First three paragraphs are about my silly life.
Next is my list of things of upcoming things for 2009.
And last, most importantly, is about a virus that has been attacking dA users.
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I've been trying to squeeze in gaming time before I have to go back to college.
I have to go back to the dorm today... Sunday! And then classes start Monday! I'm in fear!
Not to mention I feel unprepared... I've never painted with oils before and it looks like the creative writing class is going to have limits. >_> Can I write a story that takes place on Earth with no supernaturualness and only has normal people?
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Plans for 2009 (a.k.a. resolutions)
And I still need to finish replying to my messages. I'm not ignoring you guys, it's just messages get buried and I get overwhelmed. I'll get to them! (And though I'll read old journals, I won't comment on the ones that are no longer relevant, okay?)
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!!!Virus on DeviantART!!!
Despite all this stuff I want to do, I'm going to have to keep most of my visits to dA short and sweet in the near future.
So here is what happens. If you have several tabs open, you may notice that the ads revolve every so often in the idle tabs. When the guilty ad reaches its turn, it redirects your page to either an advertisement (sometimes naughty) or a pdf.php site that does drive-by downloads of spyware and trojans. The pdf site freezes your browser while it injects the malicious data into your computer. The most common thing to get is the BloodHound.Exploit trojan. Well, another Deviant figured that since this only happened in idle tabs, that we would be safe if we stayed in one tab and exited it whenever we were away from the computer. And things appeared to be safe. Well, my sister proved that wrong. It happened to her while she was browsing a single tab on deviantART.
Has this happened to any of you? Because this sounds like too much of a coincedence that all these people would have the same spyware on their computer and that it only affected deviantART for them (actually, I've googled the IP of the attack, and other sites have been affected, but I had never been to them until I read their forums about half an hour ago... and it sounded like those attacks were caused by ads, too, so maybe they used the same ad provider as deviantART?). And no one seems to know the ads responsible because they freeze the browser.
Blocking the IP 76.74.239.45 might help if you haven't been affected yet, but don't want to risk it.
Please don't recommend more anti-spyware and anti-virus programs for me. I highly doubt this is my computer's problem and the university made me use their Symantec. If I use your recommendation, I might not be able to access the internet at my dorm, so please do not take it personally if I don't accept your advice.
Soo... until dA removes that ad, I'm going to have to be extra careful here (I already have over 7 BloodHounds in quarantine... and I don't want more.) I won't be able to multi-task like I normally do (having several tabs open while I'm doing school work or working on an art) so I'll be a little slower commenting and replying, and will have to set certain times to focus only on dA. At least I'm going to aim for not being gone for months without warning!
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Happy New Year!
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To-Do List: [link]
(Feel free to tell me which works you wish for me to finish first!)
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