OT - Ding Dong, the Wicked Worm is dead...

[tesco samoa]

at least i know what all the 'tech managers' will be going on about at work today.

Can we say firedrill.

We automatically update all the windows software every day.

But they will still want us to go out and verify.

Why because they do not understand computers and the computer industy. But for some strange reason they manage it.

[Richard]

To be honest I would rebuild your system at this point, there is no telling how many secondary packages it has dropped off.

At my full time job we have been lucky so far, but some of our other business units screwed up big time. Our exchange team is still having email problems this morning.

[General Woundwort]

Re... build... system...



Uh, how do I do that?

What happens to all my SE stuff in my hard drive?

Would it be more cost effective to get a new PC?

[Suicide Junkie]

Burn all your important files to CD.
Savegames, mods, etc.
Documents, bookmarks, desktop stuff.

Anything you don't have on CD.

Then, format your harddrive and reinstall windows, copy all your stuff back down, and reinstall your programs.

A new, good system (that I would buy) will run you only $500 Canadian if you put it together yourself.
Rebuilding your system as above will cost you $0, and no more than about 4 hours unless you've got tons of files you need to backup.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Burn all your important files to CD.
Savegames, mods, etc.
Documents, bookmarks, desktop stuff.

Anything you don't have on CD.

Then, format your harddrive and reinstall windows, copy all your stuff back down, and reinstall your programs.

A new, good system (that I would buy) will run you only $500 Canadian if you put it together yourself.
Rebuilding your system as above will cost you $0, and no more than about 4 hours unless you've got tons of files you need to backup.

So with this virus you can burn what needed files you want without getting infected files copied as well? The more I look into this virus the more it seems to be that way being the type of virus it is as it isn't really effecting any actual files such as .gam, .jpg, .bmp, .mp3, etc. Correct? A co-worker of mine has this virus at home and he is wondering if it is safe to burn his files to CD then reformat without getting the virus once again once he copies his files from CD back to his PC.

[Suicide Junkie]

Pictures don't get run, so there would be little point in a virus infecting one of them.
Mostly system files or newly created files that look like system files. Or programs like iexplore.exe so the virus is activated when you browse the internet.

All you really need to do is install your antivirus software first, and make sure its updated. It will then scan the files you copy back. You can scan your CD first if you feel like it.

[General Woundwort]

I'm probably going to be getting a new system anyways...

if only because the current system (the infected one) does NOT have a CD-RW - just a stinking 100MB zipdrive.

At least I can salvage the text and image files for SEIV, and my school work...