I had to use my old – unprotected – laptop for some time and the unthinkable happened: my computer was attacked by Worm.VBS.Solow.a.

These things always happen to someone else, not you. For some painful hours I though I had lost all  the work of the past few days, not to mention all the old precious data that I have only in that laptop and from which I cannot remove it. After the first cold sweat, here it was again, that feeling of catharsis lurking! After all, when you lose data you lose data and life goes on… Is it not good from time to time to inventory all that irreplaceable data and properly clean the house? 

As a remedy I downloaded a free trial of a security programme and let it scan my computer, with the following results: 9 viruses and 39 spyware. It’s no news that we are deprived of privacy with the internet but what is more alarming is that this anti-virus programme ”took over” my laptop memory and slowed it down really badly.