Sign this petition: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/auditthefed.php

There’s another way that isn’t so drastic, and if by posting this I save even one person from that heart-and-headache, well, It’ll have been a New Year started out right.

I’m not sure how this is contracted — off of a website, certainly, but it really locks things down for anyone who has the misfortune of getting it.

You’ll know you have it when every google search you do takes you to somewhere other than where you intend to be going. The links in a search will route you through some go.google.com URL to deposit you onto some odd search page that will only lead to more trouble. This is someone making money off of their google ads account by forcing your traffic through it. Turns out it’s as nasty as it is clever. You won’t be able to download any remedies, and it will shut down your virus scanner, too. I think it manifests a little differently with each permutation, but likely this fix will apply if the behavior is similar. Nothing to lose, at any rate.

Here’s what to do:

Right click on My Computer and select properties. Get into Device Manager.

Click View; Show Hidden Devices.
Expand the section ‘Non-Plug and Play Devices’, and find TDSSserv.sys.

Select it, right click, and disable it. Restart your computer.

Ok, now you’re out from under its thumb.

Download Malware Bytes, install it and let it do its thing.

That should fix you up! Best of luck.

If you download and install Spybot S&D and let it run in the background it should help to keep you from getting into trouble going forward.

Even if you haven’t run into this ‘Go Google’ thing, I recommend you run Malware Bytes or Spybot just for the heck of it. You may be surprised to learn what stuff is lurking around.

Enjoy!

Anybody recognize any of these names?

Click below for a great big list.

JEFF WARYAN

RATS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

SPEED BUMPS - Way Way Way

CELLOPHANE CEILING - The Beauty Of It All

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

BIG SATAN, INC.

TEN FOOT FACES - Days Of Corndogs & YoYos

ULTRAMAN - Freezing Inside

ANTI SCRUNTI FACTION - Damsels In Distress

BUNJI JUMPERS - A Two Z

APOSTATES - Burning World Of Hate

SEA MONKEYS

GRISLY FICTION

THE HOLY SISTERS OF THE GAGA DADA

DEFENESTRATION - Dali Does Windows

OFFBEATS - Evolution Of The Stickman

BABY OPAQUE - Fugue In Cow Minor

KING VITAMIN - Breakfast With The King

IT’S RAINING - Radioland

INTENSIVE CARE - Assault Down Memory Lane

JESTERS OF DESTINY - Fun At The Funeral

HOLIDAY - Hello

KINGS OF WYOMING

SWINGIN’ TEENS

HOWARD & TIM’S PAID VACATION - I Never Met A Girl …

THE BLUE UP - Now

SPOT 1019

LIQUID JESUS - Pour In The Sky

THE CONDITIONZ - Weird America

LIBIDO BOYZ - Hiding Away

ARSON GARDEN - The Belle Stomp

TREACHEROUS JAYWALKERS

BENTON & THE BENTONITES - Meet The Bentonites

THE ELEMENTS - Honest Enough

BAD BEACH

THE EDSEL AUCTIONEER - Voice Of The Harolds

THIN KING

TUNEMATICS - Real Life Party

SURGERY

PROBLEM CHILDREN - Long Weekend ‘85 - ‘88

DADDY HATE BOX - Sugar Plow

THE B’SHOPS - Grass

CROWD OF ISOLATED - Memories And Scars

STEPHEN JAY MORRIS - Loud Whispers And Silent Scre…

BACK FROM THE LOO - My Lord, We Found A Spoon

POPDEFECT - Live With This

EBERHARD SCHOENER

BLISTER - Glitches

THE FLIPS - Less Is More

A HOUSE - On Our Big Fat Merry-Go-Round

THE BEGUILED - Gone Away

THE DISPOSSESSED - Sister Mary

ATILA - International Sandwich

THE CREEPS

EUROPEANS - Recurring Dreams

THE WEAK WILLIES

STEEL MINERS - Irony

THE WRENS - Secaucus

THE ZODIAC MOTEL - The Story Of Roland Flagg

TORTILLA FLATS - Giant Sky

THE VISIGOTHS - Pining By The Grave Of Stardust

CLOCKWORDS WIZARDS - First Spells

GRONG GRONG

BARNABYS - Augustus Loop

PAPER TULIPS - Orbital

RABID SALESMEN - My Tongue Hurts

PRECIOUS WAX DRIPPINGS - Ain’t We A Wishin’ Bunch

MAUREEN TUCKER

BAD YODELERS

CRAZY ALICE - Wheel

THE GRIM - Face Of Betrayal

BOYS FROM NOWHERE

HONOR ROLE

SCAPEGOATS - Life Is Pasted On My Eyes

DEADSPOT - Built-In Pain

THE WALK-INS - The Fifth Season

VERBAL RAZOR - Falling

BEME SEED

SHLONK - Eee-Yow

SPIRAL JETTY

BODY SINK - Lung Ties

GRAVEL - Break-A-Bone

37 TARGETS - Another Day

NYMPHS

THE WALLMEN

FLOYDBAND - I Burped And Puke Came Out My Nose

HOMO PICNIC - Days Of Grey

KISSING THE PINK

THE HOLLOW MEN - Tales Of The Riverbank

IMITATION LIFE - Scoring Correctly At Home

RUEFREX - Flowers For All Occasions

RHYTHM PIGS

MANNEQUIN BEACH - Don’t Laugh, You’re Next

VICTIMS FAMILY

POCKET FISHRMEN - Future Gods Of Rock

MY NAME - Megacrush

BIG DRILL CAR - Batch

THE MATTER BABIES - Skinny Dipping

MOFUNGO

SCRUFFY THE CAT - Moons Of Jupiter

SENSELESS THINGS - The First Of Too Many

BOB’S YOUR UNCLE

THE BOLLWEEVILS - Mouth

THE BLISTERS - Off My Back

CROCODILE SHOP - Head

THE GRACES - Perfect View

BLEACHED BLACK

HELL TOUPÉE

BULIMIA BANQUET - Party My Colon

HYPNOLOVEWHEEL

BRAVER NOISE

REAL GONE LOVERS

LOVE AND RESPECT - Deep + Heartfelt

HOLLYWOOD INDIANS - Lock Up The Dog

THE RIVER DETECTIVES - Saturday Night Sunday Morni…

CODE BLUE

PAT SMEAR - So You Fell In Love With A Musician

FISH & ROSES - Friar Tuck Record

TALL SHIRTS - Great Snakes! It’s The…

NATURAL SCIENTIST - Anaesthetic Of Love

AUGUSTA FURNACE - Rumble Strip

FEEDING FRENZY - Rain

5chin400

CRUNGEHOUSE - New Society

CHILD SUPPORT - Inside My Room

DIG - Information

THOMAS ANDERSON - Uranium Road

DON’T MEAN MAYBE

HELLCOWS - Toothless

CROWNS OF THORNS - Carnival

END OVER END - Scenes From A New World

BAD BABY

CRIPPLED AND THE BURNOUT

STRIPMINERS

CABAL

HORNY GENIUS - Burn Your Sister

THE MISTAKEN - Santa Fe

BLOOD CIRCUS - Primal Rock Therapy

OCTOBER FACTION

THE PURPLE OUTSIDE - Mystical Lane

ENDINO’S EARTHWORM

KITCHEN CYNICS

COURAGE OF LASSIE - The Temptation To Exist

ACTUEL - Monuments

FAMILY PLOT - Convictions

THE SELVES - Cocktails… And Plenty Of ‘Em

PSYCHO TRIBE - Wendy I’m Home

LES BLACK CARNATIONS - These Were…

POOPSHOVEL

MODERN VENDING - One Bad Peccary

MODELS - Out Of Mind Out Of Sight

VICTORIAN PARENTS - Silence Follows

ANIMOSITY INCORPORATED - What It Means

THE LOST TROPICS

CIRCLE OF ILL HEALTH - A Rhyme In Four Parts

CAT BUTT - Journey To The Center Of

SCHWEFEL

ZEITGEIST - Shake-Rake

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS - Tales Of The Unexptected…

