Nooooo!!!

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:05 pm

I reinstalled my laptop because I got 37 viruses from a "friend" at college, and I backup almost everything.. SNASM, BasiEGAXorz, etc, BUT all my source codes!

NOOO!! I had some nice programs written out, and I lost them all, every single one.

I feel so lost, I'm back at square one.

I am literally saddened by this.

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:10 pm

viruses should affect only EXE, DLL, OCX and some other executable files... I've never had a virus that kills, say text files

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:11 pm

TmEE co.(TM) wrote:viruses should affect only EXE, DLL, OCX and some other executable files... I've never had a virus that kills, say text files

well, it didn't..

I made a mistake of accidentally forgetting to backup my sources...

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:14 pm

oooooK... stupid you...

And now I'm gonna find my CD-RW, and put my proggies on it...

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:16 pm

TmEE co.(TM) wrote:oooooK... stupid you...

And now I'm gonna find my CD-RW, and put my proggies on it...

yea yea, make me feel worse

I thought I backed it up, I could have sworn I checked my backups, but it's just not there..

Jorge Nuno · Post by **Jorge Nuno** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:35 pm

You formated the HDD, or they became encrusted/garbled?

I always keep a recent copy of them in the univ's PCs (personal area of course)...

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:41 pm

Jorge Nuno wrote:You formated the HDD, or they became encrusted/garbled?

I always keep a recent copy of them in the univ's PCs (personal area of course)...

formatted..

whenever i reinstall my OS's, i format it.. and no, no chance of the data being there, i filled the laptops HD up with music, so i'm sure the data was overwritten by now.

Jorge Nuno · Post by **Jorge Nuno** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:45 pm

Bahhhh... that's why I never format, there is always something important that goes away...

You could try to recover them anyway...

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:49 pm

Jorge Nuno wrote:Bahhhh... that's why I never format, there is always something important that goes away...

You could try to recover them anyway...

I always prefer a clean installation when reinstalling Windows, that way no other permissions are left over, or any chance of anything bad remaining...

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:49 pm

I just boot with other drive and delete windows (or any other os) out of the way... I don't format either...

Chilly Willy · Post by **Chilly Willy** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:45 pm

A friend of mine who was a teacher had a Mac IIx (this was a while ago). He picked up several DOZEN viruses from school. He complained to me about not being able to keep his Mac running and thought it was a hardware problem. I brought over a write-protected boot floppy (yes, you could boot a computer OS from floppies back then) with SAM on it. EVERY SINGLE LAST FILE had a MINIMUM of a half dozen infections. The reason his computer didn't work is the viruses were fighting each other to infect his files. I sterilized his hard drive, had him back up his personal files (after they were disinfected), and formatted the drive. I then put a clean copy of the OS on it, installed SAM to run automatically, then had him scan every single floppy he had (most were as badly infected as his harddrive). I had him write down every step we took, then go do the same on the school computers.

I have never since seen a computer that was as bad off as that one. The last virus I had to deal with myself was on Windows XP when I was still using NAV. NAV has turned into junk... most of the BIG AV apps for Windows are now complete junk. It's best not to use them. The last one I used in Windows was F-Prot. That was MUCH better than NAV. I've since switched to linux. I'm much happier as a result.

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:52 pm

hmmm.... NAV has protected against all threats, least on my parents PC... I myself use Win98SE, and luckily modern viruses won't run in there !!!

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:56 pm

I use mainly Mac OS X (but Windows XP on my laptop)..

Luckily in Mac OS X, you'd be STUPID to get a virus, even if there were any that truly were even classified as a virus.

(in OS X, if the System directory or a script was to execute, the OS asks for your password.. if you foolishly enter a password without even doing anything, that's your fault.. but that never happens, it's the minority).

Epicenter · Post by **Epicenter** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:37 pm

Norton is crap, you should all be using AVG Free Edition ... and anyway, no need to format a PC just because you had a virus. That can be corrected even if it's a boot sector virus (most aren't.. most rely on windows components) you can still remove them and not risk losing precious data.

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:52 pm

AVG is the last thing I'll install into my PC... I've never used anything as annoying as AVG !!!