Sojourn Chronicles

This has been a day to reckon with. It has gone something like this.

1. Coffee with friends. Got to see Ian after his heart by-pass surgery.
2. Discovered a Trojan software on my computer.
3. Fixed brunch while trying to remove Trojan.
4. Brunch was great: spinach and sun-dried tomato omelet and bacon.
5. Tried to isolate the software problem by restoring system.
6. System cannot restore to a previous time. Trojan has control.
7. Identified Trojan as WinReanimator, which tried to make you think it is really a spyware software removal program that really only wants you to contribute $49.99 to a business in the Ukraine.
8. A whole bunch of spyware removal programs say this is not dangerous, just a nuisance, but “they can fix it for …$xxx.xx.
9. Tried several programs. Nothing has worked.
10. Decided to take a picture of new toy.
11. It was also time for something to drink … a glass of wine to help.

Day’s activities continued:

1. Time for supper. Started Black beans & rice. Fired up the grill, and prepared my world famous Cajun catfish on the Weber grill.
2. Monitored the poor spyware removal of the new software I just bought.
3. Ate supper with the Lovely Lin. She was happy with the catfish.
4. The neighbor needed help installing new DSL. Fixed it relatively quickly. She was happy.
5. Back at the Galactic Headquarters of Sojourn Chronicles, I discovered that the new spyware removal software identified the pest again. Hit the “Remove” key, and rebooted the computer.
6. Pest still on the computer. E-mailed support center of new software purchase about my $29.99 purchase of software that doesn’t do the job.
7. Decided to create this post.

I hope Monday goes better. The Lovely Lin and I are going to the new Ikea store in West Chester. I’m hoping for an early trip to take in a 99-cent breakfast consisting of Swedish Pancakes.

Stay tuned.–DBrent