Messenger virus?

My apologies to any and all who might get this via Yahoo messenger - a friend of mine sent me a link to a picture - not even realizing that YIM (or any other instant messenger) could contain viruses (stupidly thought they had better protection than emails) I clicked on it - my computer died, took me almost four hours just to get it to stay on long enough to do a spyware scan (now doing the virus scan) - there were three spyware thingies on my computer. :-(   So now I keep getting YIM and AIM popping up and pinging people (I finaly signed off both). Anyway, trying to figure out how to fix it now. Lesson learned.

I hate the internet sometimes...

Of sorts

I deactivated my facebook and myspace accounts, and removed Yahoo messenger and AIM from my computer entirely, so if anyone's looking for me in any of those places - tough shit. No, seriously, just email me and will work out some other method of commuicating. I'd like to get rid of Windows Live Messenger as well, but I haven't figured out how to do that. I think this latest fiasco has made me extremely paranoid about what things I'm on. Other than private boards and sites, lj is the only thing "public" I'm staying on for the moment.

So the relief of knowing my pc is a little more secure is a bit of nice :D

Tonight I'm relaxing, watching more Lost with my son, and the new season of Project Runway starts tonight as well. I watched Idol last night, but for some reason it wasn't as much fun as usual. Not enough weirdos, I guess. I like Runway mainly because even though the designers drive me buggy with all their drama, I like to see the designs they come up with. Some are outrageous, some stupid, but some are really really outstanding.

So. A lot of anxiety, a lot of wasted time, but the day is ending well. That's good enough.