Tuesday, January 23, 2018

And then this happened.

Yesterday I clicked on a link on Facebook and was faced with blaring horns and a voice from Hell telling me that I had a dangerous virus from a porn site which would hack into all my financial files and drain them.  As usual when this happens I turned off the computer at the switch to give my modem a breather and turned it on again with its new IP Number only to be told that, yes, I had caught a very dangerous virus but that the scanner had quarantined it and would delete it in due course.

That got me thinking  -  why not just delete it?  Perhaps my computer thought that I just might be interested in an infected porn site. It is nice to know that my virus scanner is efficient and quick on the draw and since I am very careful to keep my finances to myself, not to mention that my hard drive was only a couple of days old, I am not so very worried.

FTM seems to be back to its old self and to reward it I have sent off for the Ancestry DNA test which I have been considering for some time.  My blood group which I inherited from my father is B+ which is an eastern Mediterranean/Asian blood group and I can't imagine where, on my father's side, it could have come from (from my mother's side nothing would surprise me) because as far as I know that branch is pure English with a drop of Irish since everybody has at least a drop of Irish blood.  I will post the results when they arrive.

The other fun thing which I have been doing is tangling with the Central Animal Register which wanted me to verify the data which they had about my two cats.  The problem is that they both had faulty microchips installed when they were babies so last February the vet installed new ones.  I registered the new Chip numbers with my local council but obviously they did not pass the information on to CAR.  When I phoned them to enable me to go  into their site to update the information I was told very firmly that "microchip numbers do not change".  Eventually on my second phone call I was helped by a very sensible woman who said that I would have to talk to my vet and get her to sign something to say that my chip numbers had changed.  The cats are due for their booster vaccinations in about three weeks so I figure that this particular hassle can wait for a couple of weeks; the cats aren't going anywhere any time soon.

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