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[wickedflea]

My desktop has been giving me shit for days, even after I spent the weekend formatting and reinstalling everything. It keeps freezing up like mad if I'm doing something processor-intensive. I blew a shit-ton of dust out of the fans and everything in the case today, and it hasn't locked up again. Maybe the fans weren't working well and it was overheating, I guess. I hope that really solved the problem, but I'll be surprised if it did.

And my DVD player in the bedroom went belly-up today. Hate mail.

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[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it might be spyware or a virus.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Well, I ran Norton, Ad-Aware, and Spybot, and it was still happening--even after I'd reinstalled the system. So I don't think it's that. But after my laptop caught some sort of mailer virus over the xmas holidays (despite the fact that everything's updated and I use Firefox and webmail on it instead of MS stuff), I don't rule anything out.