BigJimsWornOutTires
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So yesterday ... researching for a story (something I'd learned from Common Fucking Sense!) ... a rundll and COM Surrogate opened in my Task Manager. I close them off. Then my VPN turns off. So I disconnect from the internet, reconnect ... won't adjoin. Then I engage the cellular hotspot. Successful connection - VPN turns on.
Perhaps, an hour or so later, something's different with my Wifi Scanner Menu. It doesn't look the same. Then I head down to the Windows Search bar that pulls up the usual window - the cursor is erratic — moving all over the place. Ugh, boogers. If I were like some of you, I would think, Trojan. But that's impossible with the security service I use. Or is it? Ugh. I begin questioning that security. So I write a special little list, including to-dos, and go straight to work.
I ran scannow, and Windows located corrupted files and fixed them. But ugh, that can't be it. Then I do a virus scan, and of course, no virus. So finally, I reset the DumDum PC but Keep My Files. Do you see? Investigating. I have to first do that before a complete erase. Test the waters.
Ugh. It happened again! Youchie Mouchie! <-- that thread. So I reset it again but added a little secret. And shut the PC down and had to clear ice from the roof of this dome.
This evening, I turn the PC back on — the problem's back, Jack. As to be expected. So I was down to my last options. I committed the first. Then wiped the DumDum PC.
Everything's normal now.
Or is it? Hmm.
Any advice, guys? Also, my cellular hotspot with no router seems to be doing fantastic! So what the odds there, uh?
Perhaps, an hour or so later, something's different with my Wifi Scanner Menu. It doesn't look the same. Then I head down to the Windows Search bar that pulls up the usual window - the cursor is erratic — moving all over the place. Ugh, boogers. If I were like some of you, I would think, Trojan. But that's impossible with the security service I use. Or is it? Ugh. I begin questioning that security. So I write a special little list, including to-dos, and go straight to work.
I ran scannow, and Windows located corrupted files and fixed them. But ugh, that can't be it. Then I do a virus scan, and of course, no virus. So finally, I reset the DumDum PC but Keep My Files. Do you see? Investigating. I have to first do that before a complete erase. Test the waters.
Ugh. It happened again! Youchie Mouchie! <-- that thread. So I reset it again but added a little secret. And shut the PC down and had to clear ice from the roof of this dome.
This evening, I turn the PC back on — the problem's back, Jack. As to be expected. So I was down to my last options. I committed the first. Then wiped the DumDum PC.
Everything's normal now.
Or is it? Hmm.
Any advice, guys? Also, my cellular hotspot with no router seems to be doing fantastic! So what the odds there, uh?
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