Did I mention my son is doing another internship with Google this summer, maybe in London? He was hoping for Ireland, but they process visas and passports too slowly. He couldn't get either in time. My father was born there, so my (Amerasian) children qualify for Irish citizenship. It makes working in the EU easier. I think he should go ahead and apply any way. There's always the following summer.
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My laptop has lots of problems; I think most stem from a virus and ransomware that it got about a year ago. I left the computer on overnight, and when I got up in the morning, it was spewing porn and viagra ads, thousands of pages opened, and virus warnings from software I did not own. I could not even turn the computer on without it opening the internet and piling more of this crap on. I could not open any of my own files. I called Norton as I was running Norton 360, and it could not find any problems at all when I ran a full scan in safe mode. I think their call center is in India. They wanted for me to pay $90 an hour to remotely connect to my computer and fix it!. I removed Norton, bought 3 other anti-virus, none of which could detect the problem. I brought it to a neighbor, and he was able to remove most of the malware, but he said it was so entrenched that it may not be completely cleaned. It seemed to be fine, but a few months later my mail was hacked and it was sending Viagra ads to everyone in my address book. My neighbor traced the mail to a computer in Turkey! I changed all my account passwords. I had DH take a look at the computer .... Big mistake. He works at Microsoft. He and another guy came up with the Silverlight video player. He hates any competitor products on my machine and calls them virus whores, so he removed Java, Adobe and Quicktime and several other aps. He installed Foxit so I could open all my son's homework pages. There were lots of things it could not open, so I -installsed Adobe, and have had intermitant problems since then. My DVD could not read any photo or video files, but can run Quicken and few other programs. I could not play any saved videos from my camera, and it chokes most times I try and watch videos posted on MSN. Usually it freezes in the beginning just as the commercials start to play, but sometimes it surprises me, skips the commercials and plays just fine. I can't play most of the videos posted on facebook. So I don't really know where the problem is. I installed office 2010 over the weekend, and I can now play videos that I have loaded from my camera, but I still can't play most news and TV clips.
I think I need a new laptop, but if I still have this bug hidden somewhere in some old, seldom opened files, I am afraid I may infect the new computer when I transfer the files. I once pulled all the key-covers off this one to clean out seed beads I spilled on the keyboard, and some of the key covers won't go back on, and other keys I really have to hit hard to get them to type!
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My laptop has lots of problems; I think most stem from a virus and ransomware that it got about a year ago. I left the computer on overnight, and when I got up in the morning, it was spewing porn and viagra ads, thousands of pages opened, and virus warnings from software I did not own. I could not even turn the computer on without it opening the internet and piling more of this crap on. I could not open any of my own files. I called Norton as I was running Norton 360, and it could not find any problems at all when I ran a full scan in safe mode. I think their call center is in India. They wanted for me to pay $90 an hour to remotely connect to my computer and fix it!. I removed Norton, bought 3 other anti-virus, none of which could detect the problem. I brought it to a neighbor, and he was able to remove most of the malware, but he said it was so entrenched that it may not be completely cleaned. It seemed to be fine, but a few months later my mail was hacked and it was sending Viagra ads to everyone in my address book. My neighbor traced the mail to a computer in Turkey! I changed all my account passwords. I had DH take a look at the computer .... Big mistake. He works at Microsoft. He and another guy came up with the Silverlight video player. He hates any competitor products on my machine and calls them virus whores, so he removed Java, Adobe and Quicktime and several other aps. He installed Foxit so I could open all my son's homework pages. There were lots of things it could not open, so I -installsed Adobe, and have had intermitant problems since then. My DVD could not read any photo or video files, but can run Quicken and few other programs. I could not play any saved videos from my camera, and it chokes most times I try and watch videos posted on MSN. Usually it freezes in the beginning just as the commercials start to play, but sometimes it surprises me, skips the commercials and plays just fine. I can't play most of the videos posted on facebook. So I don't really know where the problem is. I installed office 2010 over the weekend, and I can now play videos that I have loaded from my camera, but I still can't play most news and TV clips.
I think I need a new laptop, but if I still have this bug hidden somewhere in some old, seldom opened files, I am afraid I may infect the new computer when I transfer the files. I once pulled all the key-covers off this one to clean out seed beads I spilled on the keyboard, and some of the key covers won't go back on, and other keys I really have to hit hard to get them to type!
