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(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
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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
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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).
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All this is just one good reason to fuck off PCs and get yourself a Mac.
Pentagon grade protection built in.
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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.
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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
'All sins tend to be addictive and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.' - W H Auden
