Result of Late-Night Scan?

I shut down all other programs, have Kaspersky start scanning, AND get the idea to put my second fan so it's blowing air on the laptop.

It actually shuts down EARLIER this time (usually it gets to 30%, this time it didn't even get pas the "abnormally long 1%" stage). And I'd swear that when I felt the patch that usually heats up, it wasn't as hot as it usually gets.

Suddenly the "Kaspersky is being an ass" theory has some more credibility. I still need to test if "Alice: Madness Returns" will still trigger a blackout if Kaspersky is off, though. Stupid computer issues. . . .

On the upside, here's the start of the latest 100 Drabbles thread over in 8butterflyboy8. A few of these are on the sad side, but I hope you enjoy them anyway. There will be more tomorrow, promise.

Sigh. . .

So, my computer performed another random shutdown today while I was in the shower. No idea what triggered it, beyond possibly my MP3 player being plugged into a USB port to charge. (And I'm iffy on that, because when it pulled this shit twice in a row on Sunday, I don't think my player was plugged in the second time.)

I can't figure it out. It could be a hardware failure, a software failure, the heat getting to the computer -- it could be magical gremlins for all I know. We're working out a plan of attack -- Ael suggested we bypass Best Buy altogether and contact Samsung directly. Of course, this will probably mean that my laptop still has to go away for a while. . . *grumblemutter* Necessary evil, I suppose, though frankly part of me just wants to back up everything and start over.

Well, on the plus side, I've discovered how to back up my bookmarks in Firefox, so if I do get a new computer (or need to have this one wiped for whatever reason), I'll have everything I need in one convenient package. I'm also all caught up with drabbles for the 100 Drabbles of Summer -- and fortunately, it appears I'm AHEAD of the game. The full list is in this comment. I've also done all the photo posts I had planned on my Tumblr. And I've got pretty much all the backups I need on my drive (need to update a few photo and WordPerfect files, natch, but that won't take too long). And, again, at least it waited to pull the major shit until AFTER I finished Alice.

I need something to bring my mood up. We haven't had a 25 Foods in a while, and it's been hot enough lately to justify bringing up this one:
( 25 Foods: Banana )

Okay, I feel better having posted silly. Time for more web-browsing.