Friday, May 18, 2007


COMPUTER TROUBLE!!!

Something is not right with my laptop. Initially, my student Sam from 5ICT had helped me to clear the virus from it but there still appeared some flashing files each time I logged on. I had gone to the PKG to get Encik Anuar to help me but he too had difficulty isolating the problem. He tried to restore the program, he tried to look for the problem file and just about everything that he could think of. I was in the PKG from 3.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. Actually, I think that if I stayed longer Encik Anuar might be able to get to the root of the problem but then I did not want to intrude into his personal time. Actually, he finishes work at 5.00 p.m. but was kind enough to stay back to help me. Know what I did? I finally sent my laptop to the technician in d'Fastec where I bought it to get it fixed. When he looked at it, he told me that it was infected with Brontox virus. Arghhhh!!!!
Just the word virus would make me mad. I have been having problems with it since last week. In a previous post I had mentioned that I got two of my librarians, Sam and Aizat, to help me rid the library PC and my laptop of virus. However, we found that the PC in the library was again infected with virus. This time Sam took almost three hours to do the cleaning. I finally discovered that the source of the virus came from the computers in the academic staff room as the virus was transmitted via thumb-drives. Next week, it will be WAR against the VIRUS!!! I have got my team assembled and they will start combat duties after they finish sitting for their Additional Mathematics paper next Wednesday.
The above picture shows Encik Anuar figuring how to get rid of the problematic files that keep flashing on the screen.

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