Well, isn't that just perfect...

[rolanni]

My desktop has stopped. Just stopped. I had opened my mail program, which downloaded the mail, reporting that some idiot wanted an acknowledgment that I had received hisorher email...then the whole machine just locked up and -- quit. I couldn't even control-alt-del out of it, I had to hit the off button.

Reported at length in case there's a fun new virus out there that's deployed with the pop-up of a return receipt box.


Anyhow, the machine won't come up, and every! single! word! that I had written today is gone, and I am...beyond sick.

Those of you expecting email from me -- it'll be an undetermined while. I have most of the book backed up to dropbox and have gotten it down to The Leewit. Not today's work of course; I'll have to totally rewrite that from the ground up.

*cries*

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[(Anonymous)]

Recently one of our systems got the BlueScreen Death Virus. Four identical systems as far as operating system, manufacturer and most of the applications on them were concerned. But three of the four had an extra hard drive _NOT_ pre-installed by the HP folks but by us after purchase. After finding out the cure for permanently removing the BlueScreen Death Virus, husband carefully backed up all non-HP apps and files on the sick system to to the drive installed by us. Then began the HP restore process. And it reformatted our drive and over-wrote everything on it!!

Some of it was very custom software written by us. And he's still pissed as everything at HP because they didn't warn him to disconnect any extra drives before the restore.