Author Topic: Virus kills my past 4 seasons! (Read 948 times)

bawana bowman · « **on:** December 17, 2009, 01:26:00 AM »

Was in the process of organizing and cataloging pictures from my last 4 years of bowhunting. Had all my pics in folders under "my pictures". was going to write them all to dvd this weekend.

Tuesday morning I woke up to find my computer had an antitroy virus. :( The thing disabled all of my programs and most of the operating system. Every time I tried to open anything computer would freeze up.

The Wife is not amused!

JEFF B · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2009, 03:05:00 AM »

wow!!! that just sux man i hope the hell ya can get em all good luck and

for ya

kung fu kid · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2009, 03:12:00 AM »

Sorry to hear about your bad news. Same thing happened to me this summer. Lost all my family pictures, poems my son wrote, and legal document copies I had on words. Can't replace the pix, but must recreate the docs. Sux. I just have to learn how to back everything up. Good luck to you.

saumensch · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2009, 03:56:00 AM »

dont overwritw anything now, i had a problem that was nearly the same and as i am not the smartest with puters i gave my puter to an data recovery expert and he could reproduce most of it, only those that were lost because of overwritten virtual memory were gone forever.

Hot Hap · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:08:00 AM »

I'm very sorry to hear that. Hap

hunt it · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:49:00 AM »

Best bet is to call someone that knows as soon as problem hits. 99 if not 100% of contents can be found if you have not messed with it. As stated above if you have not overwritten files it could still be possible.

Mudd · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2009, 05:33:00 AM »

I hurt for you. Computers can be such a blessing and a pain in your rear. I can't give you any kind of advice, all I can do is try to share in your pain and pray that by that, somehow lessen yours.
God bless,Mudd

George Metz · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:22:00 AM »

Bummer, take lesson to heart everyone....external backup. There are many solutions. Just need to establish the routine.

Mike Spaulding · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:38:00 AM »

Hey there,

The old computer that you say still has your pics on it's hard drive, what was wrong with it, was it a hardware issue with the HD itself, or something else with the computer? If it was something else, then the drive is still good and you can get the data off just by adding it to your current machine as a slave drive and copy it over (if they both use the same data bus ie SATA or IDE). I work with computers for a living, let me know if you need help and I can try to help you out.

-Mike

limbow · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:38:00 AM »

Sorry to hear of this---One suggestion-Make sure your next computer is a Mac !

Bill Carlsen · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:52:00 AM »

Limbow beat me to it.....get a Mac!

yukon chuck · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:01:00 AM »

www.carbonite.com

Tatersalad · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:15:00 AM »

To all take this as a lesson and like you do at work...back up your electronic files. External hard drives are way to cheap now to get burned with a virus.

Michael

mickeys4 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:24:00 AM »

Have someone download a free linux live cd from Distrowatch.com(Mepis or PClinuxOS)and burn the image to a cd.Your computer will boot and run from the cd .You can access your hard drive and copy the pics to a usb flash drive or burn them directly to a cd or dvd if you have another cd or dvd drive on your computer.You can also buy the live cd for around $2.Your pics are still there and running an operating system from a cd bypassing the hard drive will let you recover them and any documents you may have.Maybe you can find someone to help you,good luck!!

Jason R. Wesbrock · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:46:00 AM »

I agree about the need for an external hard drive. You can get a one-terabyte drive for under a hundred dollars these days. I backup my files at least once per month, and also burn photo files to DVD as I got. I've never had a crash that knocked out everything, thank God, but if I do, at least I have backups.

Bill Carlsen · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:57:00 AM »

My wife is a graphic artist and her career depends on having a computer that is trouble free. In 15 years her Macs have never let her down. She got me one about 6 years ago and it has never let me down.

NumPls · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2009, 03:26:00 PM »

Some of my computer-security-savy friends tell me that Kaspersky is (at this time) the best tool for protecting a computer from malware.

My two sons each have degrees in Electrical Engineering, were "raised" on PCs, have used multiple flavors of UNIX extensively, and are now very enthusiastic Mac fans and promoters.

Ray

Jason Jelinek · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2009, 03:56:00 PM »

Get some sort of online back up for you pictures as well as backing them up on hard-drives.

OBXarcher · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:07:00 PM »

Get a good tech and they should be able to recover something.

I hope everyone reads this.

I had a house burn down many years ago. Pictures are the one thing you really CAN'T replace (humans too). Get them backed up and send albums to realtives to keep.

Good luck to you.

MnFn · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:15:00 PM »

Bill,
I had the same thing happen to me this year. Is the Mac really that troubleproof?If so, why? I have heard people say that before...


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