i just found a worm on my usb key. i didn't think to check the date on it before i deleted it, which i immediately regretted. but the last time i brought it out somewhere was about the same time things started going haywire - to print odsp forms at the library at the beginning of july.

it's apparently a browser hijack. it wouldn't work on either of my xp pcs, because of the way i've stripped them down. i don't know how it would react on the 7 laptop, but it's probably going to come up against user privileges. i've seen absolutely no physical signs of malware, and really tend not to worry about it much. but i did notice that the drivers went bad, the last time, after i went online.

firewire is a networking device. it's not entirely insane to think it could have squirmed in there and imploded. the firmware update should remove this as anything to think about further.

it was probably sitting there for a month...wow...i need to be more aware of that...

i'm now convinced that there's corruption in the cubase files and that i can null the results by replacing the tracks. i've experienced this before, but it was with midi tracks that were easy to recreate. i'll have to convince myself with some testing. if i'm right, this might be time consuming.