{"id":28,"date":"2005-06-25T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-09-07T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T05:12:56","slug":"it-may-not-have-been-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/06\/it-may-not-have-been-a-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"It may not have been a virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get this. I got a voice message today regarding my laptop, “Your laptop needs a new motherboard, which will cost $500 (CAD) plus tax (15%).<\/em>” I haven’t called them back; so I don’t know if that is in addition to the $100 labour charge (probably is). In total, that would be $690 CAD.<\/p>\n

As I said in a previous blog post<\/a>, F-Prot<\/a> detected a few files in my Java Plugin<\/a> cache. I assume those files were sanitized. Nevertheless I cleared the Java cache, rebooted, and my computer worked fine for the remainder of that night. The service person took one look at Limewire<\/a>, and suspected that was where I got a virus. I hadn’t used Limewire for a couple of weeks prior.<\/p>\n

Here’s the wake up call. In addition to mainly using the family computer for now, I took out my old laptop. It’s an IBM Thinkpad 385XD<\/a>. The screen is as faded and red as can be, but the rest of the hardware still works very well. In fact, there’s a clear difference in the quality of the product, as opposed to my current laptop, which I got from MDG<\/a>. Maybe I was spoiled with a Thinkpad<\/a>; but I get the feeling my MDG was just a crap product, and I had just gotten used to it. I work my PC<\/acronym>s pretty hard; and I’m willing to bet that I simply over-worked my MDG laptop.<\/p>\n

As such, I think I’m probably going to get a new computer, rather than paying $600+ dollars for a new motherboard. I’ll probably go for a Dell<\/a> PC. The IBM Canada<\/a> warehouse is actually about 20 minutes from where I live, so I’m also going to check that out.<\/p>\n

Well, it looks like my ‘online time’ will be low for a while longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get this. I got a voice message today regarding my laptop, “Your laptop needs a new motherboard, which will cost $500 (CAD) plus tax (15%).” I haven’t called them back; so I don’t know if that is in addition to… <\/p>\n

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