Computer f*cked up!

[jack daniels]

Oh what a weekend! our computer had a virus (and everything else going) and we lost everything!!!!! Mr jd's been working on it but still a lot to do! boy I missed answerbank! Am I sad??? lol
Back on today but very limited to what can be done. Still needs sorting. Can't receive/send mail either! doing it partly by another method! lost all our contacts, bookmarks everything Boo Hoo

Thanks for listening..... just needed to offload!

[B00]

Know how you feel JD, my teen daughter was obviously looking at something dodgy the other weekend (porn I think!) and downloaded several nasty virusus onto my lappy (bless 'er!).

Luckily I didn't really have anything on it which i'd be furious to lose, so it was a simple case of reinstallin windows again (well, Mr Boo did that, I just hovered about going "is it done yet?")

Now if it had been my main puter upstairs which I play my online game on, she'd now have two broken legs.

Anyway, I've passworded both my PC's and she's not allowed within 10 foot of either of then :-)

[mccfluff]

i had the same prob a while ago, i know how incredibly frustrating it can be, what did we ever do without pooters! xx

[harryshaw]

me too
i had virus big style had to do without for 2 weeks

i was well lost with out my pc

so i know wat you went thru

just be carful now wat you download on it as well xxxxxx

[Marg0]

It is extremely annoying when this happens.
I suggest you put a few q's out on 'Technology' as there are a lot of techies on here.
The info is probably still recoverable (there are tools that 'undelete' the info even if it's been wiped. You would run your machine from a new drive, but add the old drive as a slave, then run the tools on it. Obv you would need to run antivirus on the new drive after this.
There are some decent tools out there to protect/clean.
AVG antivirus
Superantispyware
Spybot search and destroy.

It would be sad to miss answerbank if it werent' that we are such lovely people.

[starmack]

Eleven years ago lost a computer hard drive through virus contact with third levels students. Stuck it in taxi and supplier worked frenetically before admitting total defeat. Painful, so know how you feel. Fists up to the world and all that!