This was a right b@lls up and the result of a collection of unusual circumstances but.....
Our e-commerce software was having trouble uploading to the web space so we had to consult with the e-commerce providers for solutions. Firstly they are in Australia so communications were totally out of sync meaning a days wait between Q&As. Anyhow, one of the suggestions from them was that our AV software might be stopping the site uploading so 'can you disable it and check'?
Sadly, Mrs k_e did the disabling - and in her mind, disabling means REMOVING IT FROM THE PC COMPLETELY Doesn't help when she leaves her email program running............
In the subsequent two hours before I realised what she'd done we got a virus known as 'decrypt'. It trawls your hard disk and encrypts (256-bit) all Microsoft documents, text files, PDFs and jpgs...... Of course, to resolve the matter you have to pay some scum bag for the decrypt key........as if. No way hozay (Jose).
I found the virus before it could go past the C: drive but it had right royally screwed the whole system up. Close down the service, delete the program, search the registry and delete the entries associated with it, re-install AV, Malware detection etc, all run, all clean but I'm still not happy so.....
Spent the last two days reformatting, re-installing (XP, believe it or not, can't use any other due to incompatibility with the version of Quickbooks we're using and the new Quickbooks would cost us £600+ ) Fxck that for a lark.
Getting XP to re-install, SP3, updates, standard software packages, drivers (the video was particularly poxy to install and get working - about twenty restarts to black screens was getting a bit trying after a while )
Anyway, today we're back to square one..... FINALLY. The only saving grace awas that the virus didn't encrypt programs or file extensions outside the common ones so our financial package database was untouched - phew.
I'd happily set a nuke under the tw@ts that distributed that virus. It's the first time in over 8 years we've had a virus and the last one we got was a 'joke' one (green men falling down the screen) but, by christ, it was a git.....
Beware.
Don't let the missus do ANYTHING on your PC........
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Re: Nasty virus
I'd love to be able to keep mine away from the PC - it doesn't matter what she's doing she farks something up somehow.kellys_eye wrote:
Don't let the missus do ANYTHING on your PC........
Nothing serious so far but enough to worry me that she's not got a clue what she's doing - or how she's doing it.
Came home yesterday and there's two versions of my browser running - "wasn't me" she says - well it certainly wasn't me, I never have two copies of the browser open - that's what tabs are for!
Came home today and she's shut the browser down and also somehow, she's shut down my replicator programme(backs up all my pics and other stuff to the external drive) "not guilty" she says as usual. Well it didn't shut itself down did it?
Bookmarks - she can never find a bookmarked website despite me prefixing any bookmark she might be interested in with her name. Doesn't have a clue how to bookmark a webpage/site herself despite being shown 1000 times.
Is always confused if something won't work because NoScript is preventing it and is clueless how to alter it despite being shown that 1000 times as well.
One day it will all be firewood.
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Re: Nasty virus
What a bummer and totally a waste of your time to have to sort this out.
Luckily my other half doesn't even know how to turn the PC on
Luckily my other half doesn't even know how to turn the PC on
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