Quote Originally Posted by LKWayvern View Post
My headphones are likely broken. One side no longer works. So, there's my one major method for dealing with stress outside my dorm sailing out the window.
But the thing that has me more upset, and actually pushed me into a meltdown, is potentially worse. One of my friends sent me a post with a bunch of websites with stuff that's meant to help with anxiety. The first one I clicked told me I needed to upgrade Flash. I clicked the link provided.
Instead of Flash, it downloaded some app called Booking, and a piece of spam called Playsearchnow, which immediately latched on to Safari. I then learned what, exactly, Playsearchnow is(not quite malware, but alters searches and spams you with ads that may crash the computer, even on safe websites). I then tried three methods to get rid of Playsearchnow, purged everything that could be connected to it that I could find, IT STILL TAKES ME TO THE PLAYSEARCHNOW HOMEPAGE AND NOT THE SAFARI ONE I'M USED TO
WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG
It hasn't crashed my computer or anything but I'm still having a freaking meltdown over this, I have NO IDEA what to door how to fix this or if I DID fix this and I'm just going crazy or something
I'm going to just try and see if the tech help on campus can be of any help, I don't know if they're open right now or not though, it's almost 8pm. But, as is usual near the end of or directly after a meltdown with me, I'm REALLY mentally drained and physically tired and the fact I may have to face tomorrow without music to calm me down while in crowded spaces is really making me DREAD tomorrow and just
...I don't have words for this anymore.
I looked into this malicious little Booking thing and it's a virus for Macs. It's a little tricky as I haven't worked with Macs in a long while and I haven't ever had to deal with viruses for it, but this might work. If not, try this. I just don't know for sure but there's got to be a guide or something for killing it. I've had crap like this wiggle it's way into my machine but there are definitely ways of killing it.

As for the headphones, eh, that sucks. If they're too expensive to replace, maybe go with just a cheap option like earbuds for now until you have the money to get a replacement set. At least you'll have something in the meantime. But yeah, I've recently had a pair of good headphones die on me as well and they died pretty much the same way. The left side started getting static and then it just stopped playing anything altogether. I just use earbuds now and they do the job even if the audio quality is a tiny bit diminished.