losing every single picture on my computer

[krisamata]

omg, so upsetting, i hadnt had a chance to back eveyrthing up yet and now everything is gone, everything. fuck.

thank god my europe trip is still on my memory cards in my camera.

but seriously. FUCK

[C_squared]

so some mysterious little leprechaun deleted all your image files?

[krisamata]

nope some virus ate them all up

[C_squared]

damn, that sucks!!

I've never had a virus delete any of my files.

surfing dirty sites again?

[krisamata]

^^^ i dont understand it, i get emails saying some girl lives at a college by my house and just wants to meet for coffee...

hmmm am i missing something?

[C_squared]

totaly.. when you start receiving emails like that..especialy when you have no idea who it is... BLOCK 'EM! dont open anymore of those emails or open any attachments that may come w/ those emails.

[krisamata]

^^^ hahaha i know that! im being sarcastic, i never ever open them.


i dont know whats wrong with the computer, its just fucked, so unless i know a magician who can work a few tricks im screwed


maybe i should call the geek squad

[C_squared]

do a system re-start then.

[krisamata]

^^^ i did, it says theres some corrupted files and wont let me do anything

it started by fucking up my entire screen and making it go all discoulerd and squished, we thought it was the video card, seems to be more

[C_squared]

Oh snap!

you have one mother of a virus.

then I suggest: stop using you computer. re-format or get someone who knows how to do it asap.

the longer you wait, the more risk you have for your hardware becoming corrupted. which would suck, majorly.

[krisamata]

ya whoops its been like for like 2 days.
im screwed completely screwed

[C_squared]

hmmm one last question:

are you sure you did a "system re-start" rathen then simply re-starting your computer? Cause they're two completly different things.

[decypher]

So it's not booting into the OS? Why not run a boot disk and run some system utilities to check the partitions and scan for virus's in DOS?

[sweet~kandy]

I had that happen to me about 3-4 months ago. Everything gone.

[krisamata]

Originally Posted by decypher

So it's not booting into the OS? Why not run a boot disk and run some system utilities to check the partitions and scan for virus's in DOS?

are you speaking english?

[zarlon]

reformat, do a clean install of windows & then get a good file recovery utility, it can pull up data from your hard drive up till about 4 or 5 reformats ago.

(lost so much music so many times, "corrupted" images, got them all back time after time)

good luck!

[<mouse~]

this happened to me about 18 months ago - big nasty monster virus ate my puter

and seeing as i had not idea what had happened - took it into a shop, they were able to salvage some of my stuff like movies, pics and other documents, and put it onto a cd (about $35)- then i had to reformat my whole system, but i didn't end up losing everything

then again, wasn't all bad - got everything upgraded to XP, office 2004 and a whole bunch of new programs (i *heart* getting things for free. thanks kazaa... *shhhh*!!!)

[Billy Shears]

lol

"Kazaa messed up my computer"

[narc]

simple solution:

1. purchase a cheap new 40GB hard drive
2. purchase an external usb hard drive enclosure
3. remove infected hard drive from computer
4. install new hard drive
5. install new OS and antivirus/spyware progams etc
6. after installing all software etc.
7. put old infected HD into external usb HD (DO NOT HOOK UP)
8. open up diagnostic software
9. attach external HD with infected drive to USB port
10. run diagnostic software for USB drive.

reformatting doesn't wipe the drive.

this has been tested and works