Tonight I decided to hop on desktop computer instead of parking my butt on the sofa and using the laptop like I normally do. I was all set to respond to DD on Facebook when all of a sudden the computer totally FREAKED OUT. It kept opening window after window, no matter how many times I closed them. I tried shutting the computer down by pressing and holding the power button but when I counted to ten and restarted, I heard it make an ominous clicking sound. It zoomed past the DOS-type screen that asked me if I wanted to start the computer in Safe Mode and started it in regular mode automatically. Sarge and I have our computers networked so you have to log on with a password once you get past all the loading prompts. I watched in horror as the screen tried to access Sarge's computer again and again, failing the password.
I knew something really bad had happened. At best, I figured I had a Trojan Horse virus or something like that. But it occured to me there could be something worse. I remembered a blog linked by Charming Bitch where the author had been stalked by a hacker who installed a keystroke logger program on her computer. The FBI got involved because it looked like the guy wanted to kill her. What if that was happening to me? And Sarge wasn't even home to help me figure this out! I could feel myself getting panicky. How long would that password hold? His is a brand new, really REALLY good computer. Pictures of SAM are on that computer! Deep breaths....ooooohhhhh craaaaappppp.
And that's when I saw it.
The edge of my plate, pressing down the "enter" key on the number pad of my keyboard.
