weblogs wobble but they don't fall down

Well, smssv.exe came back. My e-mail stopped working and I looked at Task Manager, and there the little bastard was. So I found this very helpful page and did everything I understood how to do and it seems to be gone again.


I have the potential to be very bad at virus combat, considering that the instinct I'm continually repressing is what I like to call "slash and burn," although more accurately it could be described as "delete everything you see." Don't know what it is? Send it to the Recycle Bin! Luckily, my early suspicion - that most of those things might actually be on my computer to do good rather than evil - seems to be turning out right.


This instinct is probably a remnant of an attitude that runs in my family. My uncle had a philosophy of car maintenance that dictated that when something fell off, you put it in the trunk and if the car was still running after a week you threw it away.


In other good news, I have located my Recycle Bin.