The people who write computer viri need to be sodomized with a broken beer bottle...

[Wooley]

Gah. Lost everything in a hard drive reformat due to a virus or spy ware or something. I was working to salvage some of it, get it burned to DVD, etc, but one day, bang, computer freezes and can't do anything with it. 45 gigs worth of data was left in my documents file when I had to reformat. I'm working on re-finding it, but a lot is just gone forever. I'm looking at external hard drives for Christmas.

This, plus helping my mom put up a bunch of figurines on Ebay, work, school (two classes this semester, both on Saturday. One in the first half of the semester, one in the second half.) and some other stuff has really kept me busy.

[Mike70]

sorry that happened to you and i agree completely - the folks who create these things ought to be fu*ked with extensively. instead of beer bottles, i'd have them all raped by baboons on crystal meth then fed to alligators feet first.

[clanglee]

sorry that happened to you and i agree completely - the folks who create these things ought to be fu*ked with extensively. instead of beer bottles, i'd have them all raped by baboons on crystal meth then fed to alligators feet first.

How about raped by rabid spider monkeys with glandular problems and retard strength, then fed to oversexed gila monsters pecker first.

[Bunker65]

That really blows :mad: !! I had to reinstall my OS recently & it's not a fun situation :annoyed:. Luckily I had most of my important documents, pictures, videos, music, etc on an external HDD. I would say to definately go for one for Christmas !! They are a life saver & are very reasonable in price these days.

[acealive1]

Gah. Lost everything in a hard drive reformat due to a virus or spy ware or something. I was working to salvage some of it, get it burned to DVD, etc, but one day, bang, computer freezes and can't do anything with it. 45 gigs worth of data was left in my documents file when I had to reformat. I'm working on re-finding it, but a lot is just gone forever. I'm looking at external hard drives for Christmas.

This, plus helping my mom put up a bunch of figurines on Ebay, work, school (two classes this semester, both on Saturday. One in the first half of the semester, one in the second half.) and some other stuff has really kept me busy.


actually if u get an internal hard drive and get an external case its actually cheaper,bro. also this almost happened to be, my computer didnt work right after some guy broke in and decided to kick it. so i took about 10 blank dvd's and copied all my files in case of a bad accident with my pc

[Neil]

Gah. Lost everything in a hard drive reformat due to a virus or spy ware or something. I was working to salvage some of it, get it burned to DVD, etc, but one day, bang, computer freezes and can't do anything with it. 45 gigs worth of data was left in my documents file when I had to reformat. I'm working on re-finding it, but a lot is just gone forever. I'm looking at external hard drives for Christmas.

This, plus helping my mom put up a bunch of figurines on Ebay, work, school (two classes this semester, both on Saturday. One in the first half of the semester, one in the second half.) and some other stuff has really kept me busy.

What protection did you have out of interest?

How do you know it wasn't just a hardware/software failure?

[MaximusIncredulous]

Well, if I had my way, tee hee, I would slowly peel the skin from their hacker scum bodies, inch by painful inch, from their silly little heads to their stubby little toes.

[DjfunkmasterG]

I feel your pain Wooley, At one time during the editing of my first film my system caught a bug and the reformat caused me to lose a lot of data including the save files for the edit of the film. When that happened, I started making tons of back-ups of the Save files everytime I edit, and now keep all the important stuff on drives separate from my OS drive.

[triste realtà]

I've caught several spywares that can't be gotten rid of except for booting into DOS and deleting the .dlls in the system32 folder or using a program called unlocker to do it in regular mode. And deleting all the other files but those are the most important. Sort by date and they have nonsense names like xzxxxkk.dll. I can spot em every time.

[Wooley]

What protection did you have out of interest?

How do you know it wasn't just a hardware/software failure?

Norton antivirus. It's been pretty decent, as far as viruses go. Every now and then, a popup will show it blocked something, or a virus will turn up in a scan and be taken care of. Doesn't do anything against spyware/malware though.

Reason I know it wasn't a hardware/software failure was I clicked a link for some military book downloads and my computer froze. When I restarted it to get it unfrozen, there were new programs in my start menu, XP Antivirus to be exact. I had popups when I didn't have popups before, and it changed my wallpaper from a firearms scene to "You're computer is infected with viruses!" or something. After that, it redirected me to other pages instead of what I asked for, computer ran slower, etc. Even trying to hunt down the bad files and delete them didn't help. I would have done a system restore except it seemed like it had deleted my restore points.

I'm checking into other protection programs to try to prevent this from happening again.

[acealive1]

i'd say they should be relegated to living in an 8X8 cell with nothing but the finest industrial strength one ply toilet paper to cut their cheeks with :elol:

[triste realtà]

Yeah, Norton doesn't block this type of spyware adware whatever it's called but that sounds like classic symptoms of the stuff I'm talking about. There's spyware blockers you can get or install Unlocker, search for files created the day you caught the thing, go to the c:\windows\system32 folder which is where they usually keep the dll's, right click on the files one at a time, click Unlocker, set to delete in the lower left hand corner of the program box, and kill process. Then delete all the other files installed by the program and then clean your registry. If you don't get those dll files it will just keep installing.

[MaximusIncredulous]

I'm checking into other protection programs to try to prevent this from happening again.

Did you download and install a video codec prior to this happening? I read on a site that provides instructions on how to remove that crap that the XP Antivirus infection is located in the codec files.

[acealive1]

Did you download and install a video codec prior to this happening? I read on a site that provides instructions on how to remove that crap that the XP Antivirus infection is located in the codec files.


do share

[MaximusIncredulous]

do share

http://www.lancelhoff.com/2008/02/22/how-to-remove-xp-antivirus-protection/