Please save state parks in California

A virus has infected the laptop and that has translated to a day of gardening.

Had to borrow the wife's laptop for this urgent post.

All those trips to route 1 might become nasty experiences.

The Governer is now cutting down 80% of the state parks and wants to "close" them!

If you can pack a quick lunch and want to spend <30$ on gas, you could have a real good day trip along the beautiful coastline within 2 hours of the silicon valley area for a park fee of 6 dollars today.

This is a lot better than spending 60 bucks a ticket to some theme park!

Please please please support the save the parks initiatives. Please contact your local politicians to get this thing repealed.

Click on thi link to send a support email or use any other initiative that you know of.

Please...

We do not want these nice forests with redwoods, creeks and beaches to be trashed. Sometimes I feel that the only good thing we are leaving behind for future generations is these state parks. Now that is also at risk!

Pleasssseeeee...

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Cricinfo and a Virus that looks like an anti virus program (Cryp_FakeAV-11)

My friend checked the India New Zealand score on my laptop last weekend using Cricinfo.com. While he was at it, we suddenly got a message that said that the computer was threatenend and it went on to launch an internet explorer window and made it looked like the computer was being scanned and before you know it, multiple viruses were found in various system folders.

It also had the Windows firewall shield logo (Kid you not!) but the shield was split into four parts and each part had a Microsoft Windows color.

Turns out it was a virus called Cryp_FakeAV-11 . These guys know how to do subliminal messaging! You see the shield shape, the windows colors, the legit looking virus scan, combined with your own Antivirus message (that is telling you that this thing itself is a virus) and you can be overwhelmed... Which window do you close? Which Ok or Cancel do you press? would you wipe out your hard drive with one wrong click?

Worse, why is Cricinfo supporting these guys?

The funny thing was that my MIL got the same warning and she clicked okay in an effort to "protect" the desktop and that installed this virus shield looking virus on our desktop! Took us some time to clean up.

Beware! Go let your six year old little ones and sixty year old seniors know the risk of clicking okay!

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