Sunday, September 25, 2005

Webmaster Worries - Viruses

Been a while since I've managed to post due to one thing and another. Firstly my system had a few upsets when a speaker landed on the speaker jack plug and now the sound doesn't work!

Then my work decided to put me on a residential course and of course, my partner being ever so helpful, tidied up some of the huge number of emails I receive each day. In doing this she opened up an attachment which held a virus!!

What is the point of these to anyone really? It's not even as if most of them have any malicious content and are only there to piss you off.

The guys that make these must be fairly talented in producing them so why not put it to better use? Geez, I may even hire one or two myself if they would produce something constructive!

It's now taken me two days to get the bloody things off my PC. It was a variant of a worm I received and this virus decided to go and fetch another whose intent was to take down my firewall. Which I may add, it did with precision....Bastards.

Anyway, after it messed up Norton Internet Security, I had a really hard time uninstalling and reinstalling it. I was on the live support to Symantec for ages although they were helpful and managed to solve the problem for me.

I got Norton Internet Security back up and running and it deleted the viruses for me so things are more or less back to normal, leaving me 1 day to catch up before I take a well needed break.

I can't encourage people enough to take steps to protect your system and although not needed in this case, remember to take backups of everything regularly!

Virus writers, may they rot in hell.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Why oh why?

PCs, Windows, IT in genereal....PAH!!

Why is it that everything goes wrong at the same time? Last week my main PC went down and I lost about a months work. Should make more backups...yes I know!

Now there is something wrong with Windows and there seems to be loads of missing files - so what happens? My data backup drive also decides it's time for a holiday and freezes Explorer when copying a file to or from it. Bloody things.

Who said this webmastering thing was good? Whatever happened to 9-5 jobs where you switch off before watching telly for the evening? I haven't watched anything properly for months now.

Oh well, back to a disk scan.