Chicodawg LIVE, which streams the BEST in Indie music is back online after recovering from 3-days of hell.  I mean, a virus attack.

Ever hear of Antivirus 2009, Windows Antivirus 2009, or similar anti-life software?  I have.  Have you?  For the past 3 days, the computer running the music stream also heard of it...constantly.  This rogue anti-virus fake struck the computer hard.  This one imbeds itself so deep... the more you uninstall it, or think you did, the more it recreates itself.

How is it installed in the first place?  Well for starters, some 6-year-old borrowing mommies computer decides he is going to invest his time between school and vacation to write some malicious code that mimics real code.  Then, he either sends it across websites, networks, video files or through other means.  Anyway, it eventually winds up on one of MY computers.  Let the pop-ups begin!  "You've been infected!"  The fake anti-virus software tries to convince the less-informed to register ($40) the program so that it can take care of the problems it installed.  Clicking on ANYTHING just makes the program taunt you more and creates itself again.

How do you rid your computer of this menace.  First, keep a towel handy since you'll be crying a lot.  Thankfully, on my laptop, which was not infected (keeping fingers crossed), I Firefoxed my way around the internet looking for info.  There was plenty of it.  Try this.  Do that.  Cry some more then delete this.  It didn't work.  The crying helped, though.

I ran Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware software.  Taken care of.  Reboot.  Nope, it's back again.  I Malwarebyte's again, rebooted.  Finally.  Nope!  Four hours later, I'm still finding infected files using different anti-virus programs.  Day-2, I again ran anti-spyware/virus software and added "Spybot Search & Destroy" to the mix.  Spybot was fooled at first, but found everything and eventually took care of the problem with Malwarebyte's being run as well.

By the 4th day, today, the computer is rid of the nightmare that is Windows Antivirus 2009, and its variants - a spoof that looks like typical Microsoft software, but it isn't.

The original music server host was down so I switched to another server on their system.  The music is playing once again.  However, the requests and playlist features are not working at this time.

And, if you're the worthless-to-society scumbag who invented this bogus software, stop by my place sometime so I can tell you where to go and what to do when you get there.  Afterwards, I'll install my own idea of terror on you and make you suffer for 4 days.