Virus
January 15, 2009
I can hardly imagine what it must have been like to prepare two sermons a week without a computer.
I use BibleWorks software, which includes the Greek and Hebrew texts, and pretty much every other translation known to man, as well as different Greek and Hebrew lexicons, and a whole pile of other neat stuff.
Of course, everything is written using a word processor, in my case OpenOffice. Cut and paste, find and replace, all the stuff we take for granted that makes it so easy to write.
And then there's the Internet - articles, journals, dictionaries, and great websites that are filled with all manner of great stuff.
But yesterday I was pining for the good old days of ink-stained fingers and piles of books (of course, despite the computer, I'm still surrounded by piles of books, but you know what I mean).
The computer has a virus. Or a worm. Or malware. Or adware. Or something. Whatever it is, it seems to have taken over. Yesterday I spent four hours trying to get rid of it. But it keeps on multiplying. And there's a file on here somewhere that no virus search can seem to find, something that keeps redirecting my Google search pages to advertising sites.
So I gotta get this fixed. There may be a couple of days of blog silence as I try to eradicate this nasty pest. But meanwhile, I may be trying to decipher a handwritten sermon on Sunday morning.
I use BibleWorks software, which includes the Greek and Hebrew texts, and pretty much every other translation known to man, as well as different Greek and Hebrew lexicons, and a whole pile of other neat stuff.
Of course, everything is written using a word processor, in my case OpenOffice. Cut and paste, find and replace, all the stuff we take for granted that makes it so easy to write.
And then there's the Internet - articles, journals, dictionaries, and great websites that are filled with all manner of great stuff.
But yesterday I was pining for the good old days of ink-stained fingers and piles of books (of course, despite the computer, I'm still surrounded by piles of books, but you know what I mean).
The computer has a virus. Or a worm. Or malware. Or adware. Or something. Whatever it is, it seems to have taken over. Yesterday I spent four hours trying to get rid of it. But it keeps on multiplying. And there's a file on here somewhere that no virus search can seem to find, something that keeps redirecting my Google search pages to advertising sites.
So I gotta get this fixed. There may be a couple of days of blog silence as I try to eradicate this nasty pest. But meanwhile, I may be trying to decipher a handwritten sermon on Sunday morning.