Scott Hough

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About 3 weeks ago I broke Windows. I was trying to manually remove a trojan since I couldn’t find a program to remove it. Adware/Spyware removal programs and my virus scan program couldn’t fix it. I thought I had backed up the registry, obviously I didn’t.
Took me 3 weeks to stop procrastinating and get my [...]

Well last night I had a scare. I noticed I had a full recycle bin so I went to empty it. It popped up with a dialog box asking “Do you want to delete WINDOWS?” That totally caught my off guard. I went into the recycle bin and it had NO files in it at [...]

Well today was a nice one at work. I clocked in and was told not to log into the computer because the server was down. We all sat there for 2 hours and 50 minutes before they told us to go home.
Apparently the calls we make are routed through the server and through T1 lines. [...]