The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

Wednesday the 10th of Jan was a bit of a pants day and for a very twenty first century reason. I was attacked, not my house or my person you understand, oh no something much more insidious, my computer was hit by a Trojan horse infiltrator. It was my own fault really because I let my guard down or more accurately my fire wall. I had just begun to download what I understood to be a perfectly legitimate item of software when a pop up filled my screen telling me that I was under attack from a Trojan Horse virus and should download protection from their excellent website. I had to believe them because it was their website that sent the damn virus in the first place. Objectively I could hardly fault the efficacy of the marketing plan. Infect someone's computer with a virus that stops them connecting with anyone but you, then sell them a cure for the problem. Fortunately I managed to get a free patch from another site which has cured the problem for now all be it at the cost of slowing my computer down to a sort of chalk on slate status. I find it hard to believe that a fault in a piece of equipment that I wouldn't even have looked at five years ago could have had quite so profound an effect on my day.

My human contacts on this most frustrating of days were my wife, my daughter and saving my sanity, my beautiful granddaughter. My deed was to fix a problem which to be fair was chiefly of my own creation. My thoughts concerned the Ukrainian website that sent the Trojan interloper prompting this paraphrase; Beware of Russians bearing gifts.