Or is it?
Turns out that there really are solutions.
First off, there are two gemstones that are REALLY helpful here - malachite, and shungite. Malachite protects your devices from malicious energies (and supposedly programs) that come from the other side of your connection… and shungite protects your devices on YOUR end.
Sources: https://grahamcluley.com/magic-crystals-viruses/ and https://goop.com/wellness/spirituality/ ... fice-desk/Malachite
Keeping away computer viruses with malachite
Placed on your desk, malachite will soak up some of the electromagnetic pollution emitted by your computer and other appliances. You can make it your own personal guardian against viruses that can attack your computer via the internet and email. Its healing energy can be an added repellent to any new viruses that are attacking software programs and can be used alongside your dedicated anti-virus program. The stone dispels negativity, absorbing any radiation and pollutants that leak into the atmosphere.
Crystal cure
Pick up your stone and hold it firmly in your hand to feel its power and purifying abilities. Ask it to soak up any negativity from your office space and send out strong, positive energetic rays around your computer to keep it virus-free. Circle the stone around the computer twice daily, morning and late afternoon. Cleanse the stone after each use under running water, or see pages 149-153.
Shungite
For anyone working with or near technology, crystal shamans recommend the energy from shungite as a reminder to balance technology with nature.
Intention: Hold the shungite in your hands and say, “I program this shungite as an energetic shield around electromagnetic fields.” Place it underneath your device (cell phone, computer, laptop). And hold your shungite crystal in the morning to help restore your energy.
Between the two of them, your computer, cellphone, and tablet should be fairly safe from energetic interference. You can buy an organite cellphone holder with malachite and shungite in it pretty much anywhere that does organite, though you may have to special order that particular combination.
Another important thing to keep in mind is that any experienced practitioner KNOWS when their energy is either too high, or particularly unstable - and if you're experiencing either, stepping away from your devices is a better idea than anything else you have in your arsenal. However, there are meditation techniques and crystals which can help modulate your vibrations so that they don't impact your devices if there's no options for you because of your job or other circumstances.
In that case, call on your angels, demons, guides, or Grace Elohim to fix the problem or put up a field of light around the machine. Surround your devices with a psychic shield of blue light, and remember to LAUGH. Laughing does a LOT to stabilize our auric field and stop us from radiating our poor devices to death.
Another solution, for when its too late and your device has begun thinking and acting for itself (or acting like it's been possessed - we've all been THERE, haven't we ) is an exorcism. Yes, I'm serious.
Exorcisms for digital devices are pretty similar to exorcisms for people, except that the gods are different, and the tools are, as well. You'll want quartz and copper, Himalayan rock salt, and you'll probably want to appeal to Linux and Google. You'll also want to ask your device to help kick out the offending energy - your devices, like anything else, do have a spirit of their own, and it's important to remember that working WITH a spirit is far more helpful than ignoring or working AGAINST it, so if you HAVE to do an exorcism, it's a good idea to have your device helping from the inside.
I personally use a more shamanic style exorcism. I use copal for its banishing abilities, and I chant prayers to various computer gods - Jobs and Gates, Google and Linux - it depends on the device's operating system, honestly. I use copper and quartz to realign the device's natural energy back to neutral, and as the toxic energies begin to lift, I snag them, lift them completely out, and dump them into the himalayan salt, and then pour the salt out under running water later.
Afterwards, I use crystals that are very VERY gentle healers to help the device stabilize.
Finally, there are crystals that you should ALWAYS have near your computer at the very least, because of their effects on you AND your device. For more information on that, I recommend these two links: https://www.gemrockauctions.com/learn/h ... y-computer and https://goop.com/wellness/spirituality/ ... fice-desk/
They both mostly discuss crystals that affect YOU, but since the problem usually IS you, that's really the best solution out of everything.