Yesterday during Bible Study my laptop decided to bluescreen.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose a good hour of us discussing sins was too much for this oldtimer to bear.<\/p>\n
When I re-started the computer, it asked me to send Microsoft an error report, which I allowed.\u00c2\u00a0 Microsoft, in turn, informed me that the crash had been caused by “spooldr.sys” and that I had better run the Windows Live OneCare Scanner to remove this malware.<\/p>\n
I tried, but was first told I needed to be using Internet Explorer 7.\u00c2\u00a0 So I opened Internet Explorer, but I’ve got Internet Explorer 8, which apparently doesn’t allow the Windows Live OneCare Scanner to work right either.\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up installing the IETab add-on for Firefox and ran the scanner overnight, with the result that it found one joke program, a boatload of registry entries, and a fragmented hard disk.\u00c2\u00a0 No “spooldr.sys” – which my PCTools AntiVirus had said after a scan of less than five minutes.<\/p>\n
Of course, this doesn’t do much for my trust in Microsoft for correctly analysing what is wrong with my PC.\u00c2\u00a0 However, commensurate with that lack of trust, I also refuse to believe any conspiracy theories that Microsoft is generating fake virus warnings to promote the Windows Live OneCare Scanner Which Doesn’t Work With IE8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday during Bible Study my laptop decided to bluescreen.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose a good hour of us discussing sins was too much for this oldtimer to bear. When I re-started the computer, it asked me to send Microsoft an error report, which I allowed.\u00c2\u00a0 Microsoft, in turn, informed me that the crash had been caused by “spooldr.sys” and that I had better run the Windows Live OneCare Scanner to remove this malware. I tried, but was first told I needed to be using Internet Explorer 7.\u00c2\u00a0 So I opened Internet Explorer, but I’ve got Internet Explorer 8, which apparently doesn’t allow the Windows Live OneCare Scanner to work right either.\u00c2\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}