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No, actually, this hasn't been enough of a crapsack week. I was so hoping it'd get worse.

posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 12:06am on 03/12/2008 under ,
In the space of ten minutes, my computer went from "normally functional" to "smoking crater" "virus-ridden and unable to start".

I'm probably going to need to get the hard drive reformatted. I've saved most of my stuff onto an external hard drive, so I shouldn't lose too much, but I don't know what's going to happen to my laptop.

Fuck it, I didn't even download anything or open any strange attachments or anything, and I still get the Virusocalypse. Fuck it.
Mood:: 'angry' angry
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posted by [identity profile] srevans.livejournal.com at 05:46am on 03/12/2008
That IS pretty fail.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:14pm on 05/12/2008
Yes it was. ITS managed to get it off without a hard drive dump, though, thank goodness.

Lesson learned: download FireFox.
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posted by [identity profile] sterling-sky.livejournal.com at 06:04am on 03/12/2008
Oh, fuck no, that's not cool. That's not allowed to happen to Muppet!

*beats something with a stick in revenge*
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:16pm on 05/12/2008
Your icon is so, so very appropriate. And from one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips ever.

Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as I thought - the good folks at ResNet managed to clear it off without dumping my hard drive, but I do need to start clearing off space. And d/ling FireFox, because it's apparently a safer browser. Still, though, *whew*
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posted by [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com at 06:23am on 03/12/2008
I'm glad you had back ups. :/ It'll be really annoying reformatting, re-installing Windows, and getting all your settings back the way you like them, but if everything important is backed up, then you'll do just fine. ::squoozes:: It could have been a LOT worse.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:17pm on 05/12/2008
Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as it looked - the ResNet folks managed to get it all out before it got its nasty little claws in my hard drive. I least, I think they did. I actually haven't turned on my compy again yet to test it. I'm sort of afraid to. :(

The first thing I'm going to do when it starts up again is do another hard drive backup.
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posted by [identity profile] pimpmytardis.livejournal.com at 08:42am on 03/12/2008
Fuck, that sucks. *goes to back up things just in case*
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:18pm on 05/12/2008
Backing up is good, yes. In fact, once I work up the nerve to turn my hopefully-restored compy back on, first thing I'm goin to do is do another backup.

Still, though, the ResNet folks seem to have fixed it without dumping the hard drive, so...hopefully that sticks.
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posted by [identity profile] glock35gal.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 03/12/2008
Awwwwwww, Muppet, that SUCKS! *hugs and hopes it can be fixed soon*
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:20pm on 05/12/2008
*hugs back* Thank you. :)

I got it back today, actually; apparently it wasn't as bad as it looked, and they managed to pry the virus out without needing to wipe my hard drive. At least, I think they did; I haven't gotten up the courage to turn my computer on again yet. Don't want to get my hopes up too high, you know?
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posted by [identity profile] airie-fairy.livejournal.com at 07:44pm on 03/12/2008
*headdesk* That descended on my computer in a space of minutes just recently. Then I d/led an anti-virus I was told by a reliable source was good but which itself turned out to actually be spyware, WTF?, and made things worse. I hope fixing it doesn't come at too much -- money, sanity, all that. :/
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:21pm on 05/12/2008
Eeeew, that's no fun. I hope that got cleared up okay.

Apparently, the virus wasn't as bad as it looked; the ResNet folks managed to get it off without reformatting my hard drive. It's also apparently been going around; one of my friends got the exact same bug about a week ago, and while I was in ResNet someone came in with the exact same virus on their computer.
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posted by [identity profile] eyesmadeofjade.livejournal.com at 02:08am on 04/12/2008
My computer died too,my computer will not turn on, and I had to spend 5 hours at Staples looking for Dell Computers. I had all of my iTunes, internship forms, and pictures on it... At least my papers are saved in my gmail.. but still So I can feel your pain
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 08:22pm on 05/12/2008
Ugh, that's no fun at all. Is it a hardware problem, or is that a virus too?

Yeah, consider me learned on the importance of backups. First thing I'm going to do once I get my compy back on is do another backup.
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