...and it wasn't even gotten in a fun way.

Gabe, I have Nimda. *weep*

Were you able to salvage anything? Is it safe to burn some files I want to keep to a CD or something and reintroduce them after I reformat, or do I have to kiss everything goodbye, or what? Is there a reliable fix? This kind of stuff frustrates the living fuck out of me and I've had Sam taking care of a lot of it, but the fixes he ran and everything didn't get rid of it. It's still making .eml files.

Damned good thing I never use outlook express or outlook and I have no address book.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

Symantec has some free tools that you can use to clean it and repair some of the damage here:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html

Nimda got into a customer site of mine, and we had to disconnect them from the net for a week to totally eradicate it and get the systems patched.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

I was at a point where I was going to reformat anyway, and I didn't have much stuff I really cared about. I think I got them all burned ahead of time, since I was planning on wiping out the hard drive.

You might as well try burning stuff just in case, though.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I'm just worried about the possibility of reintroducing the virus back into a clean system.

I too am at a stage where I need to reformat. My registry is all muddy. However, I also have years worth of text files, word files, image files, etc. that I am emotionally attached to. Some of them made the trip over several jumps from PC to PC and were originally created in a win 3.x environment on my second or third computer (if you count my commodore as my first).

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

If we didn't know that this was about computers, the title of this thread would sound like a serious problem.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Yay! You got the extremely apparent double entendre in the subject line! *applause*

(See, now I gave you the clap.)

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

I should have given you more credit for being clever.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

More people need to learn that. Spread the word. :)

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

get well soon ladyj's computer

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Batman created by Bob Kane

My machine is being reformatted now. I'm using Sam's machine, which is set up with dvorak keys. The typing is slow going.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

The double entendre would have been more apparent if you had written, "I got that virus Gabe has on his dick."

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What others say about boorite!

Do I see a Dicky comic in the making?

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I thought Gabe had a PC, not a Wang.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

No.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

No.

But that's what I always say.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

ive been feeling dicky today

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Who knows what fear lurks in the hearts of men? MIKE BOBSICO KNOWS! And if you give him a decent tip when he delivers your mail , he might tell you.

If you learned to use it, you'd type ten times faster than all the poor suckers who can't use a dvorak board.

Sorry, I'm a shameless promoter of dvorak keyboards.

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

I have nothing against dvorak, just like I have nothing against touch typing. However, in order to properly learn either, I'd have to slow down and exhibit discipline. I hate slowing down, and I have no discipline. So here I am, capped at about 65 wpm at my best in a sort of speed hunt-and-peck using 2 or 3 fingers on each hand.

My machine is back up, and so empty that it seems to echo.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent