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The Sacrifices We Make for Modern Tech
by Patrick Daniels
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by Patrick Daniels
It’s 1:13AM CST and I’m sitting here staring on and off at the task manager on my main PC. I got hit hard – HARD – with what appears to be a brand new variant of the Virut virus. I dual boot XP, and had to reformat both of my Windows partitions because this one found its way to my backup partition as well. It even found its way from .exes on my archive partitions &/or my external drives back onto my freshly formatted reinstalls on both the backup & main partition. I saw the services populate with my own eyes as I reinstalled my sound card two days after a fresh double install.
I retract the “got hit hard” portion of the above paragraph – I accept full responsibility for this infection. I’ve prided myself as malware/virus free for quite a long time but I got what was coming to me with this one. I knew better, thought of it, & double clicked anyway.
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