Aaaaarrrrrggggg!!!! Lost Files
jeffreaux2
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What a weekend. I realized at about 11am on Friday that my pc was infected with malicious infectious mean stuff. One of the files was called Hells Little Spy, or something to that effect. I tried all of my normal methods and potions, but it laughed at everything I threw at it. It even disabled all of my administrator rights and privledges so I could not edit the registry or even peek in the registry. I thought of a system restore, but that had been disabled as well.
Luckily, I had a 300gig hard drive that I use only as a huge swap file when I edit video. So it was there empty in my machine....mostly empty. By the time I had backed up all of my photos, all my kids photos, all of our home video, and all of the precious itunes I consumed 260gigs on that drive. I was able to save the data. Normally I back up my photos to DVD every couple months, but my kids do not so they stood to lose a TON of data. After all this, I reformatted the main RAID array that my operating system resides on. Then, I spent the next ten hours, today, installing software, drivers, etc. What a headache. And...I use a very good virus protection, anti spyware aids such as spybotsearch and destroy, adaware, and others......all this and I got bit.
So....my advice to everyone here is.......keep you data backed up and safe......and be vigillent with protecting it.
I plan to buy a terabyte of network storage ASAP. I thought that the 620gigs of total storage I have on this machine was WAAAAYYY overkill, but I had to use nearly every shred of it to back it all up and do what needed to be done to save the pc.
What a freakin weekend!!!
Luckily, I had a 300gig hard drive that I use only as a huge swap file when I edit video. So it was there empty in my machine....mostly empty. By the time I had backed up all of my photos, all my kids photos, all of our home video, and all of the precious itunes I consumed 260gigs on that drive. I was able to save the data. Normally I back up my photos to DVD every couple months, but my kids do not so they stood to lose a TON of data. After all this, I reformatted the main RAID array that my operating system resides on. Then, I spent the next ten hours, today, installing software, drivers, etc. What a headache. And...I use a very good virus protection, anti spyware aids such as spybotsearch and destroy, adaware, and others......all this and I got bit.
So....my advice to everyone here is.......keep you data backed up and safe......and be vigillent with protecting it.
I plan to buy a terabyte of network storage ASAP. I thought that the 620gigs of total storage I have on this machine was WAAAAYYY overkill, but I had to use nearly every shred of it to back it all up and do what needed to be done to save the pc.
What a freakin weekend!!!
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff
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Advice: Switch to a Mac
Glass: Sigma 70-200 f2.8 | Sigma 20 f1.8 | Canon 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM
No MACs for me, I am too far invested in PC, and I wouldn't want to take the performance hit of running emulation software. I also do a good bit of video editing, and run a simple home audio recording studio set-up off this machine. I have a network with this pc and some laptops, and I need them all to talk to each other and play nice!!! Linux might be the ticket though!!!
Jeff
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-My Website - Blog - Tips for Senior Portraiture
Glass: Sigma 70-200 f2.8 | Sigma 20 f1.8 | Canon 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM
Sigh.
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