reinforce my clarity

2 days ago:
- Windows security pops up, announces increasingly frightening things about trojans on my PC and then runs away beacuse I'm not registered
- McAfee finds 30 trojan things on quick scan and nothing more on full scan

1 day ago:
- McAfee pops up to say I need to update
- McAfee security centre goes 'choose what program you want to use to open this file with' instead of opening
- so do Windows Explorer, all other antimalware programs and a bunch of other stuff
- various other things (like the system info and power options via control panel) start claiming they don't exist
- I have minor heart failure and panic

Today:
- I go searching for the phrases on google and discover this happens to people all the bloody time when antivirus software gets rid of trojans
- I find several very complicated fixes that involve fiddling with the system registry
- I find 'install this file' to fix for XP on MalwareBytes forum
- it fixes it, hoorah!
- I wonder why the hell the antivirus programs don't mention this can happen and provide fixits as a matter of course...

OMG, OMG, that sucked.

I am now rushing off to buy a large backup device and copy lots of things I don't want to lose to it. (Paranoia is our friend.)

Being a numpty I have just realised that the story I volunteered to comment on by Kaneko contains both bullet points and a picture. Now, I can copy the picture with the text off her website, but how do I then get the picture as part of an lj post when I post my commentary?

And how do you do bullet points and an indent on lj? I don't think the format of those will copy over from Word either.

Not that I've actually started commenting yet, but I figure I'd better ask these questions now rather than when I'm actually trying to post!