Re: Was this a virus??




"bam" <mcca5761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Using ETrust which tells me I'm up to date. WinXP
>
> Was mvoing around on the computer the other day and noticed some programs
> which usually start right up were taking longer than usual. Then in the
> middle of an email my pointer slowed down to a halt and the whole computer
> forze.
>
> The only thing to do was to reboot, which I did. When it came to log in,
> some pop up window said it didn't have any personal settings and it would
> create one - something like that. When I got to my desltop all my icons
were
> gone and all the files that were on the desktop. Then I discovered that
> almost everything in my Documents and Settings folder had been re-created
> with nothing in them - and believe me, there was a lot of stuff in there.
> All my Paper Port docs, OE Address Book, All Favorites and Bookmarks,
> everything in Thunderbird and Firefox - wiped out.
>
> Anyone ever hear of this?
>
> Bryan
>
>


That happened to me once, turned out it was a hard night of drinking.

Mich...


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