I clicked on what seemed to be an innocuous e-mail today to unsubscribe from it. It took me to a site that clearly wasn't what I expected.
I immediately yanked the power cord right out of the back of my computer. I disconnected it from the network, booted to safe mode, started the AV program and set it for a boot-scan. Rebooted and something like 90 minutes later, it finished (found a couple of worms). Ran Malware Bytes and it came up clean.
So I rebooted again and reconnected to the network.
The ugliness was because I had a database on the office server open when I yanked the cord out. That did bad things to the database, which took a little time to fix and which pissed off all of the other users. All sorts of ugliness was prevented only by the fact that I am, at heart, a very lovable person.[1]
[1] And heavily armed.
A blog by a "sucker" and a "loser" who served her country in the Navy.
If you're one of the Covidiots who believe that COVID-19 is "just the flu",
that the 2020 election was stolen, or
especially if you supported the 1/6/21 insurrection,
leave now.
Slava Ukraini!
Friday, May 14, 2010
2 comments:
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COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.
If you have installation rights on your machine, you could use Sandboxie (www.sandboxie.com). I use it at home with minimal inconvenience (the main one is that, with the free version, after 30 days it waits 6 seconds before opening apps in the sandbox).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestion, I am trying it out now.
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