Update and Apology

[George Bojaciuk]

On Monday, I was doing regular computer maintenance and rearranging my files so I could save them to disk. I was very delinquent saving files the past few months due to the job status change, the new puppy and my project. I then sat down with a beverage and did my rounds on the usual sites. When I went to look at someones pics, I was redirected and then my CA virus detection went wild. I rec'd an official looking wallpaper and thinking it was my CA sending me the warning, I clicked on it. It wasn't. I drove the sick unit up to my computer guru's place. Sadly, I watched him pull the sheet over the hard drive. In addition to the virus (antivirus XP 2008-this is nasty!), my hard drive was silently flat-lining. I lost it all!

Please, anyone who has reserved Esler's Garage please resubmit your request. I can recall a few but not all 65! If you have the original email and my reply, just resend it and I'll hard print the request here at work and rebuild the list.

I'm deeply sorry for this inconvenience and really need your help to get the word out so I can rebuild this list.

For the next few weeks I'll be emailing from work so bear with me. When I decide to either redo the old computer or get a new one, I'll be busy trying to rebuild all of the design files I lost as well. As I said, I'm ususally very dilligent with saving files, but was lax these past few months. My bad.

Thanks in advance for your help and understanding.

[CAL]

On Monday, I was doing regular computer maintenance and rearranging my files so I could save them to disk. I was very delinquent saving files the past few months due to the job status change, the new puppy and my project. I then sat down with a beverage and did my rounds on the usual sites. When I went to look at someones pics, I was redirected and then my CA virus detection went wild. I rec'd an official looking wallpaper and thinking it was my CA sending me the warning, I clicked on it. It wasn't. I drove the sick unit up to my computer guru's place. Sadly, I watched him pull the sheet over the hard drive. In addition to the virus (antivirus XP 2008-this is nasty!), my hard drive was silently flat-lining. I lost it all!

Please, anyone who has reserved Esler's Garage please resubmit your request. I can recall a few but not all 65! If you have the original email and my reply, just resend it and I'll hard print the request here at work and rebuild the list.

I'm deeply sorry for this inconvenience and really need your help to get the word out so I can rebuild this list.

For the next few weeks I'll be emailing from work so bear with me. When I decide to either redo the old computer or get a new one, I'll be busy trying to rebuild all of the design files I lost as well. As I said, I'm ususally very dilligent with saving files, but was lax these past few months. My bad.

Thanks in advance for your help and understanding.

Yeah, I got that virus too. It was particularly nasty.

[monkeyclaw]

I feel your pain....my 30yr old son infected MY computer with the same virus going to stupid ADWARE sites... I had to reformat and load all new software; as that virus just doesn't come off.... Needless to say; the kid is barred from future use of MY computer...glad to see you are up & running......matt

[CAL]

I feel your pain....my 30yr old son infected MY computer with the same virus going to stupid ADWARE sites... I had to reformat and load all new software; as that virus just doesn't come off.... Needless to say; the kid is barred from future use of MY computer...glad to see you are up & running......matt

It does, it takes a lot of work, and you have to becareful, know what to look for and how to remove it. You are right, though, it just doens't come off with a virus scan. It took me 4 or 5 days of working on it to remove all the little bits. It bypassed everything though, real time virus software, updated regularly, and a firewall and I never clicked on anything or installed anything that I am aware of. It just happened.

The guy I work with, got the same, and to this day the HDD doesn't boot ... it doesn't even power up anymore, but he admittedly said he removed and did some things that he probably should't have in an attempt to remove it.

And as far as I know there isn't anything out there yet to deal with. Some updated viruswares will catch it now, and some will detect it, but if you get it, it is more or less a manual removal - including going into the registry.

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

My wife got that virus on her pc but I got rid of it w/ Spybot search and destroy or spybot 6.1 will work too. Her pc is fine now, but it took a few hrs for it to do it without reformating or reloading her HD. It did it automaticly w/ 2 scans and I didn't have to do much of anything except wait.

Edited September 19, 2008 by Gramps-xrds