My computer is back home from the computer hospital with all nasty viruses gone. YAY. I am so lucky that no data has been lost, but my computer has been restored to its original factory settings so I need to spend some time and get it all back how I like it.
Lessons I have learned.
1. Back up your computer
DH and I had NEVER backed up anything, so we are very lucky that we have not lost any thing. We have now purchased an external hard drive and I will diligently back up weekly.
2. Ensure that your virus protection is up to date.
We thought ours was but it turns out that it was about a year out of date and was not keeping up with all of the nasties that are sent around the Internet.
So what happened you may ask...
I was opening and reading my emails as you do, in the normal manner and one of the websites that I love and regularly purchase fabric from had sent me an email about a sale, so of course I clicked on the link to have a look and enjoy some eye candy - retail therapy web based. And WHAM, my computer froze. I tried to shut down on the little X - no luck, so tried Cntrl Alt Delete - no luck so I just switched it off.
On rebooting the computer a message came up that I had a catastrophic error. gulp.....
The repair man said that the virus was a Trojan, and had probably been lying idle in my computer waiting to strike. It was nothing to do with the website that I was visiting, ( thank goodness), so I can feel safe to continue to shop with them.
So I have a bit of arranging and updating to do getting everything back to familiar and I should be able to get the March swap partnerships out on time this weekend.
3 comments:
Very, very lucky! Sneaky trojan viruses. Wish people would find something more constructive to do with their time..... like quilt! Glad your computer is all fixed again.
I had the supposide blue screen of death about 18mths ago and thought there goes everything as I to had not backed up anything. Photos were the exception as was printing them to and a lot were on facebook. I thought I had no hope when i took it in to the computer tech, but he saved it with minimal files lost and now everything is backed up. But saying that a friend had her external hard drive crash too as lost eveything. When I was studying a few years ago I saved 3 copies of everything to be safe
Very lucky indeed!
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