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03/26/2012
Posted on March 26, 2012 by TiffRoss
“You can keep insisting that it was not him, but you also need to tell me why I should not be concerned.” Vic leveled a serious gaze at the much taller alien, diminishing him without another word. “I can’t.” Riley admitted meekly. Now was not the time to talk back and try to work his charm over on Vic. He was a father and Riley had been reminded very thoroughly of just how differently fathers think than their children. There would be time for a better thought out conversation later, when Riley knew more about what was going on with Lexx and if they could fix it on top of all the other problems he had. -------------------------------------------- Text, text.. glorious text! I got up this morning (Sunday) to a cat landing on my face repeatedly and a nice set of scratches as she divebombed off her cat tower set up on my desk onto a large flat plastic container she'd knocked into a slant so she could SLIDE on the lid and land on the bed - only she missed Then I discovered the computer chair is completely broken. Then I picked up my laptop and went to do my usual round of things and was prompted to do an update of my Flash Driver immediately after flash crashed - and that began an entire day of trying to clean up my laptop of a very invasive and resistant rogue scamware program instead of doing ANY work. So that's what I've been doing all day, which means I have not prepped comics for uploading or written text.. which I can't in this chair.. oh and it's one of TWO broken office chairs now so that all of our chairs are broken or horribly wobbly. :P Alien Dice is done for the week, but I may update only three times to avoid an interruption if it takes me a long time to reinstall everything over this evening and tonight - which has been my last recourse. So far, Spybot, Malwarebytes and another program simply could not FIND it. The other two programs I ran through that DID find it were shareware and wouldn't fix it unless I paid them. :P I've followed two sets of instructions to get rid of it - none worked. Tried to rollback my computer to a prior update - just locked up after going through the long process of checking my drive consistencey. Well.. went almost a decade without managing to pick up any such things, so I guess one of them was bound to finally trick me. - Tiff *edit* The virus is being cleaned up now by a good virus cleaner. In other news, knocked $250 off the tally, but it does not equal extra updates due to it not being an actual monetary donation, in case you're wondering why the jump on the bar doesn't have any added numbers. $129 is left to reach the end of the goal and get Alien Dice fully caught up! - Tiff

9 thoughts on “03/26/2012”

  1. Genra

    Oh My God, complete honesty from Riley? That’s new.

    Long time reader, never commented, but I had to at that. Love the comic. ^_^

    1. Paint

      I would be scared of Chel’s dad and Riley showed plenty of uninterest in dealing with another ‘overprotective’ father.

  2. Redline

    Try this to remove the virus, (i’m kinda winging it, since i couldn’t find exactly the virus you are talking about).

    1) reboot in safe mode
    2) run rkill
    3) run tdss killer
    4) run combofix
    5) scan with malwarebytes

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/rkill
    http://www.combofix.org/
    http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363

    1. admin

      Most of that is what I did to get rid of it. 😉 Running Spyware Doctor now on a full scan overnight to get the remnants.

      1. Anonymouse

        If you still get reinfections, you may want to get a friend or another PC w/ internet access and download some Rescue Disks from various trusted AV software sites, such as Avira, Kaspersky, AVG, F-Secure, BitDefender, etc. Those do a “nuke from orbit” by running Linux and never running your C: partition, so spy/mal/adware doesn’t have a chance to run or self-replicate or hide. You can put all of the ISOs onto a single flash drive and boot each of them one at a time using Xboot (https://sites.google.com/site/shamurxboot/), just make sure that your PC has an internet connection so each ISO image can update its definitions.

  3. Namane

    I second rkill & tdss killer. Those two have saved my butt’s several times. Already had Malwarebytes but I don’t think I have heard of combofix before. I’ll have to run it pass the geeks of the family, but the others I wholeheartedly support.

    While I myself don’t pay for it, I also have a paid version of McAffee that does pick up somethings the others cannot.

  4. Me

    Hey Riley, how about because we’ll keep better watch over him now that we know there’s a problem, and that Chel will be with 2-3 dice at all times, one of which, at least, will be a primarily combat based die. 🙂

  5. sparkledeath

    Y’know, Riley, I really like this new honesty thing you have going. Now tell the rest of the truth so they can’t come up with something completely ridiculous.

    1. Reniefuwa

      Maybe Riley doesn’t really know what’s happening right now. Sure, he knows Lexx went crazy before, but the circumstances are different this time, and I don’t think he even knows that cause of what happened last time. I too like his open honesty though.

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