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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Saturday, June 03, 2006
A WTF? Moment
Last night was BF's bowling banquet (no GFs, no wives) so I made plans to have dinner over at a friend's house after work. She made dinner, I brought my air popper and after the movie, we watched "Capote." Well, after a horrendous commute home (torrential rains, bad traffic, a couple of accidents along way which, of course, creates rubbernecking), I just HAD to have a glass of wine or two.
Now normally, wine doesn't do much to me other than mellow me out but for some reason last night, I had a great deal of difficulty staying awake. Anyway, when the movie was over and I was sober enough, I drove home. It was nearly 11:30 and BF was in bed, snoozing to the TV. I decided to check my email. I noticed that my Norton Antivirus had just completed a check and everything looked good, so I clicked the "Finish" button. Well, underneath the Norton box was a little man, no lie, dressed like a butler, holding a tray with what looked like an envelope on it. No, I was NOT hallucinating but I did say, WTF?I probably should have been more cautious but I was curious and clicked on the little brown envelope. Up on my screen comes, "Welcome to Instamail!"
Evidently, this Instamail email program had somehow downloaded itself on my machine. Now I never heard of programs doing that but hey, today anything is possible, right? And sure enough, on my desktop were three Instamail icons. I have a perfectly good email program and don't want or need any more software on my computer so I went into the Control Panel to delete it, no problem.
I climb into bed and try not wake the BF but he woke up and kissed me hello. I told him about having some wine and then coming home to find a little butler with a tray on the computer and he said, "Oh my God." Apparently, a friend had sent him an email raving about this dopey email program and sent BF (who's not the most computer literate person in the world) the instructions on how to download it! Whoulda thunk it?
I told him that I would restore it if he wanted but explained that we really didn't need it and it would just be more crap clogging up our computer. He didn't seem to care one way or another.Well, it made for a good laugh anyway.
Now normally, wine doesn't do much to me other than mellow me out but for some reason last night, I had a great deal of difficulty staying awake. Anyway, when the movie was over and I was sober enough, I drove home. It was nearly 11:30 and BF was in bed, snoozing to the TV. I decided to check my email. I noticed that my Norton Antivirus had just completed a check and everything looked good, so I clicked the "Finish" button. Well, underneath the Norton box was a little man, no lie, dressed like a butler, holding a tray with what looked like an envelope on it. No, I was NOT hallucinating but I did say, WTF?I probably should have been more cautious but I was curious and clicked on the little brown envelope. Up on my screen comes, "Welcome to Instamail!"
Evidently, this Instamail email program had somehow downloaded itself on my machine. Now I never heard of programs doing that but hey, today anything is possible, right? And sure enough, on my desktop were three Instamail icons. I have a perfectly good email program and don't want or need any more software on my computer so I went into the Control Panel to delete it, no problem.
I climb into bed and try not wake the BF but he woke up and kissed me hello. I told him about having some wine and then coming home to find a little butler with a tray on the computer and he said, "Oh my God." Apparently, a friend had sent him an email raving about this dopey email program and sent BF (who's not the most computer literate person in the world) the instructions on how to download it! Whoulda thunk it?
I told him that I would restore it if he wanted but explained that we really didn't need it and it would just be more crap clogging up our computer. He didn't seem to care one way or another.Well, it made for a good laugh anyway.
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