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I installed my first Windows malware in a long time.
Oh, well, that's fun. Like a real malware or a sarcastic malware?
No, well, I don't know the extent of it yet. So there was some saga with my son's gaming PC in trying to figure out what was going on with his laptop's cooling system or thermals or whatever. I wanted to know, what do people use on Windows to show CPU and GPU temperatures to themselves?
And this is one thing, honestly, I have found the web in general to be absolutely horrific at this, but ChatGPT would be pretty good at recommending stuff like this. What do people use for software type X temperatures? That would be something I would normally just search the app store of the device on, which I tried and there's nothing, or search the web and it's useless garbage constantly.
So I actually got pretty good results. And so there's this program called CPU ID, HW Monitor, something that everybody uses. And I was like, okay, I remember that from my old hard OCP days. That still exists. Okay, great. I'll download that.
And it's one of those things where the download link opens up an overlay on the page that looks like a download link, but it's actually an ad that is made to look like a download link.
It's like trying to download Minecraft mods.
Yeah, it's constant just like, okay, here's the real download link. Download now! But it's like, that's not really the download link. You have to close the ad, the download link's behind it or something. Anyway, through all the logistics of trying to find the real download link to this app,
I had one wrong try, and I installed, apparently, PC App Store, which messed up all his browser search parameters and stuff. It was a whole thing. So now I've got to figure out, like, how do I get rid of this now? Of course, Windows Defender is like, everything's fine. It's like, no, trust me, everything's not fine. So now I have to, like, do something else. I guess, like...
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