And I also pit the writers of the Key.Logger.Trojan that suddenly plagued me last night after having been sucessfully repulsed by NaV twice previously, to judge by the logs.
I pit thee high.
I pit thee low.
(I wish I could pit thee upon the island of Kokomo… 
)
I pit thee near.
I pit thee far.
I pit thee in a derelict car.
I pit thee here.
I pit thee there.
I shalt pit thee everywhere! :mad:
My pitting of the Key.Logger is for obvious reasons. As for the pitting of Norton Anti-Virus… >_<
I’m not terribly experienced with computers. This particular model from which I type is the first computer, in fact, which was entirely mine. Not my parents’. Not an extended loan from a now very-ex boyfriend. Mine.
As a result, I am both highly protective of it, and very cautious about fiddling with it, particularly when the website instructing me in said fiddling gives what to inexperienced me sounds like very direful warnings about what may go wrong.
This morning when I turned on my computer, NAV plopped a warning window right spang in the center of my desktop, alerting me to the presence of this virus. It must have been a recent addition, because no such warning arose yesterday. But I digress.
Said warning window would not, repeat, not close no matter what I did. Not when I clicked the handy dandy “close” boutton in the middle of this window. Not when I clicked the black ‘x’ in the upper right corner, as is standard practice. And upon investigation, there was no pull-down menu in the upper left corner allowing me to close the file either.
Grr.
Clearly it was directed to stay there til I fixed the problem. Fine, fine, ne?
But after running NAV once, waiting an hour for it to declare it found nothing - and still leave that pernacious error message in my desktop, checking for updates to the program, finding one or two, running NAV again - and still finding nothing! - I started seeing red.
I checked the NAV website, and it told me that sometimes the program just doesn’t delete this particular trojan. No reason given.
WTF? 
If it can detect the virus, put up warning messages, and find the virus in the search logs, why can’t it delete the virus? Is it not in the very nature, the raison d’etre, of such a program to perform this task?
Further searching in the FAQs told me that I had to run a viral scan again, in “safe” mode, to delete it, and if that didn’t work, it had directions to go into the system directory and delete certain files.
Both of these options made me infernally nervous. See, I was never allowed to fiddle with my parent’s computer in the slightest way before I moved out. No one was, really. Not even my mother. All such matters were Dad’s sole province. Unfortunately, he’s not very good at it… Every time he’s entered safe mode, it was because something really serious was affecting the computer’s ability to run. And every single time, whatever fix he tried to perform went wrong, causing worse difficulties than the original problem. This meant days, possibly weeks, of no Internet, and often not even the ability to use the frigging word processor.
Thank God the first solution worked. The website was very… Cassandra-like… in its warnings about being very sure you don’t get even a single keystroke wrong when you delete those files, because otherwise you risk screwing up your entire system.
Back to the point. I pit thee most of all, Norton Anti-Virus, for not deleting a program you’ve got on file, with pages and pages of info concerning said virus. Thou art verily a :wally of the highest order. A murrain upon thee! I hope the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-hyenas defiles the grave of those programmers responsible for thee and the trojan.