RE: Things that make your blood boil -
sab - 01-03-10
(01-03-10, 05:06 PM)Samo Wrote: My shitty computer deciding it is going to make itself even shitter by getting infected by some virus/malware/spyware shit that immitates some kind of windows xp shield an wont fuck off. I could throw this bastard pc out of the window at the moment!
SHIT SHIT SHIT. SAMO Thats exactly the same thing that happend to mine. EEEEEEEEEk. Apparently it cant be removed you just have to wipe back to factory settings. Its totally shit i share your pain. I have no email etc, my msn everything has gone. Its like living archeaic need to relaod all my music but waiting now till i get the i phone on 23rd and start from scratch with that. I have lost alot of music and photos that where not backed up. But the CD drive is bust so i cant load anything until thats repaired.
When it happend to mine i thought i was getting hacked too. So the first thing i did tue morning was go to the cash machine to check i still had money. LOL I didnt sleep at all last monday
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
flyingcod - 02-03-10
Sab to save this happening again, buy yourself an external hard drive and a USB stick and put all your important stuff on it. Then burn all your files to a DVD.
It's a bit "after the horse has bolted" but you need to be really paranoid about your stuff on your pc/laptop.
I talk to people all the time who have lost everything after their laptop has been stolen/stopped working.
No one is paranoid enough about their stuff - I'm a DBA its my job to be paranoid.
fc
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Big J - 02-03-10
DBA: Deadly Bad Ass?
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Samo - 02-03-10
I wish I'd backed my stuff up. This is not fun. My virus scanner has pulled up 6 infections but is more or less done now and the fake virus protector thing still keeps popping up. Not really sure what to do now
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
ez-1 - 02-03-10
Samo and Sab, in most cases when your computer gets infected, the best and usually the only way is to format everything and start from the square one. What I mean here is that those bastards invites all their friends as soon as one gets through your firewall and virus scanner. Some of them know how to deal with different types of virus scanners and simply turn them off or tell them that there is n ovirus (some sort of Jedi trick I think).
Now we get to the solution part of the story. When you finally get your computer up and running again after re-installation of everything, you should install Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR). They have single user home edition out of that and it should be around £50. With that you need that external USB-hard drive just as FC said.
The beauty of BESR is that it takes backups automatically from your computer to that USB HDD and you can even have multiple versions out of your files. And it doesn't stop here. When it finally need to change computer, you can, if you wish to just clone the new computer from the backup of your old one and that shouldn't take more than 30 minutes (obviously depends how much porn you have on your old computer).
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
mr.pure - 02-03-10
All this is just one good reason to fuck off PCs and get yourself a Mac.
Pentagon grade protection built in.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
ez-1 - 02-03-10
I have to agree with Mr. P on this one again, but if you are stuck with situation where you absolutely cannot get one, then go with my earlier post and you should be quite safe.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Samo - 02-03-10
Sat up till 3:30am trying to fix the pc, thought all was fixed. And then switch it back on this morning and bam! Its bloody back
I can't restore the system as I was a silly sausage and lost the windows disc, and didn't back up any of my stuff. Anyone got any other ideas?
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
flyingcod - 02-03-10
Wise words. I hope you both sort yourselves out. If it helps I use an antivirus and a firewall and spybot S&D (I know there's loads of apps like this, some freeware some you have to pay for) and run them once a week.
BigJ: I wish! The reality is somewhat dull.
fc
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Samo - 03-03-10
o2 insisting on sending my new phone to my house, dispite me telling them I wont be there because I'm working! Too much pissing about, why they couldn't deliver it to me at work i don't know. And DHL wont redirect it to me at work, unless o2 email. o2 are saying they can't email DHL untill DHL have failed to deliver... Frustrating!:X
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Big J - 03-03-10
I had the same bother Sam with my previous phone, it was at DHL and I told O2 to get it sent to my work or I'd get a contract with someone else. No fucking chance I was going out to Livingston to get it.
They were happy to deliver my iphone to work though. You getting rid of yours Sam?
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Samo - 03-03-10
Yeah, I'm getting a blackberry bold 9700 (all things being equal...). What I don't understand is the fact the DHL depot is down the road from where I work, yet they are insistant on sending it down the motorway to my house
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Big J - 03-03-10
Apparently O2 would have to pay more to DHL to make it a delivery you can change the address of. So it's more O2 being cunts than DHL.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Samo - 03-03-10
As it goes I've just checked online again to see that it was left at my next door neighbours- something they told me this morning that they couldn't do...
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Lorrie - 03-03-10
Fucking clients. How the fuck can you not expect a version 2.0 of something to be different than a version 1.0?
Either you're a barely functioning fucking half tard or you're lying.
Pick one.