A Long Day
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:35 amA long day....
Day before yesterday I started having some problems with Windows so I decided to do a reinstall it. I know reinstalling without a format is not the preferred method by most people. But I had yet to back up any of my stuff. That went fine and then I started having problems again, the same problems in fact.
This time I ran a virus scan and found a very nasty virus. Yeah I know I should have did that first, would have saved me a step. It was a polymorphic virus, called Virut. After some research I found that the only way to get rid of the virus was to do a complete and utter format of the computer that it had infected.
No antivirus program can get rid of it. It spreads faster then an antivirus program can find and clean the affected file. It is reported to be so nasty that it even reinfects files that it had already infected, even if they haven't been cleaned. By the time I figured this out making a backup was out of the question. Anytime I tried backing up anything to CD, Windows Explorer would crash. So I decided to do a quick reinstall again and then proceeded to backup my more important stuff that I couldn't afford to loose. And then for the last time I went and reinstalled Windows, this time formatting first.
That was my day yesterday.
Day before yesterday I started having some problems with Windows so I decided to do a reinstall it. I know reinstalling without a format is not the preferred method by most people. But I had yet to back up any of my stuff. That went fine and then I started having problems again, the same problems in fact.
This time I ran a virus scan and found a very nasty virus. Yeah I know I should have did that first, would have saved me a step. It was a polymorphic virus, called Virut. After some research I found that the only way to get rid of the virus was to do a complete and utter format of the computer that it had infected.
No antivirus program can get rid of it. It spreads faster then an antivirus program can find and clean the affected file. It is reported to be so nasty that it even reinfects files that it had already infected, even if they haven't been cleaned. By the time I figured this out making a backup was out of the question. Anytime I tried backing up anything to CD, Windows Explorer would crash. So I decided to do a quick reinstall again and then proceeded to backup my more important stuff that I couldn't afford to loose. And then for the last time I went and reinstalled Windows, this time formatting first.
That was my day yesterday.