Virus-Attack!

// June 15th, 2008 // Site Updates

Argh, the past two days have been nightmarish. I had a massive virus/trojan attack on my relatively new PC yesterday and have been working on getting rid of the unwanted programs. It is completely draining. First, Windows wouldn’t load normally so I had to try fixing it in safe mode. That took most of my day as I installed new anti-spyware programs and McAfee started failing. I finally had to run HijackThis and other registry editors to find the problems.

Now I may be competent with computers but I am no expert. So while I got rid of all the viruses and trojans, I must have also done something to prevent major drivers from running. Now the programs were not starting from their shortcuts, regedit was not even available, the computer was telling me that rundll32.exe was not found, even though it was there. Seems like it was going through a major file associations problem.

Now I have loaded the original Vista CD to perform a system repair. There is no way I am about to reload Windows–that would be the easy way out and I have too much data on this computer to backup.

Pffft. I think I prefer butting heads with xenophobes and homophobes.

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6 Responses to “Virus-Attack!”

  1. kyledeb says:
    June 16, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Man that’s tough, Prerna. It does sound like it’s more fun to fight hate online. Always back-up. That’s all I can say. I gotta a monster GB750 external hard drive and it’s worth every penny. I like to reformat my computer every few months to keep it running fast.

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  2. symsess says:
    June 16, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Good luck. I’ve been there too, but I normally take the easy way out. I figure once those things get into the PC there’s no way of knowing how imbedded they’ve become.

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  3. Prerna says:
    June 17, 2008 at 7:55 am

    I think I got most issues resolved but it completely drained me and took my weekend — GRRRR. McAfee is officially FIRED.

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  4. Srijana says:
    June 20, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    3 words: Get a MAC!

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  5. Prerna says:
    June 24, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Mac Smack …

    I am not a Microsoft lover but a lot of programs I use cannot run on MAC.

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  6. Joe S says:
    June 29, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Perhaps, but there are alternate programs you can use for most things. Another good option is Linux. You shouldn’t have to reformat every few months for things to work. You don’t have to with Mac or Linux.

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