Semantically driven

  • Home
  • About
    • Privacy policy
    • Archives
      • Reviews & Giveaways
  • Photography
    • Project 365
  • Contact me
You are here: Home / Web/Tech / Nasty virus

Nasty virus

June 1, 2008 by Jen

A nasty virus has been hanging around here all weekend. This time it’s on my computer and not in my system (touch wood).

I couldn’t even logon to my computer. I had a mild panic when I realised that my backing up strategy is nowhere near good enough. I thought through all the things (mainly photos) that I would lose if I had to reformat.

Luckily I think I’ve avoided that and have a working computer again.

I don’t know that all the spyware/adware/trojans or whatever you want to call them have left my computer but I’m well on the way.

I borrowed my sister’s laptop to do some research which was really handy as my IT support days are long gone. I found a helpful website – the Spyware forum and have followed their recommendations. I’d always assumed that with my virus and firewall protection I would be covered but obviously not.

I’ve also bought an external hard drive which now contains a backup of all my data. I breathed a sigh of relief when I finished the transfer to it.

There’s also been lots of spam comments coming through here so I’ve installed the Extended Comments Options plugin so that after 30 days nobody can comment. I’d had something like 700 comments on one particular post which skewed my popular post stats. I’ll shortly go in and see what I can do there.

Hopefully normal programming will shortly resume here.

Submit to StumbleUponShare on Tumblr Share

Filed Under: Web/Tech Tagged With: spyware, trojans, virus

« How do you combine a career and a kid and stay sane?
Where am I? »

Comments

  1. Suze says

    June 1, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    This is why I have a geek network engineer for a husband. That and no other reason.
    It’s not that I like him or anything, or that he is blonde and blue-eyed and kinda cute, I just value his I.T. skillz 😉

  2. Jayne says

    June 1, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    EEEK!
    Hope it’s all sorted out and you’re free of the nasties soon!

  3. Jen says

    June 2, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Suze, you’re lucky. I can do ok on the computer side of things. I’d like to have a handyman around the house though!

  4. Jen says

    June 2, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Jayne, I think I’m pretty clean now. Fingers crossed!

  5. jeanie says

    June 2, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Oh I feel your pain – although I don’t have the virus boogie, just the stupid klutz problem here. Hoping to fix it today…

Popular posts

  • What my life could have been like in the 1970s in Canberra
  • Just Disgusting
  • Editing photos on the iPhone with Snapseed
  • Cardigans are my favourite
  • Life in Canberra in the 1970s part 2
  • Life in Canberra in the 1970s – part 3
  • Making tomboy stitch
  • What do you say to someone who says they hate themself?
  • Prison – only visiting
  • What’s going on?

Looking for something?

Categories

My photos

Copyright © 2023 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in