THRUMDRONE - Carnival Art

CHICKEN SCRATCH - Important People Lose Their Pant…

THE PAINLESS DIRTIES

THE BEATITUDES

MEDFIELD,MA - The Different Ones

TASTY BUSH - F*ck Work

THE YARD APES - Neurosis

SYSTEMS - Total Recall

ALTER EGO - Sandy

STICKDOG - Human

ANY AND THE BODIES - Body Parts

KEN LOCKIE - The Impossible

SEMI-TWANG - Salty Tears

STITCHED-BACK FOOT AIRMAN

THE KING CANDY - Animal Eaters

SOMETHING TO BURN

THE FLIES

THE MINDBLOWERS - Fear Of Fantasy

CHILMARK - Driftwood

BULL - Tinbox

BRIEF WEEDS - A Very Generous Portrait

BAD EGG SALAD - Satan Game

ATOMIC JEFFERSON - Hell Is Real

PELL MELL - The Bumper Crop

SKUNK

POLITICIANS - Meat

WONDERAMA - Chaostrophy

THE BALANCING ACT - Three Squares And A Roof

PARADISE VENDOR

THE SINISTER CLEANERS

EVEREST THE HARD WAY - Tightrope

NO HARMS

CRAWLPAPPY - Deluxe

THE BIRDY NUM NUMS

THE HIGH JINKS - Talk Dirty

BIG TROUBLE HOUSE - Mouthful Of Violence

MUTTON GUN

THE NICK NACKS - Silence Before The Storm

VANILLA TRAINWRECK

VANILLA CHAINSAWS

THE WOLVERTON BROTHERS - Sucking Hind Tit

FERRYBOAT BILL - Luke The Drifter

THE JANITORS

THE SUBWAY SURFERS

THE GRINNING PLOWMAN

FIRE PARTY

SUZI CREAM CHEESE - Baby It’s Time

RUBBERMIND REVENGE

DOWNY MILDEW

THE WHAT … FOR!

DOUG ORTON

MOTOR WEIRDOS

THE OUTNUMBERED

HERETICS

BIG TUBE SQUEEZER - I Have A Thing For Love

SQUALLS - No Time

ROW OF CHAIRS - Tracing A Line

ONE PLUS TWO - The Ivy Room

PULLTOYS - Chair

EUBIE HAYVE

THE BRIGADE - Come Together

KNIFEDANCE - Wolf Hour

MARSHAL FIELDS

BANGAH

PORN ORCHARD - Urges & Angers

THE WILD STARES

POETRY GRENADE - Rocket

JOBBERNOWL - My Sight

THE BROKEN JUG

CHRIST IN CONCRETE - Future Men

THE BUCK PETS

FALSE VIRGINS

THE SEVENTY SEVENS - All Fall Down

THE LIZARD TRAIN

JELLYFISH KISS

THE STRANGEMEN

WELL WELL WELL

SODA CAN

JOWE HEAD

GREAT PLAINS - Naked At The Buy, Sell, And Trade

ANT-BEE - Pure Electric Honey

GET SMART! - Swimming With Sharks

DAD AND THE BOYS - Red Red Rose

MONKEY RHYTHM - This Must Be The Place

BATTERED WIVES

DESIGN FOR LIVING - Slowly Shouting

THE SCREAMING BELIEVERS

THE ELEVATORS - Frontline

ANGLETRAX

SANDVIPERS - Dead Slow

VEE VV - Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happine…

THE MEICES - Greatest Bible Stories Ever Told

JACK BREWER BAND - Harsh World

COLIN LLOYD TUCKER

BREAKING CIRCUS

H.P. ZINKER

KEN CHAMBERS - Double Negative

PETER HIMMELMAN - Gematria

TOADSTOOL - The Sun Highway

GRACE POOL

HEADFIRST - The enemy

CHRIS HARFORD - Be Headed

GOD’S FAVORITE BAND

FEEDTIME

SEA STORIES

GROUND ZERO - Pink

86 - Provocation

RAIN PEOPLE

PETER GODWIN

THE WOODEN SOLDIERS - Hippies, Punks And Rubber M…

THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE - Crushed Fly

DEATH BY MILKFLOAT

THE RUBBER DOLLS - Meat The Rubber Dolls

THE CLEAN - Vehicle

GORILLA - Deal With It

8TH ROUTE ARMY - Nihilist Olympics

GUT BANK - The Dark Ages

THIN WHITE ROPE - Squatter’s Rights

PASSIONNEL - Our Promise

PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

THE GRAPHIC - People In Glass

ILLITERATE BEACH

THE VACANT LOT

WHOOPING CRANES

OTHER BRIGHT COLORS - Endlessly Rocks The Cradle

SHEER THURSDAY

HAUNTED HENSCHEL

ELECTRIC LOVE MUFFIN

FIELD TRIP

SLAMMIN’ WATUSIS

EXIT OUT - Peruse Pranksters

DEATH OF SAMANTHA - Where The Women Wear The Glory…

HOUSECOAT PROJECT

HASH PALACE - Grit And Bear It

THE STEPFORD HUSBANDS - New Ways Of Seeing

MEN & VOLTS

CHAING GANG - Mondo Manhattan

SENATOR FLUX - Specticles, Testicles, Wallet & Wat…

THE SPORTING BACHELORS - Love Letters To Joanna St…

ROSA LUXEMBURG - II

THE CELIBATE RIFLES - Dancing Barefoot e.p.

