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Earthdog · 07-22-2001, 10:01 AM

Thanks Ziroc. Ill be very wary now... and with good reason.....

My wife just got a virus. We think it came from a file sent to her via email. Chinese Dancing Baby crap. Would remind you of the dancing baby on Ally McBeal.

Anyway it removed the FAT or FAT32 partition and basicly wouldnt find anything but the Floppy drive. Luckily we got it back up and running after a format and partition. but she lost everything on her hard drive. Good thing we back-up eachothers computers. At least I had all copies of all her important files.

We never did find out what the name of the virus was but it was most likely a trojan horse. When we finally got it to lacate the C drive... about a zillion smiley faces came up. hit C:\ and even more came up.

My advice to everyone is if you get any email dont open it unless you know the author. Even then, Dont open any attachments. You dont know what youll be getting.

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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!

07-22-2001, 10:01 AM	#40
Earthdog Emerald Dragon Join Date: May 1, 2001 Location: melbourne victoria australia Age: 60 Posts: 960	Thanks Ziroc. Ill be very wary now... and with good reason..... My wife just got a virus. We think it came from a file sent to her via email. Chinese Dancing Baby crap. Would remind you of the dancing baby on Ally McBeal. Anyway it removed the FAT or FAT32 partition and basicly wouldnt find anything but the Floppy drive. Luckily we got it back up and running after a format and partition. but she lost everything on her hard drive. Good thing we back-up eachothers computers. At least I had all copies of all her important files. We never did find out what the name of the virus was but it was most likely a trojan horse. When we finally got it to lacate the C drive... about a zillion smiley faces came up. hit C:\ and even more came up. My advice to everyone is if you get any email dont open it unless you know the author. Even then, Dont open any attachments. You dont know what youll be getting. ------------------ THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!