The malware has taken control of my laptop. It’s offering to clean my computer for $60. Right.
Argh.
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The malware has taken control of my laptop. It’s offering to clean my computer for $60. Right.
Argh.
Wow. That’s just wrong.
:(
A similar thing happened to my dad’s computer when my little brother went on one of those free flash game sites with the ads that hijack your pc. Luckily, I had the forethought to set up the computer with a dual-redundancy. It has two HDDs in RAID 1 in the event of a hardware failure and it has a third HDD as a daily, periodic, incremental, image backup using DriveXML. All I had to do was restore the computer from the previous day’s backup and all was well.
Moral of our stories: DO A DAILY IMAGE BACKUP!
Sorry about what happened with you, though. Live and learn, right? Protip: install Debian. I got a Pentium III laptop running pretty fast with a net install of Debian.
@Cyrozap: *sigh* Like a freaking luddite I’ve been running XP since I made the switch from Win98. I’m not sure a RAID is an option for me since it’s a laptop. I have a recent backup, so it’s not catastrophic. However, with as messed up as this entire month has been so far, the timing is just too perfect. I’m using a really really really small laptop right now (Dell Mini 10. The one with super poor resolution and ultra-cramped keyboard) to scan the drive of the my infected computer as it sits in an external drive enclosure.