This morning I got an e mail from a work server for some company, suggesting that the e mail I sent to someone there was bounced back to me as having a virus. I had never sent an e mail to that person, although I know that the person is the spouse of an LJ friend, from reading that friend's journal. Thus, either my LJ friend has a virus, or both my LJ friend and I have a virus.
I decided to try out the new AOL offer to give me a free anti-virus program. I downloaded it, and it is scanning now. So far it's detected one trojan horse, a debeski, as well as a small host of adware. I'm glad to get this set up, as I'd been slow to get good anti-viral into place. The AOL product turns out to be good old McAfee, so that's a bit of protection, anyway. It's been running for some time, though, and I'm ready to it to end. I love the part when I get to obliterate the "found" viruses. I think that the software people should make something blow up real good when I hit the button to do that. Now it's concluded, and the one malicious virus and one dozen bits of adware have been consigned to nether regions. I will remember to e mail my LJ friend, as the virus located wasn't really a takeover-your-e-mail-and-send-proxy-spam virus, but instead a do-goofy-things-to-your-system virus, if my reading is an indicator, and so the e-mailing virus may be on my LJ friend's system.
My second freecycle giveaway went well, and I'm just waiting for a reply e mail to facilitate my third.
I'm wanting to "de-thing" my life a bit, although there are a few things I will acquire to replace the now-too-large set of things I have. I want a more limited collection of cooler things, which is not quite ascetic, but is my own view.
My spare room is still, at best, a work in slow progress. But I figure that Gun Barrel City wasn't built in a day. I'm tempted to take everything from the room, and then place back in only those essential tings. Then I can give away everything else on freecycle.
It's still quite rainy here, so I'll be inclined to take the "rural back way" to my office, in which I skirt the northern sections of the metroplex, going through small towns with horse farms to the eastern sections of the area where my office is located. Yesterday this route proved very quick, as contrasted to the bumper-to-bumper madness rain days create. I like the way it's full of horses and churches. The little St. Anthony Catholic Church in Wylie looks like a picture postcard.
I am pleased that I am getting my work on track. I want to work a little harder, still, to get ahead.