On Tuesday night it started to do strange things & it did not allow me to search for anything on Google & then our toolbar with all of our favorite pages saved was gone. Then all the sudden all of these pop ups started coming up. It was this specific site called "Vista Anti-virus/spy ware" so I thought it was a program we had that was expiring. It asked if I wanted to install the program & I said no remind me later but it continued to pop up. Then all night I could not get into Internet explorer with out this page popping up. The page acted like it was trying to help against viruses but the next morning I found out it was a virus. The site was so deceiving because it pretended to be a spyware/virus protector & all you had to do was pay $59.99! At one point I said to Ryan, should we just buy this? I'm so glad I didn't!!! After I found out it was a virus, I was so bummed & tried to do a lot of research online at work to see if I could fix it. I know my way around a computer but I don't know a lot about programing. I could not even view my documents or pictures which really freaked me out because I have 5 years of pictures saved (of course not a lot backed up) :( I love taking pictures & I couldn't imagine not having them. So Wednesday morning I called around to different computer places & found a person in Zionsville called the Village Geek. Ryan & I dropped off the computer on my lunch break. The Village Geek said he probably wouldn't know what is wrong with it until Thursday morning (today). Well that all changed because he called me an hour later & told me my hard drive is bad & he couldn't even get to the virus yet because of the bad hard drive. So he gave me 3 options 1: repair our computer for $450 -they would put in a new hard drive 2: buy a new computer, they had an offer for $499- and they would move our old documents & pictures to the new computer 3: just get the pictures & documents for $200. In the beginning this whole thing was suppose to be $150 to remove the virus or they call it a "clean" so all of these prices were a big change! Ryan & I talked about it for a while & we decided on buying the new computer. We get our old one back & Ryan's uncle works on computers we might see if he can figure something out. I just wanted all of our pictures & documents so I hope they can retrieve them! So now we will be with out a computer until the beginning of next week!!
HEY MAYBE I CAN GET AN APPLE MACBOOK :) ...
HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING A GREAT THURSDAY!!!
**** update- Ryan went to pay for our new computer & the guy @ Zionsville Village Geek said the computer would get in tomorrow morning. Ryan then asked how long until our old documents & pictures are on the new computer & the guy said the $499 did not include transfer of documents!!!! Are you kidding me?!?!? Both Ryan & I talked to the guy separately & he told us both the price included the transfer. The guy said we must have had a communication error!! Doesn't even make sense...So Ryan just got our documents & pictures for $150 (which was different than he quoted me in the beginning)
We are starting our hunt for a new laptop if any of you have a recommendation let us know!! Our last laptop we bought 4 years ago & it was a Gateway *RIP*
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