[Homestead] computer crashed and burned!

Leslie cayadopi at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 22 22:21:51 EST 2008


I had a nasty hijacker/spyware,,, it took forever to find someone who had the beginnings of the clue on how to get rid of it, as SpyBot and another common one were not zapping it.
It had a way of hiding in the registery and duplicating itself on re-boot.  I finally did find that little bugger in several different spots in the registry but that was 48 hours later and nearly bald later...  And I defintely had better things to do...   Death to the virus and malware writers...
 


--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Walton <waltonrp at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] computer crashed and burned!
To: cayadopi at yahoo.com, homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 9:37 PM

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> THANKS for the tips.  Why not just start the seeds directly in the
newspaper cups?

You absolutely can. I like to start in flats, just to save space at
the beginning, easier to keep them warm, etc. Also, I can pick the
best looking seedlings to go into the cups.

> I have 3 external flashes that I keep on me when I'm away in the event
of a home fire, and 2 huge external backup drives for double safety in the event
of any failures of the backups....as CHIT happens....  And with all that I
accidentally forgot to back up one important file..... which must have gotten
fried or something, because I could not even copy that file off using a dos>
prompt.   I wasn't able to turn on the computer in any way, except to get to
as DOS prompt.... Fortunatly, I still remembered how to navigate my way around
that way.

I got some really, really bad spyware in my computer a few weeks ago.
I thought I was going to lose it and did a backup. I'm the worst at
backing up.

Rob - Va



      


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