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Originally Posted by jivemi
Within a few days my desktop was nothing but a mess of colored boxes and finally had to go in for reformatting. This time I did NOT click on that box. I can still be taught!
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One time I got the virus from hell. I'd have loved to shake the hand of whoever created it before I punched their lights out.
What it did was make EVERY file on my computer "read only" and "invisible".
I was able to log onto my PC using a bootable CD I'd made long before (yeah I'm paranoid, I also changed the boot order in to BIOS to check for a CD first then the "C" drive) but couldn't see ANY files on the computer. But I knew there was no way they'd all been deleted that fast so I used some DOS commands to find out what the hell was going on. Problem is apparently the virus was activated during the "shut down" sequence and any attempts I'd made to recover my hard drive were nullified.
The only option was reformat the drive and reload Windows from scratch.