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Oy. So I've been tinkering with my Japanese GTF's computer because she was having some trouble with virus-like activity. Of course, Norton anitivirus wouldn't install. And from the command line NAVC found nothing. So finally I get NAV to install and NOTHING works... no system scan, no autoprotect, no liveupdate... no UNINSTALL... nothing. We definitely have a clever little bitch of a virus here. Thanks to some ingenuity on Justin's part, I map the hard drive to the network and scan it from my computer. An hour and a half later, it's definite... a raging case of Klez herpes. 53 infected files, none of which NAV 2002 could repair, quarantine, or delete. Yippie skippy. At this point I wonder if it's even possible to remove the worm... or if it's impossible because I can't even get NAV to install. It seems more sensible to just "nuke and pave" and reinstall 98 or 2K. I'm a little hesitant, though, cause her OS interface needs to be Japanese. Lucky for me, I can operate Windows OSes without reading the words and she speaks pretty much fluent english. The big problem here is that she has an inoperable floppy drive... of all the goddam luck. I can't even remember if the Win98 CD *has* fdisk on it. It must. Please tell me it must. Guh.

Anyway, I'm just shellshocked that it took me that long and that much effort to even PROVE she had a virus. This is the most work I've done in MONTHS and it's as a favor to someone outside of my department. Yeesh, at least it makes me feel useful. ^^ And she gave me yummy Osen-Aromondo Chocoreto candies. Teehee... yay for engrish!