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I found a related topic on the What the Tech forums. http://forums.whatthetech.com/Someonething…ml&hl=srosa It may be the same as my problem. The tool mentioned in the article, Blacklight, is no longer available, but the company has a dozen or so FREE special-purpose disinfecting tools. Time to make the donuts… errrr…. bagels.[/i] Update 12/3/2007: Got it! With a a couple of utilities and a brief foray into the frightening forest of “safe mode.” Why do they call it safe mode when you can do so much damage from there? Please, folks, I’m just messing around here. DON’T DO WHAT I DID TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM!!! I’m an old lady who does regular backups and I often screw things up bad enough that I have to reformat. One thing about having two hard drives is that your data is (usually) safe from your tender ministrations. So. This thing seems to have been a Bagel variant. The gist of it is that it runs as a driver. An “intercept d...

“Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.” — Dr. John C. Lilly, “The Dyadic Cyclone” quoted on John C. Lilly Homepage

Found this f*cker at the bottom of index.php. The file was in the top level and IE kindly downloaded it for me. It’s late, it’s my own site, and I wasn’t paying attention. I ran it. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m running a McAfee scan – it didn’t flag the executable – and I suppose I should grab AdAware or Spybot S&D or both. <IFRAME name=’StatPage’ src=’upgrade.exe’ width=5 height=5 style=’display:none’></IFRAME> Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go boil my laptop. Update 11/19: IE went out to a bunch of sites this morning looking for a page called hltraff.php . Not good. It also killed McAfee and won’t let me do a system restore. I found the installation and as I looked at the file it disappeared from the directory. I guess I’m going to have to reformat and start over. Update 11/25: I am so pwned. First access of this file – th...

Speaking of the screwfly, remember the big push to eradicate the screwfly back in the 60s or 70s? This fly lays its eggs on an open sore, the maggots hatch and go through a series of instars, pupate and become flies. The flesh is further damaged by this activity, making more open sores for more flies. Screwfly larvae can devour an infested animal in a matter of days. They also infest babies eyes, so there was a huge effort to control them. This is a fascinating story about using pheromones to exterminate a species. Ok, since you asked… The screwfly gets its name by its mating habits. When screwflies mate, they line up head-to-tail. The female emits a pheromone that triggers the male to turn around – hence screwfly – and then they mate. To control screwflies, entomologists came up with a chemical that interfered with the female’s chemical message. Instead of turning around, the male happily mated with her head. Problem solved! This sort of thing was the...

No tuchs bad boi biker kitteh, kthx . I bought a Harley-Davidson collar for Mr. Breeze. He said he was tired of the wimpy yellow and green collar I gave him when he first came home with us.

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I’ve been thinking about parasites. Not the “earworm” sort of thing where you hear a bit of a song and can’t get it out of your head for the rest of the day. Not even the everyday suck-on-your-intestines nasties. I’m thinking about the kind of parasites that get into your mind and control your thoughts and actions. For the record, I know *of* these parasites but I’m looking up the names online as I go along. Damn it, Jim, I’m an engineer not a biologist. The sensitive and the squeamish may want to stop reading this now. Really. Ok, now that we’ve shaken off the fleas… There’s a parasite that infects rodents, Toxoplasm gondii. It makes them all hyper and weird and THAT makes them easier for cats to catch. Where it gets interesting is that the life cycle of this parasite requires that it pass through the stomach and intestinal tract of… wait for it… a cat! How convenient! I have occasionally wondered whether t...