THE TWENTY SECOND SET - Get That Charge

ALTER NATIVES

SEVEN SIMONS

UNCLE GREEN

PAINTED BIRDS - Green And Peaceful World

THE SERVICE - In Nonsense Is Strength

THE SEAMONSTERS - Fuzz Dice Cult

17 PYGMIES

NO DIRECTION - Becoming Obsession

BADTOWN BOYS

DARREN ROBBINS - Steals Your Girlfriend

CREEDLE - Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars

SCENIC - Incident At Cima

WIPERS

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

THE BONGOS - Numbers With Wings & Beat Hotel

MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS

REIN SANCTION

OCTOBER DAYS

Thanks so far!

BAND OF SUSANS - Love Agenda

THE PASSIONS

MIDNIGHT RAGS - The Werewolf Of London

NEW RADIANT STORM KING - August Revital

SPONGEHEAD

TWELVE DRUMMERS DRUMMING

SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS

MEGA CITY FOUR - Sebastopol Rd

THE OPHELIAS

THE MAGNOLIAS - Off The Hook

CAPTAIN SENSIBLE

RAT AT RAT R

OVERWHELMING COLORFAST

THE RESIDENTS - Rare Stuff

POLYPHEMUS

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS

GODLEY & CREME - Goodbye Blue Sky

JAH WOBBLE, THE EDGE, HOLGER CZUKAY - Snake Charme…

THE SWIMMING POOL Q’s

SALEM 66

TRESPASSERS W

PAUL ROLAND

THE VIETNAM VETERANS

RAIN PARADE : Beyond The Sunset & Crashing Dream

URBAN DANCE SQUAD

VULGAR BOATMEN - Please Panic

MEN AT WORK - Two Hearts

HOLGER CZUKAY

BOO HEWERDINE & DARDEN SMITH - Evidence

HARMONIA 76 - Tracks & Traces

HANSON BROTHERS - Gross Misconduct

GEAR DADDIES - Let’s Go Scare Al

FREAKY FUKIN WEIRDOZ

COLIN JAMES HAY

THE DREAM COMMAND - Fire On The Moon

TIMCO - Gentleman Jim

BARBARA MANNING - One Perfect Green Blanket

24-7 Spyz

TH’INBRED

THE PETALS

THE DENTISTS

NOMEANSNO - 3 Albums

TROTSKY ICEPICK

ASHRA : Correlations

OLIVELAWN - Sophomore Jinx!

THE CHILLS

TROTTEL - The Final Salute In The Name Of Human Mi…

COFFIN BREAK - Rupture/Psychosis

GARY LUCAS - Gods And Monsters

DATA

Ph.D

THE MIRACLE WORKERS

RICHARD HELL - Destiny Street

RE-FLEX - The Politics Of Dancing

RHEINGOLD - Distanz

RAINBIRDS

TONTO’S EXPANDING HEAD BAND - Tonto Rides Again

THE STEVE MILLER BAND - Rock Love (1971) & Recall …

PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY - Laughing Academy

JERRY HARRISON

COMATEENS

RUN WESTY RUN

THE RUDY SCHWARTZ PROJECT

THE SNEETCHES

WANNA BEES - Vacation

THE PHANTOM PAYN, 39 CLOCKS, THE COCOON & EXIT OUT…

BIZARROS

THE STEPPES : 1982-1997

HEAVEN 17 - Pleasure One & Teddy Bear, Duke And Ps…

RUSS TOLMAN - 5 albums

TIMBUK 3

THE PARACHUTE CLUB

THE GADGETS - 1980-89

BLIND IDIOT GOD

BAILTER SPACE - 1988-92

ABLE TASMANS

NINE POUND HAMMER - Smokin’ taters

BLAKE BABIES

BIG CHIEF

PORCELAIN BUS

VOICE FARM - The World We Live In

THE DEEP FREEZE MICE & related bands

THE ECTOMORPH - The Furious Sleeper

SLOVENLY

SILVERFISH

SACRED MIRACLE CAVE

THE GREEN PAJAMAS - 1984-1990

DOCTOR’S CHILDREN - King Buffalo

NICE STRONG ARM - Discography 1987-1990

MUSIC FOR PLEASURE - Blacklands

FLYTE REACTION

ASSASSINS OF GOD

ZOOGZ RIFT

]]> http://blog.clevermonkey.net/feelin-kinda-froggy/feed/ http://blog.clevermonkey.net/woo-hoo-snow-day/ http://blog.clevermonkey.net/woo-hoo-snow-day/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:50:00 +0000 Dave http://blog.clevermonkey.net/blog/woo-hoo-snow-day/

Well, apparently it’s finally a cold day in hell, too, ’cause we’re losing* that most unsatisfying President Bush today at last. I want to weep with joy.

(*This is how to spell ‘losing’ for all you ‘loosers’ out there. ‘Loosing’ is something you do to an arrow with a bow, or maybe the dogs of war if you want.)

This is the day the Lord hath made; rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24)