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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Oct 28, 2013 16:15:42 GMT -5
I had a computer virus that totally wiped my computer. And I was desperately looking for the right address to find this Board again...there's only almost 3000 Boards dedicated to games on ProBoards!
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Post by Warlock on Oct 28, 2013 18:03:54 GMT -5
Ouch- that sucks.  You should've just EMailed one of us.  - HC |
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Post by Vireo Gilvus on Oct 28, 2013 19:26:30 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your computer. Did you lose anything personal and irreplaceable? If you're looking to restock your MP3 collection, I can at least provide a little assistance.
Last year, I almost succumbed to a horrible virus that made it impossible to start Windows 7 without getting an error message and shutting down less than a minute later. Since then, I re-installed Windows 7 and backed up everything on my HD to an external HD. I highly recommend everyone gets an external HD for that very purpose.
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Oct 29, 2013 9:07:03 GMT -5
Ouch- that sucks. You should've just EMailed one of us. - HC But the problem with that was...I lost all your email addresses, too! LOL. Lost everything. got hit with the "Crypto-Lock" Virus, it scrambled every one of my data files. so all the files where I had people's email addresses saved (because I do not use "Address Books" in email programs for this very reason (viruses seek out your Address Book in order to infect your friends) - I save emails in a separate data file - but that file got wiped. Had I not shut down quick enough, it would have also scrambled all my picture and MP3 files. Fortunately, it did not manage to get that far - nor did it manage to infect any of the other five computers in my home network. I nailed it quick, but I lost data files. I was able to remove the hard drive and extract all the picture files - I could not find my Firefox Bookmarks. I then had to re-install Windows 7 Ultimate - and, as you all know, that will wipe your computer clean. So I spend the last few weeks, in my spare time, scrolling thru all the Boards on ProBoards until I found us again. |
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Oct 29, 2013 9:11:10 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your computer. Did you lose anything personal and irreplaceable? If you're looking to restock your MP3 collection, I can at least provide a little assistance. Last year, I almost succumbed to a horrible virus that made it impossible to start Windows 7 without getting an error message and shutting down less than a minute later. Since then, I re-installed Windows 7 and backed up everything on my HD to an external HD. I highly recommend everyone gets an external HD for that very purpose. Actually, I have most of my really important stuff backed up on Flashsticks. These flashsticks never come into contact with the Internet. I take the computer offline before I insert the stick to back up...and then remove the stick from the USB before re-connecting to the Net. I really SHOULD also get myself a Terabyte external hard drive - they are reasonably-enough priced anymore. I also have an external DVD/CD-ROM read/writer I tend to believe very much in external peripherals, rather than built-in. I guess this harks back to the days when ALL peripherals were external. But the fact is...external peripherals are much easier to get and and replace if needed, lol. That said, I am able to fully take apart a computer and put it back together. This was my first major foray with a laptop, but I managed it fairly well. |
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Post by Warlock on Oct 29, 2013 17:17:04 GMT -5
Tough break- I'm glad you had most of your stuff backed up, though!
- HC
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Post by Kalisiin Kumaki on Oct 30, 2013 17:34:45 GMT -5
Most of it. Very very little was lost forever.
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You should've just EMailed one of us. 
