I Know, I Know…
I keep putting up pictures and baby antics instead of “real” posts. I’ve been busy, and am about to head out to help a client with what I hope will be a final cleanup of the crud from hell from one of their machines. I’ve never cleaned up malware and had it come right back in spades the way this one did.
Turns out there’s a specific virus/trojan/worm thingie behind it that the key to wiping out is a temporary disabling of system restore, which XP (and WinME) uses to “help” you restore to an earlier state without having to reinstall or lose so much if there’s a problem.
This particular thing is a massive disruption of what I should be and had planned to do today, which I didn’t even try to start on because of the disruption this request for me in a specific timeframe in the middle of Saturday represents.
I have posts begging to be written. On marriage, for instance, and on going into business with partners who are friends, for another. In reality, I should be chained away from the internet for about the next two weeks, except for downloading tax forms, to do both paying work, tax stuff, and not so paying work that is bunching up. So maybe at some point, but this explains why I am going to be a bit spotty lately.
Just FYI… no matter which specific trojan/virus/worm you were fighting, it’s not the only one that requires the disabling of system restore. System restore is a really nice thing sometimes… but it’s your ENEMY if you are fighting trojans/viruses/worms.
Disable it by default when you are getting rid of those; you’ll be much more efficient. And much less stressed.
Posted by Kathy K on 03/20 at 10:12 PM
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