Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

PasturesNew

Well, the Forum went down for maintenance, I'd done the stuff I planned to do this morning and felt able to start that PC clean up as it's daylight (it's too dark in here in the evenings to do anything .... unless I go out and buy a proper lamp/lightbulb and faff about).

It's been easy so far: Download a file onto a USB, shove USB in other PC, launch program on the USB, connect infected PC to internet, download MalwareBytes - and start scanning. Well, that bit didn't take long, probably 15 minutes, but it's now scanning .... and I've no idea how long the scan will take. Could be hours.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's snowing here, too. The 80-y-o lady across the road has a chap round regularly to wash her car. Bizarrely, he's standing in the snow pressure-washing it at the moment.

That is bizarre... even though I live in an area where roads are often muddy and there are no pavements etc, my last car was bought new and sold 9 years later without ever having been washed.

My current car has seen the end of a nozzle when it went into the garage for service after 1 year and they hose down all vehicles. My current LL remarked how clean my car looks compared to theirs too, so it's not that it's manky/I'm unclean.

SingleSue

It's been snowing here for the last few hours but at times, it is intermingled with sleet so it is not laying.

Blooming cold though and I have to go out in it very shortly as the boys are on a half day at school today, not looking forward to that at all, especially as I have only just warmed up from when my brother and his wife came up here to collect some tools from his shed and we stood talking outside while it was sleeting and trying to snow.

My joints really don't like the cold, as stiff as a board today.

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

It's been snowing here for the last few hours but at times, it is intermingled with sleet so it is not laying.

Blooming cold though and I have to go out in it very shortly as the boys are on a half day at school today, not looking forward to that at all, especially as I have only just warmed up from when my brother and his wife came up here to collect some tools from his shed and we stood talking outside while it was sleeting and trying to snow.

My joints really don't like the cold, as stiff as a board today.

oh sue, no more standing around utside! PLEASE take care of yourself. I ws back on my stick on wednesday....but its just my knees and fight hand that are seizing up, and not even that badly.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, that bit didn't take long, probably 15 minutes, but it's now scanning .... and I've no idea how long the scan will take. Could be hours.

Malware bytes is quick.

edit: be careful about switching off auto run on that USB if you put it back in your clean machine. Just because you have determined that you have one virus doesn't mean that the website didn't infect you with more than one.

lostinrates

The feralcat the Gambia turned up today in a shocking state,she'sabsolutely emaciated. I think she might have to be PTS she let me stroke her she was so starving. And then she bit me, hard,four times. Last winter Bomay DuckDoughnut scratched me,and i had to have antibiotics, this winter The Gambia. Still, she's eating up now,on something more appropriate than me!

tomterm8

Is it possible she has worms?

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Is it possible she has worms?

I should think its certain.

But I'mnot going to try and get a spot on on her till someone else is here to hold her. or do the spotting on.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

That is bizarre... even though I live in an area where roads are often muddy and there are no pavements etc, my last car was bought new and sold 9 years later without ever having been washed.

I'd defy anyone to live where I am and not wash the car. We have big combines & tractors which visit the fields and drag mud out with them when they leave. The result is a car that's a hazard to its owner, if they're in the habit of wearing nice clothes. Luckily, I'm not, though I don't drive in wellies.

I cleaned our car two weeks ago, and looking at it now, no one would guess. Silver cars fare best, I think. Mine's British racing green.

PasturesNew

Two things:
[1] PC bug free
[2] Belly full (overfull!!) of hot injun.

It's lashing down outside with freezing cold rain/sleet.

The H say the old has mental capacity to make their own decisions ..... and have been getting the old to make them. I then popped round the corner to see the old and the old said "Ah, you're home then ..... I'm doing the dishes, can you check the back door's locked" .... so .... the old is OK to make decisions from Planet Ga Ga.



We won't be getting the old back before Xmas though and the old won't be returning to their own home.