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Sometimes your computer starts acting up. Webpages low incredibly slowly, sometimes not at all, sometimes at a completely different website you were expecting. Applications start to take ages to open up and shut down again. And no matter how many times you wipe clean caches, clean disks, defragment your harddrive and try to speed things up, it doesn't happen.
For me, this means one thing: factory settings time; which can be a real pain because every program like Windows, RealPlayer, Firewalls, Outlook Express etc all have to be updated with old patches and reconfigured. It's a time consuming task, usually taking a few days, but worth it.
Last night, I picked up a Trojan virus - JetLeeKrew.exe
(The only reason I picked it up was because I deliberately downloaded it to try to figure out who made it in the first place with a decompiler and a bit of investigation work, but the ruddy thing loaded itself because I accidently double-clicked instead of click and right-click, hey ho).
This is a particularly nasty one, it installs a back door key logger into your WINNT/System32 file and sends your keystrokes off to an ICQ channel (inventive to say the least), and no matter how many times you delete the source code and reboot or try to trace it back to get rid of it once and for all, it reinstalls itself. It doesn't show up on the latest virus scanners, but I was lucky, my Firewall noticed it when it first started up after I'd virus scanned it.
If you've got this Trojan you'll see it running in your Task Manager as a process, and it means that, if you're firewall is down, someone in the US is making a note of all your passwords.
Seeing as I hadn't reset my PC to factory settings for about 6 months and it was starting to get cluttered with logfiles and starting to play up anyhow, I restarted, booted from recovery disk, and settled down with a cup of coffee for the long process of updating my software and reinstalling all the applications I usually run.
It took me 4 hours total :)
I think it's because I'm finally, after many years, in tune with exactly how I like my PC to be, what I want it to do, what I need it to run, and how I like things configured. After having done about 3 resets in the past, I must be getting the hang of things, remembering exactly what websites to visit and what applications I now need. I am at one with my PC.
:)
For me, this means one thing: factory settings time; which can be a real pain because every program like Windows, RealPlayer, Firewalls, Outlook Express etc all have to be updated with old patches and reconfigured. It's a time consuming task, usually taking a few days, but worth it.
Last night, I picked up a Trojan virus - JetLeeKrew.exe
(The only reason I picked it up was because I deliberately downloaded it to try to figure out who made it in the first place with a decompiler and a bit of investigation work, but the ruddy thing loaded itself because I accidently double-clicked instead of click and right-click, hey ho).
This is a particularly nasty one, it installs a back door key logger into your WINNT/System32 file and sends your keystrokes off to an ICQ channel (inventive to say the least), and no matter how many times you delete the source code and reboot or try to trace it back to get rid of it once and for all, it reinstalls itself. It doesn't show up on the latest virus scanners, but I was lucky, my Firewall noticed it when it first started up after I'd virus scanned it.
If you've got this Trojan you'll see it running in your Task Manager as a process, and it means that, if you're firewall is down, someone in the US is making a note of all your passwords.
Seeing as I hadn't reset my PC to factory settings for about 6 months and it was starting to get cluttered with logfiles and starting to play up anyhow, I restarted, booted from recovery disk, and settled down with a cup of coffee for the long process of updating my software and reinstalling all the applications I usually run.
It took me 4 hours total :)
I think it's because I'm finally, after many years, in tune with exactly how I like my PC to be, what I want it to do, what I need it to run, and how I like things configured. After having done about 3 resets in the past, I must be getting the hang of things, remembering exactly what websites to visit and what applications I now need. I am at one with my PC.
:)
Sometimes your computer starts acting up. Webpages low incredibly slowly, sometimes not at all, sometimes at a completely different website you were expecting. Applications start to take ages to open up and shut down again. And no matter how many times you wipe clean caches, clean disks, defragment your harddrive and try to speed things up, it doesn't happen.
For me, this means one thing: factory settings time; which can be a real pain because every program like Windows, RealPlayer, Firewalls, Outlook Express etc all have to be updated with old patches and reconfigured. It's a time consuming task, usually taking a few days, but worth it.
Last night, I picked up a Trojan virus - JetLeeKrew.exe
(The only reason I picked it up was because I deliberately downloaded it to try to figure out who made it in the first place with a decompiler and a bit of investigation work, but the ruddy thing loaded itself because I accidently double-clicked instead of click and right-click, hey ho).
This is a particularly nasty one, it installs a back door key logger into your WINNT/System32 file and sends your keystrokes off to an ICQ channel (inventive to say the least), and no matter how many times you delete the source code and reboot or try to trace it back to get rid of it once and for all, it reinstalls itself. It doesn't show up on the latest virus scanners, but I was lucky, my Firewall noticed it when it first started up after I'd virus scanned it.
If you've got this Trojan you'll see it running in your Task Manager as a process, and it means that, if you're firewall is down, someone in the US is making a note of all your passwords.
Seeing as I hadn't reset my PC to factory settings for about 6 months and it was starting to get cluttered with logfiles and starting to play up anyhow, I restarted, booted from recovery disk, and settled down with a cup of coffee for the long process of updating my software and reinstalling all the applications I usually run.
It took me 4 hours total :)
I think it's because I'm finally, after many years, in tune with exactly how I like my PC to be, what I want it to do, what I need it to run, and how I like things configured. After having done about 3 resets in the past, I must be getting the hang of things, remembering exactly what websites to visit and what applications I now need. I am at one with my PC.
:)
For me, this means one thing: factory settings time; which can be a real pain because every program like Windows, RealPlayer, Firewalls, Outlook Express etc all have to be updated with old patches and reconfigured. It's a time consuming task, usually taking a few days, but worth it.
Last night, I picked up a Trojan virus - JetLeeKrew.exe
(The only reason I picked it up was because I deliberately downloaded it to try to figure out who made it in the first place with a decompiler and a bit of investigation work, but the ruddy thing loaded itself because I accidently double-clicked instead of click and right-click, hey ho).
This is a particularly nasty one, it installs a back door key logger into your WINNT/System32 file and sends your keystrokes off to an ICQ channel (inventive to say the least), and no matter how many times you delete the source code and reboot or try to trace it back to get rid of it once and for all, it reinstalls itself. It doesn't show up on the latest virus scanners, but I was lucky, my Firewall noticed it when it first started up after I'd virus scanned it.
If you've got this Trojan you'll see it running in your Task Manager as a process, and it means that, if you're firewall is down, someone in the US is making a note of all your passwords.
Seeing as I hadn't reset my PC to factory settings for about 6 months and it was starting to get cluttered with logfiles and starting to play up anyhow, I restarted, booted from recovery disk, and settled down with a cup of coffee for the long process of updating my software and reinstalling all the applications I usually run.
It took me 4 hours total :)
I think it's because I'm finally, after many years, in tune with exactly how I like my PC to be, what I want it to do, what I need it to run, and how I like things configured. After having done about 3 resets in the past, I must be getting the hang of things, remembering exactly what websites to visit and what applications I now need. I am at one with my PC.
:)