Darnit. Durandal caught a virus. W32.Weird.

I don’t have the slightest idea where it came from, but apparently it’s not activated until you run Internet Explorer, which I did yesterday for the first time in a very long while. I use Mozilla otherwise. Five minutes later, Windows complained about system files that had been changed. That quickly rang a bunch of warning bells in my head.

Well, I downloaded a trial of Norton Antivirus 2003, which is currently hunting the virus down. 224 infected files so far. Whee.

This virus could be dangerous if you’re not properly firewalled — it opens a port and listens for commands. In essence, your ass is owned if you’re infected and open to the net and you don’t discover it and wipe it out.

Yet another reason why I’m not using Windows for anything else but computer games and some Photoshopping.