@Red: Nope. I can go into the system set up though, so I might be able to figure something out. I usually manage to fix computer problems by just screwing around and seeing what works. Maybe I can fix this too. The really weird thing is the virus clearly came from a completely innocuous site I've been using regularly for days (a manga reading site).

@Ginger: Everyone goes to sleep when I get on here too. And every morning when I wake up I find the thread has a bunch of pages from when all the Europeans wake up and start posting.

edited 21st Feb '12 11:51:23 PM by Bluespade

^What, like MangaFox? =D

Well, if you've got a system restore or a backup you should be able to get it in from the setup stage. Alternately, if worse comes to worst you can just restore to factory default, though that's obviously a last-ditch effort. Had to do that to my laptop at one point, actually.

I don't know if I should be amused or worried, but apparently Topless Robot has finally found a joy pic for Fan Fiction Friday.◊

I tried system restore already, didn't work. And yeah, it was Manga Reader, though I'm not sure I googled it and might have clicked on something that looked similar by mistake. I never even got a glimpse of the site, the virus acted so fast.

edited 21st Feb '12 11:55:13 PM by Bluespade

That... may not be healthy, Ginger. I don't know, I guess that's how much time you're supposed to get but it always feels too little for me.

@Bluespade: Try getting an Ubuntu live-USB flash drive, and using some kind of Linux Toolkit to clean and repair your Windows Install. I'm sure there's a forum somewhere that can help.

Totally depends on his age. If he's under 23, I say go for it, sleep is for the weak, use your youthful energy while you've got it, bluh bluh bluh.

Once you get in your mid-twenties though you start needing to actually sleep.

Thanks, I'll look into it tomorrow. Just wasn't planning on doing anything tonight since I'm exhausted.

edited 21st Feb '12 11:59:43 PM by Bluespade

Ugh, I hate viruses. Mostly it's spyware that gets me. Assholes. Like trolling, I will never understand the people who make viruses.

... I wonder how the mane cast would react to being given a computer I'm pretty sure at least one of them would break it. It'd either be RD or AJ I think

edited 22nd Feb '12 12:00:38 AM by gingerninja666

I think most viruses are made by legitimate businesses, a fact which fills me with loathing for the human race.

I kept paying up for Trend Micro's antivirii, been using it for years and no regrets. Only ever had one mailworm attack back in 2003, some anti-pakistani worm called Yaha.k.

Twi would totally get addicted to the Internet and become One of Us

@Bluespade: There are numerous breeds of malware: troll-made worms, corporate datamining spyware, splash damage from targeted malware attacks like Stuxnet, zombifying mailbot worms that slave your computer to a botnet used for spamming, black-ops surveillence rootkits, and whitehat malware meant to demonstrate system flaws. The troll-mades and corporate dataminers fill me with the desire to be able to deliver literal in-the-face attacks over the Internet, so's I can punch them through the screen.

edited 22nd Feb '12 12:07:15 AM by AceOfScarabs

She totally would. I think Fluttershy could really get into it too, if someone could explain it to her. I think she'd be like one of those middle-aged women who only know how to use Facebook and play little browser games, who is completely mystified by the rest of the internet.

Archive Binge Progress: 41000/103737 (39.52%)

I just saw a poster who had actually successfully completed a binge in a few weeks, back when the topic was only 40, 000 posts long.

edited 22nd Feb '12 12:07:44 AM by Cysma

I'm one of the only people in the world who doesn't have/want to have/know how to use facebook

@Cysma: that was before th thread's growth rate increased. I reckon at the rate you read, you'll be archive binging... forEeeeeeeverrrrrrrrrrrrr.

@Ginger: I see no need for Facebook except as a great way to play detective and dox people too irresponsible to make themselves Anonymous when doing stupid things on the Internet. I don't even have an account there!

edited 22nd Feb '12 12:13:05 AM by AceOfScarabs

@Ginger: I'm with you there, I truly despise Facebook and refuse to use it.

Awesome crossover that Hasbro could do because.

I'm off the grid when it comes to social networks.

I like it that way. I did design a pony avatar for my mom's Facebook account. (My mum is understanding, if amused, about my pony addiction.)

edited 22nd Feb '12 12:18:21 AM by edvedd

I have facebook because of artists. It's just the easiest way to keep up with what my classmates are doing and stuff. Makes it easy to communicate en-masse. Beyond that I rarely use it for anything.

Meanwhile, in a strange alternate universe...◊

edited 22nd Feb '12 2:04:41 AM by Chariot

^^ Whoever drew that needs to complete the set.

Badwolf is Rainbow Dash surprising absolutely no one. Kegi is Twilight surprising absolutely no one. I am Fluttershy and in no way connected to Rarity in any possible way whatsoever, not even in the tiniest most subtle sense, Meh understandable. Ace is.... Pinkie? Why does this make sense?

Opal and Winona as ponies.... That looks so cute and so awesome.

edited 22nd Feb '12 3:43:37 AM by MousaThe14

I also see some serious denial/self-loathing there, Mousa

Opal and Winona as ponies.... That looks so cute and so awesome.

Agreed. I just saved it.

I've been up all night with insomnia. I'm starting to get a case of the yawns, so I guess I'll see if I can grab some sleep now.

edited 22nd Feb '12 4:33:28 AM by Sydxelia

....dude, my virtual school-something guy shoved a donut into a file cabinet.

Nice way to start the morning....and I refuse to believe I'm a Rainbow Dash.