Happy Happy Joy Joy -- Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

Send them to mom then. She's probably more stable then I am anyway.

Not sure 20 days is enough, given the ? of Merel's package.

The 303 gave me a nice chuckle though. Mostly because I think taod did that before, so I'm afeared it may be stuck in her head. Be careful what you put in there, you know.

The one posted on relho is good until the end of the month.

Necklace looks lovely Vo.

I use 301 because it gets there quicker.

303 E Harry always works.

Is there currently a stable mailing address for the Johnsons?

That would be minus one point for Veronica and I thought I was doing so good with not leaving things behind.

Found a yellow, blue, black and white striped woman's sock, anyone looking for it?

Christmas tree is down and the living room is somewhat straightened up.

Thomas had a fun birthday party. Lots of friends and cake. Photos on FB.

Sal Minella? I think you're related.

You can have my salmonella instead. Quickly becoming an expert on Dutch plumbing. Hopefully the worst is over.

did dead cats turn into puppy love, cause I might try a little harder not to get that versus dead cats.

Booked my flight to Houston for February 23 to March 8th. I used my Delta Sky-Miles from the trip to Shanghai. Next I have to try to register for the sewing class I want to take while I'm down there.

Anyone want to join me for this?

or this?

or her?

not bad... i vaguely remember d.e. costing mom $260 for me...

money well spent.

Just dropped off $255 to the driver's ed program. Frankie will be in the classroom starting January 27th and behind the wheel shortly thereafter. Classroom learning ends March 10th. Learner's permit will be in hand for the spring break trip to Phoenix.

Didn't get off as scot-free as I thought, had to reinstall itunes and picasa, but it had saved the work I'd done in them so that's something. We'll see what else I have to reinstall as I try to use things.

Well I'm back up on the computer and seem to have solved the problem. I had forgotten one important thing I'd changed in the last month, the new router Edgardo got for me, but that was no problem to hook back up to. I also have to redownload the Malware and hopefully the update will help prevent any more problems.

House inspection today on the new Dayton house. Will post pics as soon as we are in. Current target move date is February 8th. IN house still hosting showings and open houses.

News requests:
updates on Dayton house search/move?
current depth of snow cover fro MPLS?
driving license preparation in BZN?

good deal and good luck

The AV security is slightly different from AV8 -- so be aware of anything that looks like AVG, the symbols are very similar. Anyway I couldn't update the MalwareBytes program and it's 15 days out of date the one you download. So I am going with a system restore as Eric suggested. I haven't done anything important in the last month so hopefully this will get me back to a time before the virus.

Did you manage to run update for the MalwareBytes program? That might help.

Also, in safe-mode you can search for "AV8" folders and/or files and delete those.

Well the Malware didn't remove it. I think it's the AV security virus on the machine and I found it online, but I don't know that I want to repair it myself.

I've got the scan going. Hopefully it'll help. I had my backup disk connected when all of this happened. I guess I should do a scan of it too once I get the computer working again.

I think so.
I think this is disaster week. My pipe to the outside faucet burst. I just had a shut-off installed inside last year and forgot to shut it off for the winter. Good thing it was there though so I could shut it off today.

If you can't get to internet, you can try downloading the antivirus on your other computer and transferring the install file via USB disk. Just don't use a USB disk you value too much.

I just got a pop-up here which closed my browser and said "AV8 had found suspicious activity". I killed the firefox process instead of hitting "ok". AV8 is a "fraudulent antivirus" virus, trying to look like AVG (the good antivirus) a bit I guess. Is that what yours is?

After multiple tries I got into safe mode with network access, unfortunately I didn't have network access in it. Have to get other things done today so I'm giving up for now.

Mom, I would recommend booting into safe mode (I think that's hold F8 while the computer boots). That should allow you to access websites in a very basic mode. Then open a browser and download the antivirus "malware bytes" from malwarebytes.org. Try running that - you may have to boot back into normal mode, but try it in safe first. If it gets blocked by the virus, you can rename the mbam.exe to mbam2.exe and try again.

Let me know how that works for you.

Those paper balloons do look like great fun to light and send off.

My other computer seems to have a virulent virus. I can't open anything except mozilla on it and if I try to go to a web site I get a message telling me that the site poses a serious threat.

They look awesome Nathaniel, particularly the ones covering telephone pictionary.

7/16 - 7/22 or leaving by 10 a.m. on 7/23