Stoke
03-02-2006, 04:26 AM
Don't you just love it when you are just sitting there minding your own business and a little box pops up from your virus software telling you something to the effect of "wow.exe has been infected by the w32/gael.worm.a virus and has been cleaned"....
Ok, the first thing that runs through your mind is "wait a minute... my .dat files are up to date...how they hell did the virus even get through to the point of needing to be cleaned?"
Then after the initial panic, a little research on said virus shows that basically this virus is a low threat virus and it mainly just slows down network traffic as it trys to spread to other systems. It does not create any registry entries, yada yada yada......
Ok, all is well you think.... well not so fast there....
What they dont bother to tell you is that this little low threat, nothing much to be concerned about virus infects just about every damn .exe file on your computer. These .exe files also seem to get corrupted when they are cleaned. Corrupted .exe files = file's that don't work. Also, both my cd and dvd drives just went away...vanished. I got a "registry entry corrupted" message for those. That was a bitch to fix.
Needless to say, I spent hours yesterday trying to get stuff to work again.... As of shutting the thing down last night, the drives worked, WoW would load (although i was stuck at the retrieving char screen and never actually got in the game) and everything seemed mostly stable.
Maybe I'll get to play tonite.....
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Ok, the first thing that runs through your mind is "wait a minute... my .dat files are up to date...how they hell did the virus even get through to the point of needing to be cleaned?"
Then after the initial panic, a little research on said virus shows that basically this virus is a low threat virus and it mainly just slows down network traffic as it trys to spread to other systems. It does not create any registry entries, yada yada yada......
Ok, all is well you think.... well not so fast there....
What they dont bother to tell you is that this little low threat, nothing much to be concerned about virus infects just about every damn .exe file on your computer. These .exe files also seem to get corrupted when they are cleaned. Corrupted .exe files = file's that don't work. Also, both my cd and dvd drives just went away...vanished. I got a "registry entry corrupted" message for those. That was a bitch to fix.
Needless to say, I spent hours yesterday trying to get stuff to work again.... As of shutting the thing down last night, the drives worked, WoW would load (although i was stuck at the retrieving char screen and never actually got in the game) and everything seemed mostly stable.
Maybe I'll get to play tonite.....
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