A VIRUS WARNING interrupts scheduled posting

Good morning!
I am late with this post, in part, because I logged on Sunday to 41 viruses!
I did the only thing I could do on a busy day filled with writing, house chores, houses to show, and family returniing from the lake… I turned it off and pretended I didn’t know. Apparently Mom’s gift of “tune out” spans beyond being able to block out her bad kids at WalMart. I just knew if I got into it my whole day would be eaten up and I had stuff to do.

So I ran one of my security systems and it says I am good to go. Which apparently I am because HERE I AM. Yesterday I couldn’t even get past the giant fuzzy icons on my desktop. My other security system, the one I didn’t even know I had, says I still have 37! Listen, my Son’s dehydrated, I have unfinished projects started upstairs and my hamster may have cancer. Do I really need 37 viruses right now? I tried to do a google search this morning and it threw a big message up to me that said, “YOUR ANTIVIRUS NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.” How does Google know that? I am growing suspicious.

To make matters worse I am getting a pop up non stop that says I need to update my AV2009. But I don’t use AV! I use AVG and it says I am fine! Who do I believe?

Here’s the thing, AV2009 wants $50 to update and remove the viruses. And here’s the problem, which brings me to what my post was SUPPOSED to be about today. Saturday night I spent $30 on bulk candy. THIRTY DOLLARS!!! ON CANDY! This was after the planned splurge on dinner for Sari and me at the Japanese grill. The boys went to the lake and Sari and I stayed home to continue Cheese’s medicine and treatment plan, so as a substitute for tubing, we went to the BIG mall, had a delicious and entertaining dinner, and Sarah wanted to stop at the bulk candy store on the way out. No biggie, I thought.

Sari had a great time browsing all the stations and filling her bag while I threw some hot cinnamon jelly beans in a bag with a mint chocolate square. I nearly had a heart attack when the clerk told me $32. In our two little bags we were holding 11 pounds of candy! Have you EVER?! Later Hubby said I should have just turned and left. I believe he would have done that. And maybe it would have occured to me had I known I had a $50 virus update looming.

So this didn’t turn out to be my intended post. There is not really any advice or anything, except maybe a warning… those little goodie bags add up fast so weigh as you go when shopping at the bulk candy store.

I really need to know, did everyone but me already know how expensive the candy store was? And how do they stay in business? WHO SHOPS THERE?

thanks to L Chayim for the candy pic!

UPDATE  Before I had a chance to post this my puter suddenly shut down, sent me all kinds of messages and put  me into safe mode.  It repeated the process a few times.  I ran upstairs to get my credit card to buy the freaking antivirus update, but I googled AV2009 on  Drew’s computer first just to make sure.  AV2009 IS a virus!  It mimmicks my real antivirus program so that I’ll give it my credit card number.  Mommies, stay away from AV 2009!!!  There are pages of complaints online and also some fixes if you happened to have already run the update like I almost did!  BTW, my real antivirus, AVG, was trying to tell me and give the opportunity to heal, but it was covered up by the malicious programs pop ups!  SO puter is healed now.  That just leaves the sick Boy and the sick Hamster.  Boy has “dragged” himself to the video game area… perhaps he is “healed” as well!