Friday, December 25th, 2015

Merry Christmas everyone!

I fell asleep quickly only getting up once at 5:30 finally waking/getting up at 9:30.

I made waffles this morning although we soon ran out of ice cream; they are a lot less dry with ice cream.

On the news they reported a number of people burned by fireworks last night.

I attempted, unsuccessfully, to download some classic Christmas movies like Christmas Story with Spanish subtitles so I have probably infected my computer again.

I started watching Blue Thunder (6.3). 

We took a nap from 2:20 to 3:30.

It started raining at 3:45 so I brought in the dog blankets while Teresa brought in the clothes from out back.

I spent some time uninstalling programs that were installed today on my computer.  I hope it’s clean again now.

I cleaned up most things but when I open the Mozilla Firefox browser it opens a new tab for “YesSearches.com”.  When I went to Internet Explorer and googled “What is YesSearches.com?” I found “The yessearches.com website claims to be a legitimate Internet search engine and may appear similar to other regular Internet search engines, however, be aware that it is promoted using deceptive software installers that modify Internet browser settings. Furthermore, yessearches.com continually monitors users' Internet browsing activity and displays search results that might lead to bogus websites.”

“The aforementioned installers usually modify the Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox default search engine, homepage, new tab URL browser settings and shortcuts by assigning them to yessearches.com. In addition, a number of applications and browser extensions are installed to prevent users from reverting these changes. All this is performed without users' consent. As a result, the Internet browsing experience is significantly diminished, since users are continually redirected to yessearch.com when they attempt to search the Internet, open new tabs, or simply open the browser. In addition, the search results displayed by this site are often irrelevant and might even redirect to infectious sites. Therefore, using yessearches.com might lead to high-risk adware or malware infections. Another downside of this site is information tracking. This browser hijacker collects software and hardware information relating to users' Internet browsing activity including Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (to determine geographic location), search queries, websites visited, pages viewed, and other similar data. This information might seem insignificant; however, it can include personally identifiable details that are later shared with third parties (who can misuse it to generate revenue). Thus, the presence of this browser hijacker on your system can lead to serious privacy issues. We strongly advise against the use of yessearches.com. Uninstall this browser hijacker immediately.”

For some reason Internet Explorer didn’t seem to be affected but I had to do some redirecting away from YesSearches.com to Google.com for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.  It’s best to just be more careful when downloading to avoid these illegal “hitchhikers”.

We watched It Follows (6.9) on Netflix.

I took 2 sleeping pills at 11pm and we went to bed at 11:30.

T-shirt of the day: Let’s do something new today.