Good evening y'all and I hope your day has been a good one. This past week has been a busy one for me. A client had a computer that was infected with a web-director. Now for all you non-geeks out there, that is a program that some classify as a virus, malware, spy-ware, or trojan horse. Me? I call it a pain my rumpus. I started working on it last Wednesday or Thursday I can not remember. I finally got it cleaned out yesterday, BUT it had done enough damage to the registry that the internet was pretty useless. Only thing to do was to try and save the files needed and wipe the hard drive clean. Well, I ended up spending the majority of my work day today working on the computer. Replaced the hard drive, upgraded the memory to 2GB, and cleaned out the dust bunnies. Started to format the drive to install the operating system, and guess what I found out? The drive was already formatted and ready for use in this particular computer!!! That just saved me about an extra 2 hours of work. Still spent 5 hours getting everything installed, updated and configured. Plus the lunch served at work was actually edible this time (which is something to say about prison food).
Well let me leave you now with this piece of advice. Remember to back up your data, music, pictures, & videos. If your computer ever gets one of these types, you may not be as lucky as this person was. Once again.......
Peace, Love, and God Bless.....
Greg
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