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Well, sometime in the afternoon on Tuesday, I took my computer to a reliable repair shop. They found 8 viruses, all of which were associated with shutting down my internet/firewall/Virus Scan.

That wasn't the big problem.

The big problem was a Trojan, which had to have been hanging around my computer for over 3 months at least, remained undetectable by Virus Scan, and completley messed up my IP, BIG TIME. The trojan allowed a hacker to access the internet through my computer (which explained the random files, including porn, i found on there), thereby shutting me out. My computer was giving me a false IP with very foreign symbols to confuse it further.

What makes this situation so unfair: My friend, who has no virus scan, spybot removal program, or firewall, had over 300 viruses on his system, and still kept all his anime, which has filled up his hard drive to the max with the exception of Microsoft Office, FFXI, and WoW. The only way to fix my system is to wipe the Hard Drive and/or Reload the OS. Tomorrow morning im going to modesto to buy some christmas presents, and a lot of cd-rw's to salvage what programs i can.

So, yeah. I can save some files (Emulators, Roms, RPGMaker programs, pics, MS word files, hopefully all the MIDI's ive downloaded, and I don't know if I can salvage the movie clips [Amnish Paradise, FFXI Dragostea din tei, etc. not actual movies]) All my video games on that cpu, i have to reload and beat again.

Sometimes I really hate my life. Belief in God would have not changed a thing.

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

That really sucks man. I've lost my system a couple times to things like that and it's just so heartbreaking when you think how much time you've spent dowloading and finding certain files. I hope everything works out for you.

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Elena Indurain

Currently Playing: Suikoden II

Look on the bright side. At least you know that the hard drive has to be wiped and you can still save some of your files/programs/etc. My hard drive, on this computer alone, was wiped dry TWICE, deleting everything on it, including all my programs (which amount to A LOT), and all my files, including my hack. This happened twice.

On my other computer, the situation was worse. One day it just refused to start up. I finally got it to start in safe mode and ran a virus scan. Well, it before it finished scanning, so I tried again and again and again, freezing each time. Finally it got through one...6k viruses detected. In a single week. The week before, I scanned and it was fine, then the next week, BAM, 6k viruses.

Your situation definitely isn't desriable in any aspect, but it could certainly be worse. Best of luck!

This post has been edited by Caesar on 17th December 2005 21:09

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Is PJ

I can almost feel your pain. My computer has a lot of crap on it, not just stupid stuff, but also viruses and stuff like that. I mean, it take 20 minutes for it to start up!

But this is about you, not me. At least you still can get some stuff back. There's nothing worse then losing the discs for a game then having your computer croak, and then have to buy the game again.

But as Ceasar said, least you know it's going to be clean when you wipe it. You can put all those virus/crap protection stuff on it, also the fact you can salvage some stuff means you've got some karma working for you or something like that.

Just remember that Chinese thingie...Crisis is the same character as...something positive...

Attempt at Sympathy: Failure.

Keep your head up, I guess.

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Really Random Quote of the Day: "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war." - Richard M. Nixon

So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

that happend to me once 2
It's sad that people get a kick out of sending those viruses.

But at least you can get your stuff back.

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It takes 2 people and a weapon
to commit a murder

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery,
today is a gift, thats why we call it the present.

ya im goin through the same thing right now too. but like everyone else had mentioned, at least you can back most of the important stuff up....im in the boat right now backin up all my files before i do the ol' system restore, but with my luck im gonna end up screwin my comp up.....oh well.....you can always make more money to replace that stuff.......


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he who makes a beast out of himself takes away the pain of being a man. Raoul Duke (Hunter S Thompson)

I've seen the Rockies, ive seen Saskatoon - Comin Home - City and Colour

The exact same thing that happened to Caeser happened to me, except all three times happened on this PC im using now. Hopefully it is still ok, but I dont know much about these things...

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The frosty one.

Well, I have worse news.

I got my computer back today. They couldn't solve the problem (the guy commented it was pissing him off lol) The only option was to wipe it. I got a memory stick, but could fit only roughly 512 MB of stuff on it. All my anime, most of my music and pictures, gone. I didn't get charged for it because they couldn't fix it. I took it home and began the process myself.

I feel like as if I just took my favorite pet that I knew for most of my life, took it out back and put it out of its misery because it was suffering...

Luckily some of the stuff I can get from my friends computers and the CPU repair guy gave me some pointers, but still...

I should be online on my own computer in a few days. Thanks for the support...



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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.