I got a virus alert when I went to start a game tonight, which led me to do a quick Google search. It seemed to be a false positive, but I wanted to be sure, which led to burning a Linux rescue disk so I could do an offline scan with a different program. The rescue disk was having trouble detecting the hard drive, which led me to wonder why I had put it on the non-standard tertiary IDE port on the motherboard, which led to me cracking open the case. Looking at the wiring mess led me to an “Oh yeah, that was why…” realization, which led me to wonder if I could do any better, and after finding new batteries for my maglite, moving the drive around, and some recabling, it’s now back on the primary IDE interface. Which led to problems with the boot order when it was powered back up, but that was easily fixed and I can boot off the rescue disk and do the virus scan now.
Which led me to wonder why I didn’t just buy the 360 version of the game…