I am the unfortunate victim of a serious virus attack. During the past 3 weeks I noticed my win xp slowing down and eventually hanging, although I was running virus software which destroyed most attacks ONE did get past and corrupted my hard drive. I downloaded software to correct and delete this virus but all I got was virus unknown or unable to delete and next thing the hard drive is damaged.
All I can say is thank God for backups, because of this most of my files were saved but recent work has been deleted. All my website pages under construction were wiped out, photos, documents, e-mails, programs and passwords all lost.
As of yet I still don't have a name for this virus but I'm sure someone will mention it in one of the forums or blogs.
I spent all day yesterday formatting my drive and installing my software (the one I still have on disc) transfering files from my laptop the only thing not infected yet and inserting cd backups. You wonder why people create these viruses as they only stab the backs of users in the internet world and give microsoft and all those virus protection companies excuses to charge for virus protection software. Bill Gates has earned more than enough in his lifetime and now it's time to give something back to us the people who depend on computers to maintain some form of communication.
The thing I lost most was family photos of my daughters 4th birthday, which I took 2 days before and did not backup yet. These are some of the things you cannot replace and this is a lesson for everyone,
If you are reading this than stop and think what if you lose everything right now can it be replaced and if not consider backing it up now you never know when they strike.
At lease now after checking the hard drive using some software I got the all clear and I'm virus free until I connect to the internet after that the battle begins again, me against the virus army.
