I am a giant doofus.

Scott's mom bought a new computer (a Gateway, and she should have gotten a Dell, dude) and last week Scott was working on getting it set up for her. He hit a bunch of snags (little things like, "Hard drive cannot be found" and "CD/DVD-ROM drive cannot be found" and finally opened the computer up and discovered that both the hard drive and the CD/DVD-ROM drive weren't connected to the motherboard. He reconnected them and finally got it working.

She had a few files that she wanted to transfer to the new computer, so Scott put them on floppy disks, only to discover that the new one didn't have a floppy drive. I brought the disks home and burned the files to a CD for her, along with Spybot Search & Destroy, PestPatrol, and AdAware. Then I transferred the files to her new machine and installed the three spyware removal programs.

Last night Scott told me that the computer has a virus, and tech support determined it was the Sasser worm and that it came from my Spybot file. I scanned my system and the original floppy disks, downloaded the Sasser fix tool from Symantec and ran it, and downloaded the Intelligent Updater from Symantec and scanned again. Nothing. So I don't think it's possible that the virus came from me, and I figure that either the computer was screwed up to begin with, or, well, I don't know.

If my system was clean, is it possible for me to burn a virus-infected CD? Computer-knowledgeable people, I'm looking at you! Even if it didn't come from me, I still feel like a giant stupidface. (Or to quote Chris Farley, "a horse's patoot.") I hate to cause trouble for people! (Well, unless it's PornBoy. More on him later, since it's been a week since my last installment.)

The moral of the story, chirrun, is don't let me touch your computer, because I may or may not give it a virus.