch immediately, of course. But the trojan is still active, so as a matter of 'startup procedure' I now delete all hp-related processes. Furtheremore, I always initiate the Windows Task Manager as soon as possible during startup so that I can observe the process.

It is possible, of course, that the software installation was the cover (fig leaf) for the trojan, which was actually slipped by McAfee. Indeed, that's the likely scenerio. Gerash, the eight figureaire, can buy whomever he wishes to buy (stomp). Only not me.