Suspected infection - update2
Journal Entry: Tue Jul 22, 2008, 10:07 AM
It seems like I was right. Something is definitely wrong with the PC. A few hours ago, I took a peek at the Temp folder in Local Settings. This folder is usually empty, but it was filled with a bunch of things, some of which looked rather suspicious (including a movie file that crashed the explorer when I highlighted it, and another file which according to some search results on Google, appears to be a malware). I emptied the folder, and restarted the PC. I don't have any network connections since than. Normally, the temp folder shouldn't contain anything essential. I assume this is a virus infection I'm dealing with. Problem is, my anti-virus has been outdated for the past six months, so I can't even run a scan. I'll be talking to the maintenance guy tomorrow. Looks like a memory wipe is in order. This time, I'll ask for a full wipe for all three partitions.
Of course, a bad PC means other things as well. Firstly, I'm always down when I'm having computer issues, so I'm in for a really bad week. Secondly, there's no telling when the problem will be fixed, and till then, I'll be unable to do any work. Even when I get PC back, I'll have to reinstall both Photoshop and the scanner, and so far, that sort of stuff always caused complications, so I have no idea when I'll be able to resume to work.
Dammit. Why is this happening to me? Why, I ask!
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Update:
I woke up this morning to find that the network connections are back. We'll wait with the memory wipe, but I have a feeling it will only make things worse. If nothing else, pushing things like this is pretty stressful for me. I'll just have to wait and see what happens, but I bet things will get a lot worse before (if) they get better.
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Update2:
I spoke with the maintenance guy, who will henceforth be known as Mick, he told me the usual "bring in the PC and we'll have a look". Well, it's not like that's a big surprise. All I can say for certain is, that we'll be taking PC in this week. If that's so, next Monday may be the soonest I'll be getting him back. However, I keep having this odd feeling that this will not solve all the problems.
Anyway, I prepared a folder with the files I want saved. It has the ridiculous size of 8.40 GB. Add to this the My Documents folder which is currently 2 GB in size. Pretty impressive, isn't it. Problem is, There's always the possibility that some of these files may be corrupted and by saving them, I'll only make things worse. Hopefully, this is not the case.
I'm hoping for the best.
- Mood:
Uneasy - Reading: El Goonish Shive
- Watching: Blood+
- Eating: Dinner
- Drinking: Water