^ That is the title of an email I received tonight in my trusty gmail account from one Graham Henderson, who hails from "across the pond" in the United Kingdom (I'm gonna assume England).

Graham sent an email with the following body:

I was the unfortunate victim of the Alcra-b infection on my pc, neither my antivirus (Norton 2007) or antispy could delete the files, in desperation i searched the net using copernic agent and it found your site, using the information,and acting on it i noticed that my machine booted up normally where it was taking ages and touch wood it seems to be behaving,

I would like to Thank you for the information that helped me get rid of the work,

Graham Henderson UK

What Graham is referring to on my site was a post I wrote on June 29, 2005 entitled "My bout with Alcra/Alcan.B". I had an annoying worm on my big PC (Chloe) that would not let the task manager utility open. Then, through the magic that is Google, I discovered regedit.exe wouldn't open either. I had been infected by the worm known as Alcan.B (a.k.a. Alcra.B).

You can read the post if you want to know what Alcan.B does and how to remove it.

The moral of the story is this kids: Google is a wonderful tool. One of my only regrets in life is not knowing about it's stock early on in Google's infancy. I could be a rich, rich twentysomething.

[On a side note, it looks like if you were to google (I guess the verb form is a lowercase 'g') Alcan.B and my website, it will lead you to this page where towards the bottom of the page you will notice a link to my original post.]

Labels: computers, hardware