Monday, October 22, 2007

The New Sheriff In Tiny Town or is is The Tiny Sheriff in My Town?

After hours of work, Jon managed to clean the virus from my computer, or so we thought. We emailed the "Spy Shredder" technos and when he didn't hear from them was convinced that was a virus. Their emailed response was filtered to junk mail by our software which read it as spam. They were helpful and we are rid of the Spy Shredder. It is a legitimate program that probably got on my computer piggybacked on an attachment. All seemed well. The computer would now allow Jon to reinstall the firewall.
Bad news this morning. Once again my Windows One Care (spyware) ID'd a virus; "Spy Sheriff" is still in town. Jon won't be happy when I tell him.
I did the "clean all" run and One Care says it is removed. Time will tell. They come back. I liken this to HIV for computers. They may be suppressed but still hiding out in cells.

The picture above, closest I could come to a sheriff, is from the movie "The Terror of Tiny Town". We watched this with a group of friends a couple years ago. It was made in late 30's, using the cast of little people who were in town shooting "The Wizard of Oz". It seems exploitive by today's higher standard, but they were glad for the employment at the time. The movie is a western shot in a small scale western town using little people. They ride shetland ponies, use little props. Couldn't make this today. Camp. Not politically correct. Rent it if Netflick has it. I love B movies, especially black and white westerns.

When Andy was little we stayed in a hotel while traveling and watched an old black and white western on cable TV that made us howl. The white-hatted good guys were pursuing the black- hatted bad guys. Scenario: The good guys come over the mountain on horseback. They spot the bad guys ahead. Posse leader instructs everyone to duck down behind the rocks. They do, except they are holding the reins to their horses who are clearly visible. Hmmm...Bad guys wouldn't think anyone was there??? A shootout happens. Good guys win. Leader announces they had better stack the bodies before they make breakfast. Jon's comment; "I didn't know you had to stack the bodies." Love those B movies. http://www.badmovies.org/movies/tinytown/



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