Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Demons Out!

I booted up the computer this evening and got a massive pop-up attack. I've been really sloppy and lazy with my poor magic box...no spyware protection, no spam filters, just an occasional Norton anti-virus update. So instead of catching up on blogs during computer time, I downloaded and ran Ad-aware and Spy-bot, getting rid of 900-some nasties in the process.

I think I may resort to a spam filter too, since the porn e-mails with embedded graphics are starting to get on my nerves (someday maybe I'll talk about how much I dislike pornography, but right now spam and spyware has me more irked). While I'm at it, I should try to figure out MT-Blacklist, since the poor Ratblog (which my niece reads, for Pete's sake!) keeps getting comments about penis enlargement, and I don't want her telling her grandmother she learned about that from my web site.

And since I'm in spring cleaning mode, I'm pondering an external hard drive so I can back up all my really important stuff, like digital pictures of cicadas. I mean, lose that and I'm out of luck 'til 2021.