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. |
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. |
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That really blows |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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. |
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Originally Posted by Mike70
!! I had to reinstall my OS recently & it's not a fun situation 
. 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.
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