Originally I asked myself why would I want to Escape The Den? To me dens are cozy rooms that house slouchy leather armchairs, drinks decanters concealed in fake book cases, and other cool stuff. But this one is more like a home office, which, as a home worker myself, I can fully understand wanting to escape [subbed by VF99, Doc, Electra & Baruchi].

Use your point'n'click skills in Nekonote - Find The Dwarfs to find the little orange stick men (a.k.a 'the dwarfs') in this Halloween themed collection of cuteness [subbed by Cruzinn & Cyberjar88].

I would normally demand the inclusion of lava lamps and bean bags for a room to even be considered retro, but I'll let Retro Room slide, despite these obvious omissions, since I'm feeling all weekendy and nice today. Think yourself lucky though Retro Room, had this been Monday, and not Saturday I would have been totally on your case. Then you would have been sorry, believe me. I have quite the temper don't you know [subbed by Buji].

Some bad guys have kidnapped you, and are taking you in the back of their truck out to the desert to bury you (er guys... FYI, minimal chance of a ransom being paid if we're buried already). Hence it's time to embark upon a Truck Escape and we only have one minute to get free. Either that or we can spend our last 60 seconds on earth singing the theme from convoy. 10-4 good buddy... [subbed by Markus].

In Escape From The Basement you must try to parachute from a plane cruising at 32,000 feet onto a moving steam train whilst humming the Martian national anthem... well not really, it's slightly more basementy than that... [subbed by Buji].

SSSG Disney Crystal Hunter takes us to a magical kingdom of crystal hunting [subbed by Cyberjar88].

No updates today as I'm super busy trying to shake off a nasty virus (that's the computer kind, not the sneezy kind). Where do these things come from? I'm up to date with Windows, AV software, firewall and Anti Spyware and I'm ultra careful, and yet still I get infected. I wasn't even doing anything when it struck. Anyway...

Currently both Windows Defender and Norton Internet Security insist that my PC is fine, yet every time I use google all the results are hijacked to direct to other sites, and every time I try to visit Microsoft or Symantec (Norton) to get any kind of useful security update I'm either blocked or redirected elsewhere again. Arrrrgh. I don't even what to know what would happen if I used a site that needed security details/credit card details etc and I can't even think about using my remote connection to my office (so work today consists of searching security bulletin boards and rebooting a PC a gazillion times, which is even less fun than usual since 9 times out of 10 it won't even boot up properly as it's clearly too busy committing evil acts upon it's own operating system and files). Hmmmmm.... *deep breath*. Anyway, so that's what I'm doing today.

UPDATE: So the latest update is that my PC seems to be fixed. Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions in the comments, or emailed with help (especially James). I was going to write up a full story of my experiences hoping that they could help someone else out there with the same problems, but to be honest with you I'm exhausted by the whole thing now and really don't even want to think about viruses, trojans and rootkits. I spent 2.5 long days going thru this. Having a break from the computer after sitting at it constantly for hours and hours on end is kind of appealing. But just a quick summary...

I had problems with Trojan.blusod (kind of annoying) and with Rootkit.Win32.Agent.cku (ultra annoying and pretty scary), despite generally "being careful" and keeping my operating system, firewall and security software up to date (which is the no #1 recommendation to not even having these sorts of issues in the first place).

Once infected very useful tools to sort out the problem (which I'll contine to use) were Malwarebytes' anti-malware and Spybot.

I did however also need a lot of help, and a tool called SDFix, to get completely 'clean'. I suggest a visit to bleepingcomputer.com for this if you find yourself in a similar situation (and I'd probably shy away from running SDFix, as excellent as it is, without the sort of help they can offer).

Leaving Your Room 9 gives me another opportunity to sing my key finding song as I play along, *joy* [subbed by Cyberjar88].

Sure, Sealed Room might offer the escape the room style point'n'click game play that we all know and love here at Lazylaces, but what I want to know is, where are the seals? As far as I can tell there are no marine mammals, specially trained military units, or (thankfully) singers anywhere to be found in the game. I'm going to go look again now, but I think I'm going to have to ask for my money back, this kind of false advertising has gone on far too long. It's all very well giving us a free game to play, but we demand bizarre animal references as well [subbed by f00].

Dropping from the sky onto a (seemingly) deserted desert island, inexplicably surviving, and then finding out that all your (mouse) actions you use to try and escape have mysterious consequences you might think you've stumbled into this year's season premiere of Lost. But no. This is Wogger Inside; something entirely different, that's more like Intel Inside. Except not at all like that either [subbed by Cyberjar88, Carol & carm].

PS. A total aside here for those of you waiting for the wedding pics. I did start them, but got caught up with general busy-ness. They will be done soon. Promise.