FAUCET INSTALLED

I put the new brushed nickel faucet into the upstairs bathroom today. Again, it wasn't that difficult, but it is time consuming. I'd done a faucet before, so that's pretty easy. The new part for me was replacing the drain. The old one had been there for a really long time, so some of the rubber gasket had disintegrated into a black mush. So it got pretty dirty pretty fast.

Since it was my first time, I couldn't really figure out if I'd put things together correctly. I wasn't missing any pieces, but there's a straight drain that connects to the u-drain that didn't have any kind of fitted connection. I think there's something missing there, so I'll probably go to Ace sometime to get some advice on what I need.

Then I started working on the computer again. I had downloaded several anti-virus and anti-malware applications and began running them. One of the forums basically said that you have to use multiple programs because no one can catch everything you might have. The one program I could not install was Ad-Aware. It just would not allow me to load it. That's when I knew I had a virus or malware.

The biggest tip I got was to try turning off the system restore. You go to Systems and go to the system restore tab and turn it off. When I did this, Malwarebytes actually found a threat. It was a trojan.agent in the temp folder. Then AvastFree also found a few threats and finally, the best of them all Spybot found a shitload.

I ran more applications that didn't find anything and I'm hoping I got it all.

(written 4/15/11)