technomancy

[azurelunatic]

Amusing little incident tonight.

Votania and I both have the computers under protection. I got a Bad Feeling at a certain sudden pop-up screen, and it continued to get worse. It was perhaps overreacting to pull plugs (power and phone) at that moment, but better safe than sorry. Managed to cut off Marx, who'd been calling at that moment...

After Enki was re-started, I went through things and poked nose. Something called commonname.com had installed a happy browser search plugin, something I wasn't happy with having there. The cordless phone was a bit out of commission, not surprising, as I'd unplugged the phone cords with a strong charge of "Disconnect!" in my hands.

I cleared it all off Enki, discovered that the phone cord was in fact still unplugged, smudged the living room and especially the computers with the local smudge stick (juniper? Didn't smell like sage.) , and declared the place clear in the Names of Enki-the-hacker-god and Raven, Freer of Information & Technology.

Everything works quite happily now.

Interesting, that my intrusion-sense is now that sharp.

Comments

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Wow. Damn, girl, you're good! I have to settle for using Ad-Aware to strip that kind of junk off.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, I found an UNINSTALL section on that damned browserwise's home page this morning. Go, me!!

smudge sticks...

[votania.livejournal.com]

you complain when I use sage (because I love the smell so much I make the temple look like a bar GRIN) so the last time I bought a smudge stick, I bought Juniper. :) Hope it worked better for you.

(I keep the sage wand in my room for personal use when no one is home...and I remember to take down the smoke alarm LOL)

D.E.

You did good!

[lasayla.livejournal.com]

CommonName installed itself on my Mom's computer and sent it all wacky.

Grr to intrusive software!