~BTIsaac

I just arrived from maintenance. I spoke with Mick, and hopefully, PC will be fixed by Friday. But even so, this doesn't ease my mind. I seem to be slipping into a deeper and deeper paranoia. I practically see viruses everywhere, even in my dreams, and I keep having this bad feeling that this time, formating will not solve the problems.
I don't even understand why am I so concerned over a piece of hardware. Everyone else seems so calm when it comes to computers, while I can't even sleep well, when there are troubles with mine.

It seems like I was right. Something is definitely wrong with the PC. A few hours ago, I took a peek at the Temp folder in Local Settings. This folder is usually empty, but it was filled with a bunch of things, some of which looked rather suspicious (including a movie file that crashed the explorer when I highlighted it, and another file which according to some search results on Google, appears to be a malware). I emptied the folder, and restarted the PC. I don't have any network connections since than. Normally, the temp folder shouldn't contain anything essential. I assume this is a virus infection I'm dealing with. Problem is, my anti-virus has been outdated for the past six months, so I can't even run a scan. I'll be talking to the maintenance guy tomorrow. Looks like a memory wipe is in order. This time, I'll ask for a full wipe for all three partitions.

Of course, a bad PC means other things as well. Firstly, I'm always down when I'm having computer issues, so I'm in for a really bad week. Secondly, there's no telling when the problem will be fixed, and till then, I'll be unable to do any work. Even when I get PC back, I'll have to reinstall both Photoshop and the scanner, and so far, that sort of stuff always caused complications, so I have no idea when I'll be able to resume to work.

Dammit. Why is this happening to me? Why, I ask!

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Update:

I woke up this morning to find that the network connections are back. We'll wait with the memory wipe, but I have a feeling it will only make things worse. If nothing else, pushing things like this is pretty stressful for me. I'll just have to wait and see what happens, but I bet things will get a lot worse before (if) they get better.

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Update2:

I spoke with the maintenance guy, who will henceforth be known as Mick, he told me the usual "bring in the PC and we'll have a look". Well, it's not like that's a big surprise. All I can say for certain is, that we'll be taking PC in this week. If that's so, next Monday may be the soonest I'll be getting him back. However, I keep having this odd feeling that this will not solve all the problems.
Anyway, I prepared a folder with the files I want saved. It has the ridiculous size of 8.40 GB. Add to this the My Documents folder which is currently 2 GB in size. Pretty impressive, isn't it. Problem is, There's always the possibility that some of these files may be corrupted and by saving them, I'll only make things worse. Hopefully, this is not the case.
I'm hoping for the best.

I'm seriously beginning to suspect that my PC is infected, though I can find no trace of any sort of malware that could be causing it.

For about a week now, Photoshop was acting oddly. Sometimes, when I started it up, (usually if the PC was already running for awhile) the mouse remained stuck on the hand tool, no matter what I did. The only way to fix it was restarting the computer. Yesterday, the type tool got stuck on typing only with capitals, as if the CapsLock was turned on. No matter what I tried, the problem remained. I reinstalled Photoshop and it seems to be working fine now.

Throne of Darkness, didn't encounter any errors, so far, but I ran into a weird bug in Age of Empires, where the enemy explorer began multiplied every time they recovered. I killed him once, when the enemy rescued him, there were two. I took out both, when one of them was recovered, there were already three (I didn't give them the chance to rescue the other one. So far, this only happened once, and I wouldn't be concerning myself with things like this, but when multiple programs start acting weird, then something is definitely wrong.

I removed a few empty folders after consulting with experts, and some files I consider to be trash. I hope that won't cause any problems. Whatever the case may be, I may need to take PC in for a memory wipe sooner or later, and this time, I'll be asking for a clean sweep.

OK, here it goes.
I bought a seasonal ticket to the Weekend Complex, hoping that I'll be able to make good use of it. The price was roughly 20 times that of a daily ticket, so if I go there more than 20 times till the end of summer, I save some cash. Unfortunately I was only able to visit 3 times since then and the weather began to deteriorate. It's one storm against the other, and when it ain't raining, then either the sun burns you to a crisp or the thick air will cause you to suffocate. And bad weather always makes me feel bad.
Well, It's not really like I'd feel better if the weather was good at all times. I've been feeling depressed all day, I can't find the willpower to draw anything, because I feel uninspired, and what's worse, I can barely even lift the pencil. Yesterday, I started reading El Goonish Shive again, but it's no use. I used to enjoy that comic. No. IT WAS MY ALL TIMES FAVORITE. Now, whenever I get myself to reading it again, it feels like some painful chore.
I also tried playing Throne of Darkness again, but the game keeps freezing, and the entire system freezes with it. It happened once yesterday, I tried reinstalling the game today, and it happened again. I'm not really certain, but I think something like this happened before, and I'm just being unlucky.
I'm beginning to have this feeling that my PC is loaded with malware. I really hope it isn't though. I'd like to ask help from the maintenance guys, and give this PC a good memory wipe some day, or at least update my outdated virus protection. If PC is down, I'm down, after all.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one who noticed this, but apparently, aliens in the Star Wars Universe, seem to be quite easy to understand, even when they aren't speaking galactic basic.
In one of the last 5 episodes of the Clone Wars animated series, Obi Van and Anakin meet a race of primitive blue skinned aliens, shortly after Anakin kills a huge monster. One of the aliens is a young boy, who immediately starts shouting at them and seemingly, he's not too amused. After a few unintelligible words I suddenly hear him saying "Mindent elrontottak! Ez volt az en probam!" I actually had to rewiew this scene several times, to check if I understood correctly. Thing is, this is not random gibberish one usually hears. It's two Hungarian phrases (though somewhat flawed) that mean "They ruined everything! This was my trial!". Later, in the village, they are taken before the elder, and a villager starts explaining the situation, claiming that the two Jedi "elrontottak a tesztet", that is, "they ruined the test". The big suprise comes when Obi Van starts translating and as it turns out, that is exactly what they are talking about. Obi Van continues to interpret what the villager is saying. "Something plagues their land", he says. "Champion after champion has been sent out, but none of them returned." His voice obscures the alien's but I can make out a few words. "...embereket kuldtunk... nem jutott vissza...". Rough it may be, it's still my language they're speaking. With a few latin words mixed into it.
Strange. I mean I know we pretty much raided half of Asia and Europe. I know there were times we were the most feared barbarians known to man kind. I don't remember anything about conquering distant planets in the galaxy far far away. Hmm. This could confirm my earlier suspicion, that we are in fact aliens. I knew something fishy was going on.