A Plea....

[Zelda]

Could everyone PLEASE run a virus scan on their computer, just so you dont have to do what I have spent the last 2 days doing...
ie. rebuilding my HDD after an attack of Bugbear.
I lost everything... had to take it into the repair shop to get the atual virus removed cuase I didnt know I had it.... then had to install and run Nortons to find all the files it had deleted....including my MSc thesis, 4 weeks work, 3 consent forms, an agenda for a government meeting next week as well as all my links/icq messages/mail boxes etc... I am STILL reloading and re installing 12 hours later....

[counter riposte]

Thanks Z,

Will do so immediately.
P.S. Sorry about your thesis, did you have a backup?

[Zelda]

IT got worse... I rescued my thesis and all my work and thought I had transferred it to a zip drive....after I had reformatted the HDD I found out I hadnt transferred my thesis. Could find any of my back up copies either.....finally found out I could still access my school email even though it should have been shut down when I left and found a copy lurking in my out box....THANKS GOODNESS.

[Inquartata]

Gah, that sucks!


P.S. "Get thee to a firewall, go!"

[D'Artagnan1673]

I do not understand why people feel the need to write viruses. Zelda, that was a scary, scary story.

[epeefencer74]

Originally posted by D'Artagnan1673
I do not understand why people feel the need to write viruses. Zelda, that was a scary, scary story.

My theory is that it is the anti virus companies that releases these viruses so that they can sell more of their stuff. That just my theory though, no conclusive evidence have been found to prove this.

[Swordsman]

Watch "Mission: Impossible 2" and "Resident Evil", and read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six".

[Iwant2bafencer]

Are you guys having trouble with this site? Everyonce in a while it wont let me go to different sections, and I don't know if it's my server or the site.

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[Zelda]

wanna be, it may be the site. I thought it was my server earlier today but reading your msg changed my mind.

[DamedEscrime]

Well..if my grampa was still alive, I know what he'd say..."It's a communist plot!"

[Iwant2bafencer]

haha "It's a consiracy, and they're all in on it!"

ok, just makin sure I didn't have to tear apart my computer or anything. That would be a mess.

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[MikeHarm]

One of the viruses I got that was kinda funny was the typo virus. I found out when I was on one of those internet chat deals. Confused me for a bit, I'd be trying to type an l or something and it would come out an x or some random key way on the other side of the keyboard, not all the time, but sometimes. Was more amusing than damaging, I usually wipe my hard drive every year or so anyways and always backup anything I care about.

["Fence like a Cat"]

New to computers in 1983. I finally finished my first graduate program term paper...leaning back, feeling good; I stretch my legs out and knock the plug out of the wall.

backup? what's that? Never again I vowed. Thesis? You must have freaked.

[MikeHarm]

If you want funny things to happen to term papers, there was a woman I knew in college who was afraid she'd forget to bring her disk with her term paper on it with her to the computer lab for some last minute editing so she put it on her refrigerator door with a refrigerator magnet so she'd make sure to remember it.