Time flies when you're having fun

Must be having fun, cuz what the hell happened today?  It's gone already.

I'd Have to Be Crazy - Willie Nelson

Heard this on the radio this past week, but was so consumed with my troubles that I didn't have time to post it.

A line sung to the music:

"I must be crazy, plumb out of my mind, to care about this the way I do."

Cuz nobody else seems to.

A few comments while I'm doing the chores

The weekend is for doing the things that you don't have time to do during the week.  At least, that's the way it works around here.  After the software issue was "resolved", it's time to do some other things that need doing.

While I'm doing those things around here, I have some time to write a little about some stuff I didn't have time for earlier this week.

1. I may have written this already, but it bears repeating... The stock market is a smoke and mirrors game right now.  There's nothing real there.  I wrote that the market went up on low volume and down on high volume.  But you just watch.  It won't make a difference.  If the markets were honest, it would indeed make a difference.  You can't get a firm idea of what the true prices are for anything right now because it is a rigged market.
2. A little story that I thought was a bit funny, but didn't happen ( but might have if I had said what I was thinking).  Some gal watching the pope on TV said that she's a Baptist, not a Catholic.  It popped into my mind--- "Yeah, I'm neither, but I am a Christian, which is rare in the country."  I thought that was kinda witty, but didn't say it because I watch what I say, generally speaking.
3. Which allows me to segue into one of the problems I see out there.  NOBODY TELLS THE TRUTH ANYMORE.  You can't, unless you want to take risks.  Check out the Limbaugh site.  He says "gays" for homosexuals even though he complained about the left taking over the language.  Why doesn't he just call them homosexuals?  Because he's afraid of getting into trouble.  We need to stop being so afraid of the left.
4. We are called upon to be nice but the left isn't.  Why is that?????????????????????????????
5. The so-called conservatives are waiting for the next election.  They will always wait for the next election because they are so passive that won't do what it takes in order to win one.  The next election will never solve anything because it isn't a choice between two different points of view.  One of the parties pretends to be conservative and isn't.  The other is leftist.  The result is a leftist bias.  It will continue until something changes or we get a leftist dictatorship.  We're most of the way there already.
6. It doesn't take an earth shattering event to change things.  If that were so, 9.11.2001 would have, but didn't.  We are basically back where we were, or even worse than we were before then.
7. So, the so-called right wing waits and waits and nothing changes.  But why should you expect any different?  If you don't grow a backbone, it will just keep getting worse.

Obligatory, 9.26.15

Today is a stay at home kind of day.  I'll make some runs outside today, but for the most part, the computers are front row and center.

Seems like I'm making progress, but it is a hard slog.  I eliminated all but one browser on the desktop.  Seems like a plug in keeps wanting to load stuff.   The anti virus is stopping it, but the fact that it is still there means that I've still got a problem.  So, that's why the removal of all browsers except the one that seems to operating okay ( without manifestations of a problem at least ).

Maybe more later on this.

Didn't want to forget something I saw at work yesterday.  I was in a waiting area, which had a TV on.  While I was waiting, I heard the Pope speak ( actually a translation of the Pope ).  There was a caption along with it, which gave the impression that the Pope claimed that the rich cause the poor to be poor.  I thought that this is rather out of date of him.  I mean, that's antiquated Soviet Union type propaganda that he's talking, provided that he actually said it.  Since it is a translation, I can't say for certain that he did say it, but if he did, he's not exactly up to date.

Well, that's all for now.  Back to the grind with these computers.

Update:

Alas!  The problem persists.  I tried reloading a browser and it came back.  Makes me think that it is either attached to a downloader or to the browser itself.  Will try to download and install another browser.  If that one craps out too, then it is not specific to just one browser.

It may be necessary to roll out the heavy artillery.   So far, I'm just using the minimum weapon systems.

Update:

Tried the other browser with no luck.  Scans show no problems at all.  No attempt to reconsitute itself and not even a cookie.  Wtf?

Anyway, I am going to use the browser that works, and it will become my browser for this machine.

Let's see if that holds up.

BTW, I changed the header, and will add this post to the history of the blog category.  Wtf.

Home again, 9.25.15

Been home for a couple hours.  Just completed a complex procedure that I thought would take care of the security problem.

As best as I can tell, I may have an infected browser (s).  The one I am using now doesn't give the bad manifestations that I have written about.  However, the one that I usually use did.  A full scan using the anti virus showed no attempt at reconstitution of the bad files, but there was an attempt to load something bad when I attempted to download and run a file to update the browser.

That's where I am now.  The website may not be infected with anything.  Not sure about that anymore.

Obligatory, 9/25/15

The usual apology for lite posting...

No explanation other than the usual...

A few points to cover in this brief post:

1. Computer security work ongoing.  Virus seems to be reconstituting itself.  How?  Pretty easy really.  Again, it is a Windows problem that shouldn't be a problem.  Perhaps I will cover that later in a post.
2. A bit more on the bigger picture.  Before this administration came into power,  I NEVER HAD A COMPUTER VIRUS.  Just sayin', ya'll.
3. The van isn't using that much oil, after all.  I got faked out by something that appears to be oil.  The EPA gasoline mileage ratings are within specs.  Therefore, it isn't valves, or rings.  If it were, unburned gas would find its way into the oilpan.  Since gas mileage is within specs, this is unlikely.

This post should be viewed as a DIRE WARNING about computer security.  I suspect that we have a SYSTEMIC PROBLEM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.  You must upgrade your security as best you can.

Quick post before I go, 9/24/15

1. Computer security:  still working on it.  The anti virus software isn't finding anything, yet there is still a problem.  Performing many tasks to uncover problems, and finding a few, but whatever is causing the manifestations are still there.  Doing yet another update and scan as I write.  Very time consuming.
2. Truck is not using that much oil.  They all use some.  However, there's a problem there too.  Talked to a driver with a very similar vehicle, and he reports something like what I've been experiencing, too.
3. While waiting for a pickup yesterday, I noticed Obama meeting the Pope.  I noted how the talking heads were attempting to tell the viewers what they should think about this.  Nothing critical whatever.  Note that they NEVER reserve criticism of so-called conservatives.
4. Note also that so-called conservatives are scared shitless of criticism, especially from the media.

Have to go.  The computer has appeared to have ended its scan.  I will note the results and go from there.  Then, it's off to the job.