yesterday my friend grace called me up and told me that her computer had yet another virus. i don’t know why i’ve been given the computer whiz position by all my friends. i really don’t know how to fix computers and such. anyway, i went upstairs and brought along my windows 98 and norton antivirus 2002 cds. i let norton boot up and it attempted to scan her entire hd. after an hour just sitting there waiting and reading cosmo, i decided enough was enough. i cancelled the scan and just finished installing 2002 on her computer. it immediate quarantined a bunch of files saying that grace was infected with the nimda worm. how great. i then went to the norton website to do some research on this worm and found out that i’d have to run fixnimda.com. anyway, i think everything’s fixed now. i told grace to use windows update, but i doubt she knows how. oh well, at least now she has antivirus, maybe she won’t be getting two viruses every month! she had antivirus 2000, but she never ran it. isn’t that great? people like grace need to have his/her hard drives reformatted so that he/she will actually try to treat his/her computer nicely by running an antivirus program! anyway, that’s my rant for today. and next time, i’m going to think about charging for my services. two hours wasted sitting there waiting for norton to finish scanning. this problem could have been easily avoided if only….ok well time for work!