viruses?

Update:

I cleaned out the email inbox, emptied the "recycle bin," and reran the scan. Nothing wrong.

Now, I get to see whether the system still hangs semi-randomly.

It's running slowly at the moment because, just to be on the safe side, I downloaded a couple of free scanning programs that my work IT department uses (and which I thus know are legitimate), and they're both hitting the disk. So far, SuperAntiSpyware has flagged a bunch of cookies but nothing else.

shopping, for health and charity

I just mail-ordered two spaldeens and a tape measure.

The spaldeens are part of my physical training/knee and posture stuff, recommended by the trainer to press my left foot down on, hard. The tape measure is because the web site of the 5-and-10 that had the best price on spaldeens (when I took shipping into account) had a message that it was often possible to add items without paying additional shipping, and encouraging people to look around. I've had "tape measure" on the shopping list for months, so I took a look, and added that. (I then discovered that if I also added a pair of shoelaces, the shipping would go up, so I stopped with the spaldeens and tape measure.)

I am also bidding on a pair of hand-knit socks, in the fundraising auction for Deb Mensinger's liver transplant. I don't know Deb at all well, but I liked her when we met at Wiscon, and this is something in the auction that interests me, and the bidding was at a level that seemed reasonable for what I'm willing to give and for what it would buy. (I don't need hand-knit socks—most of my socks are 3 pairs/$5.00 down on St. Marks Place—but I think I'd enjoy having them.) Charity auctions tend to have a mix of things, ranging from "why would I want that?" [not the same as "why would anyone want that?" though that question does sometimes cross my mind, in many areas of commerce] or "where would I put it" through definite interest to things that are out of my price range. Sometimes, of course, the bidding goes way up because people believe in the cause: one item I bid on when it first went up in this auction just jumped directly from $213.06, a number I assume was meaningful to the bidder, to $300.