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A mouse-free house
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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2 days now since the last mouse was relocated, the children have gone home to their mothers. It's probably too early to say, from the corners of my eyes I still catch little movements, phantoms of the mice that have gone into the great outdoors, but no traps have been sprung. There have been no rustlings from the garbage, no scrapings from the walls, no chewing from the cupboards, I think that may be it.
The house is as quiet as the grave.
I will post later, there is much to write about tonight, but it will take me some hours to gather and organize my thoughts.
Malwarebytes 4, Norton 0
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Technology
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Last night, yet again, I notice the task manager has been disabled by the administrator. Yet another virus. And so update my definitions and do a scan with Norton Antivirus, but it finds nothing. Time: 2 hours. But my task manager is disabled, and this is trouble.
And so I do another scan with Malwarebytes, find 4 viruses, remove them. Humourously about halfway through the scan Norton tells me I have a virus (having just done a complete system scan and come up empty handed) - a little like a guard dog barking at it's owner to tell him his house has been robbed. The Task Manager is still disabled, I check group policy, settings are fine. I reset it, this seems to fix the issue of bringing up the task manager. The Windows Online fix-tool does nothing to allow me to access it. I have no idea where these viruses came from, but suspect that perhaps they came from the files on the other PC I fixed (and temporarily copied to my PC.). Internet Explorer has crashed 3 times this morning, despite my being unable to find any active processes or startup items that might be virus related, the reporting tool advises me that it's a windows issue and I should get used to it.
I suppose I should just get used to it. I'm on the computer a lot, maybe I should budget time for fixing these issues, or just realize that it's windows and they'll never be fixed, and be grateful I didn't succumb to all the hype about Vista and think of how things could be worse...
Now to scan it with AdAware.
5 more mice
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Bringing it to a total of 8 in 2 days. 8 mice in 2 days, 3 in 1/2 an hour (a busy spell). I've been trying to relocate them to roughly the same back area of the garden in the compost, I've added some of the old hamster food there so their comfortable. Hopefully that keeps 'em. I'm starting to think I've got to be running out of mice soon....
3 mice gone, 2 to go
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Since yesterday the trap has been sprung 5 times. 3 mice have been captured relocated to more outdoorsy surroundings, running pell mell across the snow, back and forth, confused by the bright sunlight, wide open spaces. They should be OK, there's plenty of bird feeders in the neighborhood, if they settle into the right hedge they'll never be hungry. Or so I tell myself. I know there's at least 2 more, but the trap will only hold one at a time. So I've set it up again and am waiting. The remaining mice have grown cautious, they've undoubtedly notice a thinning of the ranks. Gone is the line at the chew. It's a waiting game...
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