i hate feeling like i've been taking advantage of. and that's how i've felt all day. you know how something can happen that will throw your whole day off kilter? a perfect example is a disgruntled customer coming into work and bitching me out about something that got fucked up on their account. most of the time the people are idiots and messed it up themselves and don't understand what they did wrong. but sometimes its the companies fault so yours by association, and you feel horrible seeing how they are getting screwed over and you are helpless to actually do anything about it because you are a lowly peon on a very tall totem and can't even figure out how to get rid of the ants that are plaguing the break room. and it just messes up your head for the entire day. it does me at least.
so back to this issue... i'm all off kilter now because i've had a hellacious day trying to get some crap off of my computer. some sort of hijacking/trojan program that somehow popped up today. first off, i noticed that lots of common words, like car, movies, insurance, etc. were all underlined in green and made into a link on every single webpage i went to. i was like, what?? how can someone put a program on my computer that can do that? then i realized there are a lot of people out there a lot smarter than me who live to mess with people like me. so of course, it bothered me. i asked huey, he said i had spyware. so i thought i'd do a little research and fix it myself. i'm so resourceful.
so i pop over to google to do a search, and instead of popping up a results page with actual helpful information, it pops up this page that looks exactly like a google results page but instead puts whatever you queried into the titles of all these stupid links where you can buy information or pay for programs or even (and this is the funny part) buy spyware!! okay... so not only do i have miscellaneous links on all my pages, but now google is all fud up. how how how!!!
the funny thing about this google-look alike search page.. you go down to the bottom to go to the next under the gooooooooogle thing, and it takes you to the actual first page of your google results. so someone is just clever, not completely messing everything up but making it very obvious to you and anyone else who cares that they can do this. and i hate that! i'm totally taking advantage of, just hangin out there in the wind waitin for someone other jerk to come along and do something even more malicious with there stupid programs.
anyways, after wasted hours of reading and researching, i did find a program to get it off of my computer and it all seems to be working correctly now. i've gotten a number of other pesky spyware programs off in the process as well. i just hate the idea of being watched on the internet, wishing that some things in life are still private... but i'm a realist. after all this, i'm sure i'll end up with some other stuff on here despite all my efforts to the contrary. but at least i learned some today.
and yes, this did slow me down on getting my transcriptions done too. so it actually cost me money, because time is money. man... i feel so taken advantage of. i hate that.
