My first Ghanaian virus...

Whoa! So this past week I experienced my first Ghanaian virus'... and I was a little scared! As I fill you in, you will see why! :)

Symptoms:

Upset stomach - from worrying about the outcome of the virus
Nauseous that the virus could potentially not be cured
Complete debilitation - I couldn't manage to get anything to work!

Prognosis:

"A very, very strong virus."

Remedy:

3 hours with lab technician

Ok, so you may be wondering what I have come down with...
But actually, it was my camera and my flash drive that had the virus! Not good when you have two and a half weeks worth of pictures on the camera cards and important documents that would not be good if I lost them, on the flash drive!

On Tuesday, I was getting really fast Internet connection so I decided to try to upload a few pictures, so you could all get a small glimpse of my activities. The upload didn't even work... lol. It wasn't until later though that I realized something was wrong.

But not before I inserted my flash drive into the computer because I needed to send someone a file from it.

After my camera completely stopped taking pictures and had a red and blue error screen on the next day, I started to worry.

I could have kicked myself for not backing up the info on my flash drive before I left, but I didn't really think I would get a virus... I mean, it's never happened in the U.S. LOL

So... It was really frustrating to think I could be losing all of that!

But today I went to the mall to see if they could help me out. There was a small camera shop there. And thankfully! They were able to! The guy was able to recover all the pictures and documents and I had him burn them to a CD for a back up copy. He was able to get rid of the virus, and I have learned my lesson. DO NOT insert anything into these computers!

You will all just have to wait until I get home! I'm not risking it anymore!

Love ya!
Mel