laziness...
Aug. 15th, 2008 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hugmeI've been getting lazy on my security practices at home and now... well....I got an adware virus... first time in about 10 years I've gotten one... sigh... and as I'm sure you all know I don't run a virus checker/adware checker. anything that's going to instantly eat up 200 meg of memory on my machine isn't worth running. That and if you follow good security measures you don't need them... but like I said, I was getting lazy...
the virus completely screwed up my machine making my life infinitely more difficult. The data is still there, I checked, but I'm not going to boot the machine back up with the current OS. I will pull all the data files off, do a clean sweep and re-install. I have another computer I'm using in the meantime. Fortunately most of the computers in the house run Unix so those are all unaffected.
When I get it back up I'm going to have to go back to my old ways of security practices to make sure this doesn't happen again. I've already started in a couple of places already.
yes, because I have SO much free time on my hands right now!!
the virus completely screwed up my machine making my life infinitely more difficult. The data is still there, I checked, but I'm not going to boot the machine back up with the current OS. I will pull all the data files off, do a clean sweep and re-install. I have another computer I'm using in the meantime. Fortunately most of the computers in the house run Unix so those are all unaffected.
When I get it back up I'm going to have to go back to my old ways of security practices to make sure this doesn't happen again. I've already started in a couple of places already.
yes, because I have SO much free time on my hands right now!!
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Date: 2008-08-16 01:39 am (UTC)-Az