A warning, boys

After a second total failure in three days, my hard drive is currently battling one last time with its demons, undergoing a clean wipe known ominously as a Full Zero Fill. If after this 24-hour process, a diagnostic still shows file corruption on the drive, then physical defect is to blame, covered by warranty.

But should the examination show a clean drive with nothing corrupted, then the recent failures have most likely been caused by a particularly nasty virus that somehow circumvented my multpiple levels of protection. And I believe we all know what kind of site something like that would come from.

As the guy from tech support told me, gingerly, "I don't want to, uh, suggest what type of sites you might be visiting, but, uh, it could be something that you got from, uh—"

"Yeah, I know," I cut him off as a laughed, "anything can happen."

So if it is a virus, and if one can safely agree with my friend Jim, who forthrightly refers to computers as simply P/0rnn/ Machines, then I guess you could say that mine is going through something of an existential crisis.

I, on the other hand, just want to edit some damn photos.