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Now, I have a pretty nice laptop. It's an HP Pavilion running Windows 7 (and it's much better than my now-dead old Vaio laptop that sounded like a motorcycle and shut off randomly, but that's a different story). Naturally, I must have a good antivirus on it; my choice is Kaspersky.
Kaspersky is a pretty good program, I've found, though sometimes it's oversensitive and labels non-threatening programs as threatening, so I've come to ignore it unless it gives me an 'urgent' message, or tells me I have a
I was roaming Wikipedia. Specifically, I was satisfying my curiosity on the range of the tufted titmouse, because I had seen some in the front yard, which was a strange event here. I noticed that my computer began to lag, which was very unusual for it. I silently prayed to whatever deity is out there that my computer was not already reaching the end of its life.
I used the 'disinfect and reboot' option.
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Secondly, the color of the bar at the bottom of the screen had changed from my lovely blue color to a sort of silver.
SpeciesDropper.exe
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It actually took a few tries to open it. I'd click, and it would do nothing. Double-click, wait a minute, nothing happens yet. Only the third time I tried did it come up.
It was a program held in a window with a minimize button and an exit button, but both were grayed out at the moment. Its opening sequence was a simple '
Once it had finished that, it brought me to a screen where it said:
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PORIFERA}}
Being a bit of a dork, I navigated through with no real aim, but I knew where I was going. 'Chordata' to 'Reptilia' to 'Crocodylomorpha' to 'Crocodylidae' to 'Crocodylinae' to 'Crocodylus' and finally to my Crocodylus niloticus.
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I clicked on the 'USE' button (it was the only one there) and just about jumped out of my chair. This awful frequency from the computer filled my ears; I can only describe it as sounding similar to a half-a-millisecond-long clip of a Therizinosaurus grating its claws on a blackboard while stepping on a screeching cat, played over again so it's one, long, single-toned, sound.
It was awful, so I tried to press the mute button on my keyboard, but it didn't register until about five seconds
My head throbbed. My fingers quivered. My mouth hung open slightly. All of my muscles were tense.
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Alright. I was alone in the house, being attacked by some computer-controlling virus, and I had just possibly had a blackout. Such a comforting atmosphere.
Well, anyway, when my mother got
I went on with my normal life.
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==January 20th update==
Just got rid of retainer. Teeth are already shifting back to messy places. They hurt. Maybe causing my bad grades. Weather is also cold.
==February 1st update==
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