Re: FAO 2 Steves - Dix and White!

If you have got the original OS media (I don't think that recovery disk
works here) you can go through the operation as though you want to
install a fresh copy, and shows you the location of the existing
operating system. It will then give three options; to overwrite the
existing install (with luck you wont overwrite any thing else on your
disk), to repair the existing installation, to install in a different
directory. Choose the repair operation and it install new copies of the
OS files. You will need your product key when the software reboots.

If you have problems with other apps on your disk then do a complete OS
reinstall and as the other applications are unknown to the new OS, then
you will need to re-install. Make sure that you re-install to the same
location as this will not only overwrite, in most cases, the existing
files, but often enables you to preserve data.

Though not of any use this time round this may be of use to you, and
others, in the future.


On 15/09/2007 18:37, SteveShark wrote:
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:14:19 +0100, "George Weston"
<geoweston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"SteveShark" <steveATguitarsDOTpowernetDOTcoDOTuk> wrote in message
news:10vne3tpk2ovfppqs1gh1prbm5vc6napjs@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:30:33 GMT, Chris Bolus <chrisB@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:39:25 +0100, SteveShark
<steveATguitarsDOTpowernetDOTcoDOTuk> wrote:

Following my HD disaster, I've had another one - a real seeing-to by
the Win32Virut virus*.

It's meant a reformat and a reinstall of Windows. I've lost
everything, in some cases TWICE.......

Steve, can I just say, backup - USB hard drives are not expensive now.
I know - I already had one before the HD crash..........

Shame I didn't back anything up on it.........

Now I have yet another one that came with some nice software. I
managed to back up uninfected stuff that I wanted to save when the
virus struck.

It wasn't a complete disaster - unlike the HD crash. Whatever was
wrong with the drive I couldn't access it in any way. It failed to
boot up my system, and when I got another drive to act as my system
drive it wouldn't show at all. Then I froze it a couple of times -
this worked for me once, so contrary to what some people may claim, it
DOES work sometimes - but no joy.

In a way I can accept the HD going tits up, but to get such a vicious
virus designed to nuke exe files indiscriminately is harder to accept.

Of course you should back stuff up, but having to then watch out for
some gutless sociopath's idea of a laugh is a sad symptom of something
very wrong with certain sections of society. May such individuals burn
in the innermost circle of hell and suffer unimaginable torment from
untiring demons.

Steve.
Horses, stable doors and all that but see:
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/34/uk/crp/0/ndi/67762
Commiserations.

Yeah, I saw that and thought it might be just the ticket when it
seemed that my repeated safe mode scans appeared to be winning.

Then I saw that one program I had was crippled by a corrupted exe and
then tried a few more, finding many of them affected (at one stage AVG
picked up 97 locations that the virus had trashed. As I'd got safe
most of what I needed, and as the disc still only had basic programs
on it that I could easily reinstall, I took the decision to reformat.

It was unlike anything I'd ever seen before. As I said, repeated scans
kept picking up viruses, fewer and fewer as time went by, but all
attacking *different* exes. I'd guess that in total about 250 exe
files were crippled making the installation all but useless.

It felt almost personal and whilst I wouldn't say I felt violated, I
did feel strangely affronted.

What would help would being in a room for 5 minutes with a nice length
of 2x4, an idea I have for a colonic implant and a virus writer -
*any* virus writer........... >:D

Steve.
.

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