Updating firmware?

.
.
The shows that I bought, and was watching, seemed to crap out.  The player wasn't working, stopped playing the blurays half way through season six.  I figured an update was needed but I have never done one.  I didn't know how to securely find a link, what to pull down, or how to get it over.  A burned cd, perhaps, but neither of my burners are working with this computer.  There is the new laptop, but I'm not going to toss that online until I figure out what security ware is worth using and get that installed... probably offline, through a thumb drive, at that.  So...  As it turns out, there is an internet jack on the bluray drive.  A very little bit of research led me to plug it in, mess with the menu, and... it seems to be updating now.  I never leave things jacked to the internet, not even my computer anymore.  Monsters have learned to jack into everything, using it for God only knows what.  Jacking the bluetooth, hacking wi-fi, storing data, turning them into machinezombies, who knows. Still, that is one problem, potentially, down.

While doing that, I looked at the clock.  It seemed like a good time to call my mother.  But, while calling, I realized my living room clock must be way off.  It suggested it was 7:00, my phone said it was 5:34 or something, at the time I dialed.  Yeah, I hung up after a few rings.  But she will know I called, probably, if her phone grabbed the call (doesn't always).  Or I'll try back in an hour.  There is an hour difference, but that is still a bit early, I think.  Sometimes.  She is getting a bit odd with her sleep, compared to before.  She's an early riser, 8:00 is, for her, sleeping in. 

I have been tinkering with the computer itself lately.  It has a lot of problems.  It is, possibly, infected.  I have the settings on high, so maybe the indicators are false positives.  I have been running down leads, but can't seem to get solid answers.  Hackers are using programs named after legitimate programs.  Honestly, I'm not seeing a good way to differentiate.  I am not seeing a good way to get rid of them, in either case.  And my 'security ware' doesn't seem to do much, other than tell me, over and over, that it is blocking stuff.  Amazon, an update program, and possibly others.  It started up a week or two ago and I am now getting hundreds of blocks a day.  My guess is something is up, it's everywhere, most aren't even seeing it, and there isn't a fix.

Well... on to see if the update is done.  It sure was taking it's sweet time.  Then again, maybe it has just been hacked.  Or LG's service was hacked and is passing it on.  Hard to know.  It's looking rather grim out there, and we don't have anyone on our side.  Later.