Virus

Post by **DarkAuron** » Tue 10 Oct, 2006 10:21 pm

Last weekend a virus, probably attained through a random spam email that I deleted in Thunderbird, infected all 1,848 exe files on both of my harddrives and crippled windows to dust. It spread through my SD and CF cards as well, wrecking my DS and GBA saves, and corrupted a lot of random files through all of my drives. I backed up what I could but I lost a lot of things.

The virus's name is Gaelicum.A, and I pray no one that I know gets it. From what I've read it also creates a hidden firewall of its own and is often undetectable until it's too late, and blocks off any connections to the internet you try to make. Needless to say the past week and a half has been rough, restoring my computer and all.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Tue 10 Oct, 2006 10:29 pm

Looks like you are back to working conditions now. Good luck.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Tue 10 Oct, 2006 10:57 pm

Wow, that's rough. Did you have any antivirus software running?

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Tue 10 Oct, 2006 11:01 pm

You can get a virus from a deleted email?!?

(Locks self in panic room)

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 12:34 am

DigiTan wrote:You can get a virus from a deleted email?!?

(Locks self in panic room)

Well, hopefully I will be okay behind a NAT router, WinOs firewall and a virus scanner...... .hopefully.

I got 4 hard drives connected to this machine for a total of 400 gigs.. I dont want to lose it

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 12:43 am

DigiTan wrote:You can get a virus from a deleted email?!?

(Locks self in panic room)

i guess delete from the trash folder then

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 2:43 am

ouch.
Sounds like it pretty much screwed your computer over...

Post by **benryves** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 9:43 am

Ouch.

How did the virus get onto your PC in the first place? (Or are you using POP?)

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 2:41 pm

That sucks, I hope you didnt lose anything too important.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 2:43 pm

Sounds like a pretty evil virus..
Ofcourse its terrible, but the person who wrote it must be very clever aswell..
Good luck, i hope you dont get such a bad virus again soon

Post by **kv83** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 2:51 pm

Sounds bad, sorry man.

On the other hand; A back-up a day (or week), keeps the disaster away.

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 4:13 pm

DigiTan wrote:You can get a virus from a deleted email?!?

(Locks self in panic room)

Webbased e-mail clients for the win.

Squirrelmail > all

Post by **benryves** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 4:31 pm

Arcane WIzard wrote:
DigiTan wrote:You can get a virus from a deleted email?!?

(Locks self in panic room)
Webbased e-mail clients for the win.

Squirrelmail > all

Or IMAP, of course, so you don't even have to download the email in the first place.

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 4:56 pm

Yeah, anything remote or on a less popular OS.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Wed 11 Oct, 2006 5:07 pm

IMAP isn't the least bit remote... It's the only thing my uni offers for students (other than webmail).