On the eve of receiving the new computer I ordered (it is coming today), all that ailed my old 4 year old machine mysteriously fixed itself.
Last week when I tried to work from home I was unable to launch Macromedia Dreamweaver, my main tool for work. I also couldn’t print, and use VPN that logs me into the network at work. I was unable to reinstall any of my software nor could I seem to fix any of this with my diagnostic utilities. My Norton antivirus seemed to quit working too calling for a reinstall (which I couldn’t do). I was in the market of replacing the old thing in March hoping to time it with the new OS that is coming out. Because I now couldn’t work at home if I needed to, I went ahead and ordered a new beast.
Yesterday at work on my PC, I discovered that my personable website was hacked. My anti-virus at work spewed out viral errors. Then right after that my Dreamweaver (on the PC) quit working. I found it interesting that the exact same problem was happening on my PC version as it did at home on my Mac…it tries to start up then goes away. Corey reinstalls me and I avoid swardraws.com just in case there was a connection.
Back at home on my Mac, I replace my index.htm page and fix the website hack.
Then I try to launch Dreamweaver to look at the code of my hacked page and lo and behold Dreamweaver launches! And I can now print…and I can now log into the work network and I am getting no more errors from Norton.
WTF? My own little swardraws brought me down to my knees, on both platforms with anti-virus protection. I didn’t know this could happen just looking at a webpage, well at least a page like my own.
If I could of waited to get my new computer when I wanted I could of saved $130 for the OS upgrade and $20 for the iLife upgrade that just came out that would of already been on my new machine had I waited.