Hooray!!! It's Back Up!!!

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I have this fabulous entry that I wrote as a followup to the entry before this, and I saved it in Word, but I can't seem to access it. It's telling me that it can't open the file, something about my anti-virus software won't allow it. I don't know what the fuck's up with that. Also, when I try to close the file (entitled LJ.doc), it says that the file Normal.dot already exists, and do I want to replace it. I've tried answering yes, no, and just shutting the computer down altogether without answering, and I've tried doing a search on Normal.dot, so see if my entry was somehow saved to that file. It wasn't.

The only thing I've done differently that I can think of is installing Firefox as my browser; also, there were a couple of times I couldn't get some popup on IE to close, so I ended up having to reboot.

Any thought, suggestions, comments on how to get it back?

Comments

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

The last thing is the most telling, sounds like you've got some adware problems.

Download a copy of AdAware SE Personal from www.lavasoft.com. Install it, start it, update it with the handy update button, then run it. See if that helps.

Also probably a good time to update your virus definitions and do a full system scan.

[bookofmirrors.livejournal.com]

In process as we speak. :) walkingbear also suggested I do a virus scan via trendmicro.com, since my Norton wasn't working. I had a trojan, which apparently knocked out Norton, too, so I'm waiting for jupitercornwall to bring me another copy of that to re-install.

Thanks! :)