(s) win (e) flu.

eXor · 4 May 2009 at 11:44

http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2009/04/29/1691530.aspx

D D Danneh · 4 May 2009 at 11:52

Wow.

Harsh.

Sankari · 4 May 2009 at 11:53

What a n00b. 20 years of IT experience my arse.

Antar Bolaeisk · 4 May 2009 at 11:56

That sounds like one nasty piece of work.

eXor · 4 May 2009 at 12:10

Evangelion said:
What a n00b. 20 years of IT experience my arse.

My thoughts, exactly.

xb8browney · 4 May 2009 at 12:15

Step 1 Nuke HDD
Step 2 Reinstall Windows.

Mr-White · 4 May 2009 at 12:25

is this contagious between computers and humans yet ?

MW

eXor · 4 May 2009 at 12:27

xb8browney said:
Step 1 Nuke HDD

I always zero unpartitioned drives. If the drive has partitions that I want to keep, I'll zero the OS partition...

...and the boot code area of the MBR. ( first 446 bytes )

Coxyis · 4 May 2009 at 12:42

wow

Somebody needs to learn to keep copies of important data elsewhere. :rolleyes:

Antar Bolaeisk · 4 May 2009 at 13:07

xb8browney said:
Step 1 Nuke HDD
Step 2 Reinstall Windows.

Yeah but wasn't that the problem, he did nuke his drive but was re-infected from USB keys, x-box etc?

Duke · 4 May 2009 at 13:18

xb8browney said:
Step 1 Nuke HDD
Step 2 Reinstall Windows.

Agreed. Why spend so long faffing around, just format/reload Windows.

willhub · 4 May 2009 at 13:55

If everything on my HDD gets infected I might aswell nuke myself from orbit.

theheyes · 4 May 2009 at 15:59

So basically he installed some random drivers from an untrusted source? I think we can safely say he learned his lesson the hard way.

Sounds nasty though. A virus designed to napalm your computer rather than do anything cunning.

rah^ · 4 May 2009 at 16:41

willhub said:
If everything on my HDD gets infected I might aswell nuke myself from orbit.

leaving the harddrive intact?

JohnJan · 4 May 2009 at 17:07

Evangelion said:
What a n00b. 20 years of IT experience my arse.

Haha, exactly.

I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and all my additions at least 20 times between 26/3/09 - 16/4/09 before I finally got online again. I know this as I can no longer activate my Microsoft software. I have exceeded the install number allowed for a retail version of the product.

I got to the point of throwing out USB keys and starting to install everything fresh, from fresh downloads.

"Throwing out USB keys"? 20 years experience? Really?

He's a MCP and MVP too, what a joke

hohum · 4 May 2009 at 17:20

Have to wonder why he felt he had to activate windows straight after every reinstall... pointless when you have a 30-day period which you could use to ensure everything's fine before activating. Still, he's been doing this for years, so must know better.

yashiro · 4 May 2009 at 17:22

The man is either an idiot or a fictional troll.

Coxyis · 4 May 2009 at 17:23

Out of interest, how many times are you able to install an OS using the same key before it stops? :confused:

Brian Stuart · 4 May 2009 at 17:32

As many as you like. (on the same PC of course) It just means you will have to use phone activation. I don't believe this guy, it is very suspicious when he does not even know how MS activation works.

Brian Stuart · 4 May 2009 at 17:33

yashiro said:
The man is either an idiot or a fictional troll.

Troll I am thinking