
February 16th, 2003, 05:56 AM
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Re: Ye New Galactic Bar & Grill & Phong\'s Head Cantina - After Hours
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Originally posted by mac5732:
Hey peopel, I'm partially back, my system got a nasty worm and I lost everything, had to re-format my drive 2x to finally wipe it. Just a warnning, in cking it out, I found it is a fairly new worm, less then 3wks old, doesn't even have a name yet, it is designed to bypass firewalls and virus protection and it starts by very slowly eating files, starts with audio, hi-memory then drivers, It got all my drivers and hi-mem, spent hrs trying to repair but ended up having to re-format, no other way, it also would lock up the cd tray once in awhile, so be aware and make sure all virus updates are up to date. Its taken me days and many hrs just to get back here..... UGH
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Hmmm...It wouldn't happen to be the WinXP worm, would it? You probably need to upgrade to the WinXP Professional Version nightcrawler.
Sorry to hear about your crash. Having just had my first, I can empathize with you.
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