The Max++ Headroom Saga

Well, somehow my ex-wife's office computer has been infected by the Max++ rootkit. Nasty, nasty, nasty. I'm going to do my best to help her get it cleaned off, but it's going to take a few days. How this thing slipped past AVG I'll never know - thus far it's been able to keep my own system squeaky clean for years with no problem.

All I know is that Spybot won't touch it, AVG won't detect it, other virus wipers don't even know it's there, and it's buried so deep I'm going to have to use one of the g33k h4xx0rz forums to help me get it "rooted" out.

Unless one of my l337 friends knows a program that will handle this. I'm trying to avoid a clean install like the plague.

I'll keep tabs of what all I do, in case it's useful for someone else.

Yarg!

Fence: 1, Bambi: 0

In the big picture, we're in their habitat. It's kind of mean what we do to nature, or ethnic groups with less clout, or anything we tend to consider an object instead of a life with value.

And sometimes things happen.

Our oldest son bought the home he was raised in from us, and surrounding the yard is a large wrought-iron fence with decorative spikes on top (the clever among you will have already figured out where this is going.)



In wintertime, the deer come down out of the mountains to forage:



and jump over the fence into the schoolyard behind the home.

This one didn't make it.

Photo behind the link - not for the faint of heart, pretty bloody.

The poor thing must have been sick, or slipped on some ice, or something - probably died from a combination of lack of blood, cold, being upside down, and sheer terror.

My son had animal control haul the carcass off today - it's a shame nobody was around to butcher the thing. That was a lot of venison to land in the backyard like that.