Well, suffice to say, one nailed my laptop a week ago and quickly made short work of my system and raped fucking everything. Apparently, my virus protection didn’t recognize brastk.exe (IIRC) as a threat and it crippled my system. No backups, no nothing. I had to drop a class 'cause of this fucker, and needless to say, I’m fucking pissed.
[pirate]
Well, a fresh start is a welcome change of pace, I guess.
Anyone have any horror stories with similar viruses?
Nothing that killed my system like that, but I had a trojan that caused all kinds of weird errors.
I had to download combofix.exe to get rid of it, since none of the standard virus protectors could help.
Yo Icepick…
remember - if a virus hits your system. its very possible that you didn’t lose anything. It may have just corrupted you’re OS files (your system files that run the computer). What that means is that a lot of time you can just hook that drive up to another machine that boots, and copy the files over to your new machine.
However, it being a laptop does make this harder - but possible. the problem you will have is that the mini HD’s that go into laptops - well, its hard to slave them to an existing machine. due to hardware interface.
after researching “brastk.exe” it doesn’t delete your files - just freaks you out and kills your OS. You’re files are actually probably all still there - unless you re-formatted.
i don’t get viruses either, but i’ve used macs for years.
Yeah my desktop is toast!!! it won’t even boot up from the startup disc it freezes at some point at the start up. DOn’t know what I got but itis brutal cause it got passed Norton.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Reminds me a nerd joke I once heard…
Q: What’s the best way to accelerate a Mac?
A: 9.8 m/s/s
I don’t get it.
I saw the subject line and thought you broke a condom.
1002
1002 wins for most fucking hilarious moment of the day.
[reply]Reminds me a nerd joke I once heard…
Q: What’s the best way to accelerate a Mac?
A: 9.8 m/s/s
I don’t get it.[/reply]
A free-falling object has an acceleration of 9.8 m/s/s, downward (on Earth). This numerical value for the acceleration of a free-falling object is such an important value that it is given a special name.
i.e. - drop the mac on the floor
macs rule.
[reply][reply]Reminds me a nerd joke I once heard…
Q: What’s the best way to accelerate a Mac?
A: 9.8 m/s/s
I don’t get it.[/reply]
A free-falling object has an acceleration of 9.8 m/s/s, downward (on Earth). This numerical value for the acceleration of a free-falling object is such an important value that it is given a special name.
i.e. - drop the mac on the floor[/reply]
TY
I recently had the great displeasure of catching a win.32 worm which tried to turn my computer into some kind of spam bot zombie. I briefly thought I’d lost everything but after several cleanings and a reinstall of windows xp everything appears to be back to normal (knock on wood).
Completely reformatted the bitch yesteday, then reformatted it AGAIN today after getting something called ~.exe. Methinks it’s from a certain website in particular… but I dunno.
This has not been my week. [laugh]
1002… what can I say, man. Fucking hilarious. But no. That was a Durex.
Oh, good lord.