Advancement of science

Remember the other computer?

In short, someone let the antivirus subscription lapse on it and the thing got some sort of virus on that disabled the anti-spyware programs, the firewall and is preventing anyone from installing a new antivirus program on it. No one can get the virus off the computer because there is no antivirus program, and no one seems to be able to figure out just what files are infected.

What really needs to happen is someone's got to suck it up and wipe everything off it, but we've been sitting around for a month doing nothing.

My mom's friend is a computer tech and we let him have remote access to it. He found some files and programs on there that he's apparently never seen before anywhere else, so the computer's not getting wiped today, it's going downtown to be studied. That can't be cheap.

At least I know that we're doing our part to further the advancement of science.

I'm not looking forward to having my laptop suddenly be a hot commodity, but it seems that that is exactly what is going to happen.