Braunston never changes, but a computer virus to deal with

30th, 31st - Moored Hillmorton, Oxford Canal
1st Nov - Hillmorton to Braunston, Oxford Canal, 6.5 miles 0 locks
2nd Nov - Moored Braunston

We had a really lovely weekend at Hillmorton, On the Saturday Vic decided that the huge tree that was down was too good to leave, so out came the chain saw again, and now there are enough logs on the roof for over a month.

Yesterday morning Chas called me into their boat, his computer was really playing up, the firewall was blocking data flow from his computer out to the internet.  On my computer I looked on google for the reason, and yes sure enough he had a virus!  Where on earth he had got it from I really don't know.  He had received no emails that were associated with this particular one.

We decided to move down to Braunston before trying to get rid of it on his computer.  The air was just as still yesterday as it had been over the weekend, there was no wind at all it was a really nice autumn day.  It sure was nice to be on the move again, although I did have some trouble seeing over the top of all the logs!

We only passed one boat, it was so much quieter after last week's school holidays.  Braunston was as busy as ever as we approached, I thought it would be after the Jam 'Ole Run last week, and sure enough some of the boats that took part in this year's re-enactment were moored.  Just two space left right at the end of the moorings above Butchers Bridge.  Well actually there was only one and a half spaces!  I knocked on the boat in front to see if they would be willing to move closer to the next boat, there was about 4ft of wasted space. Moore2Life would fit in the last space easily if the boat moved up a bit.

Ooops, out popped a bleary eyed chap, I was right when I guessed that I had woken him up "On nights" says he.  I felt awful, but he was very good and came out and moved the boat before disappearing again with a nice lump of homemade fruit cake from me for his trouble, and for a bit more sleep!

Today, I have spent almost all day working with Chas on his computer, and in the end we decided that the best thing to do was to reformat his laptop, as we couldn't be 100% certain of repairing the damage the virus worm had done.  Chas transfered to CD all the files that he wanted to keep and the job was done.  With WindowsXP installed and running, all that is needed now is to put back on all the programs and files that he wants.  A job for tomorrow

Daventry for me tomorrow, and hopefully between helping Chas, I will finish the page on the Jam 'Ole Run. Maybe tomorrow you will see it here on the blog page.