Ever have one of those days where everything seems to go wrong. Today started with a customer internet down. The issue was their router. Most likely a heat related cause. I stopped out to swap it with a spare. Onsite, I wanted to make sure I had the latest config, so I fired up my laptop, TFTP, SSH and was ready to transfer the start-up config. That is when it all went downhill. The transfer would not start. I checked a few things and then assumed my windows firewall was blocking it. I went to change the firewall settings, but received an error. I checked and the firewall was not started, yet it was being blocked. I checked a the services and when I received repeated dependency errors I turned to one of the MS Fix-It solutions. It came back with the error that it could not be fixed due to Kaspersky. I checked my Kaspersky, and even though I never enabled any fire-walling, it was doing port monitoring. I decided that is BS and uninstalled Kaspersky (note it is the antivirus only edition, yet it still has an NDIS driver that was causing issues). After the necessary reboot following the unisntall, I received a BSOD referring to one of the Kaspersky drivers. I chose a boot using last known good profile. This worked, but….. I now had no mouse by the touchpad, or by my wireless mouse. After f**king with that for 45+ minutes I said screw it and put my flash drive in a user PC to finish the router config.

I moved on to a wiring job and their programmer stopped me to say that a remote user couldn’t access the payroll system. I pulled out my laptop, hoping to fix then remote to their PC. Another hour lost. Now it is 2pm and I still haven’t fixed the remote PC. I try to use one of the servers for remote access and the KVM comes up a cable disconnected which then requires a reset.

I know at this point I am not going to get any wiring done before 4pm (time I had to leave to get the kids from day camp), so I leave to use my office PC.

From my office I fix the remote PC,  and finally resolve the mouse issue after another hour and finding a Kaspersky FULL removal tool.

I like Kaspersky, but I just want virus scanning. I don’t need a network or mouse hook.

What a waste of a day.