computer herpes

After owning three computers and never having contracted a computer STD, it finally happened. On my brand new computer. *grumble* A friend of mine sent me a message on MSN that said, "Hey, is this you?" with a link that looked like an MSN member profile, with my email address on it. I clicked on it, and it downloaded the virus. Which got into my Norton Internet Security. I couldn't uninstall Norton to reinstall it. My auto-protect had been disabled and it wouldn't let me enable it. Aaron looked at it because he's a computery person, and he said it was the worst virus he's ever seen, in the sense that it was so deeply embedded into everything and how it locked up everything.

I ended up having to reformat the computer (again), and now I can't find the driver for the internet, so I'm back to the ol' lappy for the time being. Just have to wait for aaron to get home to fix it for me, as he knows where all the CDs for the computers are...and I don't.

Fortunately it didn't wipe out my computer and kill everything, like all of my school work I've got saved on the computer from the past FIVE YEARS. That would have been devistating. Especially with less than a week to go until portfolios are due. I would have cried.

But that's my quick update for now...