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The other day i spoke about reinstalling windows on this crazy ass laptop by HP. The reinstall went fine. Took most of the day which of course wasn’t fine but in the end it was completed and running just fine. That is of course until later on the same day the laptop got infected with a nasty piece of malware/adware.

How it got in i aren’t a 100% sure.

The nasty ass malware/adware that decided to live inside the laptop was created by Outerinfo and Yazzle. Uninstalling it wasn’t even an option as everytime i tried it was replicating itself on the system. Eventually it made windows not even recognize its own files and crashed the system. Meaning that for the second time within 48 hours i was forced to reinstall the laptop just to get the compter into a useable state.

My anti-virus was going nuts every other second and internet explorer kept popping up taking me to sites i wasn’t interested in. (I don’t even use internet explorer, My choice of browser is of course Firefox.)

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So it’s been a while since i actually did anything to get rid of the spam comments that bombard this blog day after day. Lucky for me none of them actually get published. It’s probably because i have no requirement for the user to register before commenting. So its just a magnet for the spam bots that come around and attack daily.

Although it does give me something to laugh about when i am deleting them. Today i slaughtered over 400 spam comments on this blog alone. Never mind the other sites i have running. Among them were some seriously retarded comments from people. (Were you one of them?) Things like buying tramadol online Buying Wow Gold and and many many more.

It always amazes me that these spammers.(Thats what they are really, just lame little spammers) never give up.

If you really wanted WOW Gold without having to buy it all the time. You’d just visit one of the following sites and learn how to make 200 gold an hour or whatever they have to offer. Here lame spammers let me beat you to it.

WOW Gold Guide Sites:

Warcraft Riches

Valkors Gold Guide

The two sites listed above both have high reputation in the field of gold making in World Of Warcraft. By Using their guides you will never have to buy gold form those chinese farmers again. Or get someone else to play your account for you. (Which may get you banned or compromise your account)

Hopefully now the spambots will just stay away from here. Well at least the ones spamming me and trying to get their links on here for World Of Warcraft gold.   Now i just need to work on a solution for the ones trying to sell car parts and other crap stuff.

Die Spam DIE!

The time has come to do the thing that just about every computer user in the world hates to do.  Yep that’s right. It’s reinstall day. It’s more than a year since i reinstalled windows on this laptop, and as i use it everyday for hours on end. Its probably a good idea to keep it fresh. (Plus it keeps crashing when its doing simple things.)

It took 6 hours of yesterday evening to backup all the files i didn’t want to lose. Now it’s taking 30 mins to send them all to the other pc in a rar file.  Luckily i’ve done many reinstalls so i knewwhat i needed to backup and what i didn’t. The dreaded part comes when halfway through the reinstall i think ‘Sh*t did i back up that really important file that i can’t get from anywhere else?’ Or ‘Oooops i forgot that web file i needed for that other site.’ These are both scenarios that have happened before. I just hope they don’t happen again today! (They shouldn’t I spent a great deal of time checking things to make sure I have gotten everything.)

Today is also the day to install Ubuntu on this machine too. Why? Well because i can and because i want to.  It’ll give me something else to do and learn and at least with the laptop being dual boot. I can still run my normal applications should i run into problems with Ubunt. (Which no doubt i will.)

As my fave game for the PS2 has become scratched from been played so much. I have more free time than usual. I may as well make good use of it. So here’s to hoping it all goes well and this laptop doesn’t explode in the process. (Hey it’s HP it just might blow up!).