Clean.

I went Antivirus happy today.

Since our office lacks someone who can troubleshoot PC problems because, well, we are not a high-tech company when it comes to PC's (though we have top-of-the-line non-linear editing machines and digital video cameras), I often have to take care of our aging but resolute PC's so they won't fade away into the night and zap our scripts into Never Never Land.

Not that I profess to be an expert. I just happen to be the only one here who knows how to wield mouse and keyboard to my advantage when it comes to trouble-time.

Anyway.

So today I noticed that my officemate's PC is exhibitng acute symptoms of VIRAL INFECTIONS. Yikes! It has been dragging itself along for many days now and I haven't yet done anything about it because I didn't have the time nor the inclination to figure out what to do.

Pop-up ads that take forever to close, programs that launch themselves, etc. These have been my officemate's PC problems since it has been connected to the net.

Well finally I did something today, installed Norton Antivirus, updated it through the net and voila! 421 files were exterminated of buggers. Actually, some of it were just quarantined while others were completely cleaned but I'm just counting my blessings that I was able to do it at all.

I only hope someone from the office not wise enough to know the dangers of downloading unsolicited programs doesn't make the same dumb mistake of clicking YES again. Sheesh.