Went to the house of my cousin Melchor and his wife Ruth. Their machine was in bad shape; so bad they couldn’t navigate anymore. The modem conected them, but it was impossible to load any page.
I only took with me a CD-RW with AntiVir Personal Edition [1], because I thought “that’s everything I need”.
Boy I was wrong.
The machine had so many trojans and viruses, that it didn’t read the USB plugged CD writter. I had to reboot and enter in safe mode, but then the USB didn’t worked, so I went to the “check every option” mode. The machine has Windows ME (literally the work of the devil), so I was in deep pain.
Finally I was able to read the CD-RW, copy the antivirus and started to check the machine. 16 virus, dialers and trojans in total: fortunately they shut down the machine and unplug the modem at night, but anyway they told me that two suspicious calls were in the phone bills in the last months.
After that, I removed all the software that looked at least a little malicious, installed Firefox, and told them not to install anything without reading first what the software was. The machine felt a lot faster without the viruses and the spyware, and they were finally able to load pages (in Firefox 1.0.1).
While there I watched a little of the súper clásico between Chivas and América. I’m not really fan of neither club, but I enjoy with the suffering from the americanistas.
My car is back to life, but it cost me almost 400 dollars. And my mother asked me for money, so I don’t know if I will be able to buy my gadgets. Maybe I can left the camera and related things out. I don’t know; first I need to talk to Omar and see if he will go to Ciudad Juárez in the next weeks.
Funny thing: I opened Ximian’s OpenOffice Spreadsheet, and it’s fast. I suppose it had to do with the upgrade to Gtk+ 2.6; don’t know. But it’s certainly cool.
Went to work one last time. Basically I returned my security ID, and clean up the machine where I was working. Now I need to focus in my academic duties, and search for a new work.