No me lo puedo creer!

I am usually online at some time of the day, often for hours, but in the last few days that has not been the case. In true, ‘no me lo puedo creer’ tradition, with loads of work to do on the net, and also hoping I would be able to send messages and emails and ecards to my family over the Christmas period ….. our computer (now our only computer) decided to play up - big time!

From a line speed that has never been fast (I just love Spain’s ‘Rural ADSL’ ….), everything slowed down to a crawl …. and at times stopped altogether.

(We hope things don’t come to this….)

We have a ‘malware infection’ which we have been unable to cure. We first had quite major ‘problems’ back in September, but with the help of online computer forums we managed to fix most of it …. or so we thought …. Our ‘Hijack This’ logs revealed another story - a nasty that refused to shift and was slowing our whole system down.

Luckily, a really helpful guy on one of the Spain Forums recommended a website we hadn’t tried, full of well-trained ‘malware uninstallers’. They are helping us now.

We now have enough line speed for me to be able to post this entry, but things are still very slow and the process of ‘debugging’ will probably continue for another 2 or 3 days at least. The main problem is that this particular help site is so good it is constantly busy with people like us pleading for help, so the helpers monitor several posts at the same time. Great guys though ……. and so far so good …..

(We are thinking of putting one of these on our system to prevent further infection)

So if any of my family in the UK is reading this, please accept our apologies for not staying in touch, but you never know, we may be able to speak to you on the pc over Christmas …. but there again, this is us and ‘no me lo puedo creer’ we are talking about ….

We’ll keep our fingers crossed.

In the meantime, Felices fiestas, tienes una buena Navidad y mucha suerte el nuevo ano!