Barry Johnston
New member
BE CAREFUL, BE VERY CAREFUL !!....
On Friday night at exactly 8:30pm, EVERY FOLDER from 'My Documents' was deleted by a nasty backdoor virus. I managed to retrieve some of the information, but about 50% was corrupted during the retrieval process. I am not sure how long the virus was in there, but it could have been a week, since my last complete virus scan...
At the moment I am still trying to put my hard drive back together, but this will take some time, as around 13Gb's of info was deleted, and some of my recent work that wasn't backed up yet.
There is a lesson in there somewhere, so be very careful ladies and gents.... some nasty stuff out there driven by some nasty people.
I have since purchased a 500Gb external drive in order to do my back-ups and keep them seperate.
Regards,
Unhappy Barry......!! :-(
On Friday night at exactly 8:30pm, EVERY FOLDER from 'My Documents' was deleted by a nasty backdoor virus. I managed to retrieve some of the information, but about 50% was corrupted during the retrieval process. I am not sure how long the virus was in there, but it could have been a week, since my last complete virus scan...
At the moment I am still trying to put my hard drive back together, but this will take some time, as around 13Gb's of info was deleted, and some of my recent work that wasn't backed up yet.
There is a lesson in there somewhere, so be very careful ladies and gents.... some nasty stuff out there driven by some nasty people.
I have since purchased a 500Gb external drive in order to do my back-ups and keep them seperate.
Regards,
Unhappy Barry......!! :-(