End Of The Week

It is just before 7 am on Saturday, the end of the week but the beginning of the weekend.  Our cooler weather has continued and we even received a surprise drop of rain overnight Friday with 38mls ending up in the rain gauge.

The lawns are all mowed and the grass is nice and green following all the recent rain.  The pool is full and this photo shows the sort of day we are looking forward to today.

A nice and sunny 33º is expected this afternoon.  And if all goes to plan, it will in the be low 20's and very comfortable overnight.

I helped out a neighbour's mate yesterday and tidied up his computer for him.  There is an increasing amount of internet browser hi jacking going on.  I just managed to get rid of one hi jacker on his Internet Explorer yesterday on his computer when another web browser hi jacker took over.

And what they do is that almost every icon that you click on to get on the internet has been changed into a link to a certain search engine which will only lead you to the sites they want you go to.  So you click on the icon to get onto Internet Explorer, and you are taken instead to a rogue search engine site albeit via Internet Explorer.

The only way to fix it is to get a shortcut from Internet Explorer itself in the "program" folder and swap it for every IE icon you can find on your desk top or in the Start Menu!  It can take some time to check them all out.

Anyway it is fixed now.  I also installed Malwarebytes and ran it.  The program discovered and quarantined over 700 suspicious files!  All is even better now after I also installed an anti-virus program for him.

The guy uses the computer mainly for downloading via Bittorrent and he didn't even have an Anti-Virus program installed!

We have a State Election today so I have to go and vote somewhere.  I will do that on my way to Computer Club.

We still have plenty of sport on TV with the Ladies Australian Open Tennis Championship on tv tonight along with the final of the Asian Cup soccer match!  The remote will sure get a workout.  The pool looks good for this afternoon as well.

I am hopeful my replacement modem/router will be available this upcoming week.  The older one I am using continues to 'lose' items on the local network.  It requires a restart around 4 times a day when I need to get things back.  Hopefully the replacement I receive will fix that.  It is due next week or the week after.