I've spent the last 48 hours fighting a virus that flattened my PC and laptop. Fortunately my backups worked for the PC but I've lost everything on the Laptop.
Things are slowly getting back to normal.
Who writes these things and what kind of perverse pleasure do they get out of it? I'd like to give them a good shoeing.
Normal service will resume shortly.
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If I can be of any help to you just let me know.
Ripper - Thanks for the offer but I seem to be on top of things now. I did go down the clean reinstall route, it's just difficult getting everything set up how it was. Mine is a heavily customised system, so starting from a blank copy of XP was a nightmare.
Dioclese - Eye. The virus did make it onto my removeable backup drive though. I think thats how it got to the laptop.
I lost a lot of stuff off the lappy, mainly pictures and vids from the blog though so it's not too bad. Fortunately the films and the HUGE music collection on the PC survived :-)
May I reccommend EASUS ToDo Backup, its free and you can snapshot your whole hard drive (compressed), including boot sectors, onto another. The backup file only takes around 5 minutes to restore and puts your system back exactly as it was when the backup was made.
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm
Julia - Thumbs? I suppose...
Some very misguided clever people out there.
In moments of paranoia I've wondered whether it could be Microsoft, but dismissed the idea since they'd have put £200 on it and called it Windows.